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by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 08/26/2019)

been away from playing modern/mtg for a good minute, but i got wind of the pioneer format announcement. i gotta say i was surprised. personally im excited and tentatively hopeful. pioneer certainly holds some promise, which stands out in contrast to horizons on arena. the card pool seems expanse eno...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

i mean any serious talk about bannings is obviously premature. if whirza shells prove to be so bad to need banning within the next 6 months at the least im confident wizards would go for the throat and choose urza. it would by a majorly bad look for wizards and the format. like really bad. at that p...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

yeh opal has always been an outlier. i dont like using a vague term like 'raw power', but its a rainbow mox and it raises the ceiling on the decks playing it considerably by facilitating the (typically) most 'degenerate' play patterns. i could see some whirza shell remaining competitive without opal...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

looks like the recent mtgo modern challenge was an object lesson on the consequences of cutting GY hate. plenty of dredge, and a whopping 4 copies of SFM total appearing in one eldrazi shell. kanister, one of the more prolific mtgo players known for innovating/brewing, did work with the paradoxical ...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

personally im not worried about some paradoxical combo deck atm. even if the whirza shells or it MIGHT be considered the 'best' thing to be doing, by my observations it wouldnt be by a significant margin (or in other words in the 'tier 0' realm like hogaak). such decks, which have a lot of non-intui...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

eh drown in the loch doesnt look playable to me. the card is just too likely to be stone dead in the early game when highly interactive decks need to present resistance. the added flexibility of being a counterspell or terminate (ie 2 cmc 'answer your thing') when turned on seems a mediocre payoff s...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

tbh im confused by the ongoing focus on whether SFM is good, bad, or anywhere in between. or the rather asinine distinctions to be made if UW happens to be represented with one deck using SFM or if branches happen towards either more creature commitment or no-SFM going big on control. seems inconseq...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

so basically youre saying UW needs to make squadron hawk work at any cost. 2 mana and you get all those birds. its like treasure cruise all over again
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

Is Twiddle Storm that much better than gifts? I'm actually curious, because I've been playing around with traditional storm for few months now. As for the unbans, GSZ is really appealing and would be nice to have it, I'm not sure though if Dread Return is a major offender on the banlist, especially...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

id imagine even the gifts storm shell stands to improve in position, regaining some of the ground it lost now that the lootings ban has effectively reset the format. hard to tell if the twiddle storm iteration is just better, or at least better in enough cases to qualify as the default shell. though...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [ELD] Throne of Eldraine Modern Discussion
Replies: 75
Views: 25095

Re: [ELD] Throne of Eldraine Modern Discussion

idSurge wrote:
4 years ago
The new UR Walker is really high loyalty, I hope it doesnt preorder spike.
3 cmc walker in UR with high loyalty and somewhat attractive abilities...yeah im not holding much hope itll go under the radar
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

yeah preordain has been analyzed a good amount. its no ponder or brainstorm. the worry over hitting a critical mass of cantrips only holds so much weight since spell slinger decks doing the xerox thing already leverage the currently legal suite and cant exactly just add 4 more; meaning it would be a...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

If we are predicting the next unban, Preordain is not the card. Remember, the last B&R specifically called out one card that they were discussing unbanning. That is a statement that I have never seen in any former B&R announcements. Due to the rarity of that statement I believe this card is...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

But think about it - does Preordain come with more risk than Jace, the Mind Sculptor? If Modern slows down, Jace, the Mind Sculptor is KING. If Modern became a Midrange slugfest, I'd rather be on the side of going over that with Jace, the Mind Sculptor. Midrange beats Aggro, bigger Midrange beats s...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

I can't speak for others, but my view specifically is that those two cards both do things that have historically been things WOTC does not want in the format: fast mana and efficient card advantage/draw. I definitely believe they are living on borrowed time because the 'drawbacks' to these cards ar...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

eh i think we here and elsewhere in the community need to push back against the notion that anything qualifying as 'linear' and or 'unfair' makes them the bad guys. id rather not disqualify a card like GSZ based on something as ambiguous as a fear of 'empowing linear strategies'. yes i do believe th...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

well, havent been able to play as much as of late but trying to keep up with everything that has been going on... first i gotta say i am pleased with the b&r announcement. probably the first time in recent memory where wotc has gone beyond my expectations, though i will say i can empathize with ...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

for twin its really simple, in order to get beyond endless conjecture and wild speculation that is unreliable at best thanks to complexity of the game/format system; you either put in hundreds or man hours (and whatever else) conducting experiments/tests inevitably wide open to dismissal due to not ...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

nice. hogaak did some unpleasant things to modern, but let it be said it didnt fail to fulfill its duty at the end. making the whole situation as awkward as possible for wizards.
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

i hope its some absurd record breaking amount. we want as much egg on wotcs face as possible to guilt them into unbanning stuff
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

i mean the subject line for the email TCGPlayer sent out was literally "Have you had fun playing modern lately? Neither have we..." for a sec i thought tcg was emailing me directly havent seen any coverage, but id imagine most are treating the ban as a foregone conclusion. i remember the S...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

Wizards can not afford having a deck that might hurt Diversity (overall diversity and not the blue one) since modern is so diverse at the moment. Twin is really a setback and with teferi, time raveler in a jeskai shell is also quite dangerous. Blake rassmusen pretty much told in a stream that its n...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

really it showcases (probably anyways) that the requirements to ban a card and those to unban a card dont exactly align. bridge was a very reasonable target given it was a central component of the most 'degenerate' play patterns the bridgevine deck could exhibit that also happened to let it circumve...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

Powerlevel is not the only axis but "Unfun gameplay" is not a factor to ban cards, criteria should be as objective as possible and fun or unfun is definitely on the subjective side of things. i see this sentiment repeated often, however its important to remember that this only applies to ...
by tronix
4 years ago
Forum: Modern
Topic: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/13/2020)
Replies: 9437
Views: 1085809

Re: [Official] State of Modern Thread (B&R 07/08/2019)

been away for a bit, but funny you guys bring up unbans because if i were wotc and looking for an opportune time to unban something; this would be it (presuming hogaak gets the axe). we always talk about how one card or another just doesnt seem feasible given the format climate or the timing not bei...

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