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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Poor Jeskai. Not beating anything
But then Im personally not a fan of sacrificing late-game power and the best sweeper in the format for a bunch of burn spells.
I would say that it already is that way but obviously that requires an exact definition to actually measure things. If we look at tournament results we often see at least some number of Midrange decks in them. Maybe they haven't won, maybe they didn't even make top 8 but they were in the upper echelons of a tournament. There is also the issue of defining the Death's Shadow decks because if you define them as Midrange as it is on this site for example then things look even better.
I assume that is not good enough for you so how much more should it be in your opinion?
Look you don't have to convince me. Unban it or let it rot forever on the banlist. I honestly don't care and can live with either.
But I personally value facts and data over assumptions and guesses which brings us the point about you complaining about myths and misinformation. You actually do the same thing and as ktkenshinx pointed out the Thoughtseize/Abrupt Decay deck only had a 50/50 matchup against Twin. Something that you claimed as a bad matchup.
People like you should stop underselling the deck. It only hurts your credibility. People are not stupid and it's easy see through an obvious agenda.
If you are too biased to do that then you will never have an actual discussion on here or anywhere else that leads to anything.
Just my 2 cents.
Nobody actually knows that and there is good chance nobody ever will.
Not really when those were supposed to be your "bad" matchups.
And I ask you too. How should that work?
Would you play with Gatekeeper Gargoyle and Deadly Visit in current Standard because you like those cards?
Probably not because those cards are bad compared to what else is in Standard.
You can play with any card in Modern that is your favorite. Nobody is stopping you from doing that. There are many people out there doing just that and they have fun doing it but it's honestly quite naive to think that you also get to have real success with that. Some cards will simply be better than others. That's just how it is and it's true for every single format in existence. From Limited to Vintage.
What you are asking for is impossible in anything but kitchen table Magic.
And how would that work?
Modern is a non-rotating format. Have you looked at the other non-rotating formats? There isn't much Midrange around in them. Can you play something like Jund /Naya/Abzan etc. in Legacy? Of course. It is actually a good idea? No, it isn't.
I have made a big post about Midrange in this thread quite a while ago and also made a separate thread about it so I don't want to repeat everything.
In the end Midrange is a jack of all trades, master of none archetype. It trades power for adaptability and versatility. It does multiple things but nothing really well. That's fine in Standard because the power level isn't that high to begin with and it was also fine in Modern when it was younger. But as the format grows older it grows more powerful and that's where the problem lies. Every other archetype absolutely knows what it wants to do and is focused on that and if they get to do it that will always trump everything a Midrange deck is capable of doing.
Remember she is a renegade now
Sure but if somebody drops RIP against GDS for example they won't be able to play Gurmag Angler at all which are 4 out of their 8 threats and Snapcasters become Ambush Vipers. That's just how it is and the deck is still good and it doesn't make those cards unplayable.
This might be threat 9-12 for GDS. One of the weaknesses the deck currently has is just not finding a threat in time to close out the game with. A 5/5 flyer is a decent one though. Just how to see how it actually plays. After all this is not Delve like the Angler. It only counts instants and sorceries
But the thing is most decks that want to run cards like in the maindeck are blue so you are immediately in 3 colors and WWBB is no joke. Obviously often your life depends on casting your wrath and if you then also want to run stuff like Absorb and Thought Erasure in the deck I can imagine you will lose a certain percentage of games simply because you were unable to cast all your spells in time.
I know a lot of people are excited for Esper. Im personally an Esper fanboy too but Jeskai still has tools that have no competition and it gains new stuff too like Electrodominance so it will be interesting to see how things turn out.
Which certainly wasn't very hard to do and is also not much of an accomplishment.