I noticed this when x maging with a janky straight up pillow fort enchantment deck, hard counters everywhere it felt. I could land early suppression fields, the odd halo, RIP or greater auramancy in under counters early. Other stuff would randomly get through to make a board, but in the end the only...

Real world mtg will look a LOT closer to traditional archetypes as things emerge. . UR piles are the cards people have from other formats- Monkey and co are obvious multi format all stars people will have pre ordered. Delver in Legacy, UR in Modern, etc. People had a lot of the staples in their coll...

Yes, I remember that in Pioneer- bans made specifically not on winrate. This has always been the case- the infect shoal pitch deck of the first Modern did not have a nuts win rate, but it could win on turn 2 too often. If your deck is too popular, it will be banned in some way. It is a simple mixtur...

On the subject of golden monkeys, what seems weirdest to me as far as finance goes is that the EV of an MH2 set booster box is still roughly $430 dollars. Forgive me if this is more of a finance thread question, but when the EV is that much higher than the retail price, shouldn't the prices of sing...

On monkeys... I now have a delver shell- legacy delver shell- unused. Why? I don't want to loan suboptimal builds. So those Volcanics are gathering dust. I simply won't be beaten into this brown shower for all- buy or you deck becomes strictly worse. Yeah, I bought expensive MH2 cards- retroframe f...

On monkeys... I now have a delver shell- legacy delver shell- unused. Why? I don't want to loan suboptimal builds. So those Volcanics are gathering dust. I simply won't be beaten into this brown shower for all- buy or you deck becomes strictly worse. Yeah, I bought expensive MH2 cards- retroframe fe...

Honestly. I hate the app on principle. I don't play Mtgo, which is fine but I don't want to spend money on it and it is not the best for people in european time zones. I use x mage for free as a collection tracker and near goldfish tester with a few matches vs real people who I chat with whilst play...

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That aside, I am incredibly annoyed that the only way to play Magic in paper now is to use their stupid app.

Absolutely. What about people without mobiles? "A Richard Garfield game: you must have a phone to play".
Removing DCIs absolutely sucked, and the app is unwelcome.

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Path is a way to make sure you lose in a couple of turns time. This format needs swords.

We don't suddenly need Swords to Plowshares.

We always needed swords, not suddenly. Needed it when Twin was about, needed it during Eldrazi winter, needed it during Uro.

Path is a way to make sure you lose in a couple of turns time. This format needs swords.

Comp MTG is sooooo far below Commander now. Standard was the huge cash cow. Draft was too- one draft pod at one event meant a box sale with just 8 people, after prizes. Most Std consumers bought a box or two per 3 months- two orize supported draft pods basically. I think now they can be less std foc...

Realistically, Pioneer needs to replace Standard. The incorrect assumption from the start of the format has been that Modern supplants Legacy, and Pioneer is the new Modern. This is garbage, because Legacy cannot and won't go anywhere- literally in fact as it cannot grow due to RL, but can not shrin...

Have box prices adjusted? I haven't checked how pack opening value is right now compared to box price. Still worth it for CB for sure, ev higher currently than price. A lot of the set prices are not seeing much movement though. That said, retro foil fetches are heading south, and plane Jane retro h...

The finance of MH2 is complicated. Super complicated. In this case the Monkey is primarily aimed at competitive formats, and foils are eschewed generally by such players. Many cards are more EDH in nature, they won't see the same pattern. The foil quality is all over the place too. Fetched are a dif...

DHA in Legacy was a 1/3 floor and got banned because it ran away. Oko did the same. Running away with a game is a red flag for wotc. The normal pattern is (a) card gets released (b) people get fed up as it does well, card costs $$$$$$, nothing happens, card is everywhere bar a few places, plenty of ...

On Ragavan- my opnions have changed slightly. I have decomissioned my loan Legacy UR delver, because I am (a) not going to spend money on him when (b) he has a big ban on his head 6 months down the line in Modern. It is Uro all over- why would you not play this card? As people start to play it , I s...

Vancouver?

Paris, London I know- what is the Vancouver mull?

Yes, that sounds rude. T3 is a card that makes for frustrated players. Personally I rather like preventing interaction, but on more symmetrical cards than T3. Attacking the stack seems a bit OTT in blue though, which is supposed to be about encouraging stacks.

I am pretty convinced that in 6 months Saga will have left a building. Might be a Legacy.building, might be the Modern one, but it will go.
I suspect that Ragavan will not see any ban, but we may see Daze go in Legacy for its sins. In Modern it is no Gaak, I can't see it getting the hammer.....

If it is banned it will go from.Modern and radically lose price.
Perhaps it is worth waiting 3 months whilst the card goes nuts online?

I do know about pricing, I must admit I follow it intensely,both in Europe and the US. Generally you need to wait, and have patience. Number of cards under priced on pre order prices is tiny compared to over priced. Relax, relax, relax. Prices in most cases will drop. Saga is an interesting one,beca...

there are some people already building modern enchantress over at salvation. The deck looks promising. And one build even has some sort of combo built into it. I mean enchantress in Legacy is traditionally full of combos- RIP helm, The winds/replacement draw effect enchantments and Emrakul/Sanctum/...

Must admit that I am tempted to build Modern enchantress, but since I own Legacy enchantress and Canlander enchantress I am holding off for now.
I love sitting behind a solitary confinement as much as the next guy, but it all feels a bit cookie cutter 'here is your deck'.

People desperate for mtg. I think MH2 and covid mean that modern will live longer than 2 more years. Long term it may work as no RL legacy. I am more positive about its future than I was, but Pioneer is a huge threat, despite being different. Wotc know that they must make Pioneer work, and Legacy is...

Looks like there was a big Phyrexian creature type errata on MTGO. I wonder what effect that will have on modern. It'll certainly be cool to make a Phyrexian tribal themed deck in commander though hehe. Sorry can you elaborate? I dont follow. Phyrexian is now a card type for all the infect dudes (g...