Of course, Wizards has certainly proven they're capable of getting things way wrong, but it's pretty much what I said, and think about it: if Twin is unbanned, could any blue deck conceivably run anything but URx? There'd be no Esper or Sultai control. Twin addresses the symptom but not the cause.
Where is Esper and Sultai now? Where has it been this past year? Why are the weaknesses of one deck the fault of another?
Removing a good option doesn't make the bad options better, it just makes the bad options the ONLY option.
For the Twin ban to be successful, several other blue tools needed to be either printed or unbanned to support these weak decks. AV and SotM have done either very little or literally nothing. Fatal Push is a step in the right direction, but not nearly enough.
Darsh, I didn't quite literally mean SFM being a blue and white card, I meant that it would be utilized by a lot of decks with those colors, like Death and Tax decks, Esper, Mardu, some kind of Wescoe deck, etc. I'm going to wait until the GP, but so far the side events and Regionals show Junk still doesn't matchup to Jund, which very much surprised me, it's not like Junk is some unstoppable tour de force right now. The modern nexus article on SFM didn't find many of the matchup win percentages to really change, outside of a few matchups.
If you unbanned SFM and then axed Batterkull, you may as well have not been tried, equipment is crap in MTG in general, barring those juicy cards like Jitte, Skullclamp, batterskull. The swords themselves are kinda underwhelming, even. It's not the same argument as POD that SFM would stifle equipment development, Maro already expressed that they avoid even trying to match the power level of swords.
I give WOTC some credit, they tried to give blue some tools. They unbanned some stuff, but it fizzled really hard. They printed Nahiri, that was a phad for about 2 months, if even
I like that they tried giving Golgari Troll a chance. At the time, we all laughed and thought the unban was a joke, but 2 new cards broke the mechanic, so they banned it. They tried, and I definitely appreciate it.
The Eldrazi scandal happened, which had nothing to do with Twin, and then we did see a lot new decks rise, mainly a bunch of solitaire decks that pushed the envelope for turn 4 wins. I mean, do you realize Jund has been the closest thing to tier 1 interactive control deck in modern? That's really sad, Blue has like two good results with Nahiri and stayed relatively none-existent ever since. Jund is the closest thing you can get to an interactive control deck, with some grixis and really bad URx decks sprinkled here and there the past year. It's sad.
The argument of, "but what about Esper! It won't be played!"
Guess what, it's still not being played, and despite some hype for Esper right now, it's still performing poorly.
I understand why the banned Twin, blue players were forced to slip the package in. They should have banned the 1/4 body, that would have dropped some of the power level without killing the entire archetype.
If something like preordain isn't unbanned in WOTC in the upcoming announcement, my faith in modern will plummet.
Another topic, Nationals are back, and all are standard, and MWC is std too... is wizards trying to kill modern?
I came here to point this out. It's not that they are trying explcity to kill Modern. They are so desperate to sell boosters and promote Standard than taking Modern out of the spotlight is natural to them.
I wonder if they'll ever realise that Modern is more played than Standard for various reasons. Right now, they are breaking a promise made after the PT removal. They said they would compensate with more tournaments like GP's and Nats. This is exactly the opposite.
Another topic, Nationals are back, and all are standard, and MWC is std too... is wizards trying to kill modern?
No, they want to ignore it for reasons involving a lot of vectors. Modern is on life support for the time being.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Darsh, I didn't quite literally mean SFM being a blue and white card, I meant that it would be utilized by a lot of decks with those colors, like Death and Tax decks, Esper, Mardu, some kind of Wescoe deck, etc. I'm going to wait until the GP, but so far the side events and Regionals show Junk still doesn't matchup to Jund, which very much surprised me, it's not like Junk is some unstoppable tour de force right now. The modern nexus article on SFM didn't find many of the matchup win percentages to really change, outside of a few matchups.
