To bring the conversation away from BS claims and predictions. I feel like regarding SFM decks, this statement from Seth Manfield is very applicable in building and playing (both with and against) a SFM deck. Also, sweet gameplay video http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=15447&writer=Se...

So far I've been liking the Bant Ice-Fang lists the most. There are a few variants going around and they all play quite differently. From what I can remember, the sweetest one so far I've seen has been a CoCo list with 4x Hierarch 4x Giver of Runes 4x Hexdrinker 4x SFM 4x Ice-Fang Coatl 3x Ranger-ca...

Lmao, what is this. A prediction arms race? We're less than 2 days into a new format and there are so many blanket statements flying around talking about what's going to be good and what's not in the new format. 2 days! Come on now, any statement about power level, tiers and matchup percentages afte...

It's quite possible that Bant Spirits (plus various other decks) can re-emerge as tier 1-2 contenders. It did get some decent upgrades from MH in Force of Negation and Unsettled Mariner. Bant Spirits could also adopt a stoneforge package to an extent. It does need to maintain a certain velocity of t...

Again, blake Rasmussen in a twitch stream recently said twin's play patterns were obnoxious and when it comes to twin players he does not sympathize with them having their deck nuked out of orbit(I could find the link if you want to) They just see twin as a monster that does not let you play 4 drop...

This announcement is good enough to stave that off for awhile.

As new card designs are released that deal with the graveyard, discarding cards, and casting cheap spells, the power of Faithless Looting's efficient hand and graveyard manipulation continues to scale upward. Regardless of Hogaak's recent impact, Faithless Looting would be a likely eventual additio...

MODERN Since the release of Modern Horizons, graveyard decks using Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis have had an enormous impact on the Modern metagame. After early signs of the metagame being unable to self-correct, such as players adopting large amounts of main-deck graveyard hate and the Hogaak deck stil...

Hogaak banned
Looting banned
SFM unbanned

LOOOOL

link: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/a ... -26?querys

There is not a rule, its just that when somebody's says some things there is a whole context. Leaving the whole context out in order to promote your ideas is unfortunate at best. The rest of your post adds no context to the portion I quoted. Please tell me how investment in MH and Faithless Looting...

Unfortunate? In what way? Please elaborate. Is there an unspoken rule somewhere or a need for me to quote an entire post when I only intend to address a single point? What's unfortunate about me not including the parts about MH or Looting when those portions are of no concern to me? Yes we know what...

Now, i could be a disgruntled twin player saying it was wrong and all that, but i understand that people changed their maindecks to be able to fight twin and thats not right for any deck to do. Ah man I remember back on MTGS when main deck surgical extractions was widely considered a reasonable ada...

Hogaak won the GP, taking 3 out of the top 4 spots.

Sure, there might he another reason, but there is some reason that it is there and not unbanned. That's probably the reason they banned i, meaning diversity. If you think thats a hypothesis and you think that twin may still be on the banlist for another reason, maybe, but saying that it's still in ...

That's a cute assumption. You seem to be under the impression that there can only be a singular reason (fear) why the card remains banned. Naive. All it means is WoTC has reason(s) why it's there. Fear could very well be one of them, could very well be not. But you know, taking their claims at face ...

Because he's echoing WoTC's views. And WoTC has all the data, they're just not sharing it. And as we all know WoTC are great custodians of the Modern format as proven by their amazing track record in managing Modern. Therefore, what they say can be 100% taken in good faith. No proof required when ba...

Its banned and we don't either care about discussing about it. Don't start getting involved in twin talk if you don't care to discuss it then. What a joke. Also, i did not say i dont want to talk about it at all, I just said i am fine if we dont talk it about all that much, whatever. You yourself s...

Sure feel free to talk about whatever you want, you have the right. It's very hypocritical to talk about something and then say you don't care to discuss it afterwards when debates rise up in response to what you say.

We dont need any proof, because I am not saying twin will warp modern or it will stifle diversity for sure. So you basically have no points to make other than being a retweet bot for what WOTC wrongfully thinks and says. Got it. You saying infinite times i said so is worrying. Show me where I said ...

There is not a non zero chance, but a serious chance that it would. The point is that if you want to be realistic, you do want to understand the reasons why they are so concerned. What evidence is this 'serious chance' based on? Twin did no such thing in the past, the numbers have been provided by ...

What's the point in playing devil's advocate for WOTC for a statistical improbability based on a false premise. Yeah sure there's a non-zero chance twin could possibly stifle diversity (lol), there's also a non-zero chance that WoTC decides to ban Stitcher's Supplier instead of Hogaak but but we're ...

Twin stifling diversity has been debunked so many times by now I'm surprised there are still people who think that.

Attendance numbers don't mean much unless we know what the cap for the event is. I've attended Modern GPs that were capped at the low 1000s, let's not assume all Modern GPs are 2000 player main events.

900 out of 1000 is very different from 900 out of 2000.

Its really that you have no arguments here. My arguments have been said over 1,000 times yet you ignored them. I said its going to be used in many decks and make modern more diverse and you chose to ignore this and told i havent been recognizing it. My argument is dispelling the myth where SFM is a...

You claim it's easy, but you haven't been able to provide a sample deck or even list down your cuts to fit the package? I also like how you had no rebuttal for or ignored everything strategy-related and just went straight to quoting a pro. Do you actually have any thoughts of your own or are you jus...