Once Upon a Time has overtaken Lightning Bolt as the most-played nonland card in Modern, at a whopping 33.6% of decks. Bolt has, of course, been the most-played Modern card each year since its inception. It's January 30, so we have two clean, solid weeks of data after the January 13 announcement. I...

Hey Sheridan, just saw that Aaron Forsythe replied and acknowledged your reddit thread, good job! I hope it leads to improvements and optimism going forward.

fair enough.

Hey Sheridan is there a reason you posted your article onto the Modern subreddit when your piece itself states how little traffic the subreddit is even getting right now anyways? Is it not able to survive on the main sub?

I disagree. With the Looting ban and the simultaneous creation of Pioneer virtually all Modern staples depreciated in value. Well the point you were referencing was strictly in regards to banlist policy, but as you said the creation of Pioneer has fundamentally changed Modern from a finance perspec...

Look if you don't want to talk about this anymore than so be it, but lets not mischaracterize my statements. Thus far you've backed away from your initial claims entirely, posted a quote calling it clear evidence when there was none, and routinely strawman my points despite me explaining them furthe...

No, it really doesn't contradict my statement at all. No where in there does it say that a 2/3 vanilla is hard to code. What that statement tells me is that they've just made a choice not to code those cards. There is nothing "clearly contradicting". It also matches pretty perfectly with ...

Right, that's why I threw in the extra 20 and 30 numbers. I know you picked an arbitrary number and I gave you the benefit of the doubt by expanding it myself. I even switched to a percentage to bring a wider variety of measurements. You are forgetting that not all Modern players are competitive an...

The issue with that is that it's a self fulfilling prophecy. If you only give the option to use 10 cards, then when will the others ever get a chance? Now I'm not about to argue that we need every single wall and 6 mana 5/5 (or whatever), but 10 is an incredibly small number. Firstly I picked 10 ju...

I actually like draft and sealed. I dislike the concept of a reprint set for Modern (be it Horizons or Masters) where draft is the excuse not to have "warping" cards at common and uncommon. If you remove concerns about draft environment then printing Inquisition of Kozelik, Fatal Push, Pa...

think it's just that ALL bans upset SOME people. Conversely all bans please some people. When you ban core pillars, people are upset that their investments (financial and emotional) are suddenly devalued or worthless overnight. Which has never actually happened from an MTG finance standpoint, pleas...

Yet also implying that your opponent lacks any interaction and allows such a situation to exist is the exact case study we should be using to claim it is fragile. I don't think after the 1-2 years we have just had in Modern we can sit here and claim that artifact based combo decks are fragile in go...

I myself assumed this was for Pioneer, I don't think Modern will be a factor since if Wotc is going to be banning anything in Modern, we have bigger fish to fry.

@@pierreb : That's exactly my point. If anything it's Heliod that needs a ban and not Walking Ballista, but we all know they sure as %$#% ain't banning a new money card people want to buy packs. It was the same with the big hoe last summer, banning other cards instead of the main problem that neede...

Not sure why, but I haven't been able to acces this site for a while, but it's working now apparently. I know I missed all the talk about the last ban, but since I missed it, I'd just like to add for the record that it's a %$#% %$#%$#% ban and I'm really pissed about it. Seriously %$#% that ban ann...

Right, thats the peak/apex, and I get that. It goes back to my other point when discussing answers, there is a point in which the game implodes to power creep. However, even within the context of the last 6 years, that shift, has been documented, intentional, and unwavering. Only the brilliance of ...

It was banned out of Pioneer way too fast to be a coincidence. They dont want A + B 'instant' win combos. Granted, when it was banned in standard it was just the best thing to be doing, but just as I have no reason to trust them on Twin, I wont trust them on Copy Cat in Pioneer. Oh my bad, I though...

The reason however that it will not be unbanned, and Copy Cat was banned as well, is that todays players, modern Magic players, are used to a completely different paradigm, that revolves around the board state. You are not playing a game of cards, like Poker is a game of cards, anymore. You just ar...

Fun for most of the current Modern player base, is based on on the board. Its not about hidden information, its not about bluffs, and its not about old principles like card advantage or tempo. Its about turning Magic from a card game, into a board game, where your cards are actually just play piece...

I think that's the most common reason against the Twin unban, it creates some unfun lines where you have to always hold up answers in case they are able to combo off. Or they win because you just couldn't answer the combo On top of all of that even is the case where you spend the whole game holding...

Yup I can agree with that.

This is a race to the bottom. I've mentioned it before but it just cannot work. Is it actually a race to the bottom? Genuinely curious as I don't think we have much data to show what are the ultimate consequences of having high powered answers. Personally I have long since made peace with the fact ...

Obvious point- how does it end the game immediately. I mean you do yourself no service by saying this easily fact checked statement, Twin plus pestermite or RIP helm is a combo that literally ends the game. A blood moon plus nothing literally does not. IIt is true path is not moon, but preemptively...

Seems to me that you are one of those Johnny big monsters who don't like to be told 'no'. Attitudes like yours are why this format has cards like Oko it that we can't deal with because people with your attitude label anything controlling that locks you out as unfun. If you are locked out by these c...

It has not even been a week and already there are calls for new bans! This is silly. There is no way to know yet with any confidence if last week's bans did anything to Urza decks. This conversation went from talking about how Veil leads to one dimensional games of Magic to literally exactly where ...