With KCI no less. Haha that's a turn up for the books and a welcome fringe deck to get a decent result. Good for him! Shaheen Soorani put me on the deck a while back and I've loved the mix of grind-ability, maindeck interaction and decent combo that the deck utilises. It's a real old-school magic deck in the way it plays.
Amulet titan taking second in the finals? Be still my beating heart haha another fringe low tier deck doing well? This is an advert for the "play what you know" mantra of modern. Good stuff!
Elves!? Sure, just load this top 8 with fun fringe decks haha.
Bogles =S oof! Bogles is kinda weird and never breaks anything, but two of them in the top 8 indicates that 1) they got lucky with their matchups and 2) there must have been a lot of midrange and affinity at the tournament. OH WAIT THERE WAS
Burn? We're used to seeing burn
Overall these are some great results. We know from the stats that this GP was brimming with midrange decks, and that affinity has been on an 'upswing' like it does every couple of months. That's nothing new and actually in terms of meta, this is what everyone keeps saying they want. More interactive magic. And what happens when the majority of your field is packing fatal push and bolt as their removal? Two bogles decks take advantage of this and get through to the top 8 haha.
You get what you wish for.
Kci sharing the finals with amulet is just joyous though. What a day for fringe nonsense.
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affinity doing well is usually a red flag for me. it tends to do well when other busted stuff is going on meaning decks cant dedicate the appropriate hate. it shines brightest when people arent looking to interact to remind people that its one of the old guard that went toe to toe with the likes DRS jund, twin, TC delver, and pre-ban edrazi without ever eating a ban of its own.
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affinity doing well is usually a red flag for me. it tends to do well when other busted stuff is going on meaning decks cant dedicate the appropriate hate. it shines brightest when people arent looking to interact to remind people that its one of the old guard that went toe to toe with the likes DRS jund, twin, TC delver, and pre-ban edrazi without ever eating a ban of its own.
affinity has been a reliable metagame pendulum since modern began. it swings in and out of popularity because people swing in and out of bringing the right kinds of hate.
this weekend was mainly midrange. on the face of it, that should be a hostile environment for affinity. turns out people weren't packing their hate.
it shouldn't be a red flag. if it is, you're thinking too hard
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it shouldn't be a red flag. if it is, you're thinking too hard
While I agree with you here, I think he's referring to Bolt/Snap/Bolt being extremely good against Affinity, so that is probably lacking from the meta. I personally don't think that Bolt/Snap/Bolt should always be an integral part of the meta. Sometimes it's good, but it's nice to let the pendulum swing to times when it's not.
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yeah i get the hate part. the red flag comment is because if the format is about decks trying to race eachother affinity wins that competition more often than not. so it could be that people forgot to sleeve up their ancient grudges or that less people are trying to interact in general. without day 1 stats its hard to know for sure.
not damning evidence, but something that makes me take notice.
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Going by the numbers presented so far, GDS was in high numbers but didn't put up results.
GDS was one of the bottom decks in terms of number played on day 2 not lumped into the "other" category and we don't have conversion rates to know if it was more popular day 1.
That still places it at 2.5% of the metagame.
Dylan Donegan played GDS to 12-3 and 33rd place, so that's something.
With KCI no less. Haha that's a turn up for the books and a welcome fringe deck to get a decent result. Good for him! Shaheen Soorani put me on the deck a while back and I've loved the mix of grind-ability, maindeck interaction and decent combo that the deck utilises. It's a real old-school magic deck in the way it plays.
Amulet titan taking second in the finals? Be still my beating heart haha another fringe low tier deck doing well? This is an advert for the "play what you know" mantra of modern. Good stuff!
Elves!? Sure, just load this top 8 with fun fringe decks haha.
