Final article is up. Thanks for those who gave feedback! Article link Reddit link I'm cautiously optimistic Wizards announces their pending banlist changes next Monday or even earlier. Lurrus and companions have created so many glaring issues across all formats that it's unbelievable to me we won't ...

I'm not a fan of these posts that are promoting Pioneer in the State of Modern thread. If anyone, @Greeksis or otherwise, wants to do that in the State of Pioneer thread, that's totally fine. Not really an appropriate topic here and I'm not going to engage much with that line of conversation in this...

I feel like you did not read my post. I will explain later. Not sure if you are responding to me, but I did read your posts. I'm not going to argue against any of the points in it because I know how you feel about Modern vs. Pioneer and it's not worth getting into. I am making a larger claim about ...

I kind of agree? Like I said, I believe Modern has it's way (and it's card pool) to only inflate those problems. The cards I mentioned, now it's Mishra's Bauble, make every busted card, feel more busted, like in any other format. &TLDR: All formats are in trouble. Magic is in trouble. But out o...

Its not about these cards being 'fine'. They are pushed on purpose, and we all know that they dont consider eternal formats for balance/design purposes. At all. Not 'maybe they consider' it. Not 'what if this is an issue'. Yawgmoths Will. They printed a better version. The sooner you stop thinking ...

Re: companion mechanic At this point, I wouldn't dismiss any possible change to the mechanic. Wizards is actively looking at a mechanic change, not simply a ban. This is why they put such an unprecedented quote and acknowledgement in their recent B&R. We should be considering all possible avenue...

Modern Nexus posted a MN metagame update , but I really dislike its presentation. I have no idea why David is claiming Lurrus is on the donwswing, or really making any positive claims about Lurrus when it's 46% of the format and now at 51.9% (!) of the top-tier decks. He also did this weird thing wh...

I would like to refrain from using words like "insane" and "not honest". Just saying. Regarding "insane," if it's because of mental health stigma, I accept that. Just know by "insane" I really mean shorthand for irrational and illogical. As for "dishones...

It is insane to me that we're still discussing Twin. That's like saying the problem with a post-COVID world is a lack of dine-in Italian restaurants. Many people, but not all, enjoy Italian food and it's probably a hallmark of a diverse dining ecosystem. But it's not even remotely the main problem, ...

We really don't need to worry about unbans. Whatever F.I.R.E has changed at Wizards, needs an immediate rollback. As ktk and others have said, it's not a Modern issue. It's the whole game is flawed right now. As ktk and others have said, it's not a Modern issue. It's the whole game is flawed right ...

https://twitter.com/ProjectModern1 Anyone who is tired of business as usual, come help develop a format of good games. bring your suggestions here. So far, after the discussions I have had, it seems like opal and splinter twin are not on the ban radar, so this project might do the format correctly....

My takeaways from ktkenshinx's article: Great stats, but I disagree with the conclusion. My conclusions would be. You say you disagree with the conclusions, but then you make many of the same conclusions I do. For instance, you group Burn/Prowess as a problematic macro archetype, an identical point...

As I said previously, Modern's biggest weakness as a whole rather than a specific year for me has been a lack of prisons, it leads to imbalance and most years hurts the format. I think you suggested that was what I was implying originally and you were correct. As a whole the format runs into more t...

Week 3 update is live. I'm also including some new stats this week: comparing Lurrus shares today to the shares of old staples and banned cards (e.g. BBE, JTMS, Oko, SFM, OUaT, etc.). I also compare Lurrus's shares to pre-IKO metagame staples like Bolt and Astrolabe. Unsurprisingly, Lurrus is outper...

I do not have the capacity right now to reply to every response that was directed my way, so if I missed something, feel free to @ me and I will hopefully be able to reply. I have discussed at length Lantern in these very threads. I agree there were many issues that prevented it being uptaken in num...

For more anecdotal evidence, out of the last 12 matches I played in the Practice rooms, 10 of them had companions. 5 were collection of Lurrus (mostly burn/prowess) and 4 Yorion (exclusively Soulherder , two in Bant, one 4c (for Avalanche Riders ), one straight UW), with a single wonky Zirda thing ...

I can get behind most of your arguments, but I honestly don't think there is a middle ground to be found when discussing Lurrus. There is no middle ground. Lurrus warps the format in an unprecedented, extreme way. Either you're ok with that, in which case you're ok with an extremely warped metagame...

There is no way that Wx prison is a prerequisite for a diverse, healthy metagame. Even the healthiest periods of Modern we've seen (2015 is an oft-cited example) didn't have this. It's just way too niche to be considered a prerequisite for healthy fields. Wx Prison is not requirement for a healthy ...

I understand the argument, but I just see it differently. Say I face Grixis Lurrus Delver. And they curve Delver into Sprite Dragon. I manage to kill both of them through a discard spell and a Force of Negation. I interacted on, say, t3, so on t4 they are able to go Lurrus into Bauble. Thats their ...

It is debatable though, if you think about what "diversity" really means. It means a large number of decks doing well that are categorically different from each other. Most "new" Lurrus decks, like Grixis Delver, aren't doing well because the deck itself is good, but because Lur...

Week 2 metagame update is live. Here are the stats and relative Week 1 --> Week 2 changes for those who can't check out the full piece yet: Burn : 13.1% (58) ▼2.3% Jund : 6.8% (30) ▼1.5% Prowess : 5.9% (26) ▲1.2% Humans : 5% (22) ▼0.5% Devoted Devastation : 5% (22) ▲0.7% Bant Snow Control : 4.7% (2...

Common Banned List suggestions that have been discussed and whos meta-game effects have been elaborated upon at length -1 Teferi -1 Arcum's Astrolabe -1 Veil of Summer The rest I agree with, though I'm not sure Astrolabe is busted, to the point of breaking. Its very very good, but I'm still not sur...

See, the last stats that I saw for Lurrus Burn were 16.x%. I thought that was a bit out there, even if a high Burn metagame doesn't necessarily mean anything bad. So I went to mtggoldfish for the past week and Burn was only 10.1%. That is definitely not bad at all, even if Lurrus Hardened Scales su...

This is flatly untrue and unsupported by all available event data. OUaT propped up a chunk of ramp strategies that occupied much higher metagame shares before the ban. In that time, two of the top three most-played decks were OUaT ramp (E Tron and Amulet Titan), with various Titan variants and G Tr...

I honestly forgot about the OUaT ban, because of how inconsequential it was to the overall picture of Modern. Lol. But I see that point. I honestly forgot about the OUaT ban, because of how inconsequential it was to the overall picture of Modern. Lol. But I see that point. Yep, it sure was. I actua...