gandalfthemage asked: So, as the majority of the Modern player base know, Eldrazi decks are destroying the meta. They consistently place in the top 8 of events, and in general are rather difficult for most modern decks to beat. I personally disagreed with the "no emergency ban" idea, seeing as if there was EVER a need for one, the time is NOW. My only hope is that when SOI comes out, either some new deck comes out to stop it, or there are needed bannings. If any bannings are to be made, the eldrazi must pay.

Just so people are aware we’ve never had an emergency ban in the context people think.

We used to announce bans which took effect a month later. One time during Urza’s Saga block (almost twenty years ago) we announced the banned cards and then a week later we went “Oops” we meant to include one more.

The announced card wasn’t immediately banned but added to the list that was scheduled to be banned three weeks later.

That’s it. In the history of the game, that’s the one “emergency ban” we’ve ever done.

We have never, ever banned a card that was then immediately banned outside of a banning & restriction announcement. Ever!