Regarding the ban announcement, I think it's important to realize an important distinction right now. There are no competitive tournaments, other than Modern Challenges, right now. I think the Challenges have been pretty diverse and FNMs are diverse where I'm at. But if there were Grand Prix right n...

even though I'm pretty happy with the decision to not ban anything today, I would have liked to have seen an unban. But I guess the format is pretty diverse now, so why mess with it It's not exactly "mess with it" more so than "damn this is annoying" I can see the logic wizards ...

honestly I'd be the happiest with no bans in modern. Now that you bring alchemy up, pretty sure they said they'd be looking at the health of alchemy as a format after the arena open last weekend, my buddy also said he thinks it'll just be alchemy This is exactly what I think, just alchemy and possi...

We had 67 players at our local $1K yesterday. Grixis Shadow seemed to be in full effect, foreshadowing that Lurrus could get banned. I personally have thought that they were doing nothing for Modern. A friend said they're probably only doing Alchemy, lol, which I totally believe makes sense. So, my ...

Modern feels pretty solved. The bar for cards to be considered playable has risen a lot. It is hard to brew when Ragavan is by far the best 1 drop, when Saga creates so much value on its own and when you can smash all cards into money.deck and call it a day. It doesn't leave many windows of opportu...

There was an NRG (Nerd Rage Gaming in Illinois) 16 person 20-21 championship that you have to qualify for. It was Modern/Legacy split format. While the meta is not a "real" meta, it was interesting to see what many players brought. 4 Color Blink was the Modern deck with the most representa...

event was at Critical Hit Gaming Lounge, Courtice, Ontario, Canada. top 8 was 2x hammer, 1 murktide. 1 shadow, 1 belcher, 1 yorion rhinos, 1 burn and 1 rakdos deck abusing the pitch elementals and ways to bring them back Oh cool. I actually have a (somewhat) local buddy that was traveling and playe...

I played a 1k on the weekend, 37 players. You can tell a lot of streamers were on Grixis Shadow, as that was easily the most represented deck. Followed by hammer time Nice. Where was this at? It seems Shadow is on top right now, so this makes sense. I saw d00mwake using Grove of the Burnwillows as ...

Bit of a sidenote, but those new full art Kamigawa basic lands make me want to play again no matter the meta. Holy %$#% they look amazing. The weeb in me wants 30 of each hehe. They do look ... so cool. But I think at this point, WotC is getting too crazy on lands. They've clearly identified lands ...

Lands 1 Mountain 1 Swamp 4 Bloodstained Mire 4 Blood Crypt 3 Blackcleave Cliffs 3 Graven Cairns 3 Den of the Bugbear 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse 1 Shinka, Bloodsoaked Keep 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Creatures 4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer 4 Dragon's Rage Channeler 2 Dauthi Voidwalker 3 Kroxa, Titan of...

I mean dredge seemed like a fine t1 deck for a long time post-creeping chill IIRC. It just needs to be maybe race-able by aggro I think, while naturally tending to beat control and midrange. For example it's not good right now because its getting raced succesfully by tempo (Murktide) not just aggro...

I predicted 95% of the bans and my dad can beat up your dad. Calm down lads, always so fiery with the replies. Your dad can definitely beat up my dad, lol. :rofl: Here's all of the cards I can identify as being bannable at this point - Ragavan, Urza's Saga, Mishra's Bauble, Lurrus, the Dream Den, S...

It may or may not be fine in Modern, but I have heard of those clamoring for Monkey's ban, DRC's ban, or Daze's ban in Legacy.

Is there a deck that slaughters BR Lurrus variants? Essentially 4 DRC, 4 Monkey, and then a ton of 1/2 drops? I was running Elementals, but lost to it three times in a row. Overall, I think I'm still high, but is there anything that does even better? I'm strongly considering 4 Engineered Explosives ...

This is for the URw Phoenix list by aspiringspike.

