Why persist in talking about blue? People are aware of delver/tempo/aggro in blue. Thats not what people are driving at, I bet I could find 10 posts in the last 3 pages that spell it out as REACTIVE blue.
Go nuts with your aggro/tempo plan, thats still not the topic at hand.
That a combo as slow as that is not contained. They have removed nearly any way to answer cards efficiently, to the point where a sorcery speed combo that cannot happen before Turn 4 and requires a permanent to remain on the field unanswered for that time, is wrecking havoc.
I know people say 'well its Modern viable' but I really dont think it is, and people are clamoring for it to be banned out of Standard.
Jace or Preordain will come off, I'll...not sure but I'm positive something is coming off the ban list for Modern to distract from the ***** show that will be Standard getting hit with another ban hammer.
I'm still stunned that Copy Cat is a boogeyman in that format, stunned.
When a scg modern stream has 2x more viewers than a gp hosted by wotc you know where the better format is. Say what you want about bans/unbans but it's clear that modern is the premiere mtg format.
Saw someone say people are getting fired over how bad standard is? That seems a bit crazy but if they ban 2 more cards like ktk said...ugh.
We don't need counter magic to police broken things. We have the mother may I plan in place where WotC bans anything that looks broken. WotC is in essence the tier 1 blue reactive deck.
I dont think it's needed. In fact, it ISNT needed. There is no SSG deck in the top tier. Sun and Moon is still mostly a do nothing from what I have seen, and no combo deck is winning pre turn 4 enough.
Modern hasn't gotten better, outside of Eldrazi winter, it's always been better, the gap is just wider now because standard is less good than it has been.
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No unbans for REACTIVE blue to try and utilize tomorrow? I assume you will be disappointed with the next 70 pages of this thread.
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Go nuts with your aggro/tempo plan, thats still not the topic at hand.
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I know people say 'well its Modern viable' but I really dont think it is, and people are clamoring for it to be banned out of Standard.
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Saying Twin doesnt count is splitting hairs to me.
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I'm still stunned that Copy Cat is a boogeyman in that format, stunned.
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Saw someone say people are getting fired over how bad standard is? That seems a bit crazy but if they ban 2 more cards like ktk said...ugh.
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And to many, that is exactly the issue.
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We need a sticky with community defined terms, badly.
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