If you unbanned SFM and then axed Batterkull, you may as well have not been tried, equipment is crap in MTG in general, barring those juicy cards like Jitte, Skullclamp, batterskull. The swords themselves are kinda underwhelming, even. It's not the same argument as POD that SFM would stifle equipment development, Maro already expressed that they avoid even trying to match the power level of swords.
I give WOTC some credit, they tried to give blue some tools. They unbanned some stuff, but it fizzled really hard. They printed Nahiri, that was a phad for about 2 months, if even
I like that they tried giving Golgari Troll a chance. At the time, we all laughed and thought the unban was a joke, but 2 new cards broke the mechanic, so they banned it. They tried, and I definitely appreciate it.
The Eldrazi scandal happened, which had nothing to do with Twin, and then we did see a lot new decks rise, mainly a bunch of solitaire decks that pushed the envelope for turn 4 wins. I mean, do you realize Jund has been the closest thing to tier 1 interactive control deck in modern? That's really sad, Blue has like two good results with Nahiri and stayed relatively none-existent ever since. Jund is the closest thing you can get to an interactive control deck, with some grixis and really bad URx decks sprinkled here and there the past year. It's sad.
The argument of, "but what about Esper! It won't be played!"
Guess what, it's still not being played, and despite some hype for Esper right now, it's still performing poorly.
I understand why the banned Twin, blue players were forced to slip the package in. They should have banned the 1/4 body, that would have dropped some of the power level without killing the entire archetype.
If something like preordain isn't unbanned in WOTC in the upcoming announcement, my faith in modern will plummet.
That's where I'm at. If they unban nothing this next announcement, I think theyll need new management and are incompetent.
Someone (ModernNexus?) posted that there are more GP's for Modern this year, than last, and that it has continued to increase. Everyone knows that they push Standard because it sells more packs. That is quite literally the biggest, easiest, most obvious reason to have it be the format for Nationals.
They are in this to promote Standard, full stop. Everything revolves around it. Modern will continue to be successful, continue to be played, and continue to be the format of choice for many despite Wizards focus, but it doesnt mean Wizards seeks to abandon Modern.
Who cares, it looks like WOTC in it's an early process to kill modern as whole
I get standard is their baby, and it's what makes them money, but they promised to have a lot of events for modern if they pulled the plug on the protour.
I understand why the banned Twin, blue players were forced to slip the package in. They should have banned the 1/4 body, that would have dropped some of the power level without killing the entire archetype. ...
I don't but, leaving that aside, a lot of people does seem to believe that wizards has some form of warm fuzzy feeling for blue based permission control. They really don't. Not as bad as dredge or land destruction, but cawblade removed any good will towards it.
Control in modern seems to be aimed at being done around BGx shells and creature based control. Let's face, you wouldn't remove every single decent cantrip and never, ever print a decent counter if you wanted permission control to be part of the mix.
I can imagine one of their worst nightmares (well, after another Eldrazi fiasco, Dredge returning and Storm becoming a deck) would be to release some form of miracles deck into modern.
Edit, as an aside, yeah, modern could do with a proper counter, but by far, IMO the big issue is the inability of a purely reactive deck to find the solution it needs NOW, rather than durdling with crappy cantrips praying to find what it needs. There are a crap load of answers, but no half-decent way to constantly and consistently find them.
Also, Sheridan, even though MTGO's shares say Junk is higher than Jund's, it's notably been shrinking and underperformed in the regionals, everyone was playing Jund and most people agree Jund is better, I'm not sure Abzan is being very pushed right now, I don't think SFM is an unreasonable ban. You said it yourself, white is absolute crap in modern, and blue's not far behind. SFM is literally the definition of blue and white packaged into one card.
Abzan sees more MTGO play for very specific reasons. Based on the current metagame and my own experience, MTGO has more Death's Shadow Midrange, Eldrazi Tron, and weird ramp stuff like Amulet Titan than paper. It's a 3%-5% or even higher difference for those decks. Against such strategies, Jund really isn't that great; Bolts suck and K-Command sucks. Path/Push is much better in those kinds of matchups. Paper also has more stuff like Abzan Company and Elves, where Jund is much better than Abzan. These metagame differences are, in my experience, the main difference we see Abzan in MTGO and Jund in paper, although there are definitely other factors at play.
