I do sometimes.
Rarely, as the deck is sort of built around it, but sometimes you either side it out and bring in alternate wincons (geist, clique, elspeth, etc) with the game plan of being unpredictable. Usually once in three games. I usually only do this against counterspell heavy decks, or against decks I simply can not afford to tap out against at any point (ad nauseum for example), and even then, not consistently.
I've also been experimenting with it against blue based tron.
Without a decent amount of dedicated hate, that matchup is so incredibly miserable for our normal gameplan that lightning bolt + manaleak.dec can often feel like a better plan.
That being said, for the cryptic command versions of the deck, siding out nahiri usually doesn't feel as bad, but nahiri is in the deck for a reason, and kind of revitalized the deck because of how powerful and versatile it is.
If I'm up a game or need to do something drastic then I'm more willing to side out the package to be unpredictable. Cryptic feels quite good most of the time.
Electrolyze comes out against decks where it is too slow; burn is a good example. where spending 3 mana to kill a creature is just very poor. It's generally fine in a lot of matchups however, as you can always cycle it; you could take it out versus Jund, but it can help killing a LotV without 2 for 1-ing yourself, or to kill a Dark Confidant.
As for the Nahiri combo, I seldom take it out. The only MU where I do atm is Infect, where resolving a 4 mana sorcery speed spell is very difficult. I bring in Geist and Vendilion Clique here as my wincons
I'm an aspiring modern player and have been accumulating cards for UWR control for a while. I've got about half of the deck right now, especially the cheaper spells like Serum Visions, Lightning helix, Mana Leak, Remand, Timely Reinforcements, Electrolyze, Lightning Bolt, Anger of the Gods, etc. I also have a scalding tarn, a playset of flooded strand (though one of them is damaged to the point that it may not be tournament legal), 5 shocks and one of each of the on-color check lands.
Few questions:
Which is more important: Nahiri or Colonnade? I'm missing both the Nahiri package and the Celestial Colonnades and I'm wondering which to get first if I see trade opportunity/get funds. I do have one copy of Nahiri already.
For budget concerns, I'm planning to forego the Ancestral Visions entirely. I do have Snapcaster Mages and a Cryptic, though. Is it unreasonable to run Think Twice? They're cheap and I already own two, but I don't know whether I need the extra card draw. I'm also looking at running Goblin Darkdwellers as a finisher/card advantage generator in my first budget-ish draft if my LGS has a modern event.
Hi JohnSwift!
Welcome to Jeskai
IMO Colonnade is more important, wait to modern master, and if WOC dont reprint him, buy it.
This deck is a more draw and go version, but is great. Dont run Ancestral or nahiri, you can complete the deckilst faster, and then wait for nahiri and ancestral.
I'm also just starting in Modern and looking for a decklist without the Nihiri package and I like this list.
One question though; is it really worth running 3 colours just for a couple of Lightning Bolt and Electrolyze?
A bit of history for that list, its wafo tapa. https://www.mtggoldfish.com/player/MrCafouillette
If you look at his decks, he started out in esper, playing a pretty heavy draw-go deck.
He started with condemns to suppliment his path to exiles.
He took a similar list to gp lille, but ended up going 9-6 (with 3 byes), which is certainly a lot worse than someone like wafo tapa would hope for.
His jeskai lists started after the gp, where he evidently decided the removal red offered was worth more than esper charm and the sideboard options black gives.
He still wants to play hard draw-go, so hes not playing 4 bolts/4 helix, or anything.
Evidently, wafo decided that the little bit of removal was worth playing red over black or staying u/w, but with fatal push, and the bannings on infect and dredge, this may no longer be the case.
I'm an aspiring modern player and have been accumulating cards for UWR control for a while. I've got about half of the deck right now, especially the cheaper spells like Serum Visions, Lightning helix, Mana Leak, Remand, Timely Reinforcements, Electrolyze, Lightning Bolt, Anger of the Gods, etc. I also have a scalding tarn, a playset of flooded strand (though one of them is damaged to the point that it may not be tournament legal), 5 shocks and one of each of the on-color check lands.
Few questions:
Which is more important: Nahiri or Colonnade? I'm missing both the Nahiri package and the Celestial Colonnades and I'm wondering which to get first if I see trade opportunity/get funds. I do have one copy of Nahiri already.
For budget concerns, I'm planning to forego the Ancestral Visions entirely. I do have Snapcaster Mages and a Cryptic, though. Is it unreasonable to run Think Twice? They're cheap and I already own two, but I don't know whether I need the extra card draw. I'm also looking at running Goblin Darkdwellers as a finisher/card advantage generator in my first budget-ish draft if my LGS has a modern event.
