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Quote from AussieMTG »

If we are getting back into the unban Twin talks, then I will repeat a slightly altered version of what I said two years ago; If Twin is released back into the format, then yes, if you want to play a U/R deck then it is certainly the best option and may suppress of URx decks. However, if one looks at the current metagame, the only truly competitive decks in the colours are Storm, which is a separate archetype and will never use twin, and Death's Shadow which is more of a black deck that utilises blue's card selection and Stubborn Denial.

Izzet phoenix, and blue moon are the only two current decks that play even vaguely similarly to twin, but they are realistically not viable. Blue moon is merely a remnant, and phoenix a slow, semi-linear deck in a metagame of faster, more linear decks that are harder to interact with.

To reiterate idSurge's statement, the archetype of UR Tempo and control is dead, and has been since January 18, 2016. Furthermore, while I hate the use of the phrase 'format police,' that is exactly what twin would do in a meta of linearity and the ever-imposing threat of dredge.

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Quote from Mtgthewary »

Won vs dredge on Final match with Mulligan 3. i draw only my relic (Main) and it was over. Still here tslking about dredge? Change your attitude and adapt Main gravehate. By the way, other matches was jeskai, kci, mardu and titanshift. 4 of 5 games opponent was gravebased...so why you still think anti grave cards Main is narrow? This is not thrue anymore

This is the exact argument for why dredge is an issue. Lots of decks cannot beat it game 1 without playing main deck hate cards. When sideboard cards like Rest in Peace start becoming main deck cards to beat a deck there is a problem. Relic is arguably less egregious, but still you made a conscious decision to to play relic main (which traditionally only sees play in a few main decks). Most decks don't like exiling their own graveyards because they use them as a resource.

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4 merfolk seems a mistake...it is tron

It's not a "mistake." It just means that in the N=116 matchups reported by Merfolk players and opponents, it had a 55.17% MWP. If that N is insufficient or the results are potentially biased to you, two possibilities I literally addressed in the post, then feel free to refer to the higher N list below. I can say with confidence that Gx Tron does not have the 4th higehst MWP. In an N=1000+ sample, it's just over 51%. That's sufficiently large for us to be confident it's the "true" Gx Tron MWP.