I think it's neutral for Burn because we're a critical mass deck that can't afford to mulligan much. Because of that, it's a net negative for us because it boosts people searching for silver bullets that hurt us.
If Tron can sculpt natural Tron more easily, I think we're not quite as favored as we are now.
You can find my April data dump a couple pages back (I'll edit this with the link later). Leyline isn't a problem these days. Stats for chalice are on there too.
Delve Bolt for 2R or 3R would probably be appropriate, but an easy 5 damage to the face for R is kind of ridiculous. That said, I think Gurmag Angler is almost as ridiculous. I think Delve is a mistake in general.
PoP was made worse by a faked leak claiming that it was in the set, but it was an obvious fake if you looked at it closely.
me being an ******** (I've tried toning it down over time)
Just to hit this real quick, we definitely didn't get along well at all it seemed early on, but I would agree you have toned some things down and while there are still plenty of times we don't agree on things, things are way better than before
That said, I don't think that reddit is a good solution for things like primers. My vote would be keep it going on whatever new replacement they come up with, but yeah. You can't avoid the stupid people anywhere you go. I'm one of the mods in the Masters of Modern FB group and while most of the time it's fine, sometimes there are definitely folks who will get under your skin. Keep doing what you're doing man, the Burn primer is one of the best ones out here and it's a sad thing that this place is being written off.
Thanks for the kind words. I've certainly tried to be less abrasive. I'll keep working on it.
We have a new potential sideboard card: Magmatic Sinkhole is a potential mono-red replacement for Path to Exile. It doesn't answer Kitchen Finks in the same way as path, and it's not a good early answer, but it can get rid of most things by t3 or t4, and it can kill a lot of planeswalkers if you have it in time. You wouldn't replace Path with it, but non-white lists can fill that role with it. It also provides something in case we want to go to mono-red in the future.
me being an ******** (I've tried toning it down over time)
Just to hit this real quick, we definitely didn't get along well at all it seemed early on, but I would agree you have toned some things down and while there are still plenty of times we don't agree on things, things are way better than before
That said, I don't think that reddit is a good solution for things like primers. My vote would be keep it going on whatever new replacement they come up with, but yeah. You can't avoid the stupid people anywhere you go. I'm one of the mods in the Masters of Modern FB group and while most of the time it's fine, sometimes there are definitely folks who will get under your skin. Keep doing what you're doing man, the Burn primer is one of the best ones out here and it's a sad thing that this place is being written off.
Thanks for the kind words. I've certainly tried to be less abrasive. I'll keep working on it.
We have a new potential sideboard card: Magmatic Sinkhole is a potential mono-red replacement for Path to Exile. It doesn't answer Kitchen Finks in the same way as path, and it's not a good early answer, but it can get rid of most things by t3 or t4, and it can kill a lot of planeswalkers if you have it in time.
Grafdigger's Cage might also be good to play if Neoform starts making a big splash. I've never played Faerie Macabre in Modern, but I've played it in the side for Legacy Burn and LED Dredge. It's a strong card, though I was playing it because I didn't have Leylines. In these situations, it's kind of a budget Surgical that could take two different cards in some spots.
As far as Discord, I don't really have the time for it (honestly, I haven't had a lot of time to play Modern lately). I'm also leaning towards migrating to the new forum, since that would allow me to probably keep posting the monthly data dump in the cleanest way. At least LavaSpike is a step up from facebook. I spent a few weeks in the facebook Burn board and got tired of seeing literally every new red card get posted there along with "what about this in Burn?"
Evidently mtgsalvation will enter read only mode on July 8th. Some folks are working on a replacement. The primer here will still exist, but no new posts and it can't be edited.
I don't know what I'll do, whether I'll make an account on the new site and copy everything over, make an account to still comment while someone else maintains the primer there, or just post on /r/LavaSpike (same user name).
Suggestions? My gut feeling is that traffic here has fallen significantly over time. I don't know if that's the twitch login thing, me being an ******** (I've tried toning it down over time), forums in general losing traffic to social media, or some combination of it all. I'm not sure the replacement will have more activity than we see here.
Yeah, you don't need to do anything off the wall to beat Gx Tron. Just pack some lifegain hate for Wurmcoil and beat them by being faster.
Eldrazi Tron is a different problem, because they play chalice and can just lock you out of the game. Blood moon won't save you when they already have a 4/4 and a chalice in play.
The red force might have been playable if it was "sac at the next end step", because you could have gotten the 2 elementals T1 on the draw. It would have been as good as 2 bolts for 2 cards and 0 mana unless they have removal, which is probably why it says upkeep instead.
Force of Rage is 2 spark elementals for 1RR and they die at your next upkeep. So force of burn spell won't be happening, though I expect it would have been just as unplayable in burn as this card, just because I expected force of burn to cost 3.
I think 8 fetches and 3 mountains are a good starting point for grim and blaze. From there, I'd think 2 Foundry, 2 Vantage, and 4 Canyon rounds it out nicely. I'm not opposed to 3 and 3 for vantage and canyon, but I'd lean towards 4 Canyon.
If Tron can sculpt natural Tron more easily, I think we're not quite as favored as we are now.
PoP was made worse by a faked leak claiming that it was in the set, but it was an obvious fake if you looked at it closely.
Thanks for the kind words. I've certainly tried to be less abrasive. I'll keep working on it.
We have a new potential sideboard card: Magmatic Sinkhole is a potential mono-red replacement for Path to Exile. It doesn't answer Kitchen Finks in the same way as path, and it's not a good early answer, but it can get rid of most things by t3 or t4, and it can kill a lot of planeswalkers if you have it in time. You wouldn't replace Path with it, but non-white lists can fill that role with it. It also provides something in case we want to go to mono-red in the future.
Thanks for the kind words. I've certainly tried to be less abrasive. I'll keep working on it.
We have a new potential sideboard card: Magmatic Sinkhole is a potential mono-red replacement for Path to Exile. It doesn't answer Kitchen Finks in the same way as path, and it's not a good early answer, but it can get rid of most things by t3 or t4, and it can kill a lot of planeswalkers if you have it in time.
As far as Discord, I don't really have the time for it (honestly, I haven't had a lot of time to play Modern lately). I'm also leaning towards migrating to the new forum, since that would allow me to probably keep posting the monthly data dump in the cleanest way. At least LavaSpike is a step up from facebook. I spent a few weeks in the facebook Burn board and got tired of seeing literally every new red card get posted there along with "what about this in Burn?"
I don't know what I'll do, whether I'll make an account on the new site and copy everything over, make an account to still comment while someone else maintains the primer there, or just post on /r/LavaSpike (same user name).
Suggestions? My gut feeling is that traffic here has fallen significantly over time. I don't know if that's the twitch login thing, me being an ******** (I've tried toning it down over time), forums in general losing traffic to social media, or some combination of it all. I'm not sure the replacement will have more activity than we see here.
Eldrazi Tron is a different problem, because they play chalice and can just lock you out of the game. Blood moon won't save you when they already have a 4/4 and a chalice in play.