MArcomage

JM, take intrigue or sphynx in your deck, and forget about that problem.

i for one am glad of this change- if it hadn't been made, all of the uber-powerful Priest decks would be out of control. i need to pack bronze golem and ogre just to keep that bad boy in check. i wouldnt want them to be discarding things like mountain sentry or hungry dead when the priestly menace is afoot.

I never even seen Priest been used. But if you go by tom's reasoning, you'd want to aim Banish...

I however won't choose Banish cards for their Banish keyword with the current situation, and if I ever will choose a card for discarding it won't be a banish, more something like Intrigue. Maybe with previous Banish, durable was just too easy to discard, I don't know.

It makes the game more random because it makes rares more powerful.

It's luck if you draw a rare. It weights the game toward getting lucky, not good deck construction.

I hope to live to the day when banish does not allow to draw rares

Should it replace the banished card with a card of a lower rarity from opponent's deck?

This is a great idea IMO.

Yes, It's even greater than simply disallowing rares. I wonder why noone thought of that before