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With portal you are up 1 card the next turn. With ring you are up 3 cards the next turn. This ia way better.

The first one for canopy. Artifacts and enchantments only have flying if they are also a creature (unless something weird happens).
The second one for fury charm.

So you attack with Xyris and deal three damage to an opp causing him to trigger and you both draw 3 cards. Because the draws happen simultaneously all the triggers happen at the same time and can be put on the stack in any order you (as the controller) choose so you can have Nadir Kraken's resolve last. If you do then Xyris will create 3 tokens first then you will have more tokens available for Gaea's Cradle when the kraken triggers go to resolve.

The instant spell is on the stack and then Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy triggers. This trigger is above the instant spell and resolves first allowing you to cast a sorcery. This sorcery goes on top of the stack (things are always added on top of everything else on the stack) and will resolve before the instant.

Once a block has been declared the creature will remain blocked until end of combat no matter what happens to the blocker. You would need to kill the creature before blocks are declared.

Necropotence
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
When you discard Kozilek you will have two triggers from the same event. Necropotence trying to exile the card and from Kozilek trying to shuffle your GY into your deck. Because you control both triggers in this case you choose how they are put on to the stack and as a result how they resolve. So if you resolve Kozilek's trigger first your yard is shuffled in to your library and the Necropotence trigger does nothing. If you do the reverse order then Kozilek gets exiled and the rest of your yard is shuffled in to your library.

Each Annointed Peacekeeper adds a tax separately so if you name Anger of the Gods twice then it should cost 5RR to cast Anger of the Gods. If the situation is as you described then it would be a bug, but without a screenshot or gamelog it's hard to see whether they had some other mana maker, cost reducer, or even if one of the Peacekeepers had been a misclick on the wrong thing.

When a spell does something it does it all at once. In this scenario the spell takes a look at the board and wipes everything that has the creature type on it from play at that specific instance. It cannot look forward and it cannot look back so the Nighthowler would live.

If the first player proposes a shortcut that the second player knows has a possibility of not working due to hidden information they do not want to reveal then they should call a judge and explain the situation to the judge and the judge will inform the first player that the loop must be done manually due to hidden information while not explaining that hidden information.

As an uncrewed Vehicle the Tree of Perdition will have no toughness and as a result the exchange will fail.
208.3. A noncreature permanent has no power or toughness, even if it’s a card with a power and
toughness printed on it (such as a Vehicle). A noncreature object not on the battlefield has power or
toughness only if it has a power and toughness printed on it.

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Vampire Nightbird

Rampire Nighthawk is the early favorite nickname.

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I'm glad all of you believe that current Burn is managable. I really care about Burn so the fact that it isn't a problem lightens my heart. I was really worried because Skewer really makes the deck that much stronger. Good thing it's so easy to sideboard against.

I don't think it makes it much stronger than versions running Shard Volley. Maybe a few small percentages, getting to run 1 or 2 fewer lands maybe? But it's not like some massive revelation; especially at sorcery speed. It's just a great addition to an already good deck.

The loop in comment 1 depends on the order of cards in a library after it's shuffled. No matter how many times your opponent shuffles their library, it can't be guaranteed that a card other than Kozilek will be the top card of that library (recall the definition of shuffling in C.R. 701.19a), assuming a non-Kozilek card is in that library. This makes it an invalid shortcut under C.R. 720.2a, which allows only "predictable results". Therefore, the only alternative is to carry out the actions manually rather than through a shortcut. See also this thread.

EDIT (May 11): Some rules were renumbered with Dominaria.
EDIT (Oct. 8): Correctness edit.

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I don't think Esper is a choice for a 3 color deck yet; only 1 set of shocks for it; I would be looking at Jeskai, Abzan, Grixis, Sultai, and Naya because of the double shocks

With Glacial Fortress, Isolated Chapel and Field of Ruin a light splash esper is feasible. Double white spells are probably out, but going UB splashing for Teferi or Ixalans Binding is pretty reasonable.

I share this analysis. UBw. This means no settle the wreckage. So a meta-meta prediction is that creatures that are weak to settle will become better. UBw will rely on black spot removal, bounce and possibly situational sweepers.

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This all came off the back of a board state of literally Rowan Kenrith + Gilded Lotus + lands. My options in this game were to mercilessly try to kill him before he could go off, try to never let him have any board, or to run blue so I can countermagic. I am not saying I am really for or against extra turns but this game really kind of pissed me off because it didn't really feel like there was any interaction to be had when my options are to grind him to paste and expect to lose from nowhere.

I don't see what the problem is other than that it sounds like you misplayed a bit. Sometimes the correct play is to brutally target the deck you're soft against and I don't think this is a consideration only for cEDH players. It may be considered anti-social to target one player out of the game, but it's likewise anti-social for someone to play solitaire. I would rather violate the social contract and win than let someone else violate the contract and win. Build socially, play competitively, right?

