Quote from Lectrys »Interestingly, Modern has a heck of a time trying to remove Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines:
More specific decks can at least remove this Elesh Norn with board wipes (e.g. Supreme Verdict) and/or planeswalkers (e.g. Karn Liberated, Grist, the Hunger Tide, Teferi, Hero of Dominaria; Teferi, Time Raveler can at least buy an extra turn).
- Prismatic Ending needs all 5 colours of mana sunk into it
- Leyline Binding outright fails
- Solitude outright fails
- Unholy Heat always deals at least 1 damage short of offing her
- Fatal Push fails to kill her
- Fury outright fails and cannot deal enough damage to her anyway
Guess it's time to go back to good old Path to Exile, Terminate, Assassin's Trophy, Tear Asunder, Vindicate, etc.?
Solitude and Fury at least get the consolation prize that they will stick around even if evoked
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It'll harm Living End's match-up with blue decks since it can't pull off Violent Outburst at opposing EOT into regular Cascade spell next turn, but Crashing Footfalls never leaned on that tactic as much. Cascade decks combined I can see as being dominant...just nowhere near as much of a problem at this ban time as BR Evoke was just prior to Fury getting banned.
...So Living End takes the bigger plunge. If we're lucky, RUG Crashing Footfalls turns into Bant. If we're not, Wizards just killed a deck sub-archetype because only Domain variants of Crashing Footfalls live. Brilliant.
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Targeting opponents and their stuff is pretty common...targeting them every turn is not, and it's prone to getting you hosed by Leyline of Sanctity and the latest craze in Modern, Hexproof granters.
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Altar's Reap and friends are great at saccing my blockers before they die to combat damage. They're also great at saccing creatures I just played this turn. Treacherous Greed can't do those.
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The EU is partially here to prevent wars. Trust me, the Europeans fought each other a lot.
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Yup, Aclazotz is the mono-black god. They don't call him the Betrayer for nothing.
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This isn't as good as turning off Walking Ballista since they can pop it completely in response.
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Bedrock Tortoise actually seems like deceptively bad creature-based combo protection. While it doesn't leave itself open (all the time) unlike Shalai, Voice of Plenty, it only protects about as well as Grand Abolisher. Spellskite at least still lures removal any turn it wants.
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