People seem to forget Counterspell costs UU
So it only fits well into blue heavy decks. And even there UU on the second turn isnt automatic. So the only gainers imo are Blue Moon and UW Control. both of these decks are far from dominance and Counterspell is not what they really want. They would split Counterspell/Mana Leak 2/2 and thats it, Modern broken. And im not sure if Blue Moon even wants it, it's not in great position to snapcaster-counterspell
Cryptic costs 1UUU. Snappy->counterspell would also cost 1UUU.
People would probably play it just fine.
Casting Counterspell t2 for UU is different. If we have 18 blue sources in our deck then we are only 76% to being able to cast it t2. Card selection improves the chance, but tapped lands reverse it.
The main problem I see here is that blue players wanted AV and were constantly complaning about it and how it should be unbaned to help control. They finally got it but they are still not happy and blue color as well as control is not bad positioned at all so there's no reason for such complaining. I agree that it's not the most represented archetype in format but that doesn't mean it's doing bad or that it needs help.
This seems like kind of an odd conclusion to make. People wanted AV unbanned because it isn't ban worthy. There are a lot of things that were snap banned by Wizards when modern was created that aren't really banworthy. Ancestral visions honestly isn't even that good of a card in a lot of cases, I played it a lot in the old extended and while it's great in grindy matchups it's absolutely terrible against anything fast. I don't even know that many decks are playing it, weren't there something like 3 copies total in all of the top 8's at the 3 recent GPs?
I also don't think anyone's saying that blue is bad. Blue has top tier choices in infect, Bant Eldrazi, Merfolk etc. They just all fit into basically the same archetype.
Many people are complaining about the fact that blue lacks generic answers and suggest cards like Counterspell to enter Modern which has no place imo. This refers to control, not just blue as a color although blue is essential part of most control decks and also top control strategies play blue but I admit that blue doesn't mnecessary mean control and vice versa. My point is that neither blue as a color neither control as an archetype don't need a help currently and would even be wrong to give them notable card after they got AV and Jeskai also Nahiri which are both decent tools. I mean there isn't any rule that some control shells needsto be the best deck in format and this exactly is the feeling I get a lot of the time when reading comments of people who play control.
I'm not sure how you can argue that control isn't weak. Modern decks attack along almost as many axis as they do in legacy (lands, poison, damage, instant/sorcery combos, graveyard, artifacts, creatures, spells) and modern has much weaker answers. You gave Jeskai as an example of good control but it's still a relatively weak deck and neither AV nor Nahiri are enough to make it strong.
I think we need to think back when was the last time modern had control. And the last time I could think of is Punishing Fire and Grove combo. how oppressive was it?
People seem to forget Counterspell costs UU
So it only fits well into blue heavy decks. And even there UU on the second turn isnt automatic. So the only gainers imo are Blue Moon and UW Control. both of these decks are far from dominance and Counterspell is not what they really want. They would split Counterspell/Mana Leak 2/2 and thats it, Modern broken. And im not sure if Blue Moon even wants it, it's not in great position to snapcaster-counterspell
Cryptic costs 1UUU. Snappy->counterspell would also cost 1UUU.
People would probably play it just fine.
And most control decks have dropped cryptic because it's slow due to it's mana costs.
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This seems like kind of an odd conclusion to make. People wanted AV unbanned because it isn't ban worthy. There are a lot of things that were snap banned by Wizards when modern was created that aren't really banworthy. Ancestral visions honestly isn't even that good of a card in a lot of cases, I played it a lot in the old extended and while it's great in grindy matchups it's absolutely terrible against anything fast. I don't even know that many decks are playing it, weren't there something like 3 copies total in all of the top 8's at the 3 recent GPs?
I also don't think anyone's saying that blue is bad. Blue has top tier choices in infect, Bant Eldrazi, Merfolk etc. They just all fit into basically the same archetype.
I'm not sure how you can argue that control isn't weak. Modern decks attack along almost as many axis as they do in legacy (lands, poison, damage, instant/sorcery combos, graveyard, artifacts, creatures, spells) and modern has much weaker answers. You gave Jeskai as an example of good control but it's still a relatively weak deck and neither AV nor Nahiri are enough to make it strong.
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And most control decks have dropped cryptic because it's slow due to it's mana costs.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
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