if skullclamp is the only banned card, the format would be pretty balanced.
well not quite. I would say that hypergen, disciple of the the vault, dark depths, and sfm on the ban list would make a balanced format. I would honestly just take the old extedned ban list and add, hypergen, dark depths, and sfm. Then I would take aether vial off because it has proven that it is not broken.
No, it really wouldn't. In terms of being fair and balanced (but with no restrictions on speed) you need Clamp, Disciple of the Vault, Hypergenesis, Dark Depths, and Stoneforge Mystic banned. Hypergenesis can go off on turn 1 with frightening regularity (Land, Chancellor of the Tangle, Simian Spirit Guide, Violent Outburst for example), Dark Depths because it's about as over the top as Emrakul but requires far less from the deck builders, Disciple needs to be banned because it makes Affinity's turn 2 kills way too consistent, Clamp is glaring design mistake, as is Stoneforge Mystic.
In this format, combo would be king. R/x Storm, Shoal Infect, and Pyromancer's Ascension would probably be your top decks in the initial three months. Once everyone figured out their hate options, I suspect it would end up being UGb Gifts/Post, Zoo, Shoal Infect, and RWU Affinity as Tier 1.
Already tested hypergen before they banned it. If you added things like SSG you really killed your threat density. Even with SSG you only had about a 6% chance of going off on turn 1, a ~22% chance on turn 2, and a ~88% chance of going off on turn 3. It was quite broke, but it doesn't turn 1 win anymore than storm does.
Also shoal, storm, and ascension all such in a powerful meta game. They are just too weak to keep up with control. Elves would probably be the best combo deck if DD and Hypergen were banned. It is also pretty easy to destroy, but it takes slightly more specific cards. Also remember that zoo was good enough to compete with DD, hypergen, elves, dredge, ect back in old extended, and it also had more top 8s than any other deck in that format.
So going from a format thats based around creatures and apparently isnt balanced, would all of a sudden become balanced if you had a format void of creatures and played speel heavy combo decks.
The format is closer to being balanced now then it would be if there was no ban list. Now its aggro>combo>control. Remove the ban list it would become Combo>...................................................control>.................................aggro. It would go from heavy creature format to no need for creatures at all.
this is just not true. The ban list does need to exist, but only for broken cards. Remember that zoo had the most top 8s in Mrd-forward extended against decks like hypergen, dredge, DD, and artifact based control.
This is a meta break down with this ban list: Skullclamp, top, dispicle of the vault, aether vial.
Affinity 16
Ascension Combo 2
B/W Aggro 3
Bant Aggro 25
Boros Deck Wins 12
Burn 24
Combo Elves 21
Dark Depths 96
Death Cloud 11
Demigod Stompy 17
Doran Rock 10
Dragonstorm 1
Dredge 27
Faeries 25
G/W Aggro 4
Gifts Rock 1
Hive Mind Combo 4
Hypergenesis 18
Idiot Life 9
Living End 9
Merfolk 5
Mono Red Aggro 2
Next Level Blue 10
Reveillark 1
Scapeshift Combo 76
Smallpox 11
Teachings 12
The Rock 5
The Tezzerator 19
Thopter Combo 29
U/W Control 3
White Weenie 4
Zoo 120
Yeah combo and control totally dominated this format right? You could literally play any deck type you wanted and multiple versions of any deck type you wanted and make it to a top 8 finish. So thats a bad format right? Now I'm a realist so somethings would change, but not much as long as a ban list does exist for broken cards. Hell look at all of the aggro decks that aren't zoo up there....but nactl and punishng fire made other aggro decks unplayable right...wrong. Zoo dominating made all other aggro decks unplayable. Fast combo and powerful control existed in this meta which means that zoo had to share some time at the top with other decks. Most of these other decks struggle with bant aggro, rdw, boros, ect. This is called a meta game cycle and the meta game allowing decks to find niches to exist instead of banning every damn thing.
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Don't forget you'd need to ban Sword of the Meek since thats the real reason that DDT/Theps was so degenerate, not Dark Depths. Dark Depths was merely a good deck that was relatively fragile without a backup plan. Sword of the Meek would definitely need to be banned before Dark Depths is banned.