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4311100#paper

I am going to try this once my Demiliches come in the mail and I will be back with results.

27 person win a box of Mystery Boosters. Round 1 vs. Lurrus Burn. 1-2. Round 2 vs. Madcap Moon. 1-1-1 Round 3 vs. Storm. 2-0. Round 4 vs. Hammer. 1-2. Drop. I go 1-2-1 to be 65-17-5 now. 19 person MNM. Round 1 vs. Bant Blade. 2-0. Round 2 vs. Mill. 2-0. Round 3 vs. Kanister Elementals. 1-2. Round 4 ...

16 person MNM. Round 1 vs. Lurrus Burn. 2-1. Round 2 vs. Kanister Elementals . 2-1. Round 3 vs. Hardened Scales. 2-0. Round 4 vs. BR Lurrus. 2-0. I go 4-0 to improve to 60-14-4. Great evening for me, but I misplayed a LOT in the 4th round. Luckily for me, he mulliganed a LOT and I drew very well. 26...

26 person FNM. Round 1 vs. Bant Spirits. 2-0. Round 2 vs. 4 Color Creativity. 2-0. Round 3 vs. Junk. 1-2. Round 4 vs. "Small" Tribal Zoo. 2-0. Round 5 vs. UW Control. 0-2. I go 3-2 Played in a 33 person double elimination tournament for a box of Mystery Boosters. I didn't play in Rounds 1 ...

16 person MNM. Round 1 vs. Mono Blue Slitherblade. 2-0. Round 2 vs. Tron. 2-1. Round 3 vs. Humans. 1-2. Round 4 vs. Enchantress. 2-1. I go 3-1 to go to 48-10-4 now. 13 person TNM. Round 1 vs. Grixis DD Shadow. 2-1. Round 2 vs. Jund. 2-0. Round 3 vs. Abzan Reanimator. 2-1. Round 4 vs. Kanister Elemen...

wow, you're still grinding a lot on the deck. skimming over the results you posted, nice to see you're doing well. congrats on the wins. :grin: Yeah, I checked my win percentages, thinking they were around 75%, which is insane. Turned out that it's over 80% on both Vial Elementals and 4 Color Eleme...

12 person MNM Labor Day.

Round 1 vs. BW Pox. 2-0.

Round 2 vs. GWr Enchantress. 2-1.

Round 3 vs. Lurrus/BRuw Shadow. 2-1.

Round 4 vs. GR Company. 2-0.

I go 4-0 and am now 42-8-4 with the deck. Pretty insane deck with VERY live draws!

29 person FNM. Round 1 vs. Black Asmo/Cookbook. In the first game, he was stuck on 1 mana on turn 2 and that's suicide in Modern. To make it worse, he got stuck on 2 lands the whole game after that. I get there pretty easily. In the next game, he gets to 7 mana before a devastating Engineered Explos...

49 person $1K. Round 1 vs. UW Control (different than most). 2-0. Round 2 vs. Bant Control. 2-0. Round 3 vs. Lurrus Burn. 2-1. Round 4 vs. Kanister Elementals. 2-0. Round 5 vs. Blue Living End. 0-0-3. Round 6 vs. UR Murktide. 0-0-3. Top 8 vs. UR Murktide. 2-0. Top 4 vs. Kanister Elementals. 1-2. I g...

19 person MNM. Round 1 vs. Mardu Hollow Vine. His hand is very quick and he puts a lot of bodies in play. I can't beat this. The next game, after a mull to 5, I Flamekin Harbinger up Risen Reef because I feel like I have time. I do and it gets worse for him. The next game is similar, but his hand is...

I went 4-0-1 at a 23 person FNM with 5 C Elementals. Round 1 vs. Jeskai Blade. In the first game, he just had some countermagic, a Bolt, and a ScM. But I had a few Risen Reefs, Cavern of Souls, and Reef triggers to draw a million cards. Buried him. In the next game, he had Stoneforge Mystic to get B...