Hard disagree. I had a ton of success recently with a 23 land build of UW control packing zero field of ruins; I instead opted to build around the combination of archmage's charm and Generous Gift . I went back to esper for the specific strength of kaya's guile , but I would not move back to playin...

I don't think you want to run Archive Trap just to make this card better, unless you're UB Mill. Card seems REALLY good in Mill. Otherwise, it's still pretty good in any UBx Control deck.

Yeah, I don't think SFM is good in Whirza. Engineer is better because it gets both of your combo pieces, and puts the Sword in your graveyard instead of your hand. Plus, it can get other utility artifacts and recur them if it gets to survive a turn. SFM can't do any of that, it's just a nice midrang...

Yeah, Opal really needs a reprint. That's the big reason why I'm waiting on building Whirza too. I don't want to buy in, and then the deck ends up being busted and Opal gets banned. I would be really annoyed if I just lost $400 like that...

Here's the REAL deal on Ancient Stirrings: -If it the decks that currently consider AS a staple stay where they are at now in terms of relative power, it's safe -If any those decks become a problem because of a new card being printed, AS will surely be the card to ban Once upon a time is a pretty n...

Yeah, Emry doesn't replace Goblin Engineer, I think they run her alongside the goblin. SFM is just bad in Whirza, most of the good Whirza players have already figured that out and I expect the rest of them will follow suit soon. I think the question is how many of these creatures does Whirza want? M...

Emry, Lurker of the Loch 2U Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control. When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters the battlefield, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard. Tap: choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You ...

Wow, so Embercleave is probably the most pushed equipment they've printed since... Batterskull? It's better than Godsend IMO. I'm pretty surprised they printed this. Might be playable with SFM.

Phoenix would be probably interested. Good enough to light splash green, go turn 1 this, find a phoenix and mb have another one, gut shot, looting diacard two phoenixs. Izzet would certainly look scary as hell. I know it looks silly, but its not. The normal casting mode makes for a perfectly fine c...

Ughh... Yeah, Whirza looks like such a sweet deck, but I've been suspicious that it's broken too, which is the only reason I haven't bought in yet. On the plus side, the format has not been very hostile to artifacts recently, so there's room for it to adjust. Powering down the graveyard decks gives ...

SFM is a self contained white finisher package with a small deck footprint. If you have a deck that it is the market for that, SFM is currently the most efficient package (in white) Modern has to offer. It's that simple. That's exactly what he's saying is wrong. SFM isn't like Goyf, where you can j...

The Legacy version plays 10 to 12 creatures, which is already more than these 8 creature lists I've seen people trying in Modern. 4 Snaps and 4 SFM aren't enough. The other thing here is that 3 of those creatures are sticky threats in TNN. So while they play 10-12 creatures, they're more likely to h...

BBD just wrote an article on TCGPlayer, and he said basically what I've been trying to say: Stoneforge Mystic is meant to be played in a proactive shell with other creatures that you can actually equip a sword to. People are just chucking Stoneforge Mystic into their Azorius Control decks and thinki...

My experience says otherwise. I play 4 snapcaster mage, 4 stoneforge mystic, 2 vendilion clique main board and 2 monastery mentor + 1 Lyra in the sideboard. I am thinking to add 1 restoration angel in the maindeck, but thats it. Rarely I was with no creature to equip to. Then there is the germ toke...

People are certainly jamming a 6 card SFM package into UW Control, but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Every time I watch a stream or vid of someone playing a list like that, you watch them with dead equipment on the board and no creatures to equip it to, or they draw one of the equipm...

Some musings on the banned list: I think Green Sun's Zenith will be the next safe unban. It's in a similar camp to Stoneforge where it was banned almost immediately in the format's existence. Birthing Pod / Splinter Twin / Punishing fire might be okay as well down the road, although fire and pod te...

So if the thoughts on SV vs Preordain are pretty clear, how blurry can we make them? Is "Scry 1, draw 1, scry 1" too good? Literally the halfway between them both. If it's sorcery speed, probably not. I mean, I really don't think even Preordain would be too good, I just don't think they'r...

Seeing a random card usually sucks, especially late game. Being able to mitigate that is huge. I think preordain would end up being problematic and wotc knows this. Generally speaking, one of the most silly things one could do is unban a card with cmc <=1. This includes cards like preordain, lootin...

Meh. If you're going to be that aggressive and one sided, why do you think I'd care about what you say? It's not "not true at all". Many times there are multiple laternate lines of play *and* I specifically said that you usually need one card now and other cards will only be relevant on o...

an understated difference in the use cases as wraithpk outlined is the boost in efficacy and likelihood of impacting the outcome of the game when immediate selection is of particular importance. for example if you need to find something right away SV is of minimal to no help while preordain...helps...

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 t...

I think the power of Veil of Summer needs to catch up with a lot of people. I am very concerned about what this card will do to eternal formats. In Modern the only way to meaningfully interact with the big mana decks like Valakut, Green Tron, Amulet Titan is to either taking the key cards out of th...

Burn has a very consistent turn 4 kill and has the exact same gameplan vs any deck. When everyone is running suboptimal builds still trying to figure out the best configurations its logical for Burn to do well in such meta. The moment everyone figures out SFM sucks or can't just be jammed into ever...

Lord Seth , it has a 13% turn 1 win rate as per finalnub, according to his real life data (not goldfish). And a higher turn 2 and 3. But, is straight up gets wrecked by fon, spell pierce, veto and discard is pretty good against it. Also lowering their life total quickly can be devastating. Its one ...

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Saw this in our facebook group. Possible Sfm reprint in Eldraine?

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Doesn't look like a Kor to me, so I doubt it.