Extended Post-Rotation: Major Changes

The new extended season is coming, and what will change?

So, I'll leave you all a nice list with the most significant changes, enjoy ;)

Leaving:

• -No more cycling lands and without them I can’t see Life from the Loam be playable, maybe one of a kind in some gifts control or Tron…
  
• -Riptide Laboratory was a smashing card for faeries, but faeries will survive without it.
  
• -No more Mind’s Desire, so goodbye TEPS.
  
• - Ensnaring Bridge, that was an essential part of booth Tezzerator and burn… The Tezzerator will still see play although Tezzerator also loses stifle, so no more sinkholes for one mana. Burn also loses sulfuric vortex and thereby loses most of its strength…
  
• - Goblin Piledriver and friends say goodbye, still this doesn’t mean goblins won’t see play, we will now have Warren Instigator so only time could tell us.
  - Chain of plasma, swans wasn't very powerfull before, now he is almost dead.

Entering:

• - New Fetches, move along nothing to see here.
  
• -Valakut, which combine with Scapeshift may give a new combo to extended but I personally think there’s no way this combo will be playable it takes to many lands to work (7, most of the time, and you need 6 mountains left in your deck, so there are a lot of restrictions…) and extended is so fast right now that I don’t think this kind of deck will be competitive.
  
• - Hypergenesis , the successor of TEPS, this deck has the potential to win quite early but it’s a bit fragile; It fails against a deck with some counters (Spellstutter Sprite can even counter Hypergenesis!!), a deck with some discard, Canonist and even Chalice, but still...
  
• - Vampire Hexmage , this little girl plus Dark Depths can make a beautiful 20/20 with fly and indestructible, but to make a deck around this idea it’s at least a bit suicide, because this 20/20 dies to path, bounce spells ( Repeal) , Pithing Needle (naming Vampire Hexmage, don’t get me wrong -.-) and this little combo needs 2 cards , and Dark Depths doesn’t even produce mana. Some decks could have this like a second win situation or even on side but to spend slots on that, I don’t think so…
  
• -Lightning Bolt and Goblin Guide, How could naya zoo become ever stronger? The answer is of course lightning bolt, so zoo doesn’t lose anything and still gains bolt and goblin guide, yes the 2/2 with haste gives even more speed to the already mega hyper fast zoo…
  
• -Duress and Maelstorm Pulse, this guys and Knight of the Reliquary could probably bring The Rock back to the top.
  
• -Baneslayer Angel could see game on some trons or U/W control or mono W (life) but that’s all.
  
• -Scute Mob, this guy could do amazing damage in a next level control alongside tarmogoyf, shackles, jitte, counters, ancestral vision…
  
• -Lotus Cobra, this guy is just too slow for extended...

• -Bloodghast alongside Tombstalker and friends could bring mono black back to life, and also Bloodghast could make dredge a tier 1 again!!
  

Thanks for Reading
See you Later,
Theptkid