Because of that, I don't really see SFM as a likely unban target. JTMS is much likelier. So is Preordain, although I think JTMS is the likelier option given how Wizards tests cards for unbanning and given how much they dislike blue-based combo decks. GP numbers are needed to confirm these suspicions though.
Did I just read Cabal Therapy should be printed into modern? Does this person want GBx decks to get banned?
The format is DEFINITELY slower with the ban of probe, I'm really shocked how effective the banning was. Infect looks really dead to me now though, I think for the first time in a long time it's going to drop into tier 3. It's nearly dead on mtgo, it's down in paper shares, and people who said they played it in regionals were out so quick it wasn't even funny.
The new death shadow aggro is powerful and fast without feelings oppressively so, it's fast and grindy. I don't own that deck, but for like 100 dollars I could buy the pieces I don't own. I think I'm only like 20ish away on mtgo.
Rallier is the real ******* deal in company decks, I think Rallier may actually be the allstar from the new set, not Fatal Push (oddly enough).
Blue still sucks. Wasn't there 1 Jeskai deck that hit like 2nd place in the regionals though?
I didn't mean to say ponder earlier yesterday, I meant preordain.
Also, Sheridan, even though MTGO's shares say Junk is higher than Jund's, it's notably been shrinking and underperformed in the regionals, everyone was playing Jund and most people agree Jund is better, I'm not sure Abzan is being very pushed right now, I don't think SFM is an unreasonable ban. You said it yourself, white is absolute crap in modern, and blue's not far behind. SFM is literally the definition of blue and white packaged into one card.
I no longer feel the talk of unbanning Splinger Twin is unreasonable anymore, and I can't defend that ban now, WOTC's goal of empowering blue has been an absolute failure
Either take the chance and unban a very huge blue card or just bring Twin again.
Now, if blue gains preordain, maybe Jace, doesn't it seem dangerous to unban Twin then? Just a question for the more seasoned blue players
I'm not sure I get the part about SFM being "blue and white rolled into one". There's nothing about SFM that makes it pair well with blue specifically. People play it with blue in Legacy because blue is just generally the best color. Not because there's synergy between SFM and Blue cards.
In Modern, I think SFM is much more likely to see play in Junk and in Wx Hatebears types of decks. Think about it, would you rather have SFM and Inquisition in your opener, or SFM and Mana Leak? SFM is not great in Modern's blue decks, which don't really want to tap out on turn 2.
Also, Sheridan, even though MTGO's shares say Junk is higher than Jund's, it's notably been shrinking and underperformed in the regionals, everyone was playing Jund and most people agree Jund is better, I'm not sure Abzan is being very pushed right now, I don't think SFM is an unreasonable ban. You said it yourself, white is absolute crap in modern, and blue's not far behind. SFM is literally the definition of blue and white packaged into one card.
Abzan sees more MTGO play for very specific reasons. Based on the current metagame and my own experience, MTGO has more Death's Shadow Midrange, Eldrazi Tron, and weird ramp stuff like Amulet Titan than paper. It's a 3%-5% or even higher difference for those decks. Against such strategies, Jund really isn't that great; Bolts suck and K-Command sucks. Path/Push is much better in those kinds of matchups. Paper also has more stuff like Abzan Company and Elves, where Jund is much better than Abzan. These metagame differences are, in my experience, the main difference we see Abzan in MTGO and Jund in paper, although there are definitely other factors at play.
Because of that, I don't really see SFM as a likely unban target. JTMS is much likelier. So is Preordain, although I think JTMS is the likelier option given how Wizards tests cards for unbanning and given how much they dislike blue-based combo decks. GP numbers are needed to confirm these suspicions though.
