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I've sent mail to the admins of that site I know of to find out if there's anything that can be saved.

Seems to be down for all of us.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/Mtgpulse.com

We would need to consider hosting deck database of our own.

Can we have a list of that Cedrix's Lantern Staxx? Thanks! I have something similar in brewing.

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The excel visualization in the parent post gave me an idea.

Next time when we have watch list changes, I'll include in the feed, on the watchlist portion the removed and added (New!) cards since their previous announcement.

People are then able to see the changes better, and form an understanding how a certain card has been watchlisted/unwatchlisted/banned/unbanned over a course of time.

With drawback + lifeloss it is definitely worse than Demonic Tutor or even Mystical Tutor imo. Its shortness and corresponding price tag was always a controversial argument for its ban. The danger of T1 Tutor in T2 powerhouse like Oath of Druids already exists. In current meta RDW, Izzet, Bant, 4c Blood, UW, Scapeshift and Jeskai seems for me the T1 decks and most of them wouldn't even ponder to add/splash Imperial Seal.

I agree with everything you said. Let's take this card into discussions next time we review the watchlist.

I can't seem to find anything from the site dictating who owns the data there. But since the site is collaborative wiki-style site, data should be available for anyone to grab.

If I was the site owner, I would put the data under some permissive Creative Commons license.

You may want to ask ask about the data dump directly from them: http://mtgpulse.com/about

I've contacted the site owners occasionally, and they've been very helpful.

Posted a message as well.

It's not just you. http://mtgpulse.com looks down from here.

Source: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

My votes and rationale behind them:

On banning Sensei's Divning Top

We've already banned a card partly due to the time constraints it caused
(Shahrazad). Sensei's Divining Top is worse. It is widely printed and good,
that its impact is felt as an overall enjoyment and fluency of game play,
which in Highlander with 100 cards and search effects is already stressed. If
you guys remember, the old extended with Sensei's Divining Top created game
states where one player durdled around with the top of their library for a
minute or two every single turn. Players hated that, especially in control
mirrors by the player who didn't manage to find his Top before opponent did.

Top has been such a difficult card to measure, because it does not fit it in
any of the four banning policy guidelines Vazdru mentioned above. In fact, if
we ban it, we would go against "keeping the number of banned cards as low as
possible", but with Top the overall enjoyment of the format would in my
opinion take the precedence, and make an exception.

On not banning Natural Order

Simply because we unbanned it so recently. Leave it for a while so that we can
gather the necessary tournament statistical data about it.  Then proceed to
make an informed decision. Having card banned just recently and then banning
it again just 6 months afterwards is too short a period to gather statistics.

On removing Fastbond from watchlist:

Fastbond has been on watchlist since October 2014. Time to make mind on this
one. Has the card made an undesirable impact, or can it be kept?

On removing Mystical Tutor from watchlist: Mystical Tutor has been on and off
from watchlist since October 2012. It has been mainly been used in UWx-based
controls, or then in various combos. And since combo decks are under presented
in the format, I would keep the card, and remove it from the watchlist.

On removing Oath from watchlist: I'd like to hear others on this. Why should
this banned? At the moment I'm abstaining: The card currently has role in four
decks: some builds of Academy, Storm, Oath and rogue. Because of the rogue
factor, I'm currently more inclined to keep the card. Banning the card would
only kill that deck type.

On banning Mana Drain: Quite a many people have addressed this as a game
swinger and random. We could at least see couple of years how the format would
be without this. Banning Drain could justify then other cards, like Gifts

On banning Demonic Tutor Demonic is the core reason why people splash black.
UW-control for example. I'd like to see how the format would be without this.
I know this would nerf combo, but banning Demonic could justify then other
cards, like Vampiric, which is still card disadvantage and not self evident
play against aggro.

On removing Dig Through Time from watchlist: Dig is powerful, but not this
powerful. It would be one of those weird banned cards player base would not
never understand.

Thanks for pointing this out, you're completely right: both http://magicplayer.org/?id=highlander_rules and http://www.highlandermagic.de are out of date.

@Stefan: I feel that there should be .htaccess rewrite rule to forward requests from http://magicplayer.org/?id=highlander_rules to http://www.highlandermagic.de.

Are you able to create this?

If yes, then we only need to maintain http://www.highlandermagic.de

@Goblin-Diplomaten: meanwhile, if possible, refer in all HL rules needs this: http://highlandermagic.info

Interesting results with midrange on bottom. Any chance to see the decklists at mtgpulse?

I suggested in the Poll that unbannig entomb would be possible if demonic tutor would get banned instead.

This an interesting proposal, which I find rational and something I could back up. Namely: Decisions that support maximum deck diversity, on this case banning Demonic and unbanning Entomb, would support this.

Having numerous all around good stuff piles in HL is not what I'd like to see, but decks that have distinguished game plan and synergy. One could then see also Mana Vault unbanned, as it would have little to offer to 4c-Blood, but lots to give e.g. combo and staxx, which are not seen on meta that much at the moment.

Any chance to see that RG LD list, say in mtgpulse?

And did that RG LD list play against any of the 5c or 4c goodstuff piles in the tournament?

Any chance to see the decklist of that 4c token?

The feed I promised here: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1139.msg11809#msg11809

It's now ready. You can subscribe to it at highlandermagic.info (direct link: http://highlandermagic.info/feed.xml)

The feed will be updated quarterly: 1st. of January, April, July and October.