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I am still looking for the list from Eli Kassis played at the last GP to top 16 finish. I dont like lists from special mixed events like the SCG Invitational.
In addition, I see lists with fecthes, and the one from Caleb does not have fetches. What is the reason behind this? Save life?
Fetchless makes your deck more consistent because when you are putting cards on the bottom of your library with Serum Visions and other cantrips, they dont get shuffled when you fetch. Your life total is better, Shattering Spree is better and you rather play that over By Force because you will have much more red sources. The drawback is you can't play Blood Moon, and opponent's Blood Moon can screw you. Those are just off the top of my head.
I personally started with the fetchless and changed back to fetch version. While there are a lot of pros for fetchless, I think that Blood Moon is just too important in certain matchup, though, is that its not good on the draw, I don't even bring it on on the draw against most decks. However, against Eldrazi and Taxes its our only way to change the matchup %.
While the life total will be less, its is only slightly less because we usually are fetching for Islands almost every time. Matchups where life really matters, like Burn and Affinity, I'd rather give up the small %. We are pretty good vs Affinity, and against burn its one of the worst matchups but the matchup is so bad anyways I dont really care . Plus the fact that Burn is actually not that common anymore, I'd rather have more game vs the other decks where Blood Moon can help; Against Eldrasi Taxes, its our saving grace, and sometimes a turn 2 or 3 Blood Moon can just win the game vs a ton of decks for us outright.
As for the more consistency, the main part that fetchless helps is getting to Pieces of the Puzzle or Empty the Warrens post board, and that's by far the biggest reason to run it. By turn 3 you have close to 100% chance to draw it if you used 1 or 2 cantrips the turns before. However, Fetches do slim the deck of lands, so you still are gaining small consistency there at least.
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-modern-horizons-2019-02-28
Modern Horizons is a modern legal set, skipping standard. With New Cards and all reprints will be new to modern.
Release June 14th Prerelease June 8/9
254 cards, Buy a box Promo that is new to Modern but is an existing card.
According to a screenshot running through social media, the new product will be called "Modern Horizons" and will be Sealed playable at MF Seattle.
https://imgur.com/gallery/nxDhKGa
https://twitter.com/search?q=modern horizons&src=typd
According to this post, it is also played at MF Washington DC and MF Copenhagen (June 14-16)
https://twitter.com/NasanMagic/status/1101097060097499136
And here it is on the CFB Page
https://my.cfbevents.com/event/64
https://my.cfbevents.com/event/65
MF Seattle seems to be a 3 Day GP (June 20-23) with 2 different Day1 flights on Friday and Saturday, going into one day2 on Sunday.
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Also Wizards: "Lets welcome 'Modern Horizons'".
Or, according to my friend who hinted me as the first to the rumors: "Totally not a Masters Set" ;-)