Bogles =S oof! Bogles is kinda weird and never breaks anything, but two of them in the top 8 indicates that 1) they got lucky with their matchups and 2) there must have been a lot of midrange and affinity at the tournament. OH WAIT THERE WAS
Burn? We're used to seeing burn
Overall these are some great results. We know from the stats that this GP was brimming with midrange decks, and that affinity has been on an 'upswing' like it does every couple of months. That's nothing new and actually in terms of meta, this is what everyone keeps saying they want. More interactive magic. And what happens when the majority of your field is packing fatal push and bolt as their removal? Two bogles decks take advantage of this and get through to the top 8 haha.
You get what you wish for.
Kci sharing the finals with amulet is just joyous though. What a day for fringe nonsense.
These aren't good results, in a garbage top 8 of uninteractive trash.
The GP top 8s have honestly been a mess; while SCG has some some nice looking top 32s and top 8s, the pro's and heavy grinders at the GP's elect to show up with decks that don't interact.
The Protour had good results, but the GP top 8s this year have been gross. Let's not forget we had several GP top 8s where multiple Tron decks populated the top 8.
Hey if you prefer junding, fine, but those guys went through a full weekend of high level play. To call their decks trash is entirely unacceptable. There's no rule against linear play, and learning to play linear decks at a high level is just as difficult as learning interactive decks at a high level.
Yeah, Bogles does really need a skillful pilot to be successful.
Nuance is key here.
Linear decks are a puzzle. You are trying to perfect a situation that has a random element whose existence directly conflicts with your goal. Just because the plan appears to be simple does not mean it lacks for skill, experience or knowledge. With very little in the way of card draw, tempo or disruption, linear decks test your deckbuilding and mulligan abilities. Spell sequencing matters, as does knowing your opponents deck to see what possible outs they may have. At its worst, a linear deck fizzles because its sole purpose is to do one thing very well, and when that one thing can't work everything falls apart. At its best, though, a match with a linear deck reminds me of a time bomb in a movie - there's a tension and dread knowing that in X minutes the protagonist and many others will be annihilated.
The gap between someone who can play bogles, storm, etc and someone who can win large tournaments is substantial. Don't hate, bro.
These aren't good results, in a garbage top 8 of uninteractive trash.
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Did you watch the games? The final games of KCI vs Amulet was pure interactions and skill. The very first match I watch of the GP, Storm vs Jund (Reid Duke) was also very interesting from the storm player side, who showed how it's done. I liked watching them. Yes "liked" not "what a modern match should be". Opinions are just that.
With KCI no less. Haha that's a turn up for the books and a welcome fringe deck to get a decent result. Good for him! Shaheen Soorani put me on the deck a while back and I've loved the mix of grind-ability, maindeck interaction and decent combo that the deck utilises. It's a real old-school magic deck in the way it plays.
Amulet titan taking second in the finals? Be still my beating heart haha another fringe low tier deck doing well? This is an advert for the "play what you know" mantra of modern. Good stuff!
Elves!? Sure, just load this top 8 with fun fringe decks haha.
Bogles =S oof! Bogles is kinda weird and never breaks anything, but two of them in the top 8 indicates that 1) they got lucky with their matchups and 2) there must have been a lot of midrange and affinity at the tournament. OH WAIT THERE WAS
Burn? We're used to seeing burn
Overall these are some great results. We know from the stats that this GP was brimming with midrange decks, and that affinity has been on an 'upswing' like it does every couple of months. That's nothing new and actually in terms of meta, this is what everyone keeps saying they want. More interactive magic. And what happens when the majority of your field is packing fatal push and bolt as their removal? Two bogles decks take advantage of this and get through to the top 8 haha.
You get what you wish for.
Kci sharing the finals with amulet is just joyous though. What a day for fringe nonsense.
These aren't good results, in a garbage top 8 of uninteractive trash.
The GP top 8s have honestly been a mess; while SCG has some some nice looking top 32s and top 8s, the pro's and heavy grinders at the GP's elect to show up with decks that don't interact.