I don't think JTMS is a likely target. While JTMS wouldn't be overpowered in the sense that Jace decks will start dominating the meta, he's too good against fair decks and thus would have the effect of pushing the meta towards "play a Jace deck, or play a fast linear deck, or play Tron".
I know people will mention unbanning BBE to compensate, but even then you're only giving Jund specifically a chance to compete against the Jace decks.
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Current Legacy decks BUG Shardless BUG / UWR Predict Miracles / RUG Canadian Thresh / WRBG 4c Loam UB Reanimator
Modern does not need exactly the card Force of Will or Wasteland, but it does need cards that serve a similar role: cheap interaction.
The existence of these cards and others like them in legacy help to reduce the "dice-roll" nature some magic formats can devolve into.
One of the reasons why many do not like standard is often due to this very "dice-roll" nature of the format. The threats have just become much more efficient than the answers which results in it being so much beneficial to win the die roll.
At least legacy and to a lesser extent modern have a good number of cheap answers that prevent this from occurring all the time. Fatal Push was a great step in the right direction and I would like to see more cards of this nature to help balance threats vs answers
Why is BGx such a sacred cow that blue-based control being stronger than it is a problem? If we do away with this reverence for BGx, it becomes obvious that a tier 1 reactive blue deck being better than jund isn't exactly a negative unless it is oppressive more generally. Moreover, given the number of tools available to BGx in the banned list to deflate the potential "problem" of BGx not being the most played deck in the format, it seems silly to hold BGx's position as the salient consideration.
edit: and as ktkenshinx points out, this is even ignoring that jace might not even be enough to dethrone BGx, and the above is really just worst-case scenario from the BGx decks's perspective.
I don't think JTMS is a likely target. While JTMS wouldn't be overpowered in the sense that Jace decks will start dominating the meta, he's too good against fair decks and thus would have the effect of pushing the meta towards "play a Jace deck, or play a fast linear deck, or play Tron".
I just don't think Wizards does this kind of deep testing. They throw stuff together on MTGO, run a few lists, and make sure the decks receiving unbanned cards won't be busted. It's a lot of intuition and gut feel. The thing is, blue-based reactive decks are pretty horrendous right now on MTGO and still struggling in paper. so JTMS seems pretty solid in theory. If that metagame pattern persists through the GP, there will be a very strong argument to look to unbannings to fix blue's issues, and JTMS may jump out.
I also challenge this argument because people said the exact same thing about AV. A year later, AV has not panned out and BGx barely cared. Almost all the unban alarmism was unwarranted. Even GGT, which got rebanned, wasn't a problem until Wizards printed three major upgrades for Dredge in a row.
I also challenge this argument because people said the exact same thing about AV. A year later, AV has not panned out and BGx barely cared. Almost all the unban alarmism was unwarranted. Even GGT, which got rebanned, wasn't a problem until Wizards printed three major upgrades for Dredge in a row.
And that's really it. In context, GGT didn't even remotely break Dredge. Prized Amalgam and Cathartic Reunion did. They really need to be more liberal with their unbans.
And that's really it. In context, GGT didn't even remotely break Dredge. Prized Amalgam and Cathartic Reunion did. They really need to be more liberal with their unbans.
We don't often agree, but on this we can find common ground. This is especially true of some cards on the banlist that have never had a chance in the format and fit into control/midrange.
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People saying Jund would need BBE to beat Jace likely haven't actually played Jund vs Jace. In my experience/limited testing, lightning bolt and especially Raging Ravine are enough for Jund to deal with Jace quite handily.
Yep, I know I've got my SFM and Jace ready for an unban.
I'm sitting on a couple playsets of Preordain, a playset of Ponder, 1 Jace, 1 playset regular SFM, 1 playset GP SFM, a playset of foil Twin and 3 playsets of regular Twin. Most pieces are for Commander, but I have definitely picked up spare Twins "just in case" (they're $2-3 and great fodder to fill in TCG orders for $25 free shipping) and recently picked up the foil GP SFMs (too cheap not to buy, IMO). Heck, I think I even have a couple BBE's shoved somewhere in a trade box.
