Vintage kept its restricted list, because some people wanted to play with powerful cards (and also because Type 1.5, aka legacy had started to take root, which, at the time, was just vintage with the restricted list renamed "banned list"), but in standard, you already couldn't play with all your cards, so there really wasn't any good reason to keep a restricted list
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Nothing there would get Atlantean Mermails to the next level again, but thankfully Rage of the Abyss gave us new Atlantean Mermail support towards the tail end of 2024, and it's great support on top of that while also officially tying Atlanteans and Mermails together as archetypes, even if this new support would finally start locking the Deck into only making WATER plays
In that regard, they're both great successes
The two are still completely separate properties, even if they do bleed into each other from time to time