MTG Salvation

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In a long tourney the best decks rise to the top. But in a shorter event like 6 rounds, there are probably 20-25 decks that could 6-0 it. Amulet of vigor, tin fists, and others have shown this recently. Blue moon top 8ing out of nowhere, etc.

I think it's not just the best decks, but the best pilots as well.
With some amount of compensation going on between the two, like a good enough deck carrying a player through poorly thought out plays or a better player enduring through the duration of the event and maintaining optimal play while the competition is perhaps even more fried.

Tangent:
I'm kinda tempted to do an out of left field investigation as to whether or not coffee sales might've spiked locally, might be indicative of how many people are buzzing on caffeine and if it's making or breaking their game.

Yea i agree as well its no shock that the best pilots are usually on one of the top few decks especially melira and twin. The decks with the most complexity certainly bode well when the rounds get tougher and piloting is so important. LSV a good example having rose a ton of spots the last few rounds.

But i certainly believe that the meta still has a ton of room for pet decks in smaller events, just hard to win a big event without one of the best 5 or so decks.

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Yeah, but scavenging Ooze costs twice as much as DRS, harder to cast, has a body thats on-curve as opposed to above it, and it only does graveyard and lifegain things(It doesn't also be a better BoP and Lavamancer). It is certainly no DRS.

Yeah, nothing will (entirely) replace Deathrite Shaman in Modern. Heck, Scavenging Ooze supplemented Deathrite back in the day--I generally find that Ooze hoses graveyards better because it can nail multiple cards as soon as it ETB, and Ooze blocks a lot better and swings significantly harder, but Deathrite foixed mana, mana ramped (sometimes for Ooze), virtually swung for 2 unblockable power per turn, hosed Burn better, and made Jund a lot more Blood Moon-resistant than it currently is. I put both Deathrites and Oozes (4 Deathrite/1-4 Ooze split) in the same decks.

I swapped out Deathrites with Noble Hierarchs in Melira Pod because I need the mana dorks, and in Jund, Deathrite got replaced by stuff that doesn't do its job. ...Yeah, nothing will ever replace Deathrite.

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The previous format was universally decried as a bad format.

Subjective and all relative. What one finds bad, others find good to play.

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Maybe you told to many people to play in their own sandbox Boce.

Never had a problem of the complaining with the people I played with like here. Never had to say that to anyone in the paper world.

I never have heard the complaining at a paper tournament that I hear on here.

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Not sure it's worth it to invest in another deck, Snapcaster Mage was in a ridiculous number of decks at the PTQ, and in 5/8 of the Top 8. I don't think he'll be sticking around in Modern much longer. Maybe once the PTQ hype dies down I'll try out a combo deck like Amulet of Vigor or Living End.

Snapcaster Mage should be pretty safe from a ban. The card is powerful, but nowhere even close to broken. It just gives you some value. It doesn't suppress any particular strategies or give you insane reach (like DRS did), it can't win the game by itself (well, not very quickly anyway... I have won games with Snapcaster beatdowns, but that's like poking someone to death with a banana — the whole time you're thinking, "he's got to be able to stop me somehow... there's no way he's going to let me keep doing this long enough to kill him..."), and it isn't part of a degenerate combo. It's just a guy that does a thing.

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Hopefully the meta is nothing like was seen at PT:BNG. I was excited getting into modern because it was a powerful format where you didn't have to play blue to be competitive (Legacy). However, it's quickly becoming a Blue dominated format with cards such as Snapcaster Mage leading the charge.

I play both UWR/Esper and Jund, because I'm the type of person who likes to have their cake
and eat it too.

Let the Blue players have their moment in the spotlight for the time being. Until then either take a break from Modern like I am or just switch over to a new deck.