The Protour had good results, but the GP top 8s this year have been gross. Let's not forget we had several GP top 8s where multiple Tron decks populated the top 8.
you need to check your biases dude. I'm not going to go deep into this, but you've crossed the line where your comments have become comical hyperbole and it doesn't work anymore.
affinity doing well is usually a red flag for me. it tends to do well when other busted stuff is going on meaning decks cant dedicate the appropriate hate. it shines brightest when people arent looking to interact to remind people that its one of the old guard that went toe to toe with the likes DRS jund, twin, TC delver, and pre-ban edrazi without ever eating a ban of its own.
affinity has been a reliable metagame pendulum since modern began. it swings in and out of popularity because people swing in and out of bringing the right kinds of hate.
this weekend was mainly midrange. on the face of it, that should be a hostile environment for affinity. turns out people weren't packing their hate.
it shouldn't be a red flag. if it is, you're thinking too hard
The weekend was not mainly midrange though? The Day 2 paints a picture of over 30% aggro. Unless your definition of Midrange is different from mine. I think Midrange (Jund, Mardu, GDS) came to 10%? I'd have to go find my other post.
With KCI no less. Haha that's a turn up for the books and a welcome fringe deck to get a decent result. Good for him! Shaheen Soorani put me on the deck a while back and I've loved the mix of grind-ability, maindeck interaction and decent combo that the deck utilises. It's a real old-school magic deck in the way it plays.
Amulet titan taking second in the finals? Be still my beating heart haha another fringe low tier deck doing well? This is an advert for the "play what you know" mantra of modern. Good stuff!
Elves!? Sure, just load this top 8 with fun fringe decks haha.
Bogles =S oof! Bogles is kinda weird and never breaks anything, but two of them in the top 8 indicates that 1) they got lucky with their matchups and 2) there must have been a lot of midrange and affinity at the tournament. OH WAIT THERE WAS
Burn? We're used to seeing burn
Overall these are some great results. We know from the stats that this GP was brimming with midrange decks, and that affinity has been on an 'upswing' like it does every couple of months. That's nothing new and actually in terms of meta, this is what everyone keeps saying they want. More interactive magic. And what happens when the majority of your field is packing fatal push and bolt as their removal? Two bogles decks take advantage of this and get through to the top 8 haha.
You get what you wish for.
Kci sharing the finals with amulet is just joyous though. What a day for fringe nonsense.
These aren't good results, in a garbage top 8 of uninteractive trash.
The GP top 8s have honestly been a mess; while SCG has some some nice looking top 32s and top 8s, the pro's and heavy grinders at the GP's elect to show up with decks that don't interact.
The Protour had good results, but the GP top 8s this year have been gross. Let's not forget we had several GP top 8s where multiple Tron decks populated the top 8.
you need to check your biases dude. I'm not going to go deep into this, but you've crossed the line where your comments have become comical hyperbole and it doesn't work anymore.
No need to attack me personally.
Let's take a look at some of the more recent events of the modern GPs. I'm excluding the team trios, because those are a little more dicey to examine.
GP Hartford top 8
Ironworks
Amulet Titan
Burn
Elves
Bogles
Affinity
Bogles
Hollow One
GP Lyon
RG Eldrazi
Abzan midrange
Mono G Tron
Mono G Tron
Mono G Tron
Jeskai Control
Abzan midrange
Mono G Tron
GP Toronto
Bogles
Burn
Jeskai Control
Griselbrand
Elves
Traverse Shadow
Affinity
Burn
(This GP I can take or leave, it's the least disastrous of the most recent events)
And---While I did say 2018, I did want to mention this little nugget that happened just before the ProTour
GP Oklohoma
Scapeshift
Scapeshift
Dredge
BG Tron
Jeskai Breach
Mono G Tron
Living End
Mono G Tron
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So, I'm being comically hyperbolic, eh? I didn't claim that modern was doom and gloom, or unplayable, or anything like that. I even praised the results of SCG's results, and made no attacks towards people's experiences at their FNMS or MTGO. All I said was that the modern GP results have been ugly. And they have been. They've been dominated by ugly, linear decks, which the pros elect to play
So you can attack me, and call me hyberbolic, but I don't think those four recentish GP top 8s call me crazy or bias. In no way do I see Tron decks dominating two of those four GPs as crazy on my part. The GP Toronto, while not awful, isn't great either. This result list I'm at list willing to admit maybe I'm being a little biased
This recent top 8 is ugly as hell, and paints a picture of not wanting to interact with your opponent. I'm glad you think Ironworks is neat, and have a love for Amulet Titan decks, but it was a bad GP
On an individual level, there's nothing wrong with Ironworks or Amulet Titan, it's the broad scope of the picture that is an issue, not the decks (Although I'm not crazy about Hollow One being healthy for the format)
I feel like the issue is that there really aren't many tools that you can use in a midrange deck that don't either A) have no impact, B) force combo in general out of the meta, or C) give combo a way to run the same failsafes.
