Yeah, I didn't really view Ragavan as a problem in Legacy. I'm annoyed that we keep getting the occasional ban in the format, but with no attempt at all made to bring some of the old banned stuff back in. WotC seems to be stuck in this mindset for Legacy that if the format ever becomes stale for few months, then something needs to be banned, and that nothing on the banned list can ever leave again. Earthcraft has been unnecessarily banned for the past 905 weeks, but really there's a lot more to it at this point. The latest batch of U/R decks would have seen Ragavan fare poorly against Deathrite Shaman, but the card was already banned. Wrenn and Six would have had a hard time reusing one's own fetchlands if a Deathrite Shaman was eating them, but Deathrite Shaman was already banned. Ragavan might have actually competed with Dreadhorde Arcanist and made things interesting, but Dreadhorde Arcanist was already banned. Zirda might have been a unique enabler for a combo deck even without the Companion issue, but remains banned. And with so many of these questionable recent additions to the list, it makes figuring out how the format would shake up and which old cards are safe that much harder to evaluate. I'm more than 99% confident that Earthcraft would be a safe unban. I'm reasonably convinced that Survival of the Fittest would be a safe unban. But what about something like Gush or Memory Jar? What about Sensei's Divining Top? The list should get actual curation, but it's being treated instead as pit to just throw cards into and never see them again.
Anyway, has anyone at the CPA even touched the "Alchemy" stuff they're pushing on Arena now? I've seen in a couple of other places that it's been critically panned, but I haven't bothered with it myself.