Well Wizards announcing once again they are removing higher competition level tournaments for Modern. If you didn't believe me before that Wizards is in financial straights, just read what Helene had to write today.
Well Wizards announcing once again they are removing higher competition level tournaments for Modern. If you didn't believe me before that Wizards is in financial straights, just read what Helene had to write today.
Hasbro literally just announced their quarterly (Q4 2016) results and reported that Magic had grown for the 8th straight year.
EDIT: If WotC is in financial trouble, it is only relative to its competition (Hearthstone); Magic is actually taking in a lot of revenue.
Playing millions of cards every turn... Slowly and systematically obliterating any chance my opponent has of winning... Clicking the multitude of locking mechanisms into place... Not even trying to win myself until turn 10+ once I have nigh absolute control... Watching my opponent desperately trying to navigate the labyrinthine prison that I've constructed... Seeing the light of hope fade and ultimately extinguished in an excruciatingly slow manner... THAT'S fun Magic.
We have 2-3 users that are dramatically making this thread incomprehensible and non-productive for anyone else to possibly join in the discussion. This needs to change.
Every time I see [ktkenshinx] post in here, I get the impression of a stern dad walking in on a bunch of kids trying to do something dumb and just shaking his head in disappointment.
Near Mint: The same as Slightly Played, but we threw some Altoids in the box we stored it in to cover up the scent of dead mice. Slightly Played: The base condition for all MTG cards. This card looks OK, but there’s one minor annoying ding in it that will always irritate and distract you whenever you draw it. Moderately Played: This card looks like it survived the Tet Offensive tucked inside the waistband of GI underwear. It may smell like it, too. Heavily Played: This card looks like the remains of Mohammed Atta’s passport after 9/11. It may be playable if you double-sleeve it to stop the chunks from falling out. The condition formerly known as "Washing Machine Grade" Damaged: This card is the unfortunate victim of a Mirrorweave/March of the Machines/Chaos Confetti/Mindslaver combo.
[M]aking counterfeit cards is the absolute height of dishonesty. Ask yourself this question: Since most people...are totally cool with the use of proxies...what purpose do [high] quality counterfeit cards serve?
Well Wizards announcing once again they are removing higher competition level tournaments for Modern. If you didn't believe me before that Wizards is in financial straights, just read what Helene had to write today.
Hasbro literally just announced their quarterly (Q4 2016) results and reported that Magic had grown for the 8th straight year.
EDIT: If WotC is in financial trouble, it is only relative to its competition (Hearthstone); Magic is actually taking in a lot of revenue.
Really? Could you send a link, I would love to see this!
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Where is Esper and Sultai now? Where has it been this past year? Why are the weaknesses of one deck the fault of another?
Removing a good option doesn't make the bad options better, it just makes the bad options the ONLY option.
For the Twin ban to be successful, several other blue tools needed to be either printed or unbanned to support these weak decks. AV and SotM have done either very little or literally nothing. Fatal Push is a step in the right direction, but not nearly enough.
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If you unbanned SFM and then axed Batterkull, you may as well have not been tried, equipment is crap in MTG in general, barring those juicy cards like Jitte, Skullclamp, batterskull. The swords themselves are kinda underwhelming, even. It's not the same argument as POD that SFM would stifle equipment development, Maro already expressed that they avoid even trying to match the power level of swords.
I give WOTC some credit, they tried to give blue some tools. They unbanned some stuff, but it fizzled really hard. They printed Nahiri, that was a phad for about 2 months, if even
I like that they tried giving Golgari Troll a chance. At the time, we all laughed and thought the unban was a joke, but 2 new cards broke the mechanic, so they banned it. They tried, and I definitely appreciate it.
