If removal doesn't at least scry, if not draw a card, then you are often already behind removing a creature that essentially replaces itself or has an ability to recur. 1 for 1 is only okay, if that is actually the case, which it isn't with stuff like Uro or Omnath. I'd like to see Wizards adopt a s...

A lot of players loved Mox Opal decks, be it Hardened Scales or Cheerios... Nobody likes their deck being banned out of the format. I liked Phoenix, it was a solid deck, but I loved Hollow One, both decks were killed by the Faithless Looting ban, ironically Dredge is fine... Dredge doesn't particula...

Companions are worse than Hogaak or Eldrazi, in my opinion. While Hogaak or the Eldrazi decks could mulligan relatively well, they could still end up keeping an iffy 5. That never happens with a Companion. WotC's new design philosophy; F.I.R.E. (fun, inviting, replayable, and exciting) clearly isn't...

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4 years ago

Anyone who thinks Looting should be unbanned is trolling.

Sorry, but I'd take Izzet Phoenix and Hollow one over the current meta... Not trolling in the least, I mean I'm fine with Preordain being unbanned and Twin too, but Looting made so many fun decks viable...

In pioneer I could see Dig Through Time being banned, honestly the fact Inverter is a turn 5 combo, I think it's ok. LotusBreach is more awkward to deal with, but harder to play. In modern, Once Upon A Time is still a new card selling packs and it isn't broken other than the initial free cast. If th...

If you wanted to nerf big mana then banning both Once Upon A Time and Ancient Stirrings would do it... What's the next best option, Adventurous Impulse or Grisly Salvage? Ironically blue would then have the best cantrip in Serum Visions, so maybe big mana runs blue...

On today's earnings call, Hasbro says that Magic's revenues grew 30% in 2019, with double digit growth in tabletop. I guess Modern Horizons, Secret Lairs and the other sets released in 2019 alongside Arena did what they were meant to. It's also likely to mean there will be no drive for change, desp...

It is beyond belief and clearly a WOTC fault to not print a DRS substitute in MH1. This was the right place to do it. When DRS was banned in modern they opened the door to a future graveyard bans, happened twice, and will happen again if the format does not die this year. Death Rite Shaman, in a fo...

Why do you say Modern could be a turn 3 format? Also, what deck besides of Neoform is a consistent turn 4 rule violator? I really don't understand. Let me try and answer: 1. Pioneer is essentially what people imagine a turn 4 format looks like, there is a big play like Inverter of Truth on turn 4, ...

I disagree with that. However, I do think that part of such an approach should be to reevaluate where Modern sits in Magic, as Pioneer is being released to much of the same identity that Modern is supposed to have. The starting point doesn't need to change, but defining what the format is for, and ...

I'd leave Ponder on the ban list, Preordain on the other-hand is fine. Birthing Pod and Splinter Twin, have too much emotion attached to them, if they were unbanned and then re-banned it would create more uproar and likely cost the format more players... Don't get me wrong I still have 4 Pods, I've ...

Pioneer fires twice a week as does Modern, Legacy is once a month and it fires. I guess everywhere is different, I will say that all three non-rotating formats have largely the same player base. On the earlier topic of how many cards enter Modern from each set, Eldritch Moon was a particularly enric...

But that reprint issue is the core, central, defining issue of Legacy. Even if Legacy fulfilled every other mission of Modern and Pioneer, which I believe it does, it can't meet the reprint burden. That kills the format at any major, Wizards-supported level. Wizards have been failing to adequately ...

I agree with your point about draft too, but I just really hate draft formats in all games hehe. To be clear, I don't think Stirrings gets banned, even if it is better than what blue gets... Then again the Looting and Opal ban mean anything is fair game... I actually like draft and sealed. I dislik...

https://mtgmodernmetrics.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/fixing-modern-redefining-format-mission/ I made some significant revisions to the GP attendance and Reddit traffic sections. I think I'll also add some images in a few spot, but I'm still figuring it out. @me with any comments, criticisms, suggestio...

The most fun I've had in Modern was Hollow One, rakdos roulette style, this deck died with Faithless Looting. I'm okay with that, I had Green Tron, Dredge, Living End and CrabVine, I am a fan of graveyard decks. Tron is boring and repetitive to play, but I actually think it is fairly interesting to ...

I've enjoyed playing Pioneer more than Modern recently. I haven't really enjoyed Modern since the Faithless Looting ban and the loss of the ability to play Hollow One or Izzet Phoenix. Rather than the Looting decks I've been playing CrabVine, which is ok, but just doesn't have the same feel, or Gree...

Go try to figure out combat in hardened scales affinity or even normal affinity with a ravager on board. Or the correct sequence of creatures in a Humans deck. Navigate an aggro vs aggro MU properly. there is a ton of depth in the combat system, much like in every other aspect of magic. I've played...

Creature combat is the best part of magic as a game compared to other similar games. There's a reason we devote 6 phases to it. It's the part where the most decisions and interaction takes place, it's the most skill intensive part of magic. Good magic formats are about creature combat. Creature com...

Pioneer needs better answers, but there is a chance they are coming if Drown in the Loch is an example of where things are going. That being said I don't want them to reprint Path to Exile, black should be the creature kill colour with the strongest answers, but maybe Oust. Keeping white essentially...

I have a playset of SFM, was actually messing around with Hammer Time of late, but I also just lost Izzet Pheonix and possibly Hollow One (It might still work). This Forum is very anti Looting, and that's fine, but a lot of folk just had their decks hit. I'd guess this ban will have a greater impact...

1. Hollow One - My first modern deck, also made almost forgotten cards useful Burning Inquiry / Goblin Lore 2. Phyrexian Obliterator - Always had a soft spot for this, good against Thing in the Ice too. 3. Death's Shadow - An underestimated card that has more than proven it's worth. 4. Cavern of Sou...