Quote from Teia Rabishu »There's a lot about the pro scene that really trickles some bad values down through the playerbase when you get right down to it. Problem is I can only antagonize so many people in one article, you know?
True that. There's only so many times I can handle people questioning why I mainboard Duress instead of Thoughtseize or inquisition of Kozilek, when those cards are outrageously priced and someone would have to have either gotten lucky with their drafts or have a lot of disposable income devoted to magic just to have them.
But yeah, it goes back to the whole deal of Wizards needing to print something like Vingolf Engage Knights each rotation that contains all the dominant main deck cards found in top pro-tour decks that are rotating out. Just slap two of each in there and sell them at msrp 35 usd to all major retailers.
Control token generating walkers are things like Tezzeret, where it boosts their loyalty and throws a chump blocker on the field, or the six drop fat walkers that can just end the game on their own. Mu just cant tango with the big boys and live.
Could someone use her in a control build? Yeah, but control shells are the most wide open buggers when it comes to win cons. If someone wanted to win off mill, they could take a control deck and chuck some jank thing in at the end just to watch the opponent go into table flip mode.
She is not as good as Liliana the last hope because she can only stall, not outright kill small creatures. For that you need to pair her with removal of some sort.
The problem is the availability of the boxes. I think they had a printing snafu from the new card stock getting introduced and they didn't get the Japanese boxes out on the first wave. The next wave is on the newer stock.
The change isn't going to discourage cheating on the competitive circuit, so I'm really wondering what the long term plan is.
The issue with modern competitive tier one is a touch complicated, though. Some people are viva la freedom and think the problem is card costs, but I'm of the mind set it is one of perception and greed.
Wizards wants to have super expensive listed cards because if they stay there at that price, it creates a self fulfilling prophecy that can be milked in specialty sets. If they were to print the cards to death to drop the price, they may shatter the competitive illusionary advantages as more people get the cards, and we might even see more deck building, but then wizards loses their cash cow. Not to mention, there is the possibility the masses find a format where a deck can be shut down with a leyline or chalice bad, which would lead to more people pushing the company to ban these cards.
We already got people that want fast mana banned from modern.
Brewing decks is what keeps this game alive.