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Hello - in order to explain my point about the banlist, I have to say some background first:
I play german HL for some time, even organize/help organizing tournaments in Slovakia as much as possible cca. last 3 years.
I am not the first one to start playing it here on Slovakia, but I believe that after I joined, we started to travel more to Hanau
and also try to update decks to be as competitive as possible due to your big tournaments also, which I am very thankful for of course
At first, I looked at banlist very negatively, mainly because my deck was loosing tools almost every time, there was a banning time.
Natural Order, Birthing pod, etc. All cards that I really loved to play.
BUT
I started to look at it the other way later and I still didn't see this point here - in the postings:
What about banning/unbanning cards as a tool, to make players more satisfied? Maybe it is very easy to say and pretty hard to do,
since everybody has its own point on every powerful card.

What I am saying is - lets at least try to look at it this way! Lets look on those cads on banlist/watchlist also from the motivation point!
If we unban some card, or ban it - would it make more people start playing the format again? If yes, lets do it! The worst thing,
that can happen is that we would have a shift in the metagame - I believe it is not that bad of a thing and you?

Hello,
I am new to this forum, so I will start slowly - just 1 topic - to not make too much mess at once. 

I encourage all the local playgroups to test this new ruling and to post their impressions here.

Last 2 weeks, we tested this option in Bratislava and even that we had just a few games each under this rule, I believe it is a step forward.
Due to free mulligan, you mulligan in HL to 6 or less a lot less times, but you are still grateful for any help, when you go down to 6 or less.
But that is expected I believe.
I myself have gone down to 6 cards 3 times in those games and once I have chosen to put the card down, the other 2 times I kept.
My opponents went to 6 2 times and once kept, once put down. 1 time they went to 5 and kept the card that time.
I think the only question to test is, whether it can be used to some unfair advantage, so we will see people go down to 6 a lot more then before, so here is my analysis on that:
Just to clarify - it doesn't make something all the times - the biggest effect it has is when you put the card down. You more or less draw a half card (typical scry effect). That's exactly when you should be happy for that rule
When you keep, the only time you can somehow work with it is when you go first and keep the card since you don't draw a card for the turn - you have time until your 2nd turn to fetch or not fetch for example - that's the only time it interacts with the game itself. But - ussually when you keep it, you want it, so ...
Other times it just gives you that small option to keep or not - which of course makes people at least feel better after going to 6.

So, all in all I believe it makes people only happier without giving them something really great - just a small crutch after he got hit with some bad luck (mostly).
So I don't see any way to abuse it and therefore I like it