Unban Loam
Reasons:
1. It was originally banned because of it's interaction with gifts ungiven, wasteland, LoA and cycle lands. Half of those are currently banned. So it's not as powerful as it was.
2. Metagame became quite stagnant with bant being on top and no other decks doing good enough.
3. Loam is slow, but unbanning loam will give control and other slower decks better lategame. Like BUG control will get much more value of loam than bant giving it good fighting chance. And oath with reanimator become playable decks (they aren't good enough now).
4. People are afraid of games going to LftL->wasteland, but metagame is flooded with 5c decks and other goodstuffs. Loam makes people think about manabases making 5c goodstuff strategies worse. Also i think wasteland should be banned because it's too random to win games just because of wasteland in opening hand (tectonic edge + ghost quarter + back to basics + magus of the moon + blood moon are still good answers to decks abusing nonobasics).
5. Goodstuff and control decks are supposed to play tutorable graveyard hate anyway, so loam shouldn't be broken in this metagame anyway.
6. Shaking up the metagame to change it and make highlander more fun, since current meta is quite boring.
P.S. I agree with the opinion that council should be more brave with unbannings. Unban yavgmoths will, dread return, loam. You won't know how bad they are until you actually unban them, and if worse comes to worst you can just ban them again 3 months later. But you will get good testing and opinions from multiple sources.
Reasons:
1. It was originally banned because of it's interaction with gifts ungiven, wasteland, LoA and cycle lands. Half of those are currently banned. So it's not as powerful as it was.
2. Metagame became quite stagnant with bant being on top and no other decks doing good enough.
3. Loam is slow, but unbanning loam will give control and other slower decks better lategame. Like BUG control will get much more value of loam than bant giving it good fighting chance. And oath with reanimator become playable decks (they aren't good enough now).
4. People are afraid of games going to LftL->wasteland, but metagame is flooded with 5c decks and other goodstuffs. Loam makes people think about manabases making 5c goodstuff strategies worse. Also i think wasteland should be banned because it's too random to win games just because of wasteland in opening hand (tectonic edge + ghost quarter + back to basics + magus of the moon + blood moon are still good answers to decks abusing nonobasics).
5. Goodstuff and control decks are supposed to play tutorable graveyard hate anyway, so loam shouldn't be broken in this metagame anyway.
6. Shaking up the metagame to change it and make highlander more fun, since current meta is quite boring.
P.S. I agree with the opinion that council should be more brave with unbannings. Unban yavgmoths will, dread return, loam. You won't know how bad they are until you actually unban them, and if worse comes to worst you can just ban them again 3 months later. But you will get good testing and opinions from multiple sources.