The Eldrazi scandal happened, which had nothing to do with Twin, and then we did see a lot new decks rise, mainly a bunch of solitaire decks that pushed the envelope for turn 4 wins. I mean, do you realize Jund has been the closest thing to tier 1 interactive control deck in modern? That's really sad, Blue has like two good results with Nahiri and stayed relatively none-existent ever since. Jund is the closest thing you can get to an interactive control deck, with some grixis and really bad URx decks sprinkled here and there the past year. It's sad.
The argument of, "but what about Esper! It won't be played!"
Guess what, it's still not being played, and despite some hype for Esper right now, it's still performing poorly.
I understand why the banned Twin, blue players were forced to slip the package in. They should have banned the 1/4 body, that would have dropped some of the power level without killing the entire archetype.
If something like preordain isn't unbanned in WOTC in the upcoming announcement, my faith in modern will plummet.
I came here to point this out. It's not that they are trying explcity to kill Modern. They are so desperate to sell boosters and promote Standard than taking Modern out of the spotlight is natural to them.
I wonder if they'll ever realise that Modern is more played than Standard for various reasons. Right now, they are breaking a promise made after the PT removal. They said they would compensate with more tournaments like GP's and Nats. This is exactly the opposite.
No, they want to ignore it for reasons involving a lot of vectors. Modern is on life support for the time being.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I'm not. You read the post wrong. I'm loving on Tron because it's not clunky or slow.
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They are just trying their best to promote Standard. Because Standard now has some big troubles...
Anything, but nothing at the moment...
Modern:
WUBRGAmulet Titan, WUBRGHuman
WUBRAd Nauseam, WBRGDeath Shadow, UBRGScapeshift, UBRGDredge
WURJeskai Nahiri, WURCheeri0s, WBGCounter Company, WRGBurn, UBRMadcap Moon, BRGJund Midrange
UBTurn,BRGriselbrand Reanimator, WGKnight Company, RGRG Tron, RGRG Ponza, XAffinity, XEldrazi Tron
my bad!
play on, bro
That's where I'm at. If they unban nothing this next announcement, I think theyll need new management and are incompetent.
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They are in this to promote Standard, full stop. Everything revolves around it. Modern will continue to be successful, continue to be played, and continue to be the format of choice for many despite Wizards focus, but it doesnt mean Wizards seeks to abandon Modern.
Spirits
I get standard is their baby, and it's what makes them money, but they promised to have a lot of events for modern if they pulled the plug on the protour.
EDIT:
Yeah, here it is.
http://modernnexus.com/premier-modern-events/
Spirits
I don't but, leaving that aside, a lot of people does seem to believe that wizards has some form of warm fuzzy feeling for blue based permission control. They really don't. Not as bad as dredge or land destruction, but cawblade removed any good will towards it.
Control in modern seems to be aimed at being done around BGx shells and creature based control. Let's face, you wouldn't remove every single decent cantrip and never, ever print a decent counter if you wanted permission control to be part of the mix.
I can imagine one of their worst nightmares (well, after another Eldrazi fiasco, Dredge returning and Storm becoming a deck) would be to release some form of miracles deck into modern.
Edit, as an aside, yeah, modern could do with a proper counter, but by far, IMO the big issue is the inability of a purely reactive deck to find the solution it needs NOW, rather than durdling with crappy cantrips praying to find what it needs. There are a crap load of answers, but no half-decent way to constantly and consistently find them.
Abzan sees more MTGO play for very specific reasons. Based on the current metagame and my own experience, MTGO has more Death's Shadow Midrange, Eldrazi Tron, and weird ramp stuff like Amulet Titan than paper. It's a 3%-5% or even higher difference for those decks. Against such strategies, Jund really isn't that great; Bolts suck and K-Command sucks. Path/Push is much better in those kinds of matchups. Paper also has more stuff like Abzan Company and Elves, where Jund is much better than Abzan. These metagame differences are, in my experience, the main difference we see Abzan in MTGO and Jund in paper, although there are definitely other factors at play.
