Magic players use the most backwards logic when arguing what cards should be unbanned
Lets do a thought experiment:
I want you to create a hypothetical scenario where Valakut the Molten Pinnacle is banned in Modern.
I now want you to argue why it should be unbanned.
I saw this experiment ran in a Facebook group by someone, and the most common reply was:
"Valakut the Molten Pinnacle shouldn't be banned, because its not even seeing much play in the format right now."
- A bunch of idiots
No that is not a typo
Lets now get to the point that I want to complain about: So many Magic players seem to hold themselves in a higher regard and think they are way smarter than they actually are. (Especially Commander players) Rather than debate with speculations on where the card will be used and how strong it will be in the meta, like a normal person, they instead say random shit like:
"this card won't impact the meta in a meaningful way. Therefore, there is no reason to unban it."
- A pompous idiot
Their argument against unbanning a card is literally the card is too weak to unban. This is the argument used for Blazing Shoal, which it is commonly agreed upon that it will be useless if its ever unbanned.
The reason this argument doesn't work is that a condition where a card can be unbanned with this logic doesn't exist.
"The card won't impact the meta in a meangingful way." -> It's too weak to unban.
But if the card is actually playable and will impact the meta. -> It's too strong to unban.
See the issue? Anyone who uses this logic for unbanning a card is, in a manner of speaking, virtue signalling to the masses that the cards are on the banlist for a reason and that there should be no discussion for an unban as well as "look at me. I so smart and intelligent because I am pretending to look at how it will interact with the meta even though the card I'm arguing against is Jitte."
Thankfully, Wizards doesn't use this logic. Because, with it, cards like Jace the Mind Sculptor, Stoneforgr Mystic, Bloodbraid Elf, Bitterblossom, Sword of the Meek, Preordain, Mox Opal, Splinter Twin, Faithless Looting, Valakut the Molten Pinnacle, Green Sun's Zenith, and whatever other card that was unbanned in our history, would have never seen the light of day in Modern.
Inb4 "were you really expecting people to be smart enough to think of hypothetical scenarios?"