Simply saying "we made a mistake" and not doing anything is not what we're talking about. It is the fact that they are refusing to fix it that pisses us off. They have the power to simply fix any & all problems in standard, yet refuse to do anything.

Wizards is aware that a large number of their customers are unhappy and believe standard is broken and have repeatedly expressed they understand this and are trying to figure out the best course of action from here. They are not ignorant of the popular sentiment and are not trying to avoid responsibility, for which they should be commended.

SFM and Caw w/o Batterskull is still "really good", but it's not broken. If we have brews starting to contend w/ Caw as it stands right now, then removing the Batterskull interaction begins to repair the lost parity.

Jace, as well, is "really good", but not broken. And we all should agree that SFM is only as good as the equipment that she can fetch.

What's good about the Batterskull ban is that we can do that until October and then unban it once we lose SFM. If we ban SFM or Jace, then a lot of people will lose out on cards that they may have tried very hard to acquire. If someone traded his ass off to trade up into a playset of Jaces, I think they should get to continue to play them for the next few months.

I'm not a Jace player myself, but I think a Jace ban is going to piss more people off than it's going to make happy. Same goes for SFM — which is also a 2-of in an event deck (which is one of the reasons why I firmly believe that SFM isn't even on the table for banning).

I agree, as I said I don't think they will ban anything, and I don't think anything needs to be banned. Still, as I was saying with the final quote, its good to prepare before the bannings happen.

I disagree with your statement that "they believe they are beyond human error now." Multiple people from wizards have acknowledged that there is a problem with current standard. Aaron Forsythe himself said that "we know this is the worse we've screwed up since Mirrodin."

It's sickening that they believe they are beyond human error now. Most of the imbalances we see are from multiple designer's creations blending almost flawlessly to create a power creep that is near combo winter/black summer.

We have Jace, which is essentially Jitte, in the sense you either play it to win, or you play it to counter itself. You have Stoneforge, something that can go toe to toe with tarmogoyf, a card WotC has apologized for. And then you have equipment that outclasses all but 3 of their predecessors.

I'm glad that all these new cards are keeping legacy fresh and alive, but it's killing standard, people don't show up to tournaments, it's starting to feel a lot like Mirrodin again, cept I'm on the other end of the spectrum and play the big bad, but I'm just as unhappy.