Hi JohnSwift!
Welcome to Jeskai
IMO Colonnade is more important, wait to modern master, and if WOC dont reprint him, buy it.
This deck is a more draw and go version, but is great. Dont run Ancestral or nahiri, you can complete the deckilst faster, and then wait for nahiri and ancestral.
I'm also just starting in Modern and looking for a decklist without the Nihiri package and I like this list.
One question though; is it really worth running 3 colours just for a couple of Lightning Bolt and Electrolyze?
If you want play draw and go you can take black for esper charm and fatal push or red for bolt, electrolyze, helix and crumble.
UW without this colors is a nice deck, but another style of control (finks, wall of omens, resto, etc. You cant play draw and go without the third color, electrolyze/bolt and esper charm are really important IMO.
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You very much can play draw-go without a third color, (uw or ub are both fairly reasonable to play) its simply that by adding a third color you aren't really giving up much for what that third color offers you.
So, is this a place to discuss Nahiri-less Jeskai too, or only limited to Nahiri Jeskai? I have moved away from Nahiri due to poor results for me. I am playing a straight Jeskai Control (my favorite combination ever!), so I was wondering about where to go to talk to experts.
Yes, figured. No problem! I found Nahiri Jeskai wasn't the Control Deck suited to me, and ever since going straight Control without her I got better results for myself. Keep the fight on.
Yes, figured. No problem! I found Nahiri Jeskai wasn't the Control Deck suited to me, and ever since going straight Control without her I got better results for myself. Keep the fight on.
Best of luck Jeskai brothers!
I was wondering the same thing. I haven't seen Jeskai Nahiri put up results in a while, but Jeskai Top 4'd a GP and shows up occasionally in dailies.
Hello Jeskai Nahiri friends. Been a while since I've checked the pages here. Anything new as far as placements and tech innovation?
I think I saw a Nahiri list in Tokyo do well for their Worlds Qualifier or something (Top8) about a month or two back. I don't think much was new as far as that list goes. Just a couple sideboard choices different and maybe a "flex" spot change here or there. Flex spot being usually a singleton Anger of the Gods. The land base didn't seem to incorporate Spirebluff Canals, if I remember correctly.
Been jamming my list here and there. I'm still pretty satisfied with it, but I haven't been able to compete in any large events. No new data from my end anyway. So yeah, what's new guys?
Reprints the one card that people point to when saying that art objectifies women.
Well done Wizards.
Liliana does not objectify women in any way at all. We have gotten to a point in our society that every single picture of a women must be objectifying a women in some negative way......blah blah blah.. That is not the case. (((Sarcasm)))Picture of a girl drinking a milk shake, must be sex related and putting women down, picture of girl sitting on a beach, picture of a girl driving a car, picture of a girl on the moon at a new space station.)))
You have a picture of an attractive strong power women who girls dress up as for anime conventions. What more do you want? The picture is fine, happy to see a reprint. Sick of of seeing people claim that everything in existence must be putting women down. Then all I have to do is replace the word "women" with anything else to get the same mentality; fish, cats, arabs, blacks, jews, men, environment, whites, chinese, old people, etc. It doesn't matter what word I put in. Stop sucking life out of everything man. That artwork of her is awesome. Stop putting stuff down man. Just stop. If the picture was really as negative as you claim she would totally nude, in a kitchen, making sandwiches and giving blow jobs. Her abilities would be horrible as well. +1 do nothing -2 do nothing -6 do nothing. Instead liliana of the veil is an amazing planeswalker comparable to jace, the mind sculpter with great art to appreciate.
My suggestion listen to some comedy radio for a while, pandora is free, youtube is free there is something out there for you. ***** go make fun of somebody. The whole world is so serious and campaigning for some cause, or someones rights, everything is a hate crime, racist, sexist. blah blah blah.
"O no mcdonalds must be slandering a hate crime against skinny people every time they make a big mac." hahaha jeeze You're just someone perpetuating another groups negative perspective that they've made you believe is correct. Look at the picture for a hour and tell me what's wrong with it? I don't see anything.
I have heard vague rumors of a moustache-dispensing vending machine in a distant laundromat, across the street from a tattoo parlor. However, this information is shaky, and time is of the essence.
Basically nothing.
The thread doesn't really move all that fast for that reason.
Most, but not all, people run spirebluff canals. Its fine.
