I noticed in the last year or so that Blood Moon and Ensnaring Bridge have gone way up in price, could someone tell me why that is? How are they primarily used these days?
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Blood Moon is a very common and extremely powerful hatecard in modern, used in a lot of sideboards playing red. Ensnaring Bridge are centerpieces for decks like 8rack and Lantern Control, also in modern. I'm unsure if they see common play in other formats.
Like you might expect from the card text, Blood Moon is heavily used in Modern against decks with lots of nonbasic lands (and in decks that either run a sizable contingent of basics or don't mind their mana being red anyway), while Ensnaring Bridge is a catch-all, long-lasting answer to almost any creatures, particularly in decks that can play out a hand full of low-cost cards or discard cards to keep the bar set at 0.
Thanks. Speaking of "hate" cards, I keep hearing this term (and "hate bears"). Does this term refer to when a card is put into a sideboard for a specific situation/purpose? Since it is singling someone out, it is "hate"?
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"Hate bears" typically refers to low-mana-cost creatures that have an ability to hose certain types of cards, such as Gaddock Teeg, Kataki, War's Wage, or Aven Mindcensor. In its truest derivation, the term "bear" refers to a 2/2 creature for 2 mana, but the toughness is usually discounted as a less important trait so that 2/1s still qualify, and as the Mindcensor shows, some people will still consider them "bears" even if they don't cost 2.
Blood Moon and Bridge have been legacy staples for years in stax, red mud, imperial painter and dragon stompy. Bridge was used as a way to avoid SnT into Emrakul before Griselbrand/Omniscience etc was printed.
Don't forget us EDH/Commander players - while we may only need one copy for a deck, many players run multiple decks and hate sharing cards between them.
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Thanks. Speaking of "hate" cards, I keep hearing this term (and "hate bears"). Does this term refer to when a card is put into a sideboard for a specific situation/purpose? Since it is singling someone out, it is "hate"?
"Hate bears" are based on 2cc creatures (often 2/2, like most bears [balduvian bear]) that have some sort of ability that hinder an opponent. This would include gaddock teeg, thalia.
Ensnaring bridge shot up from 20 to almost 40 as well because of the lantern control build, pretty sure it's a 4 of mainboard in there (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Also around that same time Saffron Olive on MTG Goldfish put together what he calls "Free Win Red" (I like the name Blood Bridge personally), that I'm building at the moment. Runs a playset of blood moon and ensnaring bridge mainboard to lock the whole board down. Capable of a turn 1 blood moon which I'v found quite a few people scooping to (that's where he got "free win" from).
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Standard: GR Pummeler
Modern: Mono-Red Control, Lantern Control, Eldrazi Taxes, Skred Infect
Pauper: Affinity
EDH: Gaddock Teeg Kithkin Tribal, Meren
Legacy: 8 Rack, Omnitell (Both in progress)
Ensnaring bridge shot up from 20 to almost 40 as well because of the lantern control build, pretty sure it's a 4 of mainboard in there (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Also around that same time Saffron Olive on MTG Goldfish put together what he calls "Free Win Red" (I like the name Blood Bridge personally), that I'm building at the moment. Runs a playset of blood moon and ensnaring bridge mainboard to lock the whole board down. Capable of a turn 1 blood moon which I'v found quite a few people scooping to (that's where he got "free win" from).
This is spot on, but to add to it:
Moon and Bridge have always been great sideboard options, and recently have started seeing a fair bit of main-deck play (in Modern, at least. I don't play Legacy or Vintage). A huge percentage of decks in Modern are heavily reliant on the color fixing of fetchlands into shocklands, so an early Blood Moon in the right deck can often just win straight-up.
Basically, these are "sideboard" cards that effectively "hate" enough of the metagame to see widespread use. And other than Moon in Modern Masters, they haven't been reprinted in over a decade. Hence, their price tags.
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Especially if your deck is not creature heavy, or doesn't rely on combat damage as a wincon. I use bridge in the blood bridge deck because the wincon is burn and the Koth emblem. I've also been toying with using bridge in my 8 rack deck as a 2 of, just in case they get a creature out. Only 4 creatures in the 8 rack deck I'm building and I think I've drawn one 5 times in the games I've played. Not great odds.
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Standard: GR Pummeler
Modern: Mono-Red Control, Lantern Control, Eldrazi Taxes, Skred Infect
Pauper: Affinity
EDH: Gaddock Teeg Kithkin Tribal, Meren
Legacy: 8 Rack, Omnitell (Both in progress)
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"Hate bears" are based on 2cc creatures (often 2/2, like most bears [balduvian bear]) that have some sort of ability that hinder an opponent. This would include gaddock teeg, thalia.
"Hate" is something that specifically nerfs a strategy. For example pyroblast is blue hate, circle of protection: red would be red hate, leyline of the void would be dredge hate, blood moon and back to basics would be non-basic hate, and so on.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Modern: Mono-Red Control, Lantern Control, Eldrazi Taxes, Skred Infect
Pauper: Affinity
EDH: Gaddock Teeg Kithkin Tribal, Meren
Legacy: 8 Rack, Omnitell (Both in progress)
This is spot on, but to add to it:
Moon and Bridge have always been great sideboard options, and recently have started seeing a fair bit of main-deck play (in Modern, at least. I don't play Legacy or Vintage). A huge percentage of decks in Modern are heavily reliant on the color fixing of fetchlands into shocklands, so an early Blood Moon in the right deck can often just win straight-up.
Basically, these are "sideboard" cards that effectively "hate" enough of the metagame to see widespread use. And other than Moon in Modern Masters, they haven't been reprinted in over a decade. Hence, their price tags.
Modern: Mono-Red Control, Lantern Control, Eldrazi Taxes, Skred Infect
Pauper: Affinity
EDH: Gaddock Teeg Kithkin Tribal, Meren
Legacy: 8 Rack, Omnitell (Both in progress)