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I have never played pauper, but on the times I have thought about it Cloud of Faeries was the first card I thought about brewing with based on my love of faeries (being the first tribe I ever played), my love of blue and it being a free spell. This makes me less likely to play Pauper in the future, but it was cool to learn about how it was abused.
Also, isn't it January 15th? This article states January 18th as the announcement date.
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(There is probably only like 2 people who care about this)
I have never played pauper, but on the times I have thought about it Cloud of Faeries was the first card I thought about brewing with based on my love of faeries (being the first tribe I ever played), my love of blue and it being a free spell. This makes me less likely to play Pauper in the future, but it was cool to learn about how it was abused.
Also, isn't it January 15th? This article states January 18th as the announcement date.
Both Delver and Esper Familiars utilized Cloud of Faeries, and there were times when these decks comprised of 50% of the meta together. Not all of the Pauper community was convinced that the Cloud was worth banning, but the numbers were there. I am certainly biased, as I've never liked blue as a color.
Man am I ever furious at WotC now. After playing paper Pauper for 4 years I was just finishing building Delver this week, and I literally have a set of Cloud of Faeries coming in the mail from TCG Player for it right now. First Grapeshot, Empty the Warrens, Temporal Fissure, Frantic Search, and Invigorate, and now Cloud of Faeries. I'm starting to feel convinced that WotC just doesn't want combo to exist in any form whatosoever in Pauper.
Hopefully this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back so to speak to convince my LGS to abandon WotC's ban list for their paper Pauper events, because there are a lot of people there who enjoy playing both Delver and High Tide every week; and I was an avid Storm player up until the total banning of Storm as a mechanic in Pauper. Screw you Wizards.
(There is probably only like 2 people who care about this)
I have never played pauper, but on the times I have thought about it Cloud of Faeries was the first card I thought about brewing with based on my love of faeries (being the first tribe I ever played), my love of blue and it being a free spell. This makes me less likely to play Pauper in the future, but it was cool to learn about how it was abused.
Also, isn't it January 15th? This article states January 18th as the announcement date.
It's called a leak
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Well anyway, it's too late on the twin ban. After all this time. The timing is stupid tho. Too late.
You played JESUS?!?! I heard none of his guys stay in the graveyard, and once you think you have him beat he ALWAYS comes back to win within three turns. I like...WORSHIP him.
The banning of Splinter Twin makes absolutely no sense. Withing the past year it was considered reasonable enough to be reprinted as a Rare in MM15. It's always been the poster child of fair combo in Modern, aka Turn 4. All variants of Twin make up less than 10% of the meta currently. *Tin foil hat* This wreaks of WOTC trying to push Eldrazi for the OGW PT. Amulet and Twin were two of the primary decks keeping Tron under control.
WHYYYYYYYYYY (and this is coming from someone whose main deck is tron, I really dont like this announcment at all.) Were they TRYING to increase the amount of linear decks? Bloom I figured was inevitable here but twin...just what the ****, seriously. As for cloud...I have delver in pauper but yeah it probably derserved it. Delver should survive.
The "free" mechanic was always one of the most abusable and difficult to balance abilities in the game. The fact that it's in blue makes it all the worse, I'm surprised they let Cloud of Faeries hang around this long.
Twin getting banned is meh to me, I always just assumed there would be a twin deck in modern, and preparing for a known entity is fairly easy in my opinion.
Amulet Bloom everyone saw coming a mile away, and i even called the correct banned card, being Summer Bloom. Splinter Twin is kinda out of left field though. I need some time to think on that one.
What an idiotic decision. I guess Pod set the slippery slope to ban people out of their favorite fair decks.
It's very dangerous to play this "ban the best deck" game. They let modern be expensive by limiting reprint flow but then lock people out of competitive decks with ***** like this. And now stuff like Tron is gonna get higher in price due to speculators guessing what deck people are gonna jump ship onto. UR has its inherent weaknesses - can't be countered spells, and resolved permanents. Whatever. I think investing in modern is kinda dumb at this point.
Twin was always a borderline case since the beginning. Yes, it's a consistent turn four deck that has consistently dominated the meta for years, but there wasn't a single archetype that didn't have access to some kind of reliable hate for its combo end game, and it was a deck that could even board out its combo to still win a game on UR tempo burn.
At the same time, it could have far too much of a game 1 advantage against decks that have no mainboard answer, and the range of anti-Twin tech in the sideboard was always an issue, forcing players to build sideboards with cards that had relevance to only one deck. But then again, how 'limited' is the range of Twin hate when every third match was Twin? Tough call, one that I'm sure Wizrds has been wrestling with for years, and they may or may not have made the right one.
Splinter Twin and Summer Bloom are banned in modern. Cloud of Faeries is banned in pauper.
(There is probably only like 2 people who care about this)
I have never played pauper, but on the times I have thought about it Cloud of Faeries was the first card I thought about brewing with based on my love of faeries (being the first tribe I ever played), my love of blue and it being a free spell. This makes me less likely to play Pauper in the future, but it was cool to learn about how it was abused.
Also, isn't it January 15th? This article states January 18th as the announcement date.
Modern: URW Madcap Experiment
Pauper: MonoU Tempo Delver
My EDH Commanders:
Aminatou, The Fateshifter UBW
Azami, Lady of Scrolls U
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed B
Edric, Spymaster of Trest UG
Glissa, the Traitor BG
Arcum Dagsson U
Oh well, I'm curious to see how the new Modern format shapes up!
Both Delver and Esper Familiars utilized Cloud of Faeries, and there were times when these decks comprised of 50% of the meta together. Not all of the Pauper community was convinced that the Cloud was worth banning, but the numbers were there. I am certainly biased, as I've never liked blue as a color.
I'm just so tired of things not being unbanned now though...
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Hopefully this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back so to speak to convince my LGS to abandon WotC's ban list for their paper Pauper events, because there are a lot of people there who enjoy playing both Delver and High Tide every week; and I was an avid Storm player up until the total banning of Storm as a mechanic in Pauper. Screw you Wizards.
It's called a leak
****
Well anyway, it's too late on the twin ban. After all this time. The timing is stupid tho. Too late.
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Twin getting banned is meh to me, I always just assumed there would be a twin deck in modern, and preparing for a known entity is fairly easy in my opinion.
Rather than the turns for non combo decks which can be the same frequently?
A banned Splinter Twin, cool cool that's much better than Damnation.
It's very dangerous to play this "ban the best deck" game. They let modern be expensive by limiting reprint flow but then lock people out of competitive decks with ***** like this. And now stuff like Tron is gonna get higher in price due to speculators guessing what deck people are gonna jump ship onto. UR has its inherent weaknesses - can't be countered spells, and resolved permanents. Whatever. I think investing in modern is kinda dumb at this point.
At the same time, it could have far too much of a game 1 advantage against decks that have no mainboard answer, and the range of anti-Twin tech in the sideboard was always an issue, forcing players to build sideboards with cards that had relevance to only one deck. But then again, how 'limited' is the range of Twin hate when every third match was Twin? Tough call, one that I'm sure Wizrds has been wrestling with for years, and they may or may not have made the right one.