DCI bans Intangible Virtue and Lingering souls

[RJCarrot]

Corrosive Gale/Ratchet Bomb

2 Good Examples of sweepers that effect tokens but do not effect other weak creature builds.

If they just printed one card with similar type of sweep strength vs tokens it would all be in check, but they didnt, so they banned them.

If enough work was done in R&D that type of card could have been printed causing no need for the ban.

But it is what it is, ill save my heavy arguing for when they start banning good cards for no reason in a real format.

[morimacil1]

Corrosive Gale/Ratchet Bomb

2 Good Examples of sweepers that effect tokens but do not effect other weak creature builds.

Corrosive Gale would be terrible vs tokens, since it would only take care of half a lingering souls, still leaving you to deal with the other half, and everything else they have.
Ratchet Bomb would be good, sure, but it would also hurt every other agro deck.

[RJCarrot]

Most decks the ground units are not the threat that hurts, and if your opponent knows you are playing it, it still keeps the second half of the souls in check.

Ratchet Bomb for 0 is a one sided board sweeper, allowing for an alpha strike (which in some cases wins the game as turn 1-2 or 1-3 if thalia is involved belongs to the opposing agro deck.

And the point was to have sweepers that could keep it in check not completely hose it. Either way, none of them exist so thats why they got banned, and rightfully so. If AVR provides some form of sweepers I could see how they could and should lift the ban.