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SFM slipknot? really? SFM was fine. sure, it would lure a lot of people into white, but it was never broken outside of standard. when she was legal, it wasn't whoever had her won. not even close. so many decks didn't even want her. she was helpful in aggro, getting swords, and helpful in control, getting bskull. beyond that, she wasn't much. sure, half the time if your opponent didn't have removal for her right away, they would lose, or be at a huge disadvantage. but that's similar to goyf atm.
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i'm thinking affinity with skullclamp would be best. that's just ridiculous.
SFM slipknot? really? SFM was fine. sure, it would lure a lot of people into white, but it was never broken outside of standard. when she was legal, it wasn't whoever had her won. not even close. so many decks didn't even want her. she was helpful in aggro, getting swords, and helpful in control, getting bskull. beyond that, she wasn't much. sure, half the time if your opponent didn't have removal for her right away, they would lose, or be at a huge disadvantage. but that's similar to goyf atm.
I am not sure I agree with that, but I was disappointed when I read she was banned. I was not surprised, but I was hoping I would have had a chance to play it. It made goyf-less Zoo a decent deck, which is what I had built before Modern was announced when I was going to try and get in to Legacy a little bit. I have never played with the card outside of EDH, but I can see how it could be nuts enough to ban.
Don't forget you'd need to ban Sword of the Meek since thats the real reason that DDT/Theps was so degenerate, not Dark Depths. Dark Depths was merely a good deck that was relatively fragile without a backup plan. Sword of the Meek would definitely need to be banned before Dark Depths is banned.
Really? no DD was so good because it could run both a fast combo that was pretty easy to disrupt and a slow win condition that was moderately hard to disrupt. The UW gifts decks that ran thoper sword were perfectly balanced in the meta. Also DD wasn't fragile without the back up plan. It had ways to recur things or it could just go UB/UBG tempo on you. Believe it or not DD -t had more top 8s than DDT did even after DDT became the craze.
SFM slipknot? really? SFM was fine. sure, it would lure a lot of people into white, but it was never broken outside of standard. when she was legal, it wasn't whoever had her won. not even close. so many decks didn't even want her. she was helpful in aggro, getting swords, and helpful in control, getting bskull. beyond that, she wasn't much. sure, half the time if your opponent didn't have removal for her right away, they would lose, or be at a huge disadvantage. but that's similar to goyf atm.
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i'm thinking affinity with skullclamp would be best. that's just ridiculous.
SFM would be broken with sword of the meek and skullclamp. Sword of the meek would be a fine card in the meta if you could only search for it with gifts or muddle the mixture. Having a slightly more expensive enlightened tutor would make it too good.
Also affinity still folds to hate even with artifact lands and skullclamp. One resolves kataki or even ancient grudge and the deck durdles enough not to mention the fact that any burn or spot removal is relevant against it too.
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Really? no DD was so good because it could run both a fast combo that was pretty easy to disrupt and a slow win condition that was moderately hard to disrupt. The UW gifts decks that ran thoper sword were perfectly balanced in the meta. Also DD wasn't fragile without the back up plan. It had ways to recur things or it could just go UB/UBG tempo on you. Believe it or not DD -t had more top 8s than DDT did even after DDT became the craze.
Source? Also not to mention that Sword of the Meek reduces diversity immensely, every single control deck was just another Thopter/Sword varient, Thopter Bant, Theps, Thopter Fae, Tezzfoundary, heck even Thopter Teachings. You just refuse to admit that Thopter Sword is a busted combo, its good enough for legacy (although its not great because the countertop shell isn't good right now) where as DD sucks even with better support cards. Not to mention when Gavin ran OE, DD wasn't even a problem, it actually wasn't even that good. Its definitely Thopter Sword which pushed DDT over the edge and it warped the format during its tenure, cards like Extirpate and Leyline were everywhere in an attempt to beat the thopter combo.
EDIT: I actually have evidence to the contrary that DDT actually had more top 8's than DD every had, if you look at the Dark Depths category, the majority of the 96 recorded decks are DDT and not DD.
