Parallax Tide is banned in Premodern! What happens now?

Intro

Last Sunday, a backbreaking news shook the Premodern community: they banned Parallax Tide! 
It’s been a while since the last banlist, namely Land Tax. However, ever since I joined Premodern Parallax Tide, the Blue Control decks seemed like the best thing to do.
My deck of choice was Replenish. I had an amazing win rate with it, finishing 3rd at Italian Nationals in 2024 and 1st in 2025.

This deck was fantastic, crushing the fair and aggro decks, and only really behind vs MonoRed Slight and MonoBlue Stasis, and I was really happy to play against the two most played decks in the format: MonoBlue Dreadnaught and Goblins.

Was this ban correct?

Yes, I think it is. The banlist article by Martin Berlin explains the topic perfectly and shows in detail the reason why this ban was needed.
The next question could be whether something else was in need to be banned as well?
If the answer is yes, the first cards that would come to mind would be Phyrexian Dreadnought, Fireblast, and Armageddon. To nerf the power level of the top decks down a bit.
Although I think it’s not necessary, I can see MonoBlue Dreadnaught losing a strong B plan and becoming a lot easier to attack, and the Midrange decks can arise to beat on MonoRed Slight to balance the metagame.
I think it’s a good choice to ban Parallax Tide and see what is going to happen. I’m certainly sad to see my deck lose a very important piece of the combo, but I can understand that the card was extremely strong for the format.
 

Toxi Gameplay

Another reason to ban cards is that the gameplay isn’t healthy, as it’s not fun to be on the receiving end of certain combos. However, I think this can’t apply to Premodern since this format has so many of these cards that involve toxic gameplay, such as Armageddon, Oath of Druids, Stasis, and I don’t think Parallax Tide was less fun than those, just stronger.
Also overall I’m a big believer that competitive formats should only care about win-rates when it comes to the banlist and not go into the merit of what’s fun and what’s not, since fun is subjective.

Is Repleshin still playable post Parallax Tide ban?

I believe the answer is yes. Parallax Tide was amazing at making sure the opponent could never recover post-Replenish, exiling all their creatures and their lands, turning Replenish into a 1-card combo.
What happens now is that you’re still able to create a powerful Combo turn, exiling your opponent’s creatures with the Opalescence + Parallax Wave combo, but they will be able to untap and take their turn to try to have a comeback.
You’ll still be able to play around Wrath of God or Tranquility by exiling your Enchantments under Parallax Wave, or if you have 2 Opalescence they won’t be able to Disenchant them, but it’ll definitely be possible that you lose post-Replenish to Burn spells or some other unfair ways.
A card that would be able to lock the game after casting Replenish is Decree of Silence, which you can discard freely from your Attunement or Frantic Search and then bring back with Replenish denying your opponent answers to your Opalencence board state, although I believe this card to be too bad to draw outside of your combo kill, and I’m a big fan of hardcasting my combo, rather than simply relying on Replenish to get the job done.
This is where I’m headed to as UW Replenish post-ban.

What about other decks?

MonoBlue Dreadnaught can still have a way to disrupt the opponent's manabase thanks to Armageddon, splashing White also for Meddling Mage and Swords to Plowshares.
Adding a color in a format with a shaky manabase like Premodern isn’t great, but Azorious has the fortune of having a Fetchland and a filter land, so your mana sources should be alright to splash.

UW Landstill will work just as fine without Parallax Tide; one could argue that this Control deck is actually benefiting from the banlist, as it was pretty oppressive against it.
You’ll just play normal Control tools such as Counterspell and Wrath of God, with card advantage such as Fact or Fiction and Stanstill, and win conditions like Mishra’s Factory and Decree of Justice.
The deck won’t be top meta, since you’re still a reactive Control deck in an unfair format, but it will certainly still be around and doesn’t die with this banlist.

Blue decks will survive and keep on thriving despite this hard-hitting banlist. The format will open up a bit with Midrange decks being now able to deploy their lands and cast their higher-end spells.

It will remain to be seen if the format needs additional banlists to keep its balance, but I think it will be good for now.