Would Wizards ever reprint a card banned in a constructed format for flavor reasons? I was curious because people on another website were speculating that if unofficial spoilers were correct, scry would be in Theros and they would reprint Preordain in Theros, which is banned in modern.
Please add spoiler tags to your thread title when talking about upcoming sets. -Xen
keep in mind that if scry is really in the set like the other speculation, the card that "could've been in modern masters" could easily be Serum Visions.
the words "can be cast" imply that GG is an alternative casting cost, or that something has to happen for it to be castable at GG; on the other hand, it could just be a GG 5/5 with a huge drawback, so i think that there's quite a bit of room for this card.
Can we talk about the cities for a minute? If ten dual lands are going to be introduced throughout the block, it looks like we have the U/W (Meletis), the U/G (Akros), and the R/W (Setessa) lands here. I can definitely see an argument for legendary duals, given how dichotomous the art is for these three lands. Thoughts?
they specifically said in a wizards article that the cycle of LANDS would not help mana fixing, in order to encourage more 2 color play.
To be fair, they lumped together Melira and Kiki Pod, which makes the "overpoweredness" seem higher than is actually is, they should have wrote Melira and Kiki Pod as separate categories. The two decks have different strengths and weaknesses. Also, I agree that 23% is little compared to the numbers of Jund pre BBE ban.
That's not it at all, the whole reason Pod is even ON the radar is because creature creep is INCREASING... In the last year, look at how many cards were released that MADE that deck! Enough to where it was a deck in Som-M13 standard!
Creature creep needs to be dialed back in order to keep Pod Fair... at this rate, we're likely to see a 2 drop creature with Time walk attached to It within 1 year... lol
Yes, I exaggerated, but the point stands.
Wizards has stated that apparently many players find creature combat "more fun" than other things, so as long as the standard format is filled with people that want to play with aggro and midrange decks, I don't think that creature creeping will stop.
And to be quite frank, If the creature creeping suddenly stops, than control would run rampant; even with cards such as voice and thragtusk control is still viable in standard. RTR Block is filled with control decks despite the "better creatures."
My point is that creature creeping will not stop as long as some sort of control deck can be cobbled together and win. Pod will eventually become oppressive, much like Survival. Right now the deck has enough weaknesses to not be oppressive, but it's only a matter of time.
I do think however, Ponder is a safe unban. Along with AV and Bitterblossom.
I would be surprised if ponder is unbanned in the near future. I think that that main reason it won't is because Wizards is afraid of the consistency of storm with a ponder unban. Even after two bans, storm is still a deck.
Also, decks like Delver would surge in popularity as a more reliable flip than Serum Visions would then be available, and anything with a bad matchup against the tempo deck would instantly become a bad choice.
Ancestral Visions i'm apprehensive about. On one hand, there's no guarantee that there even will be a turn 5 for the control player against aggro decks and there's really no good cascade spells available to control decks, but on the other, AV will instantly define control mirror matches as who can get the earlier suspend or more suspends.
Pod doesn't seem very strong atm, It isn't even putting that many results up on MTGO. I like to look at MTGO results on the website, and i've only seen 3 to 4 4-0s by pod lists in the past week; it wasn't even in the top 8 of the Modern premier played monday, and those are very competitive. It may have won the GP, but the metagame is still fluxuating imo.
Please add spoiler tags to your thread title when talking about upcoming sets. -Xen
the words "can be cast" imply that GG is an alternative casting cost, or that something has to happen for it to be castable at GG; on the other hand, it could just be a GG 5/5 with a huge drawback, so i think that there's quite a bit of room for this card.
they specifically said in a wizards article that the cycle of LANDS would not help mana fixing, in order to encourage more 2 color play.
7 Melira Pod
1 Kiki Pod
5 UWR
4 Tron
4 Jund
3 Junk
3 Affinity
2 Storm
2 Burn
2 Gifts
1 Hatebears
1 Soul Sisters
1 BW Tokens
1 Scapeshift
1 Goryo's Vengeance
1 Splinter Twin
EDIT: Nevermind, it's live now, I think they messed up EST and CST.
Wizards has stated that apparently many players find creature combat "more fun" than other things, so as long as the standard format is filled with people that want to play with aggro and midrange decks, I don't think that creature creeping will stop.
And to be quite frank, If the creature creeping suddenly stops, than control would run rampant; even with cards such as voice and thragtusk control is still viable in standard. RTR Block is filled with control decks despite the "better creatures."
My point is that creature creeping will not stop as long as some sort of control deck can be cobbled together and win. Pod will eventually become oppressive, much like Survival. Right now the deck has enough weaknesses to not be oppressive, but it's only a matter of time.
Are you talking about that RW deck that uses sanctum gargoyle and kuldotha rebirth?
I would be surprised if ponder is unbanned in the near future. I think that that main reason it won't is because Wizards is afraid of the consistency of storm with a ponder unban. Even after two bans, storm is still a deck.
Also, decks like Delver would surge in popularity as a more reliable flip than Serum Visions would then be available, and anything with a bad matchup against the tempo deck would instantly become a bad choice.
Ancestral Visions i'm apprehensive about. On one hand, there's no guarantee that there even will be a turn 5 for the control player against aggro decks and there's really no good cascade spells available to control decks, but on the other, AV will instantly define control mirror matches as who can get the earlier suspend or more suspends.