I just feel a Walker deck right now looks a more versatile Dragon Deck where your options are limited in the first couple turns. And there is the matter of which colors are optimal. I mean Atraxa is great in Commander but 4 Colors in Modern...nah 3 is far as it goes.
I would agree Modern should pick one. Either we want card selection to be good and thus card selection should be good in the color whose core is card selection or we dont want card selection to be good in such a case then Looting and to a lesser extent Stirrings should get banned cause Green and Red should not have better card selection then Blue if the color pie matters as much as guys like MARO claim. I am fine either way personally.
I am using Draw generally as in it draws card and is better then serum and opt. Since the discard is not a negative in dredge or phoenix decks and you can play it twice.
Phoenix is better you dont actually hard cast it, it has recursion, its only negative is less damage after you power up mander.
Faithless Looting powers the two top decks in the Format in Dredge and Phoenix. I find it hilarious Red has the Best Draw Spell and the best Flier in Modern. While Blue and White cry in the corner. Granted Faithless Looting is safe until end of Summer/start of Fall at the earliest as we have Modern Horizons and the London Mulligan rule is tested.
Reading Starcity and Handy's article, Council's Judgement would be a great card, turn 3 Board Wipe that exiles just what you need next to Containment Priest to join Terminus to fight Phoenix and Dredge in UWx Control Decks.
I mean 30 decks always exist. Cause plenty of people in Modern play what they love, which more power to them is great, play your pet deck. But what is winning at tournies is what should set balance. Right now its clear you abuse Looting Recursion with Phoenix or Dredge, you try GDS or you hope you get lucky. I think those three are the clear top of the field right now.
Also people get to tunneled on overall deck diversity. I am more concerned with archetype diversity, conversion rates and what is making the top 8 (and top 32 to a lesser degree). Basically percentages are what matter not absolute number of decks played. Right now UWx Control is looking pretty dead. Yeah Yeah Jace and Teferi kept it alive for awhile, Summer was great, but it needs help everywhere else on the curve at 1-3 CMC. And UB Control can only get anything done with one its best pilots so that is hardly a ringing endorsement.
If I had to guess why TitanShift decks work right is one no ones worry about them and two I say its because the main trouble decks have inevitability they will get you eventually unless you exile or terminus most of their creatures but they don't kill you fast. Whereas Shift can 100 or I guess 20 to 0.
Do they have a Dredge Lover in Play testing? I think someone told me Cheon is a Dredge Lover but I don't really follow the names enough in the pro scene to know if that is true.
Still the truth will be revealed if Containment Priest doesn't get printed in Horizons.
You would think WOTC would hate Drege but I suppose it still mostly wins by swinging in with creatures.
Ah my bad. Yeah no bans until after the new London Mulligan Rule and Horizons come out so not until May or June I guess. I am looking more at Horizon to boost Control and Midrange in the face of aggro and grave recursion abuse more then the Mulligan though. I say combo but my impression is WOTC likes combo shackled.
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I was under the impression that graveyard recursion was a type of combo, at least in most cases, with exceptions being things where the recursion is built into the card and doesn't require other cards to trigger it, like things with undying, unearth, or persist, but that things like Zombify, Arclite Phoenix and Prized Amalgam were essentially combo cards.
Fair enough but when I say anti combo I mean WOTC is anti combo decks that don't rely upon on Creatures swinging in for Wins.
Ah my bad. Yeah no bans until after the new London Mulligan Rule and Horizons come out so not until May or June I guess. I am looking more at Horizon to boost Control and Midrange in the face of aggro and grave recursion abuse more then the Mulligan though. I say combo but my impression is WOTC likes combo shackled.
I dont think they will ban until after Horizons either. What is the verdict on the London Mulligan? Seems like the usual suspects won anyway carried by Looting so lets hope Horizons brings the means to put Phoenix and Dredge in check. Control and Midrange need some serious help lol. Presumably lower on the curve.
I mean its TNN, a strong counter, or a strong draw spell.
Those are the only options that a come to mind. it better not be counterspell though. Now counterspell should be in the set sure...but not as the major blue card.
Phoenix is better you dont actually hard cast it, it has recursion, its only negative is less damage after you power up mander.
Reading Starcity and Handy's article, Council's Judgement would be a great card, turn 3 Board Wipe that exiles just what you need next to Containment Priest to join Terminus to fight Phoenix and Dredge in UWx Control Decks.
Also people get to tunneled on overall deck diversity. I am more concerned with archetype diversity, conversion rates and what is making the top 8 (and top 32 to a lesser degree). Basically percentages are what matter not absolute number of decks played. Right now UWx Control is looking pretty dead. Yeah Yeah Jace and Teferi kept it alive for awhile, Summer was great, but it needs help everywhere else on the curve at 1-3 CMC. And UB Control can only get anything done with one its best pilots so that is hardly a ringing endorsement.
If I had to guess why TitanShift decks work right is one no ones worry about them and two I say its because the main trouble decks have inevitability they will get you eventually unless you exile or terminus most of their creatures but they don't kill you fast. Whereas Shift can 100 or I guess 20 to 0.
Well against Recursion in general is what I was targeting.
Still the truth will be revealed if Containment Priest doesn't get printed in Horizons.
You would think WOTC would hate Drege but I suppose it still mostly wins by swinging in with creatures.
Fair enough but when I say anti combo I mean WOTC is anti combo decks that don't rely upon on Creatures swinging in for Wins.
Those are the only options that a come to mind. it better not be counterspell though. Now counterspell should be in the set sure...but not as the major blue card.