Because of that, I don't really see SFM as a likely unban target. JTMS is much likelier. So is Preordain, although I think JTMS is the likelier option given how Wizards tests cards for unbanning and given how much they dislike blue-based combo decks. GP numbers are needed to confirm these suspicions though.
I'm not sure I get the part about SFM being "blue and white rolled into one". There's nothing about SFM that makes it pair well with blue specifically. People play it with blue in Legacy because blue is just generally the best color. Not because there's synergy between SFM and Blue cards.
In Modern, I think SFM is much more likely to see play in Junk and in Wx Hatebears types of decks. Think about it, would you rather have SFM and Inquisition in your opener, or SFM and Mana Leak? SFM is not great in Modern's blue decks, which don't really want to tap out on turn 2.
I don't think JTMS is a likely target. While JTMS wouldn't be overpowered in the sense that Jace decks will start dominating the meta, he's too good against fair decks and thus would have the effect of pushing the meta towards "play a Jace deck, or play a fast linear deck, or play Tron".
I know people will mention unbanning BBE to compensate, but even then you're only giving Jund specifically a chance to compete against the Jace decks.
BGW Junk / URB Grixis Shadow / RGB Lantern Control / WUBCBant Eldrazi
Current Legacy decks
BUG Shardless BUG / UWR Predict Miracles / RUG Canadian Thresh / WRBG 4c Loam
UB Reanimator
The existence of these cards and others like them in legacy help to reduce the "dice-roll" nature some magic formats can devolve into.
One of the reasons why many do not like standard is often due to this very "dice-roll" nature of the format. The threats have just become much more efficient than the answers which results in it being so much beneficial to win the die roll.
At least legacy and to a lesser extent modern have a good number of cheap answers that prevent this from occurring all the time. Fatal Push was a great step in the right direction and I would like to see more cards of this nature to help balance threats vs answers
edit: and as ktkenshinx points out, this is even ignoring that jace might not even be enough to dethrone BGx, and the above is really just worst-case scenario from the BGx decks's perspective.
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I just don't think Wizards does this kind of deep testing. They throw stuff together on MTGO, run a few lists, and make sure the decks receiving unbanned cards won't be busted. It's a lot of intuition and gut feel. The thing is, blue-based reactive decks are pretty horrendous right now on MTGO and still struggling in paper. so JTMS seems pretty solid in theory. If that metagame pattern persists through the GP, there will be a very strong argument to look to unbannings to fix blue's issues, and JTMS may jump out.
I also challenge this argument because people said the exact same thing about AV. A year later, AV has not panned out and BGx barely cared. Almost all the unban alarmism was unwarranted. Even GGT, which got rebanned, wasn't a problem until Wizards printed three major upgrades for Dredge in a row.
And that's really it. In context, GGT didn't even remotely break Dredge. Prized Amalgam and Cathartic Reunion did. They really need to be more liberal with their unbans.
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Burn RBG
Spirits
I'm sitting on a couple playsets of Preordain, a playset of Ponder, 1 Jace, 1 playset regular SFM, 1 playset GP SFM, a playset of foil Twin and 3 playsets of regular Twin. Most pieces are for Commander, but I have definitely picked up spare Twins "just in case" (they're $2-3 and great fodder to fill in TCG orders for $25 free shipping) and recently picked up the foil GP SFMs (too cheap not to buy, IMO). Heck, I think I even have a couple BBE's shoved somewhere in a trade box.
UR ....... WUBR ........... WB ............. RGW ........ UBR ....... WUB .... BGU
Spells / Blink & Combo / Token Grind / Dino Tribal / Draw Cards / Zombies / Reanimate
EDIT: If WotC is in financial trouble, it is only relative to its competition (Hearthstone); Magic is actually taking in a lot of revenue.
WUDeath&TaxesWG
Legacy
UBRGDredgeUBRG
UHigh TideU
URGLandsURG
WR Card Choice List
WUR American D&T
WUB Esper D&T
The Reserved List
Heat Maps
Really? Could you send a link, I would love to see this!