Otherwise, there haven't been too many notable placings, and theres been nothing particularly innovative in terms of deck construction recently.
Hopefully that will change soon, but who's to say.
Jeskai Nahiri has shaped into a relatively solid form, for better and for worse. Not much has changed since the ban for us and no new cards have come out as our card quality already is very high; the big change for Jeskai would be either a. a counterspell better than mana leak or b. a new deck that puts the meta upside down. The ban updates were a double edged sword for us; dredge is significantly slower and less prevalent now which is great, but the meta is now very well positioned for tron. Our mainboard did not really change at all, but we can remove one piece of gravehate and it is a good idea to run two crumble to dust again
Sleeved up Jeskai Harbinger for my next FNMs. List is very similar to Jim Davis. I could use some help with further tuning the deck. My meta has Tron, Dredge, Infect, Bant Eldrazi, BW Tokens, Esper Thopter, Affinity, Ad Naus, and Jund/Junk. I'm thinking of adding some St Trafts in the sideboard for a faster clock against ramp and combo decks. Also, how about some Runed Halos for Valakuts and Ad Nauseum?
Honestly, if I were you, I'd sleeve up a different deck depending on the numbers of which decks are present. A lot of those matches are worse than 45/55. The only decent-to-good match up you have are GB/x and Affinity. The rest are likely to thrash you. So here's hoping 80% of your metagame isnAffinity and GB/x.
Jeskai Nahiri has shaped into a relatively solid form, for better and for worse. Not much has changed since the ban for us and no new cards have come out as our card quality already is very high; the big change for Jeskai would be either a. a counterspell better than mana leak or b. a new deck that puts the meta upside down. The ban updates were a double edged sword for us; dredge is significantly slower and less prevalent now which is great, but the meta is now very well positioned for tron. Our mainboard did not really change at all, but we can remove one piece of gravehate and it is a good idea to run two crumble to dust again
I do still question why more people aren't playing the deck. Path to Exile and Rest in Peace seem strongly positioned as Grixis and Kolaghan's Command recursion continue to increase in popularity (as far as URX decks are concerned), the deck dodges Fatal Push quite well, and Lightning Helix always seems very strong for control decks in Modern. Going back to a previous post, I wonder if it's simply a matter of being too predictable -- i.e. too easy to play around or hate out (relying so much on the Nahiri + Emrakul package to win the games does open us up to being pretty easily targeted by hate cards, unlike control decks that win via creature beatdowns).
I've looked at a lot of other Jeskai lists to see if something else appeals, from 'pure control' with Snapcaster + Ajani, to tempo/flash with Restoration Angel and Spell Queller, to Pestermite + Angel + Kiki-Jiki versions, and this build certainly seems the strongest, but not the most subtle. So I wonder if that's part of it, or if it's really just URX players migrating to Grixis as the 'flavor of the month', or what...
Jeskai Nahiri has shaped into a relatively solid form, for better and for worse. Not much has changed since the ban for us and no new cards have come out as our card quality already is very high; the big change for Jeskai would be either a. a counterspell better than mana leak or b. a new deck that puts the meta upside down. The ban updates were a double edged sword for us; dredge is significantly slower and less prevalent now which is great, but the meta is now very well positioned for tron. Our mainboard did not really change at all, but we can remove one piece of gravehate and it is a good idea to run two crumble to dust again
I do still question why more people aren't playing the deck. Path to Exile and Rest in Peace seem strongly positioned as Grixis and Kolaghan's Command recursion continue to increase in popularity (as far as URX decks are concerned), the deck dodges Fatal Push quite well, and Lightning Helix always seems very strong for control decks in Modern. Going back to a previous post, I wonder if it's simply a matter of being too predictable -- i.e. too easy to play around or hate out (relying so much on the Nahiri + Emrakul package to win the games does open us up to being pretty easily targeted by hate cards, unlike control decks that win via creature beatdowns).
I've looked at a lot of other Jeskai lists to see if something else appeals, from 'pure control' with Snapcaster + Ajani, to tempo/flash with Restoration Angel and Spell Queller, to Pestermite + Angel + Kiki-Jiki versions, and this build certainly seems the strongest, but not the most subtle. So I wonder if that's part of it, or if it's really just URX players migrating to Grixis as the 'flavor of the month', or what...
