None of the 3 decks that top 32'd the SCG open this weekend had Zacama in them. Understandable for the hive mind one, but the other two was interesting. Is the card just not well positioned?
You just described my point. The reason they are not worried about future creatures breaking pod in legacy is because of the decades of broken cards and archetypes. The power level of those broken things is so high that any creature that made pod playable would probably be banworthy on its own. There are now about the same number of cards in modern as there were in legacy when pod was printed. Pod was unplayable in legacy then. I know modern is lower power level than legacy was then, but I think modern has enough busted stuff going on that pod would not stand out as overly broken.
Pod stifles future card development. Let's keep that in mind.
I don't really buy this argument. It is possible for the power level of modern to be so high that there is no reasonable creature or chain of creatures that WotC could print that would be broken with pod. That is how legacy is now, which is why nobody plays pod there. I think modern could be at that point.
This argument also annoys me because it is basically saying "pod could be broken in the future, so we should ban it now". You could make that argument about a lot of stuff. Tron limits the power of large colorless spells. Humans limits the power of humans they can print, etc. Don't ban something on a hypothetical, they should just print whatever they want and ban when it becomes a problem.
Here are the cards in the modern banlist that I wouldn't mind seeing unbanned, one at a time, in no particular order, to see how things shake up:
Cloudpost (I don't understand why this card is banned, period. Tron is better, and it is legal)
Cloudpost is much better than tron. It cares less about the combination of lands (don't need one of each) and gets to absurd amounts of mana quicker (getting 16 mana with 4 lands, etc). Another big deal is that the glimmmerposts gain you life while you are doing this, shoring up the weaker aggro matchups.
My guess is that a modern cloudpost deck would not look like a tron deck but instead run primeval titan and lean on walking ballista as a primary win condition. Casting a primeval titan with a couple of cloudposts/vesuvas would give you an additional 36 mana (6x cloudpost/vesuvas) the following turn after attacking with the titan. Or the titan could gain you 24 life (get 4x glimmerposts/vesuvas).
The other concern with cloudpost is that it would re-enable the eldrazi aggro decks from eldrazi winter. Running 4x cloudpost, 4x glimmerpost, 4x vesuva, 4x eldrazi temple would enable extremely consistent turn 2 TKS, turn 3 reality smasher starts.
Not sure how comparable it is but birthing pod decks used to run 8-10 mana creatures (4 birds, 2-3 hierarchs, 1-3 wall of omens) since you could often feed late dorks to pod. You can't do that as consistently with evolution but it still might be worth trying.
I don't really buy this argument. It is possible for the power level of modern to be so high that there is no reasonable creature or chain of creatures that WotC could print that would be broken with pod. That is how legacy is now, which is why nobody plays pod there. I think modern could be at that point.
This argument also annoys me because it is basically saying "pod could be broken in the future, so we should ban it now". You could make that argument about a lot of stuff. Tron limits the power of large colorless spells. Humans limits the power of humans they can print, etc. Don't ban something on a hypothetical, they should just print whatever they want and ban when it becomes a problem.
Cloudpost is much better than tron. It cares less about the combination of lands (don't need one of each) and gets to absurd amounts of mana quicker (getting 16 mana with 4 lands, etc). Another big deal is that the glimmmerposts gain you life while you are doing this, shoring up the weaker aggro matchups.
My guess is that a modern cloudpost deck would not look like a tron deck but instead run primeval titan and lean on walking ballista as a primary win condition. Casting a primeval titan with a couple of cloudposts/vesuvas would give you an additional 36 mana (6x cloudpost/vesuvas) the following turn after attacking with the titan. Or the titan could gain you 24 life (get 4x glimmerposts/vesuvas).
The other concern with cloudpost is that it would re-enable the eldrazi aggro decks from eldrazi winter. Running 4x cloudpost, 4x glimmerpost, 4x vesuva, 4x eldrazi temple would enable extremely consistent turn 2 TKS, turn 3 reality smasher starts.