Source? Also not to mention that Sword of the Meek reduces diversity immensely, every single control deck was just another Thopter/Sword varient, Thopter Bant, Theps, Thopter Fae, Tezzfoundary, heck even Thopter Teachings. You just refuse to admit that Thopter Sword is a busted combo, its good enough for legacy (although its not great because the countertop shell isn't good right now) where as DD sucks even with better support cards. Not to mention when Gavin ran OE, DD wasn't even a problem, it actually wasn't even that good. Its definitely Thopter Sword which pushed DDT over the edge and it warped the format during its tenure, cards like Extirpate and Leyline were everywhere in an attempt to beat the thopter combo.
Well, to be entirely fair, no. What pushed DDT over the top really was that the two combos were hard to hate out when paired together. DD combo was fairly easy to hate out, but that left you open to the suddenly infinitely more dangerous Thopter Combo. Thopter Combo could be easily hated out, but doing so made you more vulnerable to DD. There were a few cards that could work well against both (Engineered Explosives, Path, Repeal, Trickblind) and the meta adapted.
Notice how we get more healthy discussion of a NON EXISTENT format than the very real modern. God.
I dunno if DD would be able to consistently keep up with Elves. It would probably rely on being a bit more disruptive than other combo decks. DDT, Elves, and some form of highly disruptive U/W, or Esper Control would probably account for the tier one. Chancellor of the Annex as a possible disruption/win con tool, Thoughtseize, Mana Tithe, Mental Misstep, so forth.
Zoo would be good, but too slow for the format. It would get absolutely shredded by combo, and the large amounts of tempo-oriented counters would probably keep it from going higher than 50/50 against control.
The format would end up similar to vintage; efficient combos, and disruptive aggro.
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I dunno if DD would be able to consistently keep up with Elves. It would probably rely on being a bit more disruptive than other combo decks. DDT, Elves, and some form of highly disruptive U/W, or Esper Control would probably account for the tier one. Chancellor of the Annex as a possible disruption/win con tool, Thoughtseize, Mana Tithe, Mental Misstep, so forth.
Zoo would be good, but too slow for the format. It would get absolutely shredded by combo, and the large amounts of tempo-oriented counters would probably keep it from going higher than 50/50 against control.
The format would end up similar to vintage; efficient combos, and disruptive aggro.
dd was quite good against elves, and control owned every combo. As busted as DD was that was the best format in the history of magic other than rav-tsp standard. You could honestly play 10 different decks and top 8 a tournament. It was skill intensive and fun as hell.
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dd was quite good against elves, and control owned every combo. As busted as DD was that was the best format in the history of magic other than rav-tsp standard. You could honestly play 10 different decks and top 8 a tournament. It was skill intensive and fun as hell.
I have to disagree with this. The format had maybe 4 top decks and a bunch of fringe decks that could catch the meta sleeping if timed correctly. It was mainly a control dominated format that every once in a while an aggro deck or combo deck could slip in and steal one. But the decks were ultra tight with little play in the builds which meant a ton of mirror matches. At least thats what I saw when I played it.
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I dunno if DD would be able to consistently keep up with Elves. It would probably rely on being a bit more disruptive than other combo decks. DDT, Elves, and some form of highly disruptive U/W, or Esper Control would probably account for the tier one. Chancellor of the Annex as a possible disruption/win con tool, Thoughtseize, Mana Tithe, Mental Misstep, so forth.
Zoo would be good, but too slow for the format. It would get absolutely shredded by combo, and the large amounts of tempo-oriented counters would probably keep it from going higher than 50/50 against control.
The format would end up similar to vintage; efficient combos, and disruptive aggro.
funny that you'd mention that chancellor. He/she is the reason why I think hypergen would be so outta control.
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You just refuse to admit that Zoo is a busted deck, it's good enough for legacy where Thopter Swords isn't even good.
I will admit that Zoo might be a little too strong but thats mostly because there is nothing like Wasteland to keep the deck in check so it can't play all 5 colors. But the deck is the epitome of fair decks, it plays dudes and turns them sideways and has creature removal and burn. Sure these cards are all really efficiently costed but they don't do anything unfair. It doesn't break any of the fundamental rules of the game unlike Thopter Sword.
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Old extended was pretty good, but keep in mind we have had many new cards that have entered the cardpool since it stopped being a format:
Mental Misstep - would see a lot of play in the DDT deck. It would probably allow it to beat aggro decks much more easily.
