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What I want and the chances of getting them....
Primal Order (0%)- Punishing greedy 4 colour "fair" decks with mono g stompy decks is great in my book. Your strategy is to play all best best and most forgiving removal cards and complain you were beaten by linear decks, which you will complain about until they are banned. Hmmmmmmmm. I find 4 colour BG-X decks ("fair") to be worse than the degenerate combos. Seriously, you want a deck that can destroy any type of permanent and plays all the best dudes almost without drawback? What is the point of the colour pie and deck selection if your deck can do it all and do it better than everyone else? If those degenerate combos so often complained about get removed from the format we would all be playing 4/5 colour decks on the value train. I would love those decks to fear a green stomy deck that puts a fast clock on and finishes with a 4 mana enchantment when the wipes happen, and PO is that type of enchantment.
Daze mentioned previously would boost control and Merfolk style strategies, but would probably put stupid combos over the top somewhere. Infect with daze- ouch. I love lands back to hand and free mechanics, so I will have Ensnare - players playing spells when tapped out leads to interesting games. Hard to make free unbroken spells, but Ensnare is a great example of a balanced one that makes design of critters safer. The manaless green discard fog I would have back too. Take that Mr Infect. Pyrokinesis can be added to the list. I might actually get these, someday, but I am not holding my breath.
Stasis (minus 1000% or hell freezing over) - I just love Stasis and cards like Fevered Visions, ok without Forsaken City it would never be busted, but even two turns of this is enough to irritate a certain kind of player. Can you at least give me Freyalise's Winds . No? Oh well....
I would happily take any one of these......
Winter orb (0%) - mana restriction for all, players take mana for granted' nowadays, we used to have to be careful.
Armageddon (o%)- mana restriction for white - it won't happen, maybe a catastrophe type modal spell @6 might have a slight chance.
Smokestack (1%) - always produces choices for both players, and surprisingly good games with Johnny cards like Trading Post.
Static Orb (0%) - I guess killing people t2 with Goryo's is ok, but slowing the game down is not fun.....
Sulfuric Vortex (o%) would be a nice change from Planeswalkers and Critters.
Tainted Aether - interesting effect similar to smokestack in that its symmetry can be broken and the card wins slowly. Still won't get it, but I can dream.
A whole bunch of Reserved cards like Pendrell Mists, Orim's Chant, Back to Basics, Humility I would love to see back.
Back to reality- almost none of this is ever coming back at any point.
Modern has so many ways to punish mana bases already. Why do we need even more ways to do that? Mono green already has Choke. Judging by your like for Mishra's Workshop type cards, maybe vintage is the format for you.
I'm not much of a competitive player but I've watched a lot of coverage recently, and I was thinking to myself that the format would be very different if these cards were around:
Disrupt is largely fine. Generally inoffensive, although you have to be careful about adding the Spell Pierce counters that tend to benefit fast combo.
Pyro would be great. Burn wouldn't run it, which means red-based decks would get a semi-FoW kind of effect. Are there any linear decks which would run this? Burn in the SB probably, but not main.
Ankh seems like it would be bad. Format doesn't need more damage to punish slower strategies.
Snuff Out would be great to have in modern. Another spell like innocent blood that rewards black decks. Black should have good removal...
TBH, is Snuff Out even better than Dismember? I mean, the no black clause is a real problem, with Kalitas, Tasigur, Gurmag and Rhino (and now also Anafenza) seeing relatively much play. Yes, it costs nothing, but it is a rather steep drawback that you cannot target those high powered threads.
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Tas/angler are only played in one deck and Kalitas is seeing less play because abzan company is tier 2. Snuff out is also a free spell.
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I'm not much of a competitive player but I've watched a lot of coverage recently, and I was thinking to myself that the format would be very different if these cards were around:
Disrupt is largely fine. Generally inoffensive, although you have to be careful about adding the Spell Pierce counters that tend to benefit fast combo.
Pyro would be great. Burn wouldn't run it, which means red-based decks would get a semi-FoW kind of effect. Are there any linear decks which would run this? Burn in the SB probably, but not main.
Ankh seems like it would be bad. Format doesn't need more damage to punish slower strategies.
Snuff Out would be great to have in modern. Another spell like innocent blood that rewards black decks. Black should have good removal...
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AMONKHET got revealed with Nicol Bolas as it's overlord. If there is ever a time for an innocent blood reprint... I'll take that and a busted Nicol Bolas please
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What combo decks do you think would switch to counterspell from what they're currently running?