I see arguments against linear decks and often the suggestion is force of will as a failsafe because it works in legacy. Well you give blue based combo (like storm) quite the shot in the arm while leaving the rest stranded. For creature based combo you set an overreliance on cavern of souls because you have to play through counters AND removal on your most pivotal pieces.
While the addition of damping sphere may help, I fear sideboards may become kind of similar if the answers are all colorless. This is exactly what fits into the midrange gameplan and doesn't help those other decks as much. Can elves run this? Absolutely, just end the turn with it and replace leads with 1 of tutors. Can eldrazi tron run it to shore up its storm match up? Absolutely because hosing your game while I develop for two more turns is a small price to pay. Eldrazi variants can even dig for it with stirrings. But th we decks want it for extremely narrow situations that probably don't even demand a sideboard slot in reality.
For what it's worth, that elves deck is very linear game 1 but the sideboard has decay, pulse, 2 thoughtsieze, a duress and more. It becomes quite interactive post sideboard imho if it needs to. It's aggro/combo in how it plays, but I think it just capitalized on a low amount of sweepers in the meta at the event. It looks like a good meta call instead of this uninteractive juggernaught of a deck that just steamrolled its way up to top 8.
Reading through the tweets and looking at 9-16 deck lists also expanded the list a bit. There was a decently interactive UB turns list (interactive for turns anyway lol). As mentioned before, Jadine Komplarens (sp?) did well with jund (and had several articles on SCG about the deck).
Elfy related post because that's the deck I'm most familiar with. Format doesn't seem to spook me as much as y'all. Eldrazi winter and pre-ban summer bloom make this meta seem quite silly imho.
You dont need force of will. You simply need decks which say 'if you dont interact, you will not win'.
Ya, I think Force of Will would be a mistake for Modern. I do however think we need some much more interactive cards that can be mainboarded. Designs like Abrade are a good example of this, though that's not really pushed enough for the format.
You dont need force of will. You simply need decks which say 'if you dont interact, you will not win'.
Ya, I think Force of Will would be a mistake for Modern. I do however think we need some much more interactive cards that can be mainboarded. Designs like Abrade are a good example of this, though that's not really pushed enough for the format.
This isnt even enough. Answers are not the issue, answers on time, and a way to close out the game, on time, have and will always be, the issues with 'control' in Modern.
This isnt even enough. Answers are not the issue, answers on time, and a way to close out the game, on time, have and will always be, the issues with 'control' in Modern.
We've gotten some of that, just not enough. Spell Queller and Nimble Obstructionist are examples of cards that have been disruption+clock which is what you're really looking for in the format.
This isnt even enough. Answers are not the issue, answers on time, and a way to close out the game, on time, have and will always be, the issues with 'control' in Modern.
We've gotten some of that, just not enough. Spell Queller and Nimble Obstructionist are examples of cards that have been disruption+clock which is what you're really looking for in the format.
Nah, I'm not looking for creatures, at all.
I already know what I want, and its something a lot of players are trying to force into various Blue Moon shells. Counters, with an 'i win now' button.
Counters aren't going to work in Modern, they don't even work in Legacy anymore really. There's too many low cost threats that turn the counterspell plan into a huge liability and tempo loss.
