[TOURNAMENT-HotA] Wizard OH

You could just take how Blue moved as a precedent and create rules that would fundamentally forbid altering it.

This will be such a breeding ground for abuses and legal nitpicking that it's better not to even start.

nostalgia, like Frozen Dragons or Ring, is of no interest to anyone

That's because it was hardly played on HeroesWorld. But where it was played (Bay, HP), it was the second or third most popular template in their XL-size. And that's even with the old roads. With new roads, this is probably the most balanced template in terms of starting positions — situations like "nothing at the respawn, break into the center — there's a fully fed opponent you can't run past" practically never happen.

In Heroes, interest in certain rule and settings types is more determined by fashion than by their objective merits. Homunculus started playing 8xm8a — and everyone else followed suit.