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I don't think JTMS would be particularly broken in Modern, but it seems like one of those safer if left out cards. The main reason is it costs so much that if they have to ban it people will be even...

I think SfM was one of the first diversity killers in Legacy. It just gives blue shells too much of an ability to fight literally anything, and to do it pretty aggressively. Delver at least requires...

I only see BBE getting the unban. It was only ever in the format alongside Deathrite Shaman and if you compare it to other 4 drops that Jund would play it's about the same power level (obviously...

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The deck that just won the GP.

If you're familiar with Legacy or Vintage dredge then you know the story about dredge in Modern. I think there are three major contributing factors to everyone hating it so much now:

1. Modern is...

I don't know the best way to describe fair vs. unfair, but I think the linearity of a deck is a decent way to look at it. How well rounded a deck is in general. Decks that don't seek out slowing down...

Liliana's too fair and easy enough to hate, just play something like Obstinate Baloth and watch them cry.

Tarmogoyf I'd agree with but I think any random bannings on non-linear decks are going to...

This is one of my favorite posts.

Creatures? Path, bolt, wrath of god. I don't understand why anyone ever complains about creatures.

Yeah, thanks, insightful.

I guess more specifically I'm worried about the ridiculousness of Ensnaring Bridge in Modern now. It was already jammed in a lot of decks and we saw how annoying/powerful it is. Artifact control...

Not looking forward to all of the places Sword of the Meek fits into, but hey, I'm happy overall.

I don't think the problem with Eldrazi was that they played a 4/4 for 4 mana on turn 4 or Reality Smasher around then, the problem was that they'd do it on turn 2 and you'd basically have only 1 turn...

There were a few UW control lists going around a couple months ago, before the eldrazi came. UWR control might have it's moment in the sun again as well if these fast creature combo decks are the new...

Decently backed rumors say Eye of Ugin is gone.

Speculations on the new top deck? Infect/Affinity/podless-pod? Can a true control deck emerge now?

Tron players, how bad will an Eye of Ugin ban hit your deck? Does it make it much worse?

Yeah, I was responding about the BW tokens comment, but didn't notice that that was a page ago.

Many Eldrazi decks run 4x Chalice to hit you at 1. I don't really see Path/inquistion/thoughtseize to be that viable if you don't have something to take care of it if they do land one early.

Yep, there really needs to be a penalty to playing nonbasics. I think Shock lands and fetch lands are pretty well balanced, since if you get too greedy you get a metagame full of burn decks to show...

"We gave everyone a chance to try to adapt for the last 9 months, but in the interest of format diversity, Eye of Ugin has been banned."

I'm not sure this is true, while I don't know anyone who goes into a game shop and just straight up buys packs, I've been to multiple different weekly tournaments that pay out in packs for prizes....

This has been a problem that's presented itself since before Tron. There are no good ways to deal with nonbasic lands that break the format, and it's showing itself once more.

Tron has always...

Finally some people who actually read their statement.

I agree Twin wasn't necessary to ban, but as WotC said about it, it basically turned Urb, Urw, Urg, and Ur decks into twin variants instead...

It also saw some play last weekend in a Protean Hulk combo deck (similar to the griselbanned deck on here, just using Protean Hulk and Body Double with Reveillark to combo out. Also substituted...

Same. The two decks mentioned are really annoying when they beat you on turn 2, but it's so infrequent that unless they're cheating the exact cards they need into their hand it doesn't happen often...

Also I think I remember hearing from some WotC higher up employee that they like to do this because the Pro Tour is the place with the most incentive for people to break things. If they unban...