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To be fair, I was testing the deck with Guttersnipe, which increases the consistency and allows you to bypass a lot of traditional storm hate. So my experience may be somewhat different than yours. ...

I was seriously considering Storm for this PTQ season (up until yesterday, of course). It was well-positioned and had a great degree of resiliency for a Modern combo deck. Storm definitely would've...

Blue still doesn't beat anything else in the format though. My thought is that Olivia makes a better 4 drop than Huntmaster, for the most part. Also, Jund was never a good deck to begin with. It...

That's not a bad thing. It would make it much easier for fair decks to beat Tron, possibly removing it from the field entirely (which I am VERY ok with). It would seriously hamper 4c Jund. It...

B/W Tokens autoloses to Tron as well. U/W or R/G. It happens, it's part of the format. Without Force/Waste, Modern is going to continue to be a format where there will be decks you just cannot...

That's because Breach Post was trash. Trust me, 12Post was bad for the format. It represented a hard cap at the top end of the format. If you could not race it, you could not beat it. It didn't...

Affinity has made up 25% of the PTQ T8's so far and 44% of PTQ winners. Who's a brilliant theorist? I really ought to get paid for this. I'm extending my prediction to either Opal or Cranial...

Actually, Twin was the deck with the target on it's back. Zoo was just the deck everyone defaulted to because they didn't know what to play. It was definitely expected to be popular, but if you...

51% vs. the field at Worlds. Just saying. Not banworthy numbers by any stretch of the imagination. The format definitely revolved around Zoo; any deck that makes up 28% of the metagame is going to...

And there is nothing wrong with bannings. Nothing. If they are bannings done intelligently. When it's merely Wizards throwing up their hands and going, "we don't have a clue", that's a problem. ...

Funny you should mention that one. I was tinkering with an odd variant of the old Eternal Witness/Crystal Shard deck that also happened to run Bloodbond March and so I was using Wretch as a way to...

Nah, I don't expect them to have it right the first time around. Cocky as I am, I wouldn't expect to get it right the first time around. Blazing Infect, for example, was completely off my radar. I...

Yes, you were speaking more about combo than aggro. But it's kind of the same principle. Again, I'm not disagreeing with you that Jace and AV wouldn't suddenly make combo bad at Philly or make...

Sorry to DP, but I wanted to answer this.

Imagine that you can create a deck that goes toe to toe with Zoo for the first 3 turns. The problem is, after that, you're left depleted. You need to...

Was I being arrogant? Yes. Was it justified? Certainly. I am an expert on this format. I am an excellent theorist. I could be passive about it and just go, "oh, guys, but, yeah, umm, I don't...

There are two important factors in a deck's impact. One is actual performance and one is perceived performance. Of the two, perceived performance is often the more important. Take Mental Misstep...

You know how the easiest way to beat an aggro deck is to play an aggro deck one size up? Like how regular Zoo beats Cat Sligh and how Big Zoo with Baneslayer/Gideon/Elspeth and extra KotRs beats...

I'm disappointed. I'm not shocked, since Wizards hasn't shown any common sense in years. But disappointed. Banning Wild Nacatl doesn't stop this from being an aggro-driven format. It simply moves...

Most of the listings I've played against have run both, but Grapeshot is always the preferable kill con.

Chrome Mox would not be that great for Modern storm decks. Like other available options (Desperate Ritual, Pyretic Ritual) it's +1 mana, but unlike the rituals or even a card like Simian Spirit...

I hope it doesn't change. I've heard buzz about Nacatl and Punishing Fires. That would be a big mistake. If you think Zoo dominated Modern is a pain, wait until you play Affinity dominated Modern....

My impression of Past in Flames is that it helps storm count but does not speed up the deck to an appreciably faster kill. The only Past in Flames storm deck I've played against on MWS was a fairly...

It can be big. Before Modern was announced as an official format, I played, in addition to 12Post, All In Red. And of course, having Rite and SSG to get you to two mana where you can play one of...

Rite of Flame is 1 card, +1 mana. Chrome Mox is 2 cards, +1 mana. Chrome Mox is acceleration, but like, for instance, Mox Opal (which might be playable with Chrome Mox in the format), it's not...

There are a number of things that could've stayed off the banned list to begin with. Hypergenesis was actually kind of meh. I think it's gotten significantly better with GreenPost out of the...