My guess on June 1 Announcement: Banned/Restricted or......

Have you heard about Vanguard?
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Players started to play MTG in the late 90s may remember the over-sized promo cards in store shelves.
Each big card contains a set of rules. You start with 30 life; You can draw 2 cards; your creatures get +1/+1......
Vanguard was marketed as a new format? I never got the chance to know or play games with them, so I don't know.

Companions are the new Vanguard, I guess.
Companions will not be seen in official events unless you put them into decks.
We are getting a sub format in which all decks must include a companion.

This is an alternative to banning. Banning will infuriate too many players, store owners, collectors.

Will companions plummet? In short term, they will.

I'm still thinking what to do with these cards, so it would be better for me to write about it in my next entry.

Hope I can write something before 1st June.

Anyway, I am trying to play MTG in real life.

Good luck to me!

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