Price of progress seems a little busted in the shock heavy format that is modern. I think fireblast would be less broken and it's still too powerful. That said, I am hoping for quiet speculation to go with the lava dart. That card has applications, I think.
I've seen Brainstorm as well now, but I think we can all agree that that isn't coming to Modern without serious repercussions.
Even if actual Brainstorm showed up in a standard set, it would get preemptively banned in modern. If Wizards considers Ponder and Preordain too strong for the format, then so is their granddaddy.
PoP is fake. Collector number on the image is 122, which is already assigned to the Firebolt reprint. Modern Burn was never going to get anything that good from the Legacy toolbox.
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This definitely seems like a fake. There's just no way that Burn would get a tool like Price of Progress or even something like Fireblast. Modern would be a 1 color format and the decks doing everything in their power to beat that.
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IMO FON is being severely underappreciated. People talking about it being a SB card and all...
Absolutely. Especially since it's easy to hardcast, it's definitely a mainboardable card for plenty of decks. I think a lot of people look at Force of Will and then to the downsides they stapled to Force of Negation instead of looking at FoN from the ground up.
It's funny, although I mostly play UWx and want to play FoN in that, I am actually most excited to pick up merfolk with it again.
Was spoiled:
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Lightning Skelemental
Creature - Skeleton Elemental
Haste, Trample
When ~ deals combat damage to a player that player discards 2 cards.
Sicrifice ~ at the beginning of eot.
6/1
Lightning Skelemental looks sick ! Imagine 2 consecutively comin down takin 4 cards & leavin opponent at near death !
I'm not familiar of what Burn-Decks want, but i think i have never seen somethin more aggresive than that.
I'm personally not convinced that decks that don't traditionally maindeck Negate and friends (Merfolk, arguably Ux Delver, UGx Scapeshift, etc.) will maindeck Force of Negation, though I agree with the guys that say that FoN allows you to play walkers faster with some confidence that FoN may become the premier maindecked Negate variant.
In the meantime, Force of Despair looks like it has rather fussy timing to me. Being free mana-wise definitely helps, but I doubt it's maindeckable--the kill conditions are too specific and remind me of Hallowed Moonlight. I guess trying to think of it as a black Essence Scatter might help its playability? Wait, Essence Scatter isn't Modern-playable....
Just getting a nice cool 3 mana 2 for 1 after your opponent plays two creatures in one turn seems fine to me, the pitch clause is just an emergency valve.
What does keep it back in my mind is that basically all creature decks now are vial or coco decks (or both) which makes the pitch a lot weaker, but as I already said I really think this is a card you'd hardcast most of the time.
Yeah I dont really understand the "cast only on opponents turn" restriction on these. It makes sense for the Force of Negation so you cant use it to protect your own combo like Force of Will but on the others it makes much less sense IMO
In the meantime, Force of Despair looks like it has rather fussy timing to me. Being free mana-wise definitely helps, but I doubt it's maindeckable--the kill conditions are too specific and remind me of Hallowed Moonlight. I guess trying to think of it as a black Essence Scatter might help its playability? Wait, Essence Scatter isn't Modern-playable....
I think it's a fixed timing Hallowed Moonlight. With Moonlight you need to drop it in response to a creature being cheated in, then your opponent knows not to go ham with more the rest of the turn. With FoD, you can wait, bluff, declare blockers, and scoop up all the maximum value without them being aware of anything.
My biggest issue, again is the word "Destroy". So many reasons why it's just not a relevant word anymore. Exile is just the new "cannot be regenerated".
FoD does seem really good. Again, it's a great card for fae as is FoN. It gives the deck a ton play because your opponent and spit out several creatures like elves and you can just clean house while leaving your side of the board uncontested. The deck runs plenty of cards that you don't mind pitching to it (redundant copies of lotv).
If we get an on tribe 1 drop that is decent in fairies I can maybe see it clawing its way back to t2. I'm hopeful, because they can leverage these spells pretty well.
These will have widespread format impact. Horizon Canopy is everywhere in decks that can support it, and these enemy colored Canopies are going to slip into manabases across the format. These will probably benefit faster decks more than slower ones, if the Humans/Bogles/Company/Elves/etc. example of Canopy is any indicator.
Also, these will be expensive as they will see play across formats. Probably less expensive than the presale hype point, but still expensive. Buy wisely.
I can't slam the RW one in my burn deck fast enough!
I think my favorite home for this card will be BG Rock. For one, that deck has some life points to spare because of its less painful manabase. More importantly, this directly addresses one of BGx's issues; refueling after early disruption and early traction.
Other hits: UG land is spectacular in Infect. I'd be surprised if GDS didn't want a few copies of the UR land. D&T decks will love the BW land, even if it can't cast TKS. All random mono-colored and two-colored decks get slight buffs as well. Between FoN and the U lands, Merfolk is looking sweet. Oh, and Izzet Phoenix gets yet another boost.
