My favorite Magic card has to be Supreme Verdict and every similar wrath effect.
The ability to destroy every creature on the board just feels so powerful and makes so much fun in my opinion.
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I would wait if I were you. Hoogvine is technically still a deck but now it has to compete with Dredge and it could very well lose that comparison so people will leave it in droves. In that case Gravecrawler most certainly will fall.
True but then don't make the mistake of comparing a deck specially targeted against UW against UW lists that don't target them back. Midrange is basically dead currently in the format so UW isn't really built with them in mind. It still has the natural advantage of the all the value its spells have but that's it.
If those decks that you have mentioned would actually be a big part of the metagame than UW would look different too. More Jaces, more Teferis, Sphinx's Revelation, Elspeth, Sun's Champion, stuff like Fact of Fiction, etc. You can reconfigure the entire deck basically.
I was joking with my comment about Midrange players being the salty ones but I don't think Im that far off because some of these salty people called UW Control "Tron 2.0" which is telling about them. I don't think they are wrong about that though. If Midrange ever gets big again Tron certainly won't be the only thing that will smell blood. That's for sure.
Maybe not here directly but I have certainly seen people elsewhere being salty about UWs ever increasing power level. Maybe Midrange and Jank players
Windmill slamming him on Turn 3 leaves basically only three options:
1) They counter him and then follow up with something
2) They let him resolve and spent their next turn(s) somehow getting him of the battlefield. That guy has 5 Loyalty so they lost Tempo and resources while doing that.
3) They do neither of those things and pretty much lose the game
If I am on the play and I have a hand with Teferi and something like a Detention Sphere I would slam him on Turn 3 100% of the time. I would do the same if Im on the draw and and I have Teferi and Force of Negation. The upside of this is sky high while risk isn't.
Can't really argue with that.
Im just coming back now and I realized that I have to spent $200 to update my UW list because of the cards it got in WAR and MH1. That's like half of what I initially paid for the entire deck. Ugh...
The article has been pretty clear about it that the problem is the Magic Arena client and not Nexus of Fate. In paper there are judges and shortcuts. In the Magic Online client you will simply time out and lose the match if you want to loop endlessly. Arena has none of those things so you can actually loop endlessly and there is nothing you can do about it.
Is instant speed good to trigger miracle? Of course. But Scry 2 also help you in getting it there in the first place or prevents it from being there.
The advantage of Hieroglyphic Illumination is its dual nature by being both a cantrip and a card advantage spell. Olsen decided that additional sources of Scry was better and that's OK. Since there is no real or wrong way to build it. Just preferences.
Depends obviously. Look at Burn vs Soul Sisters/Matyr Proc for example.
The reason you can claim that decks like UW/x, GB/x and Deaths Shadow decks are particular good at doing it is because they are pretty much goodstuff decks that are not built around synergies while they can deal with opposing synergies.
So why is Supreme Verdict somehow supposed to be the gold standard?
There isn't much reason to use when you can enable Terminus. Being uncounterable only matters against like GDS and Merfolk I guess. And then Terminus is cheap enough to respond to counter attempts with you own spells.
And this is not a Modern exclusive thing either. In other formats people are playing with it too and stuff like Toxic Deluge.
Like I said before. Terminus was always going to get played. It's like the best wrath ever printed. We just lacked viable ways to make it work and now they are there.
Which shouldn't be expected from anyone at all now IMO. Not only are there the UW/x decks but obviously Izzet Phoenix too. Unbanning cards that make already good decks even better is a real and obvious risk and I don't think Wizards is in for that.
Well by forgoing Blue you are forgoing stuff like countermagic, Snapcaster Mage, Jace, The Mind Sculptor and Teferi, Hero of Dominaria. One of the reasons GDS has become the defacto Death's Shadow deck is because of its access to countermagic and the fact that Snapcaster is so good in grindy games and that's something that non-Blue decks have trouble dealing with and you can actually protect yourself and your stuff from all kind of things instead of just hoping they don't have it.
It might not be provable what the best SFM shell would be but I imagine a SFM deck as a grindy deck since that's what the card naturally facilitates and when it comes to grinding the power level of the Blue cards is quite obvious and proven.
I actually have to ask where getting that from?
This is the day 2 of GP Oakland and that was the strongest showing the deck ever had.
You can also check MTGTop8
https://www.mtgtop8.com/format?f=MO
KCI was never at any point one of the most played decks or even heavily played which was part of its controversy because it put up disproportionate amounts of good results compared to how often it actually was played. Kinda similar to Amulet Titan before Summer Bloom was banned.