Like I said a while ago, this deck is just too predictable. Even down to how we are going to sideboard. Before the ban, there were just a ton of Infect and Dredge decks that are just faster. Not to mention, there are some tier 2 decks that give Jeskai Nahiri fits. I think the fact that Jeskai flash is more prevalent is very telling because this trend started before the ban. First we had some pure control decks showing up on MTGO results. Then they popped up in a couple SCG Classics. Then Jeskai Flash found its resurgence along side them via Kyle Boggemes (sp?) and, through all that, I still haven't seen a single Jeskai Nahiri deck on camera (let alone one that posted top 16/32). The pros worlwide clearly don't like the deck. There has to be a reason for that. Maybe that will change once this metagame shakes out, but I don't see it.
All that said, I think it's still a good deck. I just don't think it's a great deck.
Jeskai Nahiri has shaped into a relatively solid form, for better and for worse. Not much has changed since the ban for us and no new cards have come out as our card quality already is very high; the big change for Jeskai would be either a. a counterspell better than mana leak or b. a new deck that puts the meta upside down. The ban updates were a double edged sword for us; dredge is significantly slower and less prevalent now which is great, but the meta is now very well positioned for tron. Our mainboard did not really change at all, but we can remove one piece of gravehate and it is a good idea to run two crumble to dust again
I do still question why more people aren't playing the deck. Path to Exile and Rest in Peace seem strongly positioned as Grixis and Kolaghan's Command recursion continue to increase in popularity (as far as URX decks are concerned), the deck dodges Fatal Push quite well, and Lightning Helix always seems very strong for control decks in Modern. Going back to a previous post, I wonder if it's simply a matter of being too predictable -- i.e. too easy to play around or hate out (relying so much on the Nahiri + Emrakul package to win the games does open us up to being pretty easily targeted by hate cards, unlike control decks that win via creature beatdowns).
I've looked at a lot of other Jeskai lists to see if something else appeals, from 'pure control' with Snapcaster + Ajani, to tempo/flash with Restoration Angel and Spell Queller, to Pestermite + Angel + Kiki-Jiki versions, and this build certainly seems the strongest, but not the most subtle. So I wonder if that's part of it, or if it's really just URX players migrating to Grixis as the 'flavor of the month', or what...
Like I said a while ago, this deck is just too predictable. Even down to how we are going to sideboard. Before the ban, there were just a ton of Infect and Dredge decks that are just faster. Not to mention, there are some tier 2 decks that give Jeskai Nahiri fits. I think the fact that Jeskai flash is more prevalent is very telling because this trend started before the ban. First we had some pure control decks showing up on MTGO results. Then they popped up in a couple SCG Classics. Then Jeskai Flash found its resurgence along side them via Kyle Boggemes (sp?) and, through all that, I still haven't seen a single Jeskai Nahiri deck on camera (let alone one that posted top 16/32). The pros worlwide clearly don't like the deck. There has to be a reason for that. Maybe that will change once this metagame shakes out, but I don't see it.
All that said, I think it's still a good deck. I just don't think it's a great deck.
Unpredictability doesn't get you very far though. Yes I get spiked by some guy going "end of turn resto, untap, kiki" but then I go "yeah ok you got me" and just not tap out anymore. And if that strategy would start spiking big events, people know about it and will bring in more specific hate cards, and the unprepared meta that a jeskai kiki build thrived in suddenly disappears. Unpredictability works only for a very short while and does not create tier 1 decks; I can pretty safely say I could write down 60 out of 75 cards of any given decklist of one of the tier 1 decks from the top of my head. Nahiri being easy to hate out I also strongly disagree on; yes, people can bring in Pithing Needle or Dreadbore but people already run creature removal to deal with Jeskai Flash; having very few creatures to make their mainboard removal dead is a huge upside of running Nahiri as a wincon in fact. Nahiri's power as a wincon, and why I still think it is the best Modern control wincon, is that she is fast, difficult to beat, multifunctional and effective against a large scala of decks. Although she is clunky against some decks where it becomes difficult to tap out for her, no other wincon we have available has such a wide applicability.
As for pros not picking up Jeskai Nahiri, they also don't pick up any other versions of the deck. The people spiking events with Grixis or alternate Jeskai strategies are rarely pros, but just want to play control and are good at it. This is because if your main incentive of choosing a deck is "I want to win", then choosing control is just not the right option. Even if there is a tier 1 control deck hidden in the modern cardpool, it is just much easier to find a powerful noninteractive deck in modern.
All this being said, I still really want to urge someone here to write a new general Jeskai Control primer; I could give some input but I don't have time to be the main writer. While I am convinced Jeskai Nahiri is the most effective control build right now I definitely want to see new strategies evolved as Nahiri is also clearly flawed. MTGS not having a jeskai control primer right now is a big loss.