EDIT: Just looking through recent tournament results, it's hard to overstate just how many decks will get boosts from these cards. So many Modern decks can support 1-2 copies and legitimately want the ability to convert unused lands to fuel. It's hard to predict how much this will improve various decks and increase their viability. For instance, does BW Smallpox suddenly become decent now that it can run 4 cantripping lands that were previously unavailable? How much do RUG tempo strategies improve? Can I play these in Mono U Tron alongside FoF? The potential format implications are huge.
The RW one helps a color combination that has always had trouble finding quality card draw. They'll help any deck but anyone who plays a RW deck is going to be particularly excited.
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Even if actual Brainstorm showed up in a standard set, it would get preemptively banned in modern. If Wizards considers Ponder and Preordain too strong for the format, then so is their granddaddy.
This definitely seems like a fake. There's just no way that Burn would get a tool like Price of Progress or even something like Fireblast. Modern would be a 1 color format and the decks doing everything in their power to beat that.
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Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)Absolutely. Especially since it's easy to hardcast, it's definitely a mainboardable card for plenty of decks. I think a lot of people look at Force of Will and then to the downsides they stapled to Force of Negation instead of looking at FoN from the ground up.
It's funny, although I mostly play UWx and want to play FoN in that, I am actually most excited to pick up merfolk with it again.
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Lightning Skelemental
Creature - Skeleton Elemental
Haste, Trample
When ~ deals combat damage to a player that player discards 2 cards.
Sicrifice ~ at the beginning of eot.
6/1
Coco balls are now more dangerous
I'm not familiar of what Burn-Decks want, but i think i have never seen somethin more aggresive than that.
Despair has to survive the random discard against Hollow One, but otherwise it seems like a pretty sweet include.
"Reveal a Dragon"
That's because Force of Negation is a gussied-up Negate, not a gussied-up Counterspell like Force of Will is.
I'm personally not convinced that decks that don't traditionally maindeck Negate and friends (Merfolk, arguably Ux Delver, UGx Scapeshift, etc.) will maindeck Force of Negation, though I agree with the guys that say that FoN allows you to play walkers faster with some confidence that FoN may become the premier maindecked Negate variant.
In the meantime, Force of Despair looks like it has rather fussy timing to me. Being free mana-wise definitely helps, but I doubt it's maindeckable--the kill conditions are too specific and remind me of Hallowed Moonlight. I guess trying to think of it as a black Essence Scatter might help its playability? Wait, Essence Scatter isn't Modern-playable....
What does keep it back in my mind is that basically all creature decks now are vial or coco decks (or both) which makes the pitch a lot weaker, but as I already said I really think this is a card you'd hardcast most of the time.
My biggest issue, again is the word "Destroy". So many reasons why it's just not a relevant word anymore. Exile is just the new "cannot be regenerated".
"Reveal a Dragon"
If we get an on tribe 1 drop that is decent in fairies I can maybe see it clawing its way back to t2. I'm hopeful, because they can leverage these spells pretty well.
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Card absolutely craps on coco/cascade
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/lands-horizon-2019-05-21
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These will have widespread format impact. Horizon Canopy is everywhere in decks that can support it, and these enemy colored Canopies are going to slip into manabases across the format. These will probably benefit faster decks more than slower ones, if the Humans/Bogles/Company/Elves/etc. example of Canopy is any indicator.
Also, these will be expensive as they will see play across formats. Probably less expensive than the presale hype point, but still expensive. Buy wisely.
UB Faeries (15-6-0)
UWR Control (10-5-1)/Kiki Control/Midrange/Harbinger
UBR Cruel Control (6-4-0)/Grixis Control/Delver/Blue Jund
UWB Control/Mentor
UW Miracles/Control (currently active, 14-2-0)
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RW Burn (9-1-0)
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I think my favorite home for this card will be BG Rock. For one, that deck has some life points to spare because of its less painful manabase. More importantly, this directly addresses one of BGx's issues; refueling after early disruption and early traction.
Other hits: UG land is spectacular in Infect. I'd be surprised if GDS didn't want a few copies of the UR land. D&T decks will love the BW land, even if it can't cast TKS. All random mono-colored and two-colored decks get slight buffs as well. Between FoN and the U lands, Merfolk is looking sweet. Oh, and Izzet Phoenix gets yet another boost.
EDIT: Just looking through recent tournament results, it's hard to overstate just how many decks will get boosts from these cards. So many Modern decks can support 1-2 copies and legitimately want the ability to convert unused lands to fuel. It's hard to predict how much this will improve various decks and increase their viability. For instance, does BW Smallpox suddenly become decent now that it can run 4 cantripping lands that were previously unavailable? How much do RUG tempo strategies improve? Can I play these in Mono U Tron alongside FoF? The potential format implications are huge.
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Merfolk can benefit from the blue lands and force of negation.
I am eagerly awaiting hope for more Elf and Sliver stuff.