Bridge was the obvious choice but not because of any reason listed by wizards or anyone here. It was the obvious choice because wizards always bans the oldest card. Hogaak is brand new, altar is new to modern, and bridge was already around. With the exception of Treasure cruise and dig through time, I can’t think of a single time the format broke because new cards busted previously unbroken things and it was the new cards that got the ax. Wotc doesn’t take action against the newest cards unless it absolutely, unquestionably, without any shadow of doubt have to.
The 3/3 split of Crypt and RIP was a great meta call as Bridgevine was the deck to beat that weekend; we saw Burn lists running that same amount of gravehate around the time of Creeping Chill’s Dredge resurgence.
Also it’s sad to see Burn’s metagame share continue to drop despite that first place finish and another in the top 8. It looks like Mono Red Phoenix is the red deck of choice for players now.
The creature entering the battlefield is the resolution of Vial’s activated ability. Your opponent can respond to you tapping Vial and putting the ability on the stack but they don’t get any knowledge of what you might put onto the battlefield. So yes you can certainly change your mind from what you had intended to put on the field if your opponent takes an action that changes your mind either way your opponent won’t know whether or not you changed your mind or not. Also, once the creature enters its etb abilities trigger right away. It’s also important to know that your opponent doesn’t get the chance to affect your choice of copy for cards like Phantasmal Image since it enters as a copy it’s not a trigger.
Ideally, I’m hoping Modern Horizons brings in old extended archetypes that don’t have a home in Legacy.
I am fearful though that this product introduces too many new cards too quick and changes Modern more rapidly than usual. For me, I enjoy the slow paced Modern evolution as each Standard set releases a few Modern playables. With this set entirely designed as new cards for Modern, be they old pre 8th Edition or brand new cards entirely, it could change Modern much quicker than ever before. Besides rotation, another aspect of Standard that I dislike is how much of a drastic impact a new set has upon the format so I don’t want to see this happen to my favorite format Modern.
We do not. That's a good suggestion and others' input on it would be great before I add something there.
In my opinion:
Turn 1: You want to open with Guide/Swift if you can. Otherwise, Rift Bolt or Lava Spike (though such hands are problematic, though no one can blame you for keeping 2 lands, 3 bolts, 2 Charms or something).
Turn 2(option a): Hold your land, swing with your creature to bait removal, land+Eidolon on second main (if available).
Turn 2(option b): Otherwise, I'll often try to remove excess 2CMC cards from my hand at this stage so that I can play 2CMC+1CMC next turn. Searing Blaze things if it matters. Hold Skullcrack for now. Holding a Charm until your opponent's EoT is fine.
Turn 2(option c): If I can set up something busted like Rift+Rift+Bolt+Charm for a big Swiftspear next turn, I probably will try (because that's our easiest T3 kill).
Turn 3: Continue removing 2CMC and 3CMC cards from your hand as appropriate.
You know how your opponent always whines about your lucky topdecks? Plan on that happening and make sure you have the mana available to accomplish it. This means that you should fire off cards so that you aren't bottlenecked on mana with your next topdeck (as in you want to be able to hardcast Rift Bolt to win if you draw it). If you're heavy on white cards in hand and have a fetch available but no other open mana, burn a fetch for a tapped Sacred Foundry so that you'll be able to Charm+Helix if you have one in hand and topdeck the other.
I’d like to add to Turn 1:
If on the draw, always bolt the bird. If they drop birds of paradise, noble hierarch, or any other mana dork then that needs to go! Also applies to turn 1 Glistener Elf don’t mess around with those one drops, kill them as quick as you can.
Regarding Skewer:
I love this card. I put Skullcrack in the side to make room for it and havn’t been disappointed once. Skewer is an amazing and powerful card! I’ve won games with it that only a 1 mana bolt to the face would have, so having 4 in the deck over any other 2 drop is wonderful
Anything with Masters at the end of it is free money with little to no effort on behalf of WOTC so it makes sense to me that they would keep shelling out this garbage.
"Wizards doesn't do enough reprints!"
"Masters sets are garbage!"
What?
The problem is people want the reprints to come in block sets, not limited time packs. So these statements are both true. Wizards barely ever reprints modern staples in standard legal sets, so we need more reprints. And masters sets are garbage because packs cost $10 and are limited print run, not to mention that these masters sets are filled with so much jank because of "drafting"
Despite Trump being elected I still have a glimmer of hope. Young people overwhelming vote democrat. Eventually these young people will grow up and be the old people that always vote. Then, finally then, we can actually make some progress in this country. Until then, women, gays, minorities, pretty much anyone who isn't a white male, just try to hang in there. It's only going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
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Also it’s sad to see Burn’s metagame share continue to drop despite that first place finish and another in the top 8. It looks like Mono Red Phoenix is the red deck of choice for players now.
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4 Slippery Bogle
4 Gladecover Scout
4 Kor Spiritdancer
Spells
4 Ethereal Armor
4 Rancor
4 Daybreak Coronet
4 Spider Umbra
2 Hyena Umbra
3 Spirit Mantle
2 Gryff’s Boon
1 Spirit Link
4 Path to Exile
4 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Misty Rainforest
3 Temple Garden
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Horizon Canopy
1 Plains
1 Forest
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Gaddock Teeg
2 Rest In Peace
2 Stony Silence
2 Deglamer
2 Unravel the Aether
Link
https://www.channelfireball.com/grand-prix-tampa-top-8-decklists/
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I am fearful though that this product introduces too many new cards too quick and changes Modern more rapidly than usual. For me, I enjoy the slow paced Modern evolution as each Standard set releases a few Modern playables. With this set entirely designed as new cards for Modern, be they old pre 8th Edition or brand new cards entirely, it could change Modern much quicker than ever before. Besides rotation, another aspect of Standard that I dislike is how much of a drastic impact a new set has upon the format so I don’t want to see this happen to my favorite format Modern.
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I’d like to add to Turn 1:
If on the draw, always bolt the bird. If they drop birds of paradise, noble hierarch, or any other mana dork then that needs to go! Also applies to turn 1 Glistener Elf don’t mess around with those one drops, kill them as quick as you can.
Regarding Skewer:
I love this card. I put Skullcrack in the side to make room for it and havn’t been disappointed once. Skewer is an amazing and powerful card! I’ve won games with it that only a 1 mana bolt to the face would have, so having 4 in the deck over any other 2 drop is wonderful
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The problem is people want the reprints to come in block sets, not limited time packs. So these statements are both true. Wizards barely ever reprints modern staples in standard legal sets, so we need more reprints. And masters sets are garbage because packs cost $10 and are limited print run, not to mention that these masters sets are filled with so much jank because of "drafting"
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