You know what? Maybe I didn't say that properly. My main problem is that between the counter suite, which I find weak, and a win-con that can be easy to play around or straight up beat, this deck doesn't have the power of most tier 1 decks to just be good through enough other decks. I would argue that issue follows all Jeskai variants. The fact that people are choosing non-Nahiri win-cons and posting some results prior to the ban in conjunction with zero showings for Nahiri variants that aren't Mardu is what I find troubling. If this deck is as good as TappingStones feels it is, then why isn't it more popular with pros who generally like control decks? I mean I watch a ton of streams and I've asked a ton of questions. The overwhelming sense I've received is that it just isn't good.
In general, modern control is just not that great considering the aggro decks are so hyper efficient and there are so many archetypes hitting the format from completely different angles. Diversity is great, but it makes playing control much more difficult. Like for the counter suite, how would you want to make it better? There are no better counterspells than the ones we play, and in general counterspells aren't even as good as you often have to trade down in mana. The same goes for wincons; what wincon would serve better than Nahiri against a diverse field? Kiki is only one turn faster than Nahiri and infinitely more fragile, a mix of other Planeswalkers as was popular before Nahiri's printing is guesswork and often completely dead against combo.
In general I still think Jeskai Nahiri is a very solid deck, with the vast majority of matchups being 50/50 preboard and favourable postboard. However if you look at the format from a pro's perspective, it's much safer and easier to pick something that has a ton of free wins against a predicted field, like tron, infect or dredge. I don't think there is any matchup that is a free win for us, but in exchange there also aren't any matchups for us that are as poor as tron's infect matchup for example, or merfolk's affinity matchup.
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If I'm up a game or need to do something drastic then I'm more willing to side out the package to be unpredictable. Cryptic feels quite good most of the time.
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As for the Nahiri combo, I seldom take it out. The only MU where I do atm is Infect, where resolving a 4 mana sorcery speed spell is very difficult. I bring in Geist and Vendilion Clique here as my wincons
I'm also just starting in Modern and looking for a decklist without the Nihiri package and I like this list.
One question though; is it really worth running 3 colours just for a couple of Lightning Bolt and Electrolyze?
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/player/MrCafouillette
If you look at his decks, he started out in esper, playing a pretty heavy draw-go deck.
He started with condemns to suppliment his path to exiles.
He took a similar list to gp lille, but ended up going 9-6 (with 3 byes), which is certainly a lot worse than someone like wafo tapa would hope for.
His jeskai lists started after the gp, where he evidently decided the removal red offered was worth more than esper charm and the sideboard options black gives.
He still wants to play hard draw-go, so hes not playing 4 bolts/4 helix, or anything.
Evidently, wafo decided that the little bit of removal was worth playing red over black or staying u/w, but with fatal push, and the bannings on infect and dredge, this may no longer be the case.
If you want play draw and go you can take black for esper charm and fatal push or red for bolt, electrolyze, helix and crumble.
UW without this colors is a nice deck, but another style of control (finks, wall of omens, resto, etc. You cant play draw and go without the third color, electrolyze/bolt and esper charm are really important IMO.
Death and taxes / UW control
Best of luck Jeskai brothers!
I was wondering the same thing. I haven't seen Jeskai Nahiri put up results in a while, but Jeskai Top 4'd a GP and shows up occasionally in dailies.
I think I saw a Nahiri list in Tokyo do well for their Worlds Qualifier or something (Top8) about a month or two back. I don't think much was new as far as that list goes. Just a couple sideboard choices different and maybe a "flex" spot change here or there. Flex spot being usually a singleton Anger of the Gods. The land base didn't seem to incorporate Spirebluff Canals, if I remember correctly.
Been jamming my list here and there. I'm still pretty satisfied with it, but I haven't been able to compete in any large events. No new data from my end anyway. So yeah, what's new guys?
The thread doesn't really move all that fast for that reason.
Most, but not all, people run spirebluff canals. Its fine.
Otherwise, there haven't been too many notable placings, and theres been nothing particularly innovative in terms of deck construction recently.
Hopefully that will change soon, but who's to say.
