LoboStele wrote:
Actually, Grambo, becuase Luke and Yoda are being released around teh same time as Blizzard Scout 1 is exactly why some of the older pieces will remain playable.
Luke and Yoda offer a direct counter to BS1, therefore the possibility of facing a L&Y squad will keep BS1 from being played competitively, for the most part. It doesn't mean you have to play L&Y or the BS1. EMR showed that at GenCon by playing the JH version of B&B. It was still viable. This was partly due to how the meta shifts from set to set. It's quite possible that L&Y or BS1 may completely invalidate one particular type of squad build or another, but it doesn't completely invalidate EVERYTHING. Who knows, maybe in the Legacy set next year something else will come along that will counter BS1, while helping that older squad be competitive once again. Now that older squad is good enough to top BS1 or L&Y, but it may not make it good enough to beat, say, San Hill.
It's all balance. And so far, nothing that we have seen moves the balance enough to be completely dominant over everything else. It's just jockeying positions.
You may be right, Lobo... but I think you're wrong. I think you're giving too much credit on faith and faith alone. I think there is a MUCH larger metashift in this expansion than in any previous, based on what we've seen so far. I think Rob is trying to "make some changes" in this set, more so than in previous. And, I think it is going to change the game... considerably. Unless the entire rest of the set is much more like the weaker parts of the preview, and less like the stronger, we are in for the biggest "powershift" of any set so far, I believe. If so, no "later shift" is going to correct it... and we will be in for the type of ride that Magic then got on... where every new set invalidated significant chunks of the previous sets. That... if it is truly where we're headed... blows goats, in my opinion...