Snapcaster Mage - Another control all-star. DDT would probably use some.
Batterskull - Would lead to either this or Stoneforge being banned.
Delver of Secrets - Not sure if it would be good enough anywhere, but still it is something to think about.
Mox Opal - This might push affinity overt the edge as a deck to beat. Disciple of the Vault would not be enough of a ban to keep the deck in check.
Glimmerpost - 12post was not a deck in the old extended, only 8post. Would this create a new contender, or would it also push some decks out of the format?
funny that you'd mention that chancellor. He/she is the reason why I think hypergen would be so outta control.
It'd absolutely be my favorite tech in the new format. Hypergen can absolutely crush with it. Reveal it turn 1, the opponent gets time walked, go off turn 2, drop Chancellor, then smash face while their combo deck gets wrecked? Control could try and give you fits with a PtE, but that's why I'd store chancellor in the SB. I'd say Gaea's Vengeance would be the anti-control Gen target of choice.
Glimmerpost - 12post was not a deck in the old extended, only 8post. Would this create a new contender, or would it also push some decks out of the format?
That deck was ****ing terrible in Modern until they removed Hypergen and Elves from the format, not to mention that all the good control cards were already banned. 12post would be nothing compared to the rest of the format.
Control W/a combo finisher, and then Hypergen with disruptive elements are my pick for the format. Control would have tons of potential for broken starts. Turn 1 Chrome Mox into Stoneforge Mystic w/mental misstep counter backup, tutor up a Sword of the meek, then go off on turn 3 or 4 with counter mana up. Hypergen would use much the same strategy, with highly disruptive fatties to stomp off of.
I think this thread is gradually showing us that Wizards should have tried making Modern a Budget Vintage with no P9, instead of a budget legacy without enough disruption. You'll also notice that the season of "Degenerate combo," was one of the most diverse modern seasons ever. (Shoal, Storm, Ascension, Twin were all viable).
It'd absolutely be my favorite tech in the new format. Hypergen can absolutely crush with it. Reveal it turn 1, the opponent gets time walked, go off turn 2, drop Chancellor, then smash face while their combo deck gets wrecked? Control could try and give you fits with a PtE, but that's why I'd store chancellor in the SB. I'd say Gaea's Vengeance would be the anti-control Gen target of choice.
That deck was ****ing terrible in Modern until they removed Hypergen and Elves from the format, not to mention that all the good control cards were already banned. 12post would be nothing compared to the rest of the format.
Control W/a combo finisher, and then Hypergen with disruptive elements are my pick for the format. Control would have tons of potential for broken starts. Turn 1 Chrome Mox into Stoneforge Mystic w/mental misstep counter backup, tutor up a Sword of the meek, then go off on turn 3 or 4 with counter mana up. Hypergen would use much the same strategy, with highly disruptive fatties to stomp off of.
I think this thread is gradually showing us that Wizards should have tried making Modern a Budget Vintage with no P9, instead of a budget legacy without enough disruption. You'll also notice that the season of "Degenerate combo," was one of the most diverse modern seasons ever. (Shoal, Storm, Ascension, Twin were all viable).
i can actually see force of will getting a reprint for the very simple reason that it stops combo early and lets wizards create and reprint cards with a safety net knowing that some random deck wont stick around and dominate for long amounts of time.
as for unbanning everything... dark depths, hypergenesis, and storm would be far too good for anything else. as always dredge and affinity would probably start of strong then die down and be mostly meta choices and dark horses mostly due to the amount of hate they attract.
Fae and stoneblade would be too slow for the format. Just think about that for a second. If you couldnt have some type of board position by turn 2 at the latest you lose.
well not quite. I would say that hypergen, disciple of the the vault, dark depths, and sfm on the ban list would make a balanced format. I would honestly just take the old extedned ban list and add, hypergen, dark depths, and sfm. Then I would take aether vial off because it has proven that it is not broken.
Already tested hypergen before they banned it. If you added things like SSG you really killed your threat density. Even with SSG you only had about a 6% chance of going off on turn 1, a ~22% chance on turn 2, and a ~88% chance of going off on turn 3. It was quite broke, but it doesn't turn 1 win anymore than storm does.