4x Scalding Tarn
4x Flooded Strand
3x Celestial Colonnade
3x Spirebluff Canal
2x Steam Vents
1x Hallowed Fountain
1x Sacred Foundry
1x Ghost Quarter
2x Island
1x Plains
1x Mountain
6 Creatures
4x Snapcaster Mage
1x Vendilion Clique
1x Emrakul, The Aeons Torn
4x Nahiri, The Harbinger
3x Ancestral Vision
4x Serum Visions
1x Timely Reinforcements
19 Instants
4x Lightning Bolt
4x Path to Exile
3x Lightning Helix
3x Mana Leak
3x Remand
2x Spell Snare
15 Sideboard
1x Wear // Tear
1x Anger of the Gods
2x Rest in Peace
1x Stony Silence
1x Vendilion Clique
2x Supreme Verdict
2x Crumble to Dust
1x Izzet Staticaster
2x Negate
1x Dispel
1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
I do still question why more people aren't playing the deck. Path to Exile and Rest in Peace seem strongly positioned as Grixis and Kolaghan's Command recursion continue to increase in popularity (as far as URX decks are concerned), the deck dodges Fatal Push quite well, and Lightning Helix always seems very strong for control decks in Modern. Going back to a previous post, I wonder if it's simply a matter of being too predictable -- i.e. too easy to play around or hate out (relying so much on the Nahiri + Emrakul package to win the games does open us up to being pretty easily targeted by hate cards, unlike control decks that win via creature beatdowns).
I've looked at a lot of other Jeskai lists to see if something else appeals, from 'pure control' with Snapcaster + Ajani, to tempo/flash with Restoration Angel and Spell Queller, to Pestermite + Angel + Kiki-Jiki versions, and this build certainly seems the strongest, but not the most subtle. So I wonder if that's part of it, or if it's really just URX players migrating to Grixis as the 'flavor of the month', or what...
Like I said a while ago, this deck is just too predictable. Even down to how we are going to sideboard. Before the ban, there were just a ton of Infect and Dredge decks that are just faster. Not to mention, there are some tier 2 decks that give Jeskai Nahiri fits. I think the fact that Jeskai flash is more prevalent is very telling because this trend started before the ban. First we had some pure control decks showing up on MTGO results. Then they popped up in a couple SCG Classics. Then Jeskai Flash found its resurgence along side them via Kyle Boggemes (sp?) and, through all that, I still haven't seen a single Jeskai Nahiri deck on camera (let alone one that posted top 16/32). The pros worlwide clearly don't like the deck. There has to be a reason for that. Maybe that will change once this metagame shakes out, but I don't see it.
All that said, I think it's still a good deck. I just don't think it's a great deck.
Unpredictability doesn't get you very far though. Yes I get spiked by some guy going "end of turn resto, untap, kiki" but then I go "yeah ok you got me" and just not tap out anymore. And if that strategy would start spiking big events, people know about it and will bring in more specific hate cards, and the unprepared meta that a jeskai kiki build thrived in suddenly disappears. Unpredictability works only for a very short while and does not create tier 1 decks; I can pretty safely say I could write down 60 out of 75 cards of any given decklist of one of the tier 1 decks from the top of my head. Nahiri being easy to hate out I also strongly disagree on; yes, people can bring in Pithing Needle or Dreadbore but people already run creature removal to deal with Jeskai Flash; having very few creatures to make their mainboard removal dead is a huge upside of running Nahiri as a wincon in fact. Nahiri's power as a wincon, and why I still think it is the best Modern control wincon, is that she is fast, difficult to beat, multifunctional and effective against a large scala of decks. Although she is clunky against some decks where it becomes difficult to tap out for her, no other wincon we have available has such a wide applicability.
As for pros not picking up Jeskai Nahiri, they also don't pick up any other versions of the deck. The people spiking events with Grixis or alternate Jeskai strategies are rarely pros, but just want to play control and are good at it. This is because if your main incentive of choosing a deck is "I want to win", then choosing control is just not the right option. Even if there is a tier 1 control deck hidden in the modern cardpool, it is just much easier to find a powerful noninteractive deck in modern.
All this being said, I still really want to urge someone here to write a new general Jeskai Control primer; I could give some input but I don't have time to be the main writer. While I am convinced Jeskai Nahiri is the most effective control build right now I definitely want to see new strategies evolved as Nahiri is also clearly flawed. MTGS not having a jeskai control primer right now is a big loss.
In general I still think Jeskai Nahiri is a very solid deck, with the vast majority of matchups being 50/50 preboard and favourable postboard. However if you look at the format from a pro's perspective, it's much safer and easier to pick something that has a ton of free wins against a predicted field, like tron, infect or dredge. I don't think there is any matchup that is a free win for us, but in exchange there also aren't any matchups for us that are as poor as tron's infect matchup for example, or merfolk's affinity matchup.