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[How do you rate the banned-list on a scale from 1 to10 (1=poor, 10=great)?]

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Nick: Marc (Orkpopper)

How do you rate the banned-list on a scale from 1 to
10 (1=poor, 10=great)?
8

Which mulligan-rule do you prefer?
Free Mulligan

How do you rate the free mulligan on a scale from 1 to
10?
8
At first I did not like the mulligan change, but after some matches it appeared to be the better solution for our format. It still has its downsides (more games are dicided by manascrew and nutdraws), but games feel better and more fun overall.

How often do you play Highlander (mp.org-rules)
several times weekly

How often have you played on a HL-GP / -Cup?
3

Which cards are missing on the banned-list and why?
(max. the 5 most important ones)

True-Name Nemesis -  New to the format, but seems to be brutally unfair. Let's give it a try, put this card on the watchlist and discuss it again in 3 months.

Price of Progress - I'm quite surprised that few players think that this card is a problem. 8-10 damage against most decks in the format on a 2 mana instant spell is very powerful. I saw too many red decks win games in which they were dead on the board by random PoP from the top...

Which cards should be deleted from the banned-list
and why? (max. the 5 most important ones)

Entomb - Reanimator, Pattern-Rector and other GY based decks are not a problem right now, so give them a new tool

Gifts Ungiven - A 4 Mana Tutor which needs skill to use, imo not unfair

Mana Vault - Is this any worse than Grim Monolith? Costs 1 Mana less, but can only be untapped in upkeep, which is a huge disadvantage

Imperial Seal / Vampiric Tutor - They are not any better than other Tutors in the format

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You'll find some more thoughts about this topic here (in german): klick

I think a public banning discussion (like the one about lftl) would be helpful for the council and interesting for the community.
It would help the council to find a decision and take the community's opinion into account. Also it would make the bannings more comprehensible.
So why are the bannings not discussed in public? The final vote could still be secret...

Will the results of this questionnaire be posted here?
Would be interesting...

I don't like it when i see a t8 with 8 birthing pods, 8 stoneforge mystic and no deck with less then 3 colors.

Sure they are strong cards, but I do not think they are unfair, because your opponent can handle them with nearly every removelspell. A stupid naturalize oder doom blade is enough to get rid of the problem.
In addition it is no banning reason that a card is played very often. An example: 8 out of top8 decks contain also birds of paradise. Should birds be banned because of that fact?

I think multicolored decks are often played, because they are most fun to the players, not because they are so much stronger than monocolored decks. If you run a mono-red deck containing cards like price of progress, blood moon and ruination you will beat every 3+ colored deck. White weenie was also a top deck on german hl-gp. You see, monocolored decks are still powerful...

Why are the decks called "blood" ?

Because of the red-splash.

Hope the rest of the T8 will be added, too.