MTG Salvation

also, Eggs is hands down the best deck now in this format.

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my Tron deck would disagree and run all over the format...

gonna be a pretty mediocre Tron deck without access to Expedition Map and Sylvan Scrying

I'm interested in this kind of experiments and I'd really like to know why you'd ban the following cards:
Apostle's Blessing (Really, I cant see why)
Delver (It's a powerful 1 drop but it's not really oppressing)
Emrakul AND Sylvan Scrying AND Expedition Map (Why ban the three of them?)
GoST (Powerful, but it's not hard to stop)
Kitchen Finks, Martyr of Sands (?)
Snapcaster, Bob and Goyf
Plating

Your approach seem to be to ban the best cards in every color and then some other stuff, and I can't say I see the reasoning behind the choices you make.

That would destroy modern and many beloved archtypes in the format. Scapeshift, Goyf, kitchen finks, geist of st, Martyr, Emrakul, etc.

Why should these be banned?

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Interesting idea to be sure. However i feel like this list would kneecap nearly every viable deck in the format.

my Tron deck would disagree and run all over the format...

Interesting idea to be sure. However i feel like this list would kneecap nearly every viable deck in the format.

This was written a couple months ago, pretty much right after PT:RTR. In fact, I had been writing the draft of it up for awhile before that. You can look though my post history and see where I initially proposed such a list before PT:RTR as well.

I did have access to the RTR spoiler though, so maybe I should have caught DRS. But plenty of people missed seeing how powerful he was.

If I redrafted the list today, I probably would include him.

As for Liliana, I think she was fine before DRS. She would very much be a staple of the format, but I think WotC likes planeswalkers being somewhat relevant in modern.


All that said, this plan was very much a "lets get it all out of the way plan". It looks like even if WotC is looking to get to the same endpoint, they are doing so in a slower approach: banning only a couple cards at a time. That can get to the same end point, just a bit more gradually.

I was advocating to ban like crazy, and then scale back. They appear to be banning slowly so they don't need to scale back as much.

Deathrite Shaman and Liliana are fine but Apostile's Blessing and Unburial Rites isn't? This is absolutely ridiculous.

I would build a Junk deck and it would dominate the metagame even harder than Jund does now. Knight of the Reliquary, Shaman, Putrid Leech, Geralf's Messenger, Smiter, Path to Exile, Thoughtseize, Abrupt Decay, Liliana. In your nucleair wasteland this is incredibly hard to beat.

This list makes zero sense. Kitchen Finks? This format may as well be called, "White Weenie.dec"

While I understand your focus here, I would have to disagree with the more than extensive list you propose. Banning every single big money power card in the format outside of shocklands is not going to fix a format, in the contrary it will only serve to drive those that want to play to legacy or quit altogether.

I am aware that cards like Dark Confidant are deceptive powerhouses and push out cards that are on paper much better like Bloodgift Demon just on CMC alone, but that is hardly reason to call for the banning of every major deck enabler in the format.