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Emeria, the Sky Ruin (given as a choice in "what's your favorite land?") isn't in the visual spoiler

55% either like or love the current Standard?  Well shut me up.

When the return of last year's Merfolk deck is seen as "rogue", when Faeries and 5cc (now with Baneslayer!) still consistently T8, and Vivid-fueled Jund Mannequin is the only thing that qualifies as new, that to me is a stangnant environment.  But I can't argue with a majority who like it.

I agree.  I think Crypt of Agadeem is the most interesting of the cards.  It has build-around potential, not just "go a little slower in exchange for big payoffs later".

The Sky Ruin that brings creatures back probably isn't broken in constructed for its mono-whiteness, but I can see it being pretty annoying in casual.  LD isn't something you usually want to have in casual multiplayer (because most likely all it will do is shut someone who is already losing out of the game, not solve an actual threatening problem).  However, this card really punishes you for not having it.

At least these lands come into play tapped and aren't strictly better than basics!  Would be more flavorful if they were Legendary, though.

I take it Tom is focusing on the "good" and fished for the "bad" in some nod to the critics who've voiced their disaproval of the way things were going. I am guessing that the rules changes, not the design of M10, is responsible for the fact that over 1/5th of poll respondents said they aren't playing after it. this is nearly a quarter of respondents, while only a bit over half said that they at least liked M10 in Standard. I find it most amazing that Tom, in need to focus on that good that I mentioned, did not mention the negative showing in his poll. Is he surprised? Is WotC surprised that almost a quarter of the polled players stopped playing? Note that it doesn't just cover people who didn't play at all, but stopped (which is why precise wording is king, Tom, not your slipshod "whatever seems closest" philosophy).

Sep 18, 2009 -- 12:08AM, Qilong wrote:

I take it Tom is focusing on the "good" and fished for the "bad" in some nod to the critics who've voiced their disaproval of the way things were going. I am guessing that the rules changes, not the design of M10, is responsible for the fact that over 1/5th of poll respondents said they aren't playing after it. this is nearly a quarter of respondents, while only a bit over half said that they at least liked M10 in Standard. I find it most amazing that Tom, in need to focus on that good that I mentioned, did not mention the negative showing in his poll. Is he surprised? Is WotC surprised that almost a quarter of the polled players stopped playing? Note that it doesn't just cover people who didn't play at all, but stopped (which is why precise wording is king, Tom, not your slipshod "whatever seems closest" philosophy).

I think you're projecting a bit here. Only 2ish% say they hate it and 4ish% say they don't like it. Don't play is not the same as don't like/unhappy. I'm not playing Standard, and it's not for any special anti-rules reason. I just don't play Standard. Is it any surprise that 1/5 of people who play Magic in some fashion have been playing draft or vintage or casual instead? 

It may have been better to include an "I stopped playing" vs "I don't play Standard" option, but I think that may have been hard to phrase without translating into a "I hate the new rules and I'm mad about it" option, and people may have selected that instead of "It's not great" when they've actually been playing and like it okay, because they're still upset about the rules.

I think the recent push of utility and decidedly non-epic mythic rares is worth criticizing them over, but the rules changes have barely come up in any of the games I play. Removing one area of decisionmaking in an area that comes up 1% of the time does not ruin the game.