Wednesday, January 20, 2016

So bannings... Those happened and I guess 1 of 2 is kind of surprising. If you would have asked me last year if I thought twin was making modern less fun, I would have agreed with you. But in the recent months, twin hasn't really been a problem. Yeah it does great at events with the right pilot, it plays very strong cards on top of having a combo and unless you are playing a top tier deck, its hard to beat. While twin is annoying, bloom might be the best at being a pain in the ass or was the best. Being able to win on turn two is kind of shitty and there are so many cards that thrust you into being able to win by turn three it was bound to get banned out. I don't have many opinions on the bannings. Great for getting rid of a degenerate turn two kill but twin probably could have hung out for a while, it was oppressing the format as much as it was  six to eight months ago.
For me, the issue is that nothing was unbanned, what's up with that? Enough strong cards have emerged and lots of decks have changed the way modern is played that unbanning powerful cards seems OK. I'm not saying "hey! You should unban hypergenesis! I know I wooould" but sword of the meek or stoneforge seem really OK. As for the case for stoneforge, what creatures with butts smaller than 4 live past the turn they are played? Very few and in fact turn three has lots of powerful things going on that getting a sword or batterskull doesn't seem that powerful right now. I'm also in the camp that thinks unbanning jace and bloodbraid would totally be fine. Yes powerful cards. Yes blue MIGHT get played more (UB faeries :3) and Jund might become a tier one deck again if it wasn't for 1 big issue for both cards. The main issue is that a 4cc in modern is a lot. Scapeshift, goryos vengeance and eldrazi decks are very powerful and are at their peak at around turns 3-4, so does a single cascade or a single brainstorm really make that difference If you are staring down eldrazi or you are facing down an online pyromancers Ascension? I'll leave it at that.
 One more thing before I get off my train. In the last few days, there have been a lot of decks that control mana bases. Hate bears, boombust,rain of years in eldrazi decks, spreading seas in more blue decks, ghost quarters, fulminator mages. Lots of those have been floating around in the games I have been playing and while I agreed that a B/x eldrazi varient is possibly the culprit, it looks like the future of modern will be a fight to control resources. I feel crucible of worlds might be important at some point, it really depends of the PT. Also, hands down I think the eldrazi is the strongest deck out there. Its fast and powerful. Hoping sire of stagnation works out in that deck: 3
Oh! And blood moons and Magus of the moons. Every online and very very powerful
Thanks for reading :3

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