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Yeah, the new brain trust at WotC isn't exactly a bunch of geniuses, although they did manage to build a Hearthstone clone good enough to get screenshots of, which is dramatically more than the old...

Raging Ferocidon stands out as something red decks want to at least be aware of. It's 2R for a 3/3 that says "players can't gain life" plus damage on creatures entering the battlefield.

Sunbird's...

So I was thinking about just how bad Standard could get if UW Approach turns out to be the best deck. Came up with a list of ways the other colors have to stop it:

Blue: Counterspells
White:...

I dunno. Is that really too expensive for Red Stompy lists? Like, I can see them having trouble flipping it, but it seems like it would be castable in that kind of shell.

It probably fits best...

We got the Red Transform land, and it's better than I think we thought.

Vance's Blasting Cannon
3R
Enchantment
do the "exile a card and can cast it this turn thing (only nonlands)"

Flip on...

UW Approach mirror. I literally cannot imagine a more boring game. Even Wake vs. Wake would be better than that.

I find it amusing that the best answers to the upcoming UW Approach decks in standard... are also in UW.

Between Opt, Search, Supreme Will, and your draw step, getting that second cast off is...

So this might be playable, though you'd need to build around it.

Axis of Mortality
Enchantment
4WW
At the beginning of your upkeep you may have two target players exchange life totals.

No...

I would say Soothsaying is about as close to SDT as you can get right now. Good catch by people.

Nature's Lore isn't Blue, and Duals don't cast Impulse.

Well, I mean, yeah. In legacy it's basically a Rampant Growth for a Legendary Island that comes into play untapped and casts Impulse. That's kinda good.

After thinking about it more, I think the "Exhaust the Basics" plan works best when you combine it with things that punish non-basics, like Back to Basics.

If you went Bant, Back to Basics +...

It seems like there are going to be enough "drawback is oppo gets a basic" in this set to enable a new type of archetype that focuses on exhausting your opponents' basic lands then running rampant...

I miss the days when Brand was a solution to that problem. That was a fun and ridiculous deck.

Fair, lol. I meant will there be even a single LD spell post-rotation? I can see blue decks running 4x the new Maze+the Impulse Land being an incredible obstacle for anyone else to overcome.
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One thing I've noticed about Ixalan and the powerful new lands...

The big reason Standard has been such a mess lately is that there were very powerful effects/cards and ZERO counterplay to them. ...

I like how the blue "cast Impulse" legendary land just requires hitting threshold to flip, but the white "bad Kjeldoran Outpost" legendary land requires you to have a creature swarm to flip it.
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It will probably be terrible, but I don't care. I'll be sleeving up Dinosaurs! this fall.

Has anybody talked about how great it would be in Nic Fit yet?

Chart a Course and Opt both seem like strong pushes for Modern Delver style decks.

You could stick 2 or 3 of those in a Legacy Elfs! deck right now and they could play and flip it pretty easily. The question is would they want to bother doing so, and that I don't have an answer to.

In Modern you also have Dromoka's Command and Ulvenwald Tracker. Plus a ton more "target creature fights other creature" cards.

They aren't super playable or anything, but man I'm liking those Dinosaur's they spoiled today.
I'm also hugely in love with the DFC lands they've been showing in this set. Just huge wins across...

No, it's the Meta that's wrong.

Anyone know how Deathmist Raptor works with double faced cards?