Shoe wrote:Ancestral Vision
Bloodbraid Elf
Deathrite Shaman
Dread Return
Glimpse of Nature
Golgari Grave-Troll
Ponder
Preordain
Punishing Fire
Sensei's Divining top
All seem weird, why do they hate consistency so much?
Bloodbraid and Deathrite got the axe because they made Jund too powerful and Jund was the strongest archtype right from the inception of modern.
Dread Return and Golgari Grave Troll were banned to effectively remove Dredge from Modern.
Ponder, Preordain and Ancestral were banned because it made Storm more consistant and basically sped up how fast the deck could go off.
Glimpse of Nature I dont remember the reasoning behind this, but watching Legacy Elves go off from this, I can understand why.
Punishing Fire basically made it impossible to use aggro decks since any creature with 2 toughness couldnt exist on the battlefield because it Punishing Fire's interation with Grove of the Burnwillows.
Sensei's Divining Top was banned namely because of the time delay it puts in matches. Yes Counterbalance is a reason too but it was basically banned for the same reason it was banned in standard because everydeck ran it and matches were constantly taking too long since there was too much use of top to look at the top of your deck before you draw, after you draw, after you shuffle, and in response to spells.