- Kovo
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Mcpatches posted a message on Temporary 4/24/17 banlist discussion threadTwin won the turn it hit, shadow doesn't. DS decks interact with their opponent beyond "EOT, Tap your open land, untap, twin."Posted in: Modern Archives -
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ed06288 posted a message on Temporary 4/24/17 banlist discussion threadI think it's very fair to compare it to other decks. Lots of decks under 7% metagame, so if a deck has a low metagame share, this doesn't mean it's doing bad. If burn had a metagame share of 10% in 2015 and now it's 4.5%, I don't think we should unban stuff to help burn. I don't think we should be looking at old numbers at all. Metagames keep changing.Posted in: Modern Archives
Control never hit 23% or whatever. I wouldn't lump Twin into those numbers. -
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jwf239 posted a message on Temporary 4/24/17 banlist discussion threadPosted in: Modern ArchivesQuote from ed06288 »There's several builds floating around at 1%, and if you add in grixis and other colors you're a little above 4% for control. Affinity is at 7-ish% and everything else follows that. Most decks are around 4%. Not sure what else people could want, meta is pretty good right now.
How is it fair to lump a bunch of decks together and compare to the numbers of another single deck? Affinity is just one of many of the extremely fast linear decks and is actually in about as bad of a position as it has been in awhile in modern. So ONE aspect of the linear decks, which is in a worse position compared to other times throughout moderns history, is a greater percentage of the meta than a whole archetype and that is fine?
Quote from Kovo »Quote from gkourou »Actually I edited the post to compare the numbers of August 2015 and now, and the results are (again) devastating:
Total of Blue Control based decks, August 2015: 23%
Total of Blue Control based decks today: 7.79%
Twin was as much combo as Ad Nauseum, with a little more reach if the combo failed.
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Jayman21 posted a message on State of Modern Thread: bans, format health, metagame, and more! (3/13 update)Posted in: Modern ArchivesQuote from h0lydiva »I think Turtenwald & Co. actually believed Grixis Control was a good choice. How on Earth they can believe that in the sea of DS decks is totally beyond me.
But again, those dudes are Turtenwald, Duke and Jensen and I'm not, and they are in the finals of a GP so I don't know.
Owen actually thinks grixis is one of the best decks in modern. He said it on stream some time ago. -
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FZA posted a message on State of Modern Thread: bans, format health, metagame, and more! (3/13 update)Posted in: Modern ArchivesQuote from cfusionpm »Quote from motleyslayer »anyone have Gerard fabiano's list from GP San Antonio?
Any list and any results from this GP should be taken with GIGANTIC grains of salt. Team Unified forces players to artificially diversify their decks and places arbitrary restrictions on deck choices and construction. Players are playing sub-optimal lists and making sub-optimal deck choices because no cards can repeat. Do you really think that people would be playing Grixis Control by choice? Or just because that's what's leftover after someone builds a BGx shell and a some colorless shell (Eldrazi/Tron/Affinity)?
I mean, Reid Duke is playing Death's Shadow Abzan instead of Death's Shadow Jund so that Owen could play Grixis Control. It seems like they do think the deck had merit. Otherwise they would have used that slot on Merfolk, or Burn or something. -
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cfusionpm posted a message on [[Official]] Modern Prices DiscussionPosted in: ModernQuote from Kovo »Sorry, what pressure is Frontier applying? Last I checked, it's all but dead. F2F held FREE Frontier tournaments with good prize support on weekends and they rarely fired, so F2F cancelled them.
Because it's a terrible format that is a collection of everything that has made Standard awful for the past several years.
On a side note, MM3 Blood Moon foils are steadily at $40, with several listings around $35. I've now picked up another to complete my playset (1 MMA, 3 MM3). It feels stupid to have spent the money I did on my MMA copy, but oh well. The foiling process looks brighter and more vibrant on MMA anyway... At least that's what I'll keep telling myself.
http://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/modern-masters-2017/blood-moon#PriceTable -
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cfusionpm posted a message on Temporary 3/13/2017 banlist update discussion thread ("No Changes")Posted in: Modern ArchivesQuote from Kovo »Im not being snarky. Sorry if you perceive it that way.
A shared sentiment here. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but the exaggerations and misrepresentations of Twin are often frustrating to read over and over here. Honestly, I think Temur Delver is pretty sweet and I just don't have Goyfs or green manabase to play it personally, and would probably build BGx if I did have them. Apologies for over simplifying, but saying Twin is just a combo deck with counters is also oversimplifying what the deck was and how it operated. -
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mikej posted a message on Temporary 3/13/2017 banlist update discussion thread ("No Changes")Posted in: Modern ArchivesQuote from xxhellfirexx3 »Why your format sucks:
By hellfire
This here is why so many ( myself included ) people dislike blue mages in MTG. This attitude that Blue is the only color that matters and any format
not policed by it sucks by default. Of course not all blue players but the vocal ones that stand out and act like petulant children make it harder for
anyone else to actually care when they are accustomed to hearing "Wah blue sucks!" Does Blue have issues, absolutely yes. Is Wizards working on it, most likely, but probably not the way you want it.
Slug it out with the rest of us or just sell your stuff and move on.
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idSurge posted a message on Temporary 3/13/2017 banlist update discussion thread ("No Changes")Combo would take over I think.Posted in: Modern Archives
Speaking only for myself, but its why the actual fair decks (GW) are unplayable to me. No counters at all? No discard at all? You are at the mercy of your opponent to do whatever degenerate things they want?
RIP.
To me, thats the greatest disparity in the format. Discard is closer to Legacy, while Counters are closer to Standard. -
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mikej posted a message on Temporary 3/13/2017 banlist update discussion thread ("No Changes")Well, in the end that's the point. If you like playing Blue you will probably keep playing it regardless. I think a lot of people don't care about how Blue is doing and just want Splinter Twin back.Posted in: Modern Archives - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Also, I wasn't trolling. Its simply the mindset shared on the dozens of pages in this thread. That, and black discard can never be over-powered but blue permission can.
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But it'll never be a "true blue deck" according to a bunch of people here. Which means you shouldnt even bother building it. Actually, just stop thinking about it altogether. You're wrong.
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As Foretold
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Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on As Foretold.
Once each turn, you may pay 0 rather than pay the mana cost for a spell you cast with converted mana cost X or less, where X is the number of time counters on As Foretold.
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