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Nass ran hot and a lot of people didn't know what he was doing
With KCI no less. Haha that's a turn up for the books and a welcome fringe deck to get a decent result. Good for him! Shaheen Soorani put me on the deck a while back and I've loved the mix of grind-ability, maindeck interaction and decent combo that the deck utilises. It's a real old-school magic deck in the way it plays.
Amulet titan taking second in the finals? Be still my beating heart haha another fringe low tier deck doing well? This is an advert for the "play what you know" mantra of modern. Good stuff!
Elves!? Sure, just load this top 8 with fun fringe decks haha.
Bogles =S oof! Bogles is kinda weird and never breaks anything, but two of them in the top 8 indicates that 1) they got lucky with their matchups and 2) there must have been a lot of midrange and affinity at the tournament. OH WAIT THERE WAS
Burn? We're used to seeing burn
Overall these are some great results. We know from the stats that this GP was brimming with midrange decks, and that affinity has been on an 'upswing' like it does every couple of months. That's nothing new and actually in terms of meta, this is what everyone keeps saying they want. More interactive magic. And what happens when the majority of your field is packing fatal push and bolt as their removal? Two bogles decks take advantage of this and get through to the top 8 haha.
You get what you wish for.
Kci sharing the finals with amulet is just joyous though. What a day for fringe nonsense.
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WCDeath and Taxes(sold)affinity has been a reliable metagame pendulum since modern began. it swings in and out of popularity because people swing in and out of bringing the right kinds of hate.
this weekend was mainly midrange. on the face of it, that should be a hostile environment for affinity. turns out people weren't packing their hate.
it shouldn't be a red flag. if it is, you're thinking too hard
While I agree with you here, I think he's referring to Bolt/Snap/Bolt being extremely good against Affinity, so that is probably lacking from the meta. I personally don't think that Bolt/Snap/Bolt should always be an integral part of the meta. Sometimes it's good, but it's nice to let the pendulum swing to times when it's not.
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WCDeath and Taxes(sold)Dylan Donegan played GDS to 12-3 and 33rd place, so that's something.
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These aren't good results, in a garbage top 8 of uninteractive trash.
The GP top 8s have honestly been a mess; while SCG has some some nice looking top 32s and top 8s, the pro's and heavy grinders at the GP's elect to show up with decks that don't interact.
The Protour had good results, but the GP top 8s this year have been gross. Let's not forget we had several GP top 8s where multiple Tron decks populated the top 8.
And really unexpected win by KCI. Congrats.
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Nuance is key here.
Linear decks are a puzzle. You are trying to perfect a situation that has a random element whose existence directly conflicts with your goal. Just because the plan appears to be simple does not mean it lacks for skill, experience or knowledge. With very little in the way of card draw, tempo or disruption, linear decks test your deckbuilding and mulligan abilities. Spell sequencing matters, as does knowing your opponents deck to see what possible outs they may have. At its worst, a linear deck fizzles because its sole purpose is to do one thing very well, and when that one thing can't work everything falls apart. At its best, though, a match with a linear deck reminds me of a time bomb in a movie - there's a tension and dread knowing that in X minutes the protagonist and many others will be annihilated.
The gap between someone who can play bogles, storm, etc and someone who can win large tournaments is substantial. Don't hate, bro.
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Did you watch the games? The final games of KCI vs Amulet was pure interactions and skill. The very first match I watch of the GP, Storm vs Jund (Reid Duke) was also very interesting from the storm player side, who showed how it's done. I liked watching them. Yes "liked" not "what a modern match should be". Opinions are just that.
you need to check your biases dude. I'm not going to go deep into this, but you've crossed the line where your comments have become comical hyperbole and it doesn't work anymore.
The weekend was not mainly midrange though? The Day 2 paints a picture of over 30% aggro. Unless your definition of Midrange is different from mine. I think Midrange (Jund, Mardu, GDS) came to 10%? I'd have to go find my other post.
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No need to attack me personally.
Let's take a look at some of the more recent events of the modern GPs. I'm excluding the team trios, because those are a little more dicey to examine.
