Already making a prediction: Grief will eat a ban or evoke will get a rules change I have been playtesting it with Ephemerate and it is busted. Making your opponent discard twice on turn 1 and again for free on turn 2 while having a 3/2 menace on the board is ridiculous. At that point its just a no...

If sol talisman is on the board, what is it's mana value? 0 or does it still have no mana value?

THere's too much to even begin to try to predict at this point. All we can do is let the dust settle. I am guessing the lowest common denom is Rx prowess-y things. But I think there are a ton of new angles that can be viable. Folks will need time to figure it all out. We need about 3 months of some ...

There must be some broken and busted Urza / tezzeret deck with the new lands. They make solid targets for scissors too. Scissor me timbers! Aren't the lands too slow being tap lands? I mean you don't see many of the dual snow lands being played either. Either way, I'm excited to see artifact decks ...

I ended up going back to BW, the green didnt pan out. The Eidolon is more crucial than I anticipated. For example an eidolon + 1 etheral armor is a 3/4, on a gladecover its just a 2/2. I ended up having a big problem actually making big creatures.

drmark are you thinking what I am thinking? RW lockdown.

There must be some broken and busted Urza / tezzeret deck with the new lands. They make solid targets for scissors too.

Yeah...
I just dropped black altogether and now using 4x Gladecover instead of Eidolon. Also testing Sixth Sense over cartouche.

T1 hexproofer to build on is a huge boost. This basically feels like Modern Blouses and it seems OP in Pioneer.

Jungle is too high to play with Lurrus but Gladecover is actually worth considering. I will take a look at it.

The eidolon and Alseid are somewhat disposable lightning rods that you expect to get popped so something else can live. The real workhorses are Lagonna and Adanto backed up by Karametra. Deck takes patience, you must not over commit. The whole plan is to protect a huge guy, and Adanto helps a ton. S...

4 All That Glitters 4 Alseid of Life's Bounty 4 Brightclimb Pathway 3 Cartouche of Solidarity 4 Caves of Koilos 4 Concealed Courtyard 4 Ethereal Armor 4 Godless Shrine 4 Gryff's Boon 4 Hateful Eidolon 4 Karametra's Blessing 4 Lagonna-Band Trailblazer 4 Sentinel's Eyes 1 Sram, Senior Edificer 3 Plai...

Yeah...you lost me here ^^. Whatever case you might make for Urza, if you evaluate Mox Opal as having been fine, well... Time will tell. Urza's Saga is free, uncounterable wish for 0, 1 cmc artifacts. The land part is the downside in that it eats a land drop. You can fetch Lotus Bloom, Pithing Need...

Urza's fine, as was Mox Opal, Yeah...you lost me here ^^. Whatever case you might make for Urza, if you evaluate Mox Opal as having been fine, well... Time will tell. Urza's Saga is free, uncounterable wish for 0, 1 cmc artifacts. The land part is the downside in that it eats a land drop. You can f...

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I mean...how about Brainstorm and Dark Ritual too?!

Inb4 Urza, Lord High Artificer needs to be banned. It was already borderline and recently spoiled Urza's Saga is going to put the deck into degenerate mode. So MH1 gave us degenerate graveyard strats. MH2 looks like degenerate artifact shennanigans. I guess they are being consistent in a terrible wa...

Cards like that are the only difference between Pioneer and Modern. We will get those level of cards eventually and Modern will become even more irrelevant.

I don't think every midrange deck could run it, but aren't we happy to help midrangey decks have a fair chance? I would be. This is a big plus to me. I am only theorizing here but E-tron using it feels like win more to me. I will concede the point the because sure, it goes on any deck looking to con...

Castle is all the gas you need. Vraska is pretty good gas as well, I like her a lot in Pioneer. Why do you need white, just for that Nethroi?

Now for some unban talk, which I know is why we're all here! I recently watched this video, and it completely changed my mind about Jitte in Modern. Not only do I think it could be safely unbanned, I'm not sure if it would even be playable in Modern. Watch the video if you don't believe me! Been sa...

orzhov auras is pretty fun and strong right now.

Vanishing Verse is solid all around. Fracture and Rip Apart are sideboard material for decks in those colors. Bayou Groff was spoiled incorrectly, and is actually unplayable since you pay 3 mana not 3 life as the spoiler said.

Im messing with a list, but I went pretty far afield from your original take. I just can't see play UW and not playing 4x Gideon of the Trials. He's just so good at 3cc. Meletis and Omen of the Sea are good value here. Azorius Charm has always been a dud most of the time for me, none of it's modes a...

Nice take, I will test it out and see if I can find any areas we can improve.

Gideon tribal in a BW control shell.

what you might want to look into is BW Orzhov when Strix drops.