Also shoal, storm, and ascension all such in a powerful meta game. They are just too weak to keep up with control. Elves would probably be the best combo deck if DD and Hypergen were banned. It is also pretty easy to destroy, but it takes slightly more specific cards. Also remember that zoo was good enough to compete with DD, hypergen, elves, dredge, ect back in old extended, and it also had more top 8s than any other deck in that format.
this is just not true. The ban list does need to exist, but only for broken cards. Remember that zoo had the most top 8s in Mrd-forward extended against decks like hypergen, dredge, DD, and artifact based control.
This is a meta break down with this ban list: Skullclamp, top, dispicle of the vault, aether vial.
Ascension Combo 2
B/W Aggro 3
Bant Aggro 25
Boros Deck Wins 12
Burn 24
Combo Elves 21
Dark Depths 96
Death Cloud 11
Demigod Stompy 17
Doran Rock 10
Dragonstorm 1
Dredge 27
Faeries 25
G/W Aggro 4
Gifts Rock 1
Hive Mind Combo 4
Hypergenesis 18
Idiot Life 9
Living End 9
Merfolk 5
Mono Red Aggro 2
Next Level Blue 10
Reveillark 1
Scapeshift Combo 76
Smallpox 11
Teachings 12
The Rock 5
The Tezzerator 19
Thopter Combo 29
U/W Control 3
White Weenie 4
Zoo 120
Yeah combo and control totally dominated this format right? You could literally play any deck type you wanted and multiple versions of any deck type you wanted and make it to a top 8 finish. So thats a bad format right? Now I'm a realist so somethings would change, but not much as long as a ban list does exist for broken cards. Hell look at all of the aggro decks that aren't zoo up there....but nactl and punishng fire made other aggro decks unplayable right...wrong. Zoo dominating made all other aggro decks unplayable. Fast combo and powerful control existed in this meta which means that zoo had to share some time at the top with other decks. Most of these other decks struggle with bant aggro, rdw, boros, ect. This is called a meta game cycle and the meta game allowing decks to find niches to exist instead of banning every damn thing.
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Hypergenesis would probably be the second best deck, because it is Misstep resilient.
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Really? no DD was so good because it could run both a fast combo that was pretty easy to disrupt and a slow win condition that was moderately hard to disrupt. The UW gifts decks that ran thoper sword were perfectly balanced in the meta. Also DD wasn't fragile without the back up plan. It had ways to recur things or it could just go UB/UBG tempo on you. Believe it or not DD -t had more top 8s than DDT did even after DDT became the craze.
SFM would be broken with sword of the meek and skullclamp. Sword of the meek would be a fine card in the meta if you could only search for it with gifts or muddle the mixture. Having a slightly more expensive enlightened tutor would make it too good.
Also affinity still folds to hate even with artifact lands and skullclamp. One resolves kataki or even ancient grudge and the deck durdles enough not to mention the fact that any burn or spot removal is relevant against it too.
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Source? Also not to mention that Sword of the Meek reduces diversity immensely, every single control deck was just another Thopter/Sword varient, Thopter Bant, Theps, Thopter Fae, Tezzfoundary, heck even Thopter Teachings. You just refuse to admit that Thopter Sword is a busted combo, its good enough for legacy (although its not great because the countertop shell isn't good right now) where as DD sucks even with better support cards. Not to mention when Gavin ran OE, DD wasn't even a problem, it actually wasn't even that good. Its definitely Thopter Sword which pushed DDT over the edge and it warped the format during its tenure, cards like Extirpate and Leyline were everywhere in an attempt to beat the thopter combo.
EDIT: I actually have evidence to the contrary that DDT actually had more top 8's than DD every had, if you look at the Dark Depths category, the majority of the 96 recorded decks are DDT and not DD.
Well, to be entirely fair, no. What pushed DDT over the top really was that the two combos were hard to hate out when paired together. DD combo was fairly easy to hate out, but that left you open to the suddenly infinitely more dangerous Thopter Combo. Thopter Combo could be easily hated out, but doing so made you more vulnerable to DD. There were a few cards that could work well against both (Engineered Explosives, Path, Repeal, Trickblind) and the meta adapted.
