Cards Bans 2016 (Anthelios, the red star, Seeds of corruption,Temptation of Greater Power)

GreyB wrote:

Vlad wrote: Except that you're talking about new strategies coming from new cards which is good to keep the game alive (or undead )

Banned cards kill strategies...

But I still wait for the explanations

Explanations where already given, perhaps they should move them to a sticky.

I only read the explanation for Anthelios

Banned cards kill strategies...

It depends what you're banning. Ban of Mind Rape whould surely kill every Mind Rape deck out there. Ban of Anthelios whould make MMPA decks weaker. They are fully playable without Anthelios and I'm sure they are still very good stategies to follow in tournaments.
And very often bans create new possibilities for deck bulding by removing obstacle that make some decks suboptimal in tournaments, f.e. playing big caps non-camarilla vampires when PTO was still legal wasn't the best idea.
So, I would say: In most cases, bans create new strategies (or at least makes them viable).

zkopiosy wrote: You forgot that if you predator has a wash, he also can wash you the picked master every turn?

How many Wash do you play in your decks?

Ashur wrote:

zkopiosy wrote: You forgot that if you predator has a wash, he also can wash you the picked master every turn?

How many Wash do you play in your decks?

I guess more than copies of Anthelios

You saying "I only own 5 decks" and "some players are leaving the game" are NOT very strong arguments for not banning Anthelios.

Vlad wrote: ,Banned cards kill strategies...

Not really. Banning Anthelios doesn´t destroy the current Tier 1 MMPA-based decks, as they are not totally dependent on Anthelios, it just makes them a bit too strong, the Rules Director thinks. So I have no idea why you keep on whining. Get over it.