I do agree with this…but WoTC is aware of the true cost of a banning. Sure on the outside it appears that it doesn’t actually cost them anything; but as we’ve seen from numerous players/writers it does erode at the playerbase confidence in the format which DOES have a very real cost. Without confidence the playerbase shrinks and product doesn’t sell as well.

I don’t really see how exactly was it that the Twin whole deck got banned with the banning of twin. The value lost amounts to like $50 tops, if I would regret anything as a Twin player – it’s the time that I spent getting to know match-ups with other decks and that now I need to start over with another deck, however Magic is the game, that I play in the first place and make profit with in the second, so I just pick up my stuff and move to Grixis or U/R Delver deck, which look like fine choices to me, or just sell my cards and buy into other decks, as my Scalding Tarns haven’t got banned, thank you very much WotC. What I’m getting at – I do regret the time spent learning ins and outs and the timing for the ban was also long overdue, which was part of the reason me picking up this deck, but I was pretty sure Twin would get an axe at some point, so it doesn’t strike me as unexpected that much.

I forgot to mention that once a person acquires all cards needed for their Modern deck, they’re no longer Hasbro’s customer. Banning a person’s deck fixes this problem by forcing players to keep buying product. Hasbro can’t reprint half the cards in Legacy and thus have no reason to pay any attention to the format

Legacy isn’t the cash grab Modern is for WotC. Modern doesn’t suffer from the reserved list. If Legacy was treated like Modern, WotC would ban FoW.

I can definitely feel your pain on this one and I do think this action will turn away some players; it is hard to argue that they’ve drastically changed the potential metagame with these bannings which has gotten some people excited. Arguing that modern is not an eternal format because WoTC bans/unbans things though seems rather exaggerated…afterall, they ban/unban cards in legacy as well…and few would argue that legacy is not an eternal format.