Flame Slash killing everything in Living End. And I am sure we are all grateful to learn that Flame Slash does not excite Rashad. What an insightful bunch of comments by our webcaster!
This Blue Moon deck strikes me as a metagame deck, much in the same way that Bogles was Reid Duke's deck of choice for Worlds this summer. There are a lot of hype around these kinds of decks but they tend to stay fringe in the broader paper or MTGO metagames.
EDIT: That said, I hope the deck stays around. It's very much a blue-based control deck in a much more traditional way than UWR Control and its midrangey variations are (UW Control is also in this category)
Meta is up. Zoo 64 16.16%
Twin 45 11.36%
Melira Pod 33 8.33%
W/U/R Flash 29 7.32% Jund 27 6.81%
Hexproof Auras 24 6.06%
Affinity 22 5.55%
Burn 15 3.78%
Scapeshift 14 3.53%
Living End 14 3.53%
Storm 12 3.03%
WUR Control 10 2.52%
Kiki Pod 10 2.52%
Merfolk 8 2.02%
Blue Moon 8 2.02%
Tron 8 2.02%
Infect 7 1.76% Faeries 6 1.51%
Amulet 5 1.26%
W/U Control 5 1.26%
Other 30 7.57%
Zoo is the most represented. That's ... dangerous.
Jund is still playable. Good grief, stop complaining already.
Faeries is surprisingly underplayed. Don't think we'll see a T8 here.
Team MTGMintCard (Kelvin Chew, Tzu Ching Kuo, Lee Shi Tian, Ken Yukuhiro, Zhang Meng Qiu, Jeffrey Chan, Wong Weiquan) is on Blue Moon.
Metagame seems pretty healthy. It's also very similar to the current MTGO metagame, with a few exceptions, and that's always an interesting datapoint to look at.
This Blue Moon deck strikes me as a metagame deck, much in the same way that Bogles was Reid Duke's deck of choice for Worlds this summer. There are a lot of hype around these kinds of decks but they tend to stay fringe in the broader paper or MTGO metagames.
EDIT: That said, I hope the deck stays around. It's very much a blue-based control deck in a much more traditional way than UWR Control and its midrangey variations are (UW Control is also in this category)
Kai Budde on Storm (!!).
John Sittner on Faeries.
EDIT: And Budde takes it. Love this Pro Tour.
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https://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/ptrtr12/topmoderndecks
Pro Tour Return to Ravnica - ModernMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
11 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Steam Vents
Creatures 5
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Vendilion Clique
Spells 32
2 Batterskull
4 Blood Moon
2 Cryptic Command
4 Izzet Charm
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Mana Leak
3 Remand
3 Sleight of Hand
4 Spell Snare
3 Vedalken Shackles
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Pyroclasm
3 Relic of Progenitus
3 Sowing Salt
2 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Vandalblast
1 Vendilion Clique
Soul Sisters is pretty awful.
Also, congrats to MTGS's own Patrick Dickmann on a great start! 5-0!
Regarding running a 4-color deck without fetchlands:
MostlyLost on Cockatrice.
FREE BLOODBRAID ELF
Timothee Simonot (Melira Pod) scooped to Gabriel Nassif (UW Control) in Round 4.
Originally the game was going to be drawn due to time.
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Zoo 64 16.16%
Twin 45 11.36%
Melira Pod 33 8.33%
W/U/R Flash 29 7.32%
Jund 27 6.81%
Hexproof Auras 24 6.06%
Affinity 22 5.55%
Burn 15 3.78%
Scapeshift 14 3.53%
Living End 14 3.53%
Storm 12 3.03%
WUR Control 10 2.52%
Kiki Pod 10 2.52%
Merfolk 8 2.02%
Blue Moon 8 2.02%
Tron 8 2.02%
Infect 7 1.76%
Faeries 6 1.51%
Amulet 5 1.26%
W/U Control 5 1.26%
Other 30 7.57%
Zoo is the most represented. That's ... dangerous.
Jund is still playable. Good grief, stop complaining already.
Faeries is surprisingly underplayed. Don't think we'll see a T8 here.
Team MTGMintCard (Kelvin Chew, Tzu Ching Kuo, Lee Shi Tian, Ken Yukuhiro, Zhang Meng Qiu, Jeffrey Chan, Wong Weiquan) is on Blue Moon.
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Big Johnny.
Also, UGH TWIN
Modern
RG RG Tron GR
RUG RUG Twin RUG
X Affinity X
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Big Johnny.
2 Zoo
1 Twin
1 Melira
1 Kiki
1 whatever CFB is playing
1 Storm
1 UWR midrange
Regarding running a 4-color deck without fetchlands:
MostlyLost on Cockatrice.
RGOmnath, Locus of ManaRG
URThe Locust godUR
Modern
UWMiraclesUW
Legacy
BGIce Station Zebra (Living Fins)BG
UBRGrixis ControlUBR
RGLandsRG
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"The problem isn't when Scissors says Rock is overpowered, it's when Paper says it is."
-Mark Rosewater
RUG Twin. (With Tarmogoyf)
edit: Finkel with Thought Scour in his deck. It's not the same as what he played at GP Portland.
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I think you underestimate the Jund power.
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"The problem isn't when Scissors says Rock is overpowered, it's when Paper says it is."
-Mark Rosewater
Really? He had said he was playing that on MTGO but wouldnt suggest it for the PT and that he would be making quite a few changes.
Is his current list anywhere?
RGOmnath, Locus of ManaRG
URThe Locust godUR
Modern
UWMiraclesUW
Legacy
BGIce Station Zebra (Living Fins)BG
UBRGrixis ControlUBR
RGLandsRG