MTG Salvation

Quote from Mortal Coil

Bah- there is no good or evil. Only power, and those too weak to grasp it.

I like Modern because it encompasses a great deal of my competitive experience of Magic, and I think it has a great deal of potential.

"If there is such a thing as too much power, I have not discovered it."
—Volrath

Really, the onlything I like about modern is its not t2.

Well over the years of knowing how you play and how your deck plays, what you want and what your hand can do.

Now I watched a wotc video, called something something mulligan and I have been doing this for years.

If you look at your hand and you actually have a single thought about that hand you mull. But that also comes with knowing your deck.

TL;DR

Its going to bring more players in but card prices will not change.

Thats why I play the cheap decks to begin with.

I think that "Vintage is dead" is an uninformed statement, although I can see why someone would say that. Vintage is played by a devoted group of people that is by most estimates growing, allbeit extremely slowly. The lack of support from WOTC means that it has to be supported by the players.

Vintage lives on in the dark places of the world, like a fish with no eyes. It just keeps swimming, because it doesn't know what the hell else to do while it subsists on bits of dead things that sink down from the surface.

DRS was and is the card that should've been banned. It's 1 drop that can be played in legacy and single handedly brought Jund to the forefront in Modern. I hate cards being banned but BBE has a lot of other applications that weren't yet explored. The fact is every single Modern deck that runs black or green that isn't a normal control deck will try to shoehorn him into their 75.

That fits WOTC definition of a ubiquitous card which is the premise for banning green sun's. Getting a card that can remove spells from the yard, gain you life, take life from your opponent, and accelerate your spells is past acceptable. If this were a 3 drop, I could see the leeway. Unfortunately, we're talking about a 1 drop that can be cast with 2 different colors. DRS is Llanowar Elves on steroids. It's like comparing Superman man to the Flash. Yes, they both can run really fast but Supes can save your planet by himself, moves mountains, change the direction of rivers, and stop intergalactic threats. When something's that powerful, you have no choice but to use it. Only in GSZ's case, it wasn't winning like DRS was with jund which is why I feel GSZ still was an overreaction.

All is Dust has immediate affect but, otoh, O-Stone can be played when you're at 3 mana and activated two turns later, while Dust requires Tron or a somewhat long game to be serviceable.

I don't think All is Dust is good versus really fast aggro (it is good on RG Tron because they play a lot of land tutors). If you're facing that I would try Ætherize as a way to stall the game a bit (it will probably buy you around three turns, so you have more time to Tron up).

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