That could be a lot of fun. Allied Strategies would draw 1 more than Tidings at top efficiency, but it may not be as consistent.
The biggest problem with Collective Restraint is that blue no longer holds that part of the color pie...it seems more like white's slice now. Not that a colorshift would be bad. I can also see it maybe causing problems with Prismatic Omen though - it might allow you to reap the benefits of playing 5-color without the commitment or inconsistency that balances it out. Plus landing a Collective Restraint would reduce most modern decks to non-interactivity, and WotC doesn't like that. Could be more harm than good for the format.
Evasive Action would be cool too. Worse than Mana Leak early, better late. Shocks would power it up fast, but it would also imply taking a lot of damage in the meantime and that's a huge liability against affinity or similar. Seems fair enough.
Mana Severance could be interesting. It could be used to tip grindy matches in your favor by insuring you draw gas instead of mana flooding in the late game - very skill testing, and very tech. But it also could enable a very consistent Charbelcher deck, and that might be bad. Sideboards are already stretched thin with combo-hate as it is. I guess it really depends on how fast the combo could get. I'll leave that one for someone who is more familiar with Belcher decks.
This is wrong. Most decks sideboard is 2x GY hate, 2x Combust, and 2-3 generic artifact hate. That is enough to stop/slow all combo in the format. Sideboards aren't even close to being stretched thin.
THIS 100X!!! If you don't agree with this then there is no amount of logic that will ever convince you that good, non-oppressive, combos should be allowed. If you don't agree with it then just don't play this game, and you certainly shouldn't feel entitled to make any comment on ban lists ever.
Would love to see Chaos Warp reprinted for modern, and I wouldn't mind some sort of punitive measure against greedy manabases, maybe they'll take care of that in "sinker" where strategic hosers normally get printed.
Cabal Coffers. Let's face it, how dangerous is THAT gonna be to the format?
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Now, I know back in the day it was just the most awesomest awesome available, but I'd like to play a Psychatog deck and I think it could do well in Modern. I'm not sure how good it was, but I know it was good, what do other people think?
As far as I know Legacy UW decks usually play only 4 (8 with Snapcaster) W spot removal.
I meant access to. I do see plenty of SBs with between 2-4 PtE's, though. For a total of 10-12 spot removals. I'm sure that shifts often as it's a meta call.
I'm just saying access to (effectively) 12 incredibly efficient spot removal cards in Modern wouldn't be fun. (imo)
Yeah Swords is way too strong for Modern. Path, early game, at least allows the opponent to up their mana count to try and race you.
In control decks, you would much rather give the opponent life than free lands.
Path has already obsoleted every other white single removal spell in the format, why add in a card that obsoletes it?
Are you trying to say if swords became legal in Modern path wouldnt be played? Because I think we would see a lot of white decks running 6 -8 1 drop removal spells.
There are fiveish decks that run Path right now, and two of them (Zoo, UWR Delver) would not in a million years want any copies of Swords. Control decks are trash right now, swords might make them playable.
A few cool cards that would be interesting : Maze of Ith, Animate Dead, Hymn to Tourach, Nimble Mongoose (I'd actually love the threshold mechanic to come back soon). Those are a few cards I think are fun and would be played. Well, maybe not Maze of Ith, idk. But it's still a good card.
or 12 with SCM. Just like the Legacy UW decks . That sounds horrible.
I am not sure quite if this counts as a "reprint", but I would love to see Scavenging Ooze be printed in an expansion set (possibly as a Golgari card in RtR block?) to make it Modern Legal.
I don't think Modern strictly needs the card, but it would be an awesome safety valve against decks that try to do unfair things with the graveyard.
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I see no reason why it shouldn't be in. Gives a huge boost to control decks but doesn't make them unstoppable. I also want to show off my different versions more often.
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I see no reason why it shouldn't be in. Gives a huge boost to control decks but doesn't make them unstoppable. I also want to show off my different versions more often.
I'm with you on ancient pimp theory (although I really like the EvT new frame ones), but how much play do you think it would really see? Colorless lands are so painful to run.
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That could be a lot of fun. Allied Strategies would draw 1 more than Tidings at top efficiency, but it may not be as consistent.
The biggest problem with Collective Restraint is that blue no longer holds that part of the color pie...it seems more like white's slice now. Not that a colorshift would be bad. I can also see it maybe causing problems with Prismatic Omen though - it might allow you to reap the benefits of playing 5-color without the commitment or inconsistency that balances it out. Plus landing a Collective Restraint would reduce most modern decks to non-interactivity, and WotC doesn't like that. Could be more harm than good for the format.
Evasive Action would be cool too. Worse than Mana Leak early, better late. Shocks would power it up fast, but it would also imply taking a lot of damage in the meantime and that's a huge liability against affinity or similar. Seems fair enough.
Speculate less. Test more.
This is wrong. Most decks sideboard is 2x GY hate, 2x Combust, and 2-3 generic artifact hate. That is enough to stop/slow all combo in the format. Sideboards aren't even close to being stretched thin.
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I second this. It would make MBC much more playable than it is.
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Why? We already have path which does more or less the same thing.
So white can have 8 1 drop removal spells.
Condemn is a conditional removal spell. Not on the same level as swords or path.
or 12 with SCM. Just like the Legacy UW decks ;). That sounds horrible.
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I meant access to. I do see plenty of SBs with between 2-4 PtE's, though. For a total of 10-12 spot removals. I'm sure that shifts often as it's a meta call.
I'm just saying access to (effectively) 12 incredibly efficient spot removal cards in Modern wouldn't be fun. (imo)
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In control decks, you would much rather give the opponent life than free lands.
Path has already obsoleted every other white single removal spell in the format, why add in a card that obsoletes it?
Are you trying to say if swords became legal in Modern path wouldnt be played? Because I think we would see a lot of white decks running 6 -8 1 drop removal spells.
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A few cool cards that would be interesting : Maze of Ith, Animate Dead, Hymn to Tourach, Nimble Mongoose (I'd actually love the threshold mechanic to come back soon). Those are a few cards I think are fun and would be played. Well, maybe not Maze of Ith, idk. But it's still a good card.
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I don't think Modern strictly needs the card, but it would be an awesome safety valve against decks that try to do unfair things with the graveyard.
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- GW Birthing Pod(?)
Legacy:
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I see no reason why it shouldn't be in. Gives a huge boost to control decks but doesn't make them unstoppable. I also want to show off my different versions more often.
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I'm with you on ancient pimp theory (although I really like the EvT new frame ones), but how much play do you think it would really see? Colorless lands are so painful to run.
Price of Progress to keep mana bases honest.
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nah, mother is too good. so much of the meta is based on creatures right now, mother would be over the top.
price of progress/back to basics i wouldn't mind. people shouldn't be able to run 4 colors and not be punished for it.