So, Twin was pretty consistently a good deck, but never really a dominant one, not even keeping the top spot in one of those cases (if memory serves right, Miracles never lost the top spot after...
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So, Twin was pretty consistently a good deck, but never really a dominant one, not even keeping the top spot in one of those cases (if memory serves right, Miracles never lost the top spot after...
Deathrite Shaman isn't the reason Dredge struggles in Legacy nowadays. In fact, Dredge was actually on the down low for a while... and then Deathrite Shaman got printed and Dredge came back. People...
Did you read my post? I gave some pretty definite proof that Caw-Blade was not killed, because a deck that's killed doesn't get three copies of it into the Top 8 of a Grand Prix. So in what way am I...
Caw-Blade wasn't close to killed; it was still one of the best decks in the format post bannings. Case in point: Grand Prix Pittsburgh (2011), which took place after the bannings, had THREE Caw-Blade...
Such as?
It takes a hit. Eye of Ugin can be replaced with Conduit of Ruin, but you have to run more copies of Conduit of Ruin than Eye of Ugin (as Sylvan Scrying and Expedition Map can't grab Conduit of Ruin)...
I actually wonder about that. The Eldrazi deck showed off, but it also did so well that it probably turned a lot of people off of the format. Selling product because it has cards that are powerful in...
Just like how there was no reason to play an aggro deck that wasn't Zoo because Wild Nacatl was always better. How well did that logic work out?
This whole "Twin repressed other UR decks!" seems...
We're talking about current Infect decks. And honestly, Shoal Infect is so different from the ones we have now that you can't even count Blazing Shoal's as a nerf on Infect. One might as well say...
Burn and Affinity are capable of winning on turn 3 but it's pretty rare. While Wizards of the Coast has never exactly defined what "consistently" means (as that's the criteria for a deck to get...
That's not really true about Summoner's Pact. Sure, it is played almost exclusively in Bloom Titan (it's seen a small amount of play in Elves and Scapeshift), but I can see it as seeing play in some...
ThopterSword was a monster deck in Extended, especially when it became ThopterDepths by adding the HexDepths combo into it (ThopterSword and HexDepths were originally separate decks, but someone hit...
I don't think stale metagame has anything to do with it. Every single time they've unbanned something in Modern it was in the banning announcement immediately preceding the Modern Pro Tour. I'm...
I currently find it very hard to justify Sword of the Meek being on the banned list.
It's hard to justify a Treasure Cruise ban (at least by itself) when the actual top deck right now, Junk Pod, doesn't even play the card.
By the way, I found this interesting. It's an interview with Mark Rosewater on a Spanish site, and he was asked about the Modern banned list. Here's the relevant portion:
I'm not fluent in...
I'm sorry, but I think these blog posts of yours indicate considerable unfamiliarity with the format. That's not to say there aren't any valid points, but too much of it isn't very well thought out....
I believe you mean "Punishing Fire," not GSZ. GSZ was not banned with Wild Nacatl, and in fact Zoo did not become dominant until after Green Sun's Zenith was banned (admittedly, it wasn't so much...
Well, no changes this time around. Though I happened to be looking at some of the older posts, and it is amusing to see things like this being said:For a card that would automatically win the Pro...
And you say this based on... what? Presumably you dislike the banned list, but you don't make an argument.
You want Skullclamp unbanned? You actually think that card would in any way make for a...
I know, and I agree. But I did want to point out that it isn't dead against Burn, just bad.
Unless you're GR Tron, of course. Then Nature's Claim is astoundingly good against Burn, because even if...
Actually, Burn runs Eidolon, which is an Enchantment. That said, that's basically the only card in the deck it hits (unless they bring in Blood Moon), so it basically does nothing if they don't draw...
There was also a BUG Infect and a Monoblue Tron deck that went undefeated on Day 1.
By the way, I hate the way they did the metagame breakdown. They gave no distinction between the different kind...
Um... thing is, your description of Legacy, "3-4 established tier 1 decks, some highly competitive tier 1.5 decks and a shitload of semi competitive tier 2 decks," applies to Modern as well.
It's not an opinion as to whether there is literally "no reason" to play a deck. Do you not think "I want to get into the finals at a Grand Prix" is a reason? Because that seemed to be a pretty good...