I think Time Warps are fine. Good cards, particularly with a dominant board, but playing good cards is one of my favorite things about EDH.

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Please remember to use card tags:
Sphinx's Tutelage
Nexus of Fate

So when you draw a card, your Sphinx's Tutelage triggers, causing your opponent to mill two, then repeat if the two cardsare nonlands that share a color. As your opponent only has Nexus of Fate left in their deck, they will mill all four. With no cards left to mill the Sphinx's Tutelage finishes resolving, and your opponent has four Nexus of Fate abilities to put on the stack. All four Nexus will be shuffled into their library, one by one. So the end result is your opponent still has four cards left in their library, all of them being Nexus of Fate.

Note - Players only lose the game when they try to DRAW from an empty library, not when their library becomes empty. At no point in the above did your opponent try to draw a card, so the game continues.

Hope that helps explain things for you.

This is incorrect. Nexus of Fate does not have a triggered ability, it has a replacement effect that replaces the cards being put into the graveyard and shuffled instead. So for this scenario the tutelage's trigger would attempt to put the two Nexus of Fate into the graveyard, instead they'd get shuffled into the library. Since they share a color it would repeat the process. Since this scenario causes a loop to occur that neither play can interrupt the game ends in a draw.

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We can make up literally any number to justify the perceived matchup of Jeskai vs Tron by pulling from or analyzing and adjusting parameters of various data sets, but the fact remains that the matchup ranges from "really bad" to "sign the slip and get lunch" for the Jeskai player. Quibbling over a few % points in a horrendously lopsided matchup is kind of irrelevant.

We are not making up numbers. We are literally using real numbers. The only post I have seen making up numbers in the past few pages, or suggesting made up numbers, is this post I am quoting here from you. "Really bad" and "sign the slip" are not numbers. They are also based on imaginary numbers that I don't think you can cite. If you have actual, auditable, real-world numbers to contribute to the dataset, then let's use those. I am sure I can dig through SCG/GP footage, plus MTGO/Twitch footage, to find more of those numbers. Right now, the real number we have is 33/67 with some confidence interval surrounding it. I'll stick with those real numbers until more real numbers are added.

I just don't understand what data you all want to use anymore to evaluate the format. We can't use SCG data because you view it as nonrepresntative and illegitimate. We can't use smaller events because GP/PT results are the ones that most matter for bans. But now we can't use GP/PT T8s because it includes random decks that spike events. What CAN we use that will have any credibility with this vocal pro-Twin camp? I feel like any data anyone presents that does not prove Twin should be unbanned will be dismissed for any number of new and old reasons.

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If you are going to paraphrase me, and I don't see anyone else on the UWR discussion around here call me out directly. I'm a big boy, I've been around the web awhile.

Otherwise it looks like a lot of passive aggressive shade.

You, CFP, Nyzzeh, and GK have all recently made disparaging remarks about Jeskai in the manner I described. You just happened to make the most recent comments of that group. Rather than find specific quotes for all four of you, plus other quotes from users who contribute less frequently, I just talked about the critics collectively.

I do feel that UWR benefits disproportionately than the other Tier 1 decks

Without a target in Humans, is it going to see play against Tron? GDS? Mardu? KCI?

Tron was basically absent for most of early 2018. Affinity, E-Tron, and Titan Shift also had major downshifts throughout 2017. Many decks get huge benefits from metagame positioning. It's not just Jeskai.

I said weeks ago that Humans consolidation of aggro would enable UWR, and it's either that or Teferi is a beast.

If Humans was less of a force, we would see less UWR, I don't think that's unfair.

We've seen Jeskai put up consistent performances all year and we've seen the same small group of users in this thread consistently dismiss those results for various reasons. Sure, if we saw less Human presence, we'd see less Jeskai presence too. But that's treated as some special exception where Jeskai is uniquely vulnerable to metagame shifts, when we know all top-tier Modern decks have similar weaknesses. See Tron for early 2018 for a glaring example of this, which no one mentions.

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Except that in this thread the math has been done several times showing that skilled players in modern win at essentially the same rate as skilled players in other formats. There is as much skill in modern as anywhere else.

which is why i said its reputation, and how it differed from the truth. yet despite this the reputation still exists, and it didnt just appear magically. at some point players observed something, or in worse cases just heard about someone elses observation, and an opinion was formed. more likely than not these observations were of cases where some unfair deck nutted all over their opponent, which looks entirely different from a fair deck merciless beating their opponent because those games are composed of more elements typical of 'normal magic'; thus making the lopsidedness less apparent.

Just because it's a widely promulgated myth doesn't make it one worth repeating. I don't care too much as to why