GP Hartford top 8
Ironworks
Amulet Titan
Burn
Elves
Bogles
Affinity
Bogles
Hollow One
GP Lyon
RG Eldrazi
Abzan midrange
Mono G Tron
Mono G Tron
Mono G Tron
Jeskai Control
Abzan midrange
Mono G Tron
GP Toronto
Bogles
Burn
Jeskai Control
Griselbrand
Elves
Traverse Shadow
Affinity
Burn
(This GP I can take or leave, it's the least disastrous of the most recent events)
And---While I did say 2018, I did want to mention this little nugget that happened just before the ProTour
GP Oklohoma
Scapeshift
Scapeshift
Dredge
BG Tron
Jeskai Breach
Mono G Tron
Living End
Mono G Tron
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So, I'm being comically hyperbolic, eh? I didn't claim that modern was doom and gloom, or unplayable, or anything like that. I even praised the results of SCG's results, and made no attacks towards people's experiences at their FNMS or MTGO. All I said was that the modern GP results have been ugly. And they have been. They've been dominated by ugly, linear decks, which the pros elect to play
So you can attack me, and call me hyberbolic, but I don't think those four recentish GP top 8s call me crazy or bias. In no way do I see Tron decks dominating two of those four GPs as crazy on my part. The GP Toronto, while not awful, isn't great either. This result list I'm at list willing to admit maybe I'm being a little biased
This recent top 8 is ugly as hell, and paints a picture of not wanting to interact with your opponent. I'm glad you think Ironworks is neat, and have a love for Amulet Titan decks, but it was a bad GP
On an individual level, there's nothing wrong with Ironworks or Amulet Titan, it's the broad scope of the picture that is an issue, not the decks (Although I'm not crazy about Hollow One being healthy for the format)
I see arguments against linear decks and often the suggestion is force of will as a failsafe because it works in legacy. Well you give blue based combo (like storm) quite the shot in the arm while leaving the rest stranded. For creature based combo you set an overreliance on cavern of souls because you have to play through counters AND removal on your most pivotal pieces.
While the addition of damping sphere may help, I fear sideboards may become kind of similar if the answers are all colorless. This is exactly what fits into the midrange gameplan and doesn't help those other decks as much. Can elves run this? Absolutely, just end the turn with it and replace leads with 1 of tutors. Can eldrazi tron run it to shore up its storm match up? Absolutely because hosing your game while I develop for two more turns is a small price to pay. Eldrazi variants can even dig for it with stirrings. But th we decks want it for extremely narrow situations that probably don't even demand a sideboard slot in reality.
For what it's worth, that elves deck is very linear game 1 but the sideboard has decay, pulse, 2 thoughtsieze, a duress and more. It becomes quite interactive post sideboard imho if it needs to. It's aggro/combo in how it plays, but I think it just capitalized on a low amount of sweepers in the meta at the event. It looks like a good meta call instead of this uninteractive juggernaught of a deck that just steamrolled its way up to top 8.
Reading through the tweets and looking at 9-16 deck lists also expanded the list a bit. There was a decently interactive UB turns list (interactive for turns anyway lol). As mentioned before, Jadine Komplarens (sp?) did well with jund (and had several articles on SCG about the deck).
Elfy related post because that's the deck I'm most familiar with. Format doesn't seem to spook me as much as y'all. Eldrazi winter and pre-ban summer bloom make this meta seem quite silly imho.
Spirits
Ya, I think Force of Will would be a mistake for Modern. I do however think we need some much more interactive cards that can be mainboarded. Designs like Abrade are a good example of this, though that's not really pushed enough for the format.
This isnt even enough. Answers are not the issue, answers on time, and a way to close out the game, on time, have and will always be, the issues with 'control' in Modern.
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We've gotten some of that, just not enough. Spell Queller and Nimble Obstructionist are examples of cards that have been disruption+clock which is what you're really looking for in the format.
Nah, I'm not looking for creatures, at all.
I already know what I want, and its something a lot of players are trying to force into various Blue Moon shells. Counters, with an 'i win now' button.
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