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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 7724805"><p>MTG has tiers of play. Standard, Modern, Legacy/Vintage. Standard only includes the two most recent sets (typically). Modern includes sets back till the Mirrodin border change/8th Edition, and Legacy/Vintage contains everything. All of these tiers have different banned/restricted lists based on what cards are available and how that interacts with other cards. It is <em>generally</em> regarded that Standard is the most balanced, and the least powerful. Modern is somewhat balanced and very powerful and Legacy is generally regarded as unbalanced and extremely powerful. As you can see, the more material you include, the less balanced and more powerful the combinations become.</p><p></p><p>As far as I am aware, only the set Portal, is banned entirely. </p><p></p><p>But you're still looking at power creep in the author's wrong terms. New MTG cards aren't typically explicitly <em>better</em> just because they come from a new set. In fact some of the older cards are <em>less</em> balanced than newer ones. But there are times when Wizards does print sets generally comprised of cards that do the same thing for <em>less</em> or more and better things for the same cost. Usually with MTG sets, power creep happens for a block or three, then gets radically scaled back with a Standard rotation (the changing out of sets that are legal to play in Standard). Then it slowly builds back up again....and then gets scaled back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 7724805"] MTG has tiers of play. Standard, Modern, Legacy/Vintage. Standard only includes the two most recent sets (typically). Modern includes sets back till the Mirrodin border change/8th Edition, and Legacy/Vintage contains everything. All of these tiers have different banned/restricted lists based on what cards are available and how that interacts with other cards. It is [I]generally[/I] regarded that Standard is the most balanced, and the least powerful. Modern is somewhat balanced and very powerful and Legacy is generally regarded as unbalanced and extremely powerful. As you can see, the more material you include, the less balanced and more powerful the combinations become. As far as I am aware, only the set Portal, is banned entirely. But you're still looking at power creep in the author's wrong terms. New MTG cards aren't typically explicitly [I]better[/I] just because they come from a new set. In fact some of the older cards are [I]less[/I] balanced than newer ones. But there are times when Wizards does print sets generally comprised of cards that do the same thing for [I]less[/I] or more and better things for the same cost. Usually with MTG sets, power creep happens for a block or three, then gets radically scaled back with a Standard rotation (the changing out of sets that are legal to play in Standard). Then it slowly builds back up again....and then gets scaled back. [/QUOTE]
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