Serenade wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Peculiar that you can't use the TG mana to actually equip.

Well, you are not allowed to enter the ground before fully equipping yourself. When you win the tourny, you can use the bounty to purchase a shinier sword.

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 to...

Wizards is keeping the habit of printing good cards at uncommon. I approve.

Ugh. That mechanic as a small memory issue vs card like path to exile . You need to know if it got exiled by the adventure (castable) or another effect (not castable). On top of being convoluted and having a weird frame. It's cute, but is the knowledge required and rule baggage worth it? Konrad love...

Well now that we know how Adventure works, this seems to be one of the stand-outs so far. A 1-mana 1/1 and a 3-mana 5/5 in one card is pretty solid. Where did the adventure mechanic got explained? From what you say, I assume the adventure can be cast only once from the battlefield? How does it inte...

Well, it's an awkward bird of paradise. More toughness, more conditional mana.

What if you can cast it for it's "adventure" cost while it's on the battlefield (obviously only at sorcery speed). So it goes from the battlefield and then onto the stack, and then once it resolves as sorcery it goes back onto the battlefield as a creature? So you would be able to create ...

I'm pretty sure this is a split card creature/sorcery. Otherwise: if you cast the sorcery at the same time as the creature, it would just be kicker. if you could cast it from GY only, there would be reminder text or keyword. if you could cast it when in play, it would just be an ability. My guess is...

The final was.... hilarious. Whir vs burn. Burn had, it seems, no chance. Well, it did not get blistering draws, and was eager to just scoop on the first sign of combo. Meanwhile the whir deck just purred perfectly. Not a match to watch. From what I saw (not entire tournament, small sample), whirr l...

I find it depressing and ironic that so many people who have whined for years about twin rejoice at seeing multiple decks get a swift kick in the nuts. Worse, if UW and jund do get to be the top decks, then humans, infect, merfolks, spirits all get worse. Death's shadow probably also gets worse. IST...

Tron literally just won the MC and "does nothing" turn 0, 1, or 2. LOL. But the idea of "comparing opening hands" to determine who wins used to be a meme to describe how awful Modern was during the peak of the Infect/DSZ garbage fire in the back end of 2016. The fact that Aaron ...

How do you feel about Forsythe saying that "comparing opening hands" is a necessary evil? That seems terrifyingly absurd to consider that remotely good or healthy. Modern is a fast format. Most decks have turn-1 plays that either setup their plan (hardened scales, expedition map, stitcher...

The problem with looting is because it can put 12+ power on the table (some of it with haste thanks to vengevine) on the field off the 7 mana it generates off three lands, which lets it go off if you don't kill their turn-2 baral, and given the hard maths and moving +1/+1 counters and their ability ...

There's using in abusing. Hyperbole is just a word game. GY decks have been deemed fine in modern, so you are better off accepting that the card pool contains GY enablers. Also, 2 of the current top-3 of the MC IV is UW control and esper control. Phoenix is losing to tron on camera. etc. Give it a r...

I don't disagree with this distinction, but as I noted on the previous page, I believe (and want to encourage us to believe) that it's more than this. I think control vs. prison is an artificial distinction that essentially describes the same thing. My stance is different. In a nutshell, I prefer t...

For many players of other formats, it IS indeed a joke. I know this because I hear this. They play Modern for fun but it doesn't seem like a "real" format to them. ... and for many players standard is a joke (stale! Same decks all the time! Mid-range fest!), or legacy is a joke (turn 2 fo...

Yep,

Prison: permanent-based proactive locking out. (enchantments, neo PW, chalice, ...)
Control: Spell-based reactive answers, (counters, wrath, ...)

Of course they both want to control the game, but how they approach it differs. Current UW decks are prison/control.

I don't remember what was the exact justification for banning birthing pod , but I seem to remember it was both that it could incorporate whatever new creature they printed and that it made the games too similar. I just wonder if they would end-up using a similar argument against little karn. I'm no...

New cards were limited to cards that were entirely new to modern. I'm not sure what this means? New cards... were new... to everything? How would you have new cards that already existed? The whole gimmick of the set was that the cards were not Modern legal before, not sure if that's what you were t...

Modern Horizons was and seems to be a huge success. We were asking for a set like this for so many years and finally it became a reality.a Remand , Cryptic Command , Electrolyze deck being stronger again? :) Just for the record, if Wizards ever take into account players opinion, I thought MH1 had t...

My main problem with T3feri (and a few other new PW) is obviosuly its mana cost. You can't talk about a card in modern without keeping its mana cost in mind. T3feri is especially annoying because he's starting to be played in decks that have nothing to do with UW and nothing to do with control. It's...

I'm also annoyed by the new PW with static abilities. Sure, being PW means you can attack them, unlike enchantments, but they priced them very low and their non-static abilities are quite relevant in each case. I would not mind them if they would not have been designed to each break a fundamental ru...

Given Hogaak recent performance, I expect no ban today. Whatever you think, the fact the it placed 3 decks in the Untapped top 8 yet was handled by the other decks just fine fuels the impression that it is manageable. It all depend if you're on the bandwagon that having GY hate main is a problem or ...