I've had notions about this on several of the boxes, but I seriously appreciate that actual work that went into displaying this! Thank you so much!
I would also love to see something like this once or twice a year.
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Seriously, it's not like control mirrors are all over Modern right now.
I disagree with this. Geist doesn't help you deal with big mana decks or graveyard decks. I'm not that high on Clique either but it's definitely better since it can be disruptive and/or useful for gaining info.
Of all those matches, Amulet Titan is probably the only one where I would want the combo. That's not enough for me to wreck my mana base.
Jeskai isn't that good right now because Lightning Bolt is of questionable usefulness. That combined with it's inefficiency at dealing with graveyard-based decks makes it not so good against the top tier decks right now. Against the rest of the field, it seems fine but not stellar.
That's because we're on Facebook and Discord.
GBx decks are far from dead. They're just not the top of the food chain any more, and probably won't be ever again. I'm fine with that. Otherwise, why so salty?
Skarrg, the Rage Pits seems better to me if you're going that route. However, making colorless mana is not where you want to be. There are occasions when even Twilight Mire is a pain in the ass and that makes two of our prominent colors but not red. So you can easily get hosed with bad opening hands. Not to mention, this way seems like a very roundabout way to deal with tokens. Why not play Grim Flayer instead?
Kitchen Finks is not a card that excites me but this is about as basic as Abzan Aggro/Midrange gets. I'm not sure you still want a full play set of Path to Exile if you're also going to play that many Assassin's Trophy, but I do like that combo of spells for my removal suite. I'm also certain Loxodon Hierarch is supposed to be Loxodon Smiter instead. Loxodon Hierarch doesn't really make sense to me. There are way better 4-cmc spells we could play while staying aggressive. That said, playing 1 or 2 wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I just don't think it's a card that normally sees play in this shell.
While I generally like some number of Hieroglyphic Illumination, it's largely for its speed and flexibility (can be cycled early, more keepable opening hands, etc) instead of its card drawing "power." I say "power" because the fact that these are the cantrips we're debating about shows how bad Modern cantrips are. That said, I still like Serum Visions if I'm playing more silver bullets from my sideboard. The real problem I have with it is that it's a sorcery. They each have their uses though.
EDIT: Scales Affinity is one matchup where Kalitas is far more useful than Huntmaster as well.
True. If there are multiple replacement effects, the owner of the object chooses which one will affect it.
Lantern is a bad matchup?? How??
Also, Tron is definitely 50/50.