so you only have 2 cards in your hand, and one permanent worth mentioning in play? I don't think you would be winning that one. It would slow the game down quite a bit though. I bet that game would go to time lol.
This type of play will beat almost any deck in the format, assuming you put it in the right deck to begin with. Follow up with an LD spell and watch your opponent scoop.
Elf clamp would probably be the most broken deck. It could probably go off turn 2 with ridiculous consistency, having 2 engines in the form of glimpse + clamp. Hypergenesis can't hold a candle to that in terms of power level IMO short of a godhand including SSG, cascade spell, 2 lands, urabrask, and emrakul.
I could even see elf clamp maybe running SFM in order to tutor up skullclamp.
But either way, the format would be quite degenerate.
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Just like in old extended, I don't think Hypergenesis would be a problem, it's too easy to hate compared to other combo decks like DDT. Zoo would probably make an appearance as always, adapting to the new meta with adecuate hate cards like it did in old extended, adopting Bant Charm and Damping Matrix in the sideboard. Stoneblade is another strong candidate, maybe in a Bant shell or the typical UW based control list. Valakut might be a player too.
Some decks that wouldn't be able to compete IMO are Faeries (wasn't tier 1 in old extended and the only new toy it gains is Mental Misstep, not enough IMO), 12 Post (too slow compared with Elves, Affinity and Dark Depths) and most actual modern decks like Jund, Splinter Twin and UR Storm. Dredge would be marginally competitive at best, just like in old extended.
It could turn out into an interesting format, or maybe it would be a disaster, a combo fest, or yet another format dominated by DDT, we'll never know I guess.
What about Umezawa's Jitte? I have an old Zoo deck and noticed it wouldn't be modern legal because of the 3x Jitte's I have in the deck. I guess they felt the Jitte was too powerful or something in this format. I'm guessing they felt Jitte is more of problem than Tamagoyf. If I ever wanted to fix up the deck so it would be modern legal then I would have to get Tamagoyf. I feel it's awfully expensive since you can get a playset of Jitte's for less than the price of 1 Tamagoyf.
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White Chancellor was good. Green Chancellor, of course, was kind of bad. Winning turn 2 is much better than winning turn 1.
The deck really only loses against multiple counterspells early on, but is resilient to Mental Misstep, Spell Snare which makes it so good.
This type of play will beat almost any deck in the format, assuming you put it in the right deck to begin with. Follow up with an LD spell and watch your opponent scoop.
I could even see elf clamp maybe running SFM in order to tutor up skullclamp.
But either way, the format would be quite degenerate.
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Just like in old extended, I don't think Hypergenesis would be a problem, it's too easy to hate compared to other combo decks like DDT. Zoo would probably make an appearance as always, adapting to the new meta with adecuate hate cards like it did in old extended, adopting Bant Charm and Damping Matrix in the sideboard. Stoneblade is another strong candidate, maybe in a Bant shell or the typical UW based control list. Valakut might be a player too.
Some decks that wouldn't be able to compete IMO are Faeries (wasn't tier 1 in old extended and the only new toy it gains is Mental Misstep, not enough IMO), 12 Post (too slow compared with Elves, Affinity and Dark Depths) and most actual modern decks like Jund, Splinter Twin and UR Storm. Dredge would be marginally competitive at best, just like in old extended.
It could turn out into an interesting format, or maybe it would be a disaster, a combo fest, or yet another format dominated by DDT, we'll never know I guess.