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by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

Yeah and most decks are running low copies of Sword of the Meek due to the fact that you can just tutor it up. If you are relying on Emry then you kind of have to run 4 Swords. [mention]mtg_data_scraper[/mention] sup dude, welcome! Your post shows my inclination people are obsessed with Ancient Stir...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

The power of the Urza deck isn't speed, which is basically all Mox Opal does. Opal in KCI and Urza is a totally different case. A card like Ensaring Bridge is much more of a problem card than Mox Opal, and I find it funny that no one talk about it to the extent of Opal. I like prison decks as much a...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

Whirza decks are so strong because of Urza, not Opal. The deck existed way before Modern Horizons -I've been playing them since I started playing modern in 2013-2014- and at best was a Tier 2 contender. Urza just gave the deck it's combo finish and it's epic grinding ability (along with Astrolabe a...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Developing
Topic: [Deck]Bolas's House (Citadel Combo)
Replies: 0
Views: 2038

[Deck]Bolas's House (Citadel Combo)

Bolas's Citadel Trash For Treasure Aetherflux Reservoir Introduction Bolas's House aka Citadel Storm is an engine style combo deck primarily enabled by the card Bolas's Citadel in combination of cheap artifacts such as Mox Opal and Chromatic Star to draw through the deck to finish the kill with Aet...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

The play patterns Preordain creates makes it a lot better than SV in a deck like Storm
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

Isn't preordain just a straight-up better version of serum visions ? (Being able to select before drawing is better given the speed of the format.) Preordain is not broken, but I think there is a limit on how many good one-mana cantrip should be available. I personally don't think blue decks need t...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Big Mana
Topic: [Deck] Titanshift
Replies: 17
Views: 6522

Re: [Deck] Titanshift

Can someone explain the interaction with Field of the Dead and Scapeshift for this deck? It says 7 or more lands with different names. So does that mean we need to get fetch lands and use snow-covered and regular basic lands with Scapeshift? Is Field just secondary win con if Valakut is surgical'd o...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

Preordain would fit straight into every blue control and every blue combo deck. Name a blue combo deck. Storm, Ad Naus? Those decks never going to be a real threat any time soon. Neo Brand and Infect? All easily tier 2. My problem with Preordain being on the banned list is that the reason it origin...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

Adding more power to linear strategies is something that is bad for Modern, that's what I'm saying. I believe that adding Twin and/or Pod is a lot different than adding GSZ for example, because those cards don't enable decks that want to ignore the opponent, where GSZ does (in the case for Elves). I...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

Veil of Summer is amazing (its literally cryptic command for 1 mana sometimes), but it def better in Legacy, especially Storm. The problem is that it gets worse the longer the game goes on, as the optimal time to play it is vs a turn 1 discard spell, which sometimes you cant even cast due to being o...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

My stance is that GSZ will enable combo style decks more than toolbox midrangy decks. "Maverick" style decks dont really work in Modern. So basically Elves and Devoted Druid combo would become better. People say stuff like "those decks could use a buff as tool box deck never have been...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

I'm under the assumption that GSZ would make Elves a really good combo deck. I've seen stats on it before, might have been this site, I cant remember. But it showed Elves as very powerful with GSZ. GSZ in Devoted Druid combo deck would be good but yeah its basically a marginally better [insert tutor...
by Pistallion
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1086122

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

GSZ imo is in a similar boat with Faithless Looting. Its an enabler for combo that can also compliment non linear strategy. If we we don't want looting, then we don't GSZ. It kind of depends on what criteria we want for cards coming off the banned list. If we want less non-games of Magic, then we al...

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