I dunno if DD would be able to consistently keep up with Elves. It would probably rely on being a bit more disruptive than other combo decks. DDT, Elves, and some form of highly disruptive U/W, or Esper Control would probably account for the tier one. Chancellor of the Annex as a possible disruption/win con tool, Thoughtseize, Mana Tithe, Mental Misstep, so forth.
Zoo would be good, but too slow for the format. It would get absolutely shredded by combo, and the large amounts of tempo-oriented counters would probably keep it from going higher than 50/50 against control.
The format would end up similar to vintage; efficient combos, and disruptive aggro.
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dd was quite good against elves, and control owned every combo. As busted as DD was that was the best format in the history of magic other than rav-tsp standard. You could honestly play 10 different decks and top 8 a tournament. It was skill intensive and fun as hell.
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I have to disagree with this. The format had maybe 4 top decks and a bunch of fringe decks that could catch the meta sleeping if timed correctly. It was mainly a control dominated format that every once in a while an aggro deck or combo deck could slip in and steal one. But the decks were ultra tight with little play in the builds which meant a ton of mirror matches. At least thats what I saw when I played it.
funny that you'd mention that chancellor. He/she is the reason why I think hypergen would be so outta control.
I will admit that Zoo might be a little too strong but thats mostly because there is nothing like Wasteland to keep the deck in check so it can't play all 5 colors. But the deck is the epitome of fair decks, it plays dudes and turns them sideways and has creature removal and burn. Sure these cards are all really efficiently costed but they don't do anything unfair. It doesn't break any of the fundamental rules of the game unlike Thopter Sword.
Mental Misstep - would see a lot of play in the DDT deck. It would probably allow it to beat aggro decks much more easily.
Snapcaster Mage - Another control all-star. DDT would probably use some.
Batterskull - Would lead to either this or Stoneforge being banned.
Delver of Secrets - Not sure if it would be good enough anywhere, but still it is something to think about.
Mox Opal - This might push affinity overt the edge as a deck to beat. Disciple of the Vault would not be enough of a ban to keep the deck in check.
Glimmerpost - 12post was not a deck in the old extended, only 8post. Would this create a new contender, or would it also push some decks out of the format?
It'd absolutely be my favorite tech in the new format. Hypergen can absolutely crush with it. Reveal it turn 1, the opponent gets time walked, go off turn 2, drop Chancellor, then smash face while their combo deck gets wrecked? Control could try and give you fits with a PtE, but that's why I'd store chancellor in the SB. I'd say Gaea's Vengeance would be the anti-control Gen target of choice.
That deck was ****ing terrible in Modern until they removed Hypergen and Elves from the format, not to mention that all the good control cards were already banned. 12post would be nothing compared to the rest of the format.
Control W/a combo finisher, and then Hypergen with disruptive elements are my pick for the format. Control would have tons of potential for broken starts. Turn 1 Chrome Mox into Stoneforge Mystic w/mental misstep counter backup, tutor up a Sword of the meek, then go off on turn 3 or 4 with counter mana up. Hypergen would use much the same strategy, with highly disruptive fatties to stomp off of.
There's quite a bit of good tech against ThopterBlade, like Suture Priest maybe, even Burning-Tree Shaman. You also can't underestimate potential Chrome Mox->Island, Echoing Truth away all the tokens, even Echoing Decay.
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Burning-Tree Shaman and Suture Priest wouldn't do much since you gain one life for each token you make with the foundry.
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I'd totally play on cockatrice.
Some of us already did prior to the format becoming official. It was ugly to say the least.
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T1: Hypergenesis, DD, Zoo
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as for unbanning everything... dark depths, hypergenesis, and storm would be far too good for anything else. as always dredge and affinity would probably start of strong then die down and be mostly meta choices and dark horses mostly due to the amount of hate they attract.
Fae and stoneblade would be too slow for the format. Just think about that for a second. If you couldnt have some type of board position by turn 2 at the latest you lose.
Yeah, Faeries would get utterly stomped in Modern if there were no banned list. Bitterblossom, Ancestral Vision, and Umezawa's Jitte are just too slow.