To Ban or Not to Ban...

A lot of debate at the moment seems to be centred around the idea that certain cards might need to be banned from Tournament play. At the moment, I don't care which cards they actually are (but they are the usual suspects: Voter Cap, Villein + Giant's Blood, Pentex Subversion, Sensory Deprivation).

If VTES was still being printed...
If VTES was still being printed, I would be suggesting that cards that cannot be easily errataed (e.g. Pentex Subversion in the recent debate) should be banned and a replacement card printed (basically what would be the 'significant errata version'). This allows us to have a card with those effects that is not 'broken' and without having to issue many tags with errata to new players.

But VTES isn't being printed...
Then we can't expect to have an updated text printed. So we must collectively (or LSJ will) decide if Card X (see the list above) is too powerful to exist without errata.
If the card must have errata then it should be added to a Non-Errata Banned List which will specifically contain cards that should have Errata but cannot until VTES is in production. This separate list is to also remind everyone that these card are to be replaced not just used to decorate our cardboxes.
If the card does not need errata then it should be left alone, to suffer the same fate as Minion Tap.

So in the current debate...
I think Pentex Subversion should be banned, not errataed, in the short-term. It is a card that seems to have a major influence over deck construction, play a completely game-changing role during tournaments and regularly raises debate regarding 'should it be banned or changed'.

Possibly it should be banned completely, never to be replaced. It doesn't see much play in our playgroup, rarely seems to turn up in tournaments and isn't an all-pervasive feature of the Australian play-scene (AFAIK) unlike the US Scene or the EU Scene. I can't comment entirely on that other than I would definately feel the need to find cardslots to specifically counter the use of Pentex Subversion if I played in the US or Europe.