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.
Well, keep in mind that snapcaster mage is basically in the same hard to acquire state as the enemy fetches and damnation thanks to being printed in one set only and being one of the most valuable cards in the entire set, so it might as well be banned given it's accessibility (no I'm not saying ban snapcaster). At least there are more wandering around in the wild at the moment than damnation, but I think they are trying to avoid reprinting that one given they brought out languish.
I'm not really sure they need to unban anything at the moment as modern is in a pretty good place for the time being. The only questionable deck right now is probably bloom titan, and I'm not sure if unbanning sword of the meek is a good game plan since there are a lot of synergies that the designers would have to analyze first before bringing it back. Just about the only fair thing Wizards could do is depower everybody equally with bannings (i.e. snappy, dark confident, cryptic command, tarmogoyf, and other staples taken equally from all decks get put on the ban list at the same time and other random cards get unbanned to shift all the established top tier decks around).
It would basically be like throwing the dice and letting fate sort things out.
How do you feel about running the max number of Urborgs and Eye? I figured with map we wouldn't need a full set of both and give some more room for other utility lands.
I'm thinking it would replace languish as it hits affinity and gives more synergy than languish. Against merfolk I'd still run languish just because they sport so many fish lords that it makes it a gamble on whether or not we actually wipe the board with -2/-2.
There's novelty in running a color trifecta with good stuff if you already have the enemy fetches to utilize, though.
The new exiling version of Drown in sorrow is going to need some play testing to see how it runs in the meta. From the first look it seems like a great addition to the sideboard.
Ah okay, forgot that our bigger dudes are on cast rather than ETB. I got to get used to seeing that on cast as I'm used to anything involving a creature hitting the field to be an ETB effect.
Other not so common cards for sideboard these days include ratchet bomb and for some reason pithing needle. Not entirely sure why.
Also, yeah anyone who got their stuff early are extremely lucky at the moment. I only got three eyes of ugin and I'm hoping that is all I need for the deck to run. I'm still deciding if I want to go green or white for splash as I do feel both have their merits.
holy smokes, glad I got them when they were just starting to rise. That's one heck of a price jump and the same can be said of the temples.