Put it this way, why would a combo deck with blue in it not play counterspell if it was legal? Other than deprive, there is no blue counterspell at 2 mana that answers everything. The combo deck can use it to: keep themselves alive, protect the combo, etc.
Are there currently any blue combo decks that would use the card? Ad Naus sure doesn't want it. Twin would have but Twin is dead. Scapeshift would, but that shouldn't make it too much better than its tier 2 standing.
Scapeshift, (not a combo deck but blue Tron), Gifts, sideboard of infect, Griselbrand reanimator, Jeskai acendency
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What combo decks do you think would switch to counterspell from what they're currently running?
Put it this way, why would a combo deck with blue in it not play counterspell if it was legal? Other than deprive, there is no blue counterspell at 2 mana that answers everything. The combo deck can use it to: keep themselves alive, protect the combo, etc.
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I still want to see Counterspell get a printing for modern, even if it has to happen through Modern Masters and they make some rule that they can reprint strictly modern cards in that set to avoid blowing up standard.
I really don't want to see counterspell in modern. I would rather see counterspells that have restrictions on them be printed. Counterspell just pushes out almost all other counterspells minus cryptic from seeing any play whatsoever.
The only spells I can see counterspell truly replace would be mana leak. Combo decks would still continue to use remand because it's used more as a cantripping timewalk than an actual counterspell in those decks. Spell Snare and Dispel cost one mana which makes them worth considering still.
Modern could very well use another good interactive card and Counterspell is a known quantity for that slot.
Combo decks would use counterspell because IT PROTECTS THEIR COMBO. If it was printed you would only see Snare being used and the 1 of Cryptic.
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I still want to see Counterspell get a printing for modern, even if it has to happen through Modern Masters and they make some rule that they can reprint strictly modern cards in that set to avoid blowing up standard.
I really don't want to see counterspell in modern. I would rather see counterspells that have restrictions on them be printed. Counterspell just pushes out almost all other counterspells minus cryptic from seeing any play whatsoever.
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Just for your interest, Tog saw quite some play even without Upheaval, since he was basically the best UB finisher back in the days (nothing else came close to it).
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Well, if Tog was good people would have been playing him in Legacy.
You are paying 3 mana for do nothing without protection and full graveyard...
Same with the Astral Slide enchantment and other expensive engine cards (3+ mana) - they are just too slow.
How many modern playable creatures don't see play in legacy (hint a lot). Mr Teeth would probably see play because he can turn on a lot of strats that are already good (delve strats, delirium, etc). I don't know if he is playable, but people would try really hard.
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Just a random thought, but I don't think we will ever get an Impulse reprint because of variations in text on differentprintings, which could result in confusion. That said I can't see a reason for a functional reprint of Impulse.
You know that wizards just printed a slightly worse version already right? Impulse isn't coming because they already gave us a fixed version.
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The burden of proof here though should be on those arguing FOR the reprint, not against it, when we are talking about a potentially format warping card. Modern has issues, but Strix does not seem like a card that fixes any of them. Dealing with creatures is not and has never been something that Modern control decks have struggled with. What we REALLY need in the format is stuff like Counterspell or Miscalculation, and adding Strix to the format I fear would make WotC more reluctant to print those much-needed answers in the future.
Strix is also a card that makes Control's good MUs better but doesn't help its bad MUs. If we want to make control stronger in Modern, we should print cards that give control more of a chance against Scapeshift, Tron, etc, not by improving its already good matchups which is what Strix would do.
As a Grixis player, I don't want/need another card that's good against Infect and Jund, we already have a plethora of those.
That's not how this works. The people who are ban list whistle blowers have the burden of proof to provide as to how the card is "format warping." I don't see how you play grixis control if you don't think that strix doesn't help our terrible merfolk/small zoo matchup that the deck has. That's literally all the card does. Dimir is TERRIBLE right now as a color type and it needs all the help it can get.
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You can't even compare Innocent Blood and Baleful Strix as the latter is way more powerful card. I would be fine with Innocent Blood but can't say this for Baleful Strix.
What exactly is Strix breaking? Is a Tier 1 Grixis deck such a problem? I'm sure it would see about as much play as Jeskai currently (~6% of the format), and that might be optimistic. Is this Tier 2 to Tier 1 jump so scary? Seems like it increases diversity across the board, to say nothing of all the Tier 3 or lower decks Strix helps.
Someone please make a case about what DECK Strix breaks. I don't care about how Strix is a broken card in a vacuum or the theoretical discussion of it being a 2-for-1. What DECK does the card break and why?
Then tell me why on earth Grixis Control should be tier 1 when we already have Jeskai Control in that secrion. I don't understand why we suddenly need two control decks in tier 1 and that when both are doing very fine. It would break Grikis Control and that for no reason (like I said it's doing very fine and doesn't need any help).
Baleful Strix gives all UBx decks big help against any deck that tries to do something with creatures and/or play fair Magic.
In what world is Jeskai a tier 1 deck right now? Baleful strix does not break grixis control whatsoever. The card just gives the deck a better aggro matchup. It doesn't fix grixis's horrible matchup to Tron or to burn. I think you don't want grixis control to be tier 1 because it beats jund.
Man look at metagame numbers and you can see that Jeskai control is tier 1 (modern nexus for example). Grixis on the other hand is good tier 2 deck and is doing good enough. Yes, it has bad aggro matchups but every deck has bad matchups and it doesn't need to be free of them.
And yes. I don't like control but what I hate about this even more is that it got AV, it already had Snapcaster Mage, Grixis has crazy good combo with Snapcaster Mage and Kolaghan's Command, now also has Goblin Dark-Dwellers and some blue players still don't have enough. What I want is them to stop complaining and start enjoying Modern which is in a great shape rather than suggesting unbans that make no sense since none deck needs a help really, it's just fine as it is.
Modern Nexus is ran by Kt who is the main mod of this site. If jeskai was tier 1 he would put the deck in tier 1. Jeskai has had a spike in usage but it needs to retain that for awhile to be tier 1. I do agree that it is better than grixis but not by much. I just think it's funny that you are complaining when you are playing what many consider to be the best deck in modern. You play jund which has historically been one of the best decks in modern history and yet you don't want even want control to be a good archtype because grixis gives jund a bad matchup. Your bias blinds you in seeing how powerful card power is. (control needs snap to function in modern, k-command into snap is super slow to say the least which gets wreaked by relic/rip, etc.)
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Modern has so many ways to punish mana bases already. Why do we need even more ways to do that? Mono green already has Choke. Judging by your like for Mishra's Workshop type cards, maybe vintage is the format for you.
Recoil could be reprinted in the Bolas set since I have a STRONG feeling that it will be a multicolor set.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Tas/angler are only played in one deck and Kalitas is seeing less play because abzan company is tier 2. Snuff out is also a free spell.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Snuff Out would be great to have in modern. Another spell like innocent blood that rewards black decks. Black should have good removal...
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
They can't print that card in standard. Way too strong.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Scapeshift, (not a combo deck but blue Tron), Gifts, sideboard of infect, Griselbrand reanimator, Jeskai acendency
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Put it this way, why would a combo deck with blue in it not play counterspell if it was legal? Other than deprive, there is no blue counterspell at 2 mana that answers everything. The combo deck can use it to: keep themselves alive, protect the combo, etc.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Combo decks would use counterspell because IT PROTECTS THEIR COMBO. If it was printed you would only see Snare being used and the 1 of Cryptic.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
I really don't want to see counterspell in modern. I would rather see counterspells that have restrictions on them be printed. Counterspell just pushes out almost all other counterspells minus cryptic from seeing any play whatsoever.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
I'm getting real salty at these repeated innocent blood reprints. Maro just loves to play with my soul
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
How many modern playable creatures don't see play in legacy (hint a lot). Mr Teeth would probably see play because he can turn on a lot of strats that are already good (delve strats, delirium, etc). I don't know if he is playable, but people would try really hard.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Psychatog would be interesting in modern.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
You know that wizards just printed a slightly worse version already right? Impulse isn't coming because they already gave us a fixed version.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
That's not how this works. The people who are ban list whistle blowers have the burden of proof to provide as to how the card is "format warping." I don't see how you play grixis control if you don't think that strix doesn't help our terrible merfolk/small zoo matchup that the deck has. That's literally all the card does. Dimir is TERRIBLE right now as a color type and it needs all the help it can get.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Modern Nexus is ran by Kt who is the main mod of this site. If jeskai was tier 1 he would put the deck in tier 1. Jeskai has had a spike in usage but it needs to retain that for awhile to be tier 1. I do agree that it is better than grixis but not by much. I just think it's funny that you are complaining when you are playing what many consider to be the best deck in modern. You play jund which has historically been one of the best decks in modern history and yet you don't want even want control to be a good archtype because grixis gives jund a bad matchup. Your bias blinds you in seeing how powerful card power is. (control needs snap to function in modern, k-command into snap is super slow to say the least which gets wreaked by relic/rip, etc.)
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)