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by Tomatotime
3 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 03/09/2020)

Yeah, huge reach to think otherwise. There are clear reasons behind this, its got nothing to do with balance or anything. When they say 'problematic' they mean for racial, religious, or societal reasons. The issue is that it is a slippery slope, today the mob demanded one card, and now on twitter t...
by Tomatotime
3 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 03/09/2020)

So basically this new ban mania could get potentially tournament staples banned due to unfortunate art that Wotc themselves directed in the first place? Because of a twitter and reddit mob? lol, what a joke this all must be.
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 03/09/2020)

Are people unironically calling for Uro to be banned now? Lol this thread is jumping the shark. The people calling for this kind of stuff must have zero awareness, please take a step back and look at magic as whole, understand that UG in particular has classically been one of the most underpowered c...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 03/09/2020)

Pioneer is way better in this department. Color pie has a reason that exists and I believe it's wrong for a player to be able to do this, even if it's a fair deck, or not. I said "destroying the color pie" and as it seems, you answered more into the "being able to splash for whatever...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 03/09/2020)

A) The same reason DRS was banned. I know you previously said "DRS ramps, it's not the same", but you were dead wrong on this one. Well, if "DRS ramps", B) "Astrolabe is destroying the color pie". For you the first one is worse? For me, the second one is. Quick point o...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] IKO Previews in Modern
Replies: 42
Views: 13966

Re: [Official] IKO Previews in Modern

Am I wrong or is Song of Creation absolutely busted? I don't think its busted, just risk/reward, you have the discard your hand the turn you play it (assuming you had no follow up plays after playing it), then your opponent has a chance to just blow you out. I think its probably fair given these hu...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] IKO Previews in Modern
Replies: 42
Views: 13966

Re: [Official] IKO Previews in Modern

Can someone help me with a rules question for this set (god knows this set is a walking trainwreck for those). With all the talk of the companion cards, do you have to actually use them as a companion? What if you just put Lurrus in your deck normally and don't meet his companion requirements, is th...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

Turn 1 mana fix, turn 2 strix with flash and CA Is devastating. Uhhhh.....What? Have you played Modern before? Jund players are literally jamming in 2 copies of boil and a choke, willy edel is main boarding ashiok. People mainboarding Ashioks has nothing to do with Astrolable lol. The guy known for...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

So just to confirm, I think we can basically all agree to if nothing else, meta talks and complaints are completely moot at this point with the virus in it's current state. We can potentially debate MTGO data, but our access to it is extremely limited and at Wotc's discretion. Adding to that, the co...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

I haven't been following this thread super carefully the past week or so but I have been skimming a bit and I would like to make a couple of comments: 1. If mid range is in fact getting a boost from Astrolabe, the burden is on the solitaire players to actually prove that this is worse than the prior...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

I think an Amulet ban is pretty uncontroversial, ultimately by banning Amulet you are simply removing a T3 goldfish path for one of the titan variants, after which the people who play that deck can simply buy a playset of Scapeshifts and move from Amulet Titan into Titan Shift pretty smoothly imo, i...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

A lot of the ban talk in my opinion also revolves around the fact that Wotc, even pre-Pioneer neglected Modern quite a bit, so there is a huge back log of stuff that either needs to go, or should have probably be banned long ago. Some amount of it is simply taking this into consideration and throwin...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

How many midrange decks do we need? Why should Jund etc exist if there is Snow Midrange? That question is disingenuous. There was affinity, there was Lantern and there was Thopter/Sword. Later Scales was created. Now it's just Urza decks. Artifact decks can't compete without him. Also, that huge va...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

There only viable artifact decks are Urza decks. Breach still has to prove it's worth the hype, but yesterday's 5-0 list seems to be leaning towards artifact synergies as a back up plan. Is this a problem though? How many artifact decks are specifically needed, I mean for a long time in Modern the ...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

I do like a lot of what the card represents. It was clearly a risk, and I think they got incredibly close on the tuning for it (which is no small feat for what it represents), but the fact they had to ban it in Pauper, the format where it was clearly meant to do the most good Do we actually know if...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

I mean...Urza lists are still strong, and they are 100% artifact focused so if you are looking for that playstyle why not just play Urza?
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

If (all) answers were maindeckable and good in game 1's then, 1. What's the point of SB? 2. Why play combo decks, if your G1's are almost as bad as the sideboarded games? Historically, even in the good times(TM), combos had great game 1's and way worse games 2 and 3. Similar to aggro decks. I think...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

Spsiegel1987 wrote:
4 years ago
I'd probably fire you along with the rest of the 2019 team.
Lol big oof. Honest question Spsiegel, do you think Modern needs better answers or more bans in an ideal world?
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

We cannot have 'strong answers' to cards which are free, or cost 1. We have hit the point where the option of going even cheaper, is untenable. Are we just going to print leylines for every 'answer' we need? Is that the kind of Magic we want? Well you don't really need an answer to beat all free/1c...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

It's not their fault for making that an artifact. But it's their fault for making it having such a small deck building cost. This card is too pushed. It could be an artifact, but fixing your mana, plus having a redraw is too close to mox opal power level and new degenerate decks are always going to...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

1. Yes. 2. Because it's not an identity, its just 'how many messed up cards can I leverage when I have perfect mana, and oh its a cheap artifact that cantrips'. 'Snow' is not the archetype here that is getting banned. After all, you could still play https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/m ... 4111#...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

On the topic of Astrolabe, I think it is important to recognize that without Astrolabe, Snow as an archetype is effectively killed off in the format, it seems to be the only thing holding it together in the first place. Are we okay killing the archetype off for now? If we are okay with that, why kil...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

Can I request a data dump of the last few months (dec-feb maybe?) of day 2 gp breakdowns? Not sure where to find the aggregated data, a link or general direction will also suffice. Figure if imma comment I may as well use the most current info we have to try and direct the convo, play patterns asid...
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

idSurge wrote:
4 years ago
I disagree. 60/40 is within reach, pre-board, to me.
I mean....Do we have actual winrate data to prove that?
by Tomatotime
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085599

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 01/13/2020)

Titan went a VERY long time in obscurity after the ban to Bloom, and yes Play Design is a failure, but just how much wreckage do we need to leave behind before we understand that 'hey maybe we just dont introduce this %$#% design into Modern?' I mean its kind of semantics, but Titanshift/Amulet Tit...

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