http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazin...g/daily/ld/155
Read it yourselfs - Modern will be replacing Extended on the next Pro-Tour.
The Banned list (copy pasted):
Ancestral Vision
Ancient Den
Bitterblossom
Chrome Mox
Dark Depths
Dread Return
Glimpse of Nature
Golgari Grave-Troll
Great Furnace
Hypergenesis
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Mental Misstep
Seat of the Synod
Sensei's Divining Top
Skullclamp
Stoneforge Mystic
Sword of the Meek
Tree of Tales
Umezawa's Jitte
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
Vault of Whispers
Looks interesting!
Damn they banned all the fun cards.
On a more seriouse note, I suppose this can also keep the cost of Modern decks lower. The only thing need to worry about are the shock lands.
SFM IS BANNED!
Good call though, I don't think Extended/Modern has enough tools to deal with SFM. GGTroll still being on the banned list makes me think it's got to do with what Innastrad is providing, which in some good news, hints that Legacy Dredge could have some beneficial potential cards in Innastrad.
Banned list is looking fairly decent, although I think that Bitterblossom could come off (kept in check by Punishing Fires anyway).
Aether Vial is legal?? O_O Let's do some Merfolks (replace Wasteland with Tec Edges lol)
@Ben: Play All-in-Red, don't worry about shocks :P
Decks that I care about:
Steel Stompy
UWx Landstill
Dreadstalker
DDFT (10% practice)
Mangara on MWS? You must be masochistic. -kiblastOriginally Posted by Gheizen64
Looks good to me. I'm looking forward to the inevitable Modern ptq's. On the other hand, my friend who finished his set of foil Jaces before they were banned in Type 2 isnt quite so happy with the announcement.
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This looks like a pretty boring format without a lot of combo enablers.
the article mentioned their philosophy, which in TLDR
1) We don't like combo decks (crap ton on the banlist)
2) We hope there are no dominant decks (reason why Bitterblossom is banned).
3) We kinda don't like blue to dominant (Visions, MM, Jace)
I think WotC people like playing aggro decks lol.
Decks that I care about:
Steel Stompy
UWx Landstill
Dreadstalker
DDFT (10% practice)
Mangara on MWS? You must be masochistic. -kiblast
They don't want to allow turn 3 combo decks? Ban mental misstep?
Lol at this format.
Being forced to attack to win is zzzzzzzzzzzz
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Yeah, WotC seems to be into the "i drop my creature, then its your turn, then on my next turn i will attack you" scheme.
Beware of broken things! A player loosing is unfun! ....wait. In a 1on1, isn't there a looser anyway?
:trollface:
On a serious note, i don't see why one would ban mental misstep....
Very pissed off at this blatant attempt to kill off legacy... MM warped legacy and turned it extremely competitive. They clearly don't want kids being scared out of Modern. Have they ever banned an answer card like this? (Aside from Mana Drain, which really is both answer and utility).
On a side note, this does look like we will be getting Bob and goyf reprints in the future as this format may well be made with a low price of entry in mind.
Oh, FFS!
Idiots.
"Any card with the modern face printed is legal...
Oh, not Swords to Plowshares (that duel deck shit doesn't count)
Oh, not Polluted Delta (that Judge Foil shit doesn't count)
Oh, not Mox Diamond (that From the Vault Shit doesn't count)
...But, btw, Sword of Fire and Ice counts (that Jude Foil shit is OK)"
Wonderful, now I'll never get to play some of my favorite cards from IN, OD, MM and ON blocks--which were, by and large, less busted and more balanced than Mirrodin alone.
GJ on going full retard once more, WotC.
Overextended would have been way way better. I'm sick of this shit.
Anyone else notice how they deliberately cut the sets legal so that Counterspell would still be out of the picture?
This banned list makes the format even shittier than I originally thought it was going to be. It really is just going to be standard+. There is no way I will ever play this format in this form.
Lol, what?mental misstep
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Modern won't be able to kill legacy. Its more like standard now than it is legacy with the ban list. there will only be a couple of dominating decks and nothing as diverse as legacy.
I wonder whether they will reprint bob and goyf.
I can see them reprinting Onslaught Fetchlands.
On the other note, what's with the Shockland Craze. Yes I get that they're fetchable and have basic land types but I think decks such as control decks are better off running Filterlands.
Does anyone know an active Modern site? I want to develop a Modern MUD (if that makes sense) aka Forgemaster.dec.
I am convinced that WotC is "dumbing" the game because of all the stupid posts they come across on MTG-related forums
Tom LaPille: the same guy who thought NPH would fix Standard. If he had anything to do with this, it is doomed to be a failure.
Tom? Is that you? I thought you were going to go work on DnD?
mtgmodern.com looks like there could happen something, but it is really "low" at the moment.
They really aren't taking any chances on control or combo having any strength in Modern. I'm also bothered by how the article gets to Bitterblossom and openly says they can't ban more than one card without at least one of them being blue. Do WotC people like aggro? Yes. Very yes.
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At first I was pissed at the banned list, because I was interested in investing some time in this brand new format. Now, after seeing the ban list, I am even happier because now I know that Modern is no threat to Legacy. Long live the greatest format ever (until people run out of money and can't afford $500 duals)!
I really like that they banned Ancestral Vision because it's good with cheap countermagic.
Sorry to repeat this, but WOW WHAT A SHITTY BANLIST.
I guess I didn't lose out much from not stockpiling shocklands.
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