If you don’t like the match up lotto play something that is 50/50 against the field, and out play everyone since being pro means you are that much better.
Those decks no longer exist in the competitive field.
While this may be true for the modern field as a whole, it is not true at any given tournament. Right now, you can expect going into a modern tournament that Storm, E-Tron, and GDS will probably be a lot of what you face. The SCG Open last weekend was taken down by that awesome new humans deck that went undefeated because it had strong matchups against these decks (and a lot of others as well) and it was the right choice for the tournament. Playing the meta is part of the skill of modern, and part of what makes it hard. In standard, this happens with rotations forcing everyone to learn new decks entirely. In Modern it only happens because of the rock paper scissors metagame. Modern would get real stale without the diversity that comes with having no absolute "best" deck, and this complicated shifting meta makes the game more competitive. Pro's like this one whining about how the particular skill they have is not suited to the format is a little bit ridiculous.
I am glad I read through all the comments before posting, because this is spot. I play Storm, and some sideboard cards hose me. I have ways of dealing with them in my sb. If I draw my answers I have a good shot in those match ups, if I don’t, then I am likely to lose. This is past of playing fast Aggro/non interactive combo. It does not make modern match up based. If you don’t like the match up lotto play something that is 50/50 against the field, and out play everyone since being pro means you are that much better.
Where I think fetchless really shines is in specific difficult match ups like burn where the additional pain from your mana base is not nothing, and the marginal advantage of thinning and a shuffle effect is questionable.
Our filtering is already so good that the advantage of the thinning from fetches is marginal, and post board Peer through depths/pieces and gifts give us killer selection making the shuffle somewhat irrelevant in most circumstances. The 2-4 damage you will take off your mana base is often relevant, however, and I am surprised that the advantage of less pain from your mana base is not a larger part of this conversation. In many matches that could be the difference between killing Edilon with a grape shot and being to low to cast the spells.
While this may be true for the modern field as a whole, it is not true at any given tournament. Right now, you can expect going into a modern tournament that Storm, E-Tron, and GDS will probably be a lot of what you face. The SCG Open last weekend was taken down by that awesome new humans deck that went undefeated because it had strong matchups against these decks (and a lot of others as well) and it was the right choice for the tournament. Playing the meta is part of the skill of modern, and part of what makes it hard. In standard, this happens with rotations forcing everyone to learn new decks entirely. In Modern it only happens because of the rock paper scissors metagame. Modern would get real stale without the diversity that comes with having no absolute "best" deck, and this complicated shifting meta makes the game more competitive. Pro's like this one whining about how the particular skill they have is not suited to the format is a little bit ridiculous.
Our filtering is already so good that the advantage of the thinning from fetches is marginal, and post board Peer through depths/pieces and gifts give us killer selection making the shuffle somewhat irrelevant in most circumstances. The 2-4 damage you will take off your mana base is often relevant, however, and I am surprised that the advantage of less pain from your mana base is not a larger part of this conversation. In many matches that could be the difference between killing Edilon with a grape shot and being to low to cast the spells.