Aazadan wrote: ↑

3 years ago

The Secret Lair thing has me really nervous though, and it goes directly against what Wizards claimed they would do with them when they first started.

What do you mean?

Yeah I ripped one in limited but I was wondering if i should shell out now for the playset or wait. I think may as well get them now. Its a black goyf I think it will find uses for years to come. There's a no lands combo deck in Pioneer now, I assume Modern will make something even more disgusting ...

I feel like W6 is a safe buy at this point. I've got regular Uro's never shelled out for the extended arts (which I typically do for my cards these days, if they're available. Don't feel comfortable in upgrading my set. I think the best Uro deck is going to be in pure green/blue though, and that it...

Seems like Uro piles are all moving towards Field of the Dead . Bant, Sultai, and Temur flavors around the same core. Feels very powerful in both Sultai and Bant and in just about any configuration (control-heavy, ramp-heavy, PW-heavy, etc). The introduction of Hour of Promise or Primeval Titan mak...

Finally back at it!!! Played in a tournament that I saw advertised on FB by friends. I have to drive 65 mi. one way (so 130 total on the day) to play. I'm down! Round 1 vs. Burn. I saw him playing Burn for fun before the tournament. I was playing Amulet for fun before the tournament. My first 2 hand...

I'm not sure if this has a place here on this thread, but my friend seems to think that all of this powerful landfall stuff will end up getting Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath banned. I'm not sure what format he was talking about, but I'm assuming Standard and Pioneer ... maaaaybe Modern.

how about adding a single crawling barrens ? It's another beater, and can survive board wipes. Players have been looking into that card. They've been looking at that and the new Omnath. BTW, if you watch twitchtv, I just wanted to let you know that 2 wonderful streamers do Elementals all the time -...

TheAnnihilator wrote: ↑

3 years ago

So can we talk about how Moraug, Fury of Akoum + Sakura-Tribe Scout + bounceland is infinite combat steps? :D

Didn't think of that.

I saw the card and thought, hmm, powerful, gonna be GREAT in Commander. Oh yeah, I hate Commander.

Simto wrote: ↑

3 years ago

Modern Horizon 2 confirmed for next year between Q3 and Q4. Get ready lads.

My body is ready. (damn I wish I could do a gif here)

Looking forward to Wrenn and Seven.

I remember a deck in mtgsalvation.... Ashton Kutcher's Monkey Grow deck, it seems to be an attempt to copy the play pattern of the Tempo Thresh deck in legacy. Not sure if Monkey Grow is still played today. link I will admit. MTGSal name Ashton or Jordan, his real name, did do well with several dec...

People always have an irrational fear of Combo. https://www.mtgtop8.com/format?f=MO Combo is at 15% and out of the decks over 1%, only 3 of 11 run Veil of Summer. A common misconception is that Amulet runs Veil of Summer. It doesn't. It does run 4 Aether Gust in the SB though. Lol, aggro looks craz...

You can still play Control. You just have to play Uro. Sharkblade is also fine. I have friends who think it's the best deck currently in Modern, to which I don't agree. I do think the UW Sharkblade vs. Uro Soup matchup is fairly close though, even if Veil does give an advantage. Veil doesn't automa...

If Veil is such a problem, then you can choose a deck that is not affected by it. You can play a deck that overloads on those effects, so that you will resolve some important things and the onus is on the opponent to pick and choose spots So if I like control and tempo decks (and artifact decks for...

Where have you seen that Veil and Uro are fine? I've seen pretty much a split on the community on these cards, while Gust is not even mentioned. *Just found this - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/format-staples/modern While it's not to the date right now, it looks like I'm wrong. Veil is at 33% of deck...

That's fine. We can agree to disagree. If you think Blue having access to something to solve almost anything played in the format right now, that's okay. Gust being an out to hate pieces is a net positive? I don't see it that way. Gust is used to bounce those pieces to completely nullify them, whil...

Have to say I respectfully yet completely disagree with both your assessments. Aether Gust is hated by Titan players who don't have a clean, unanswerable "oops-I-win" button in Cavern of Souls anymore. If you think Aether Gust is s problem, Caverns is aproblem too. Gust also being able to...

Sorry if I'm bringing up a chewed-threw topic, but what are we thinking about Veil of Summer at this point? It has survived multiple BR announcements by now. Ignoring the Companion-ban announcement, which Veil survived because the companion mechanic was stealing the spotlight, when Veil of Summer w...

What is the current deck to beat in modern? In my opinion, it's one of the 3 flavors of Prowess (Mono Red, UR, or RB). I personally feel like it's Mono Red and in fact I feel so sure about that, if there was a paper tournament tomorrow, I would PLAY Mono Red. A little background about me. I do not ...

If I could, I would split my time between playing legacy and modern. There's a lot of truth to what drmarkb is saying but I also feel he's ignoring a lot of the problems that plague legacy. I wouldn't want wasteland in modern because it might get wrenn and six banned, and at the moment I like playi...

I haven't posted in a "state of modern" thread on here or on Salvation in a very long time. It has a lot to do with Twin being the singular topic, regardless of who "starts it". I'm sorry man. I assumed some of the other "regulars" just moved on to something more impor...

FWIW, a quick look at the results and the tournament could not have had only 7 people in it. Overall, there are 4 more wins than losses, which is mathematically impossible. My best guess would be 1 player at 0-4 and they didn't want to mention him/her for discretion reasons. But this is just a compl...

Hope you get to play! Stores have been open for play for a while here in Denmark, but I'm not going myself. I'm not sitting in a stinky/sweaty basement during a heatwave with all of this %$#% going on. It just screams a bad idea even though it's all but gone here in Denmark. But the stores with eve...

Hot take: Legacy is irrelevant to Modern. While I do think this is true for the most part, WotC has confused us with various tweets (in the past, but still). "If you want to play Stoneforge Mystic or Jace, the Mind Sculptor, there is another format in which both are legal and very good."

Well with covid going on and everything, I figured people are under the impression that no paper magic is being played, which isn't exactly true. It IS true, to a point. It is true for me, someone who lives in California. Nobody in California or Florida is playing large Magic tournaments; I can gua...

I don't know if I agree with that. Because if it is even mentioned in passing, as not even the main point of a reply, it is devoured by Twin-haters left and right. Which is exactly how this entire discussion for the last two pages began. Go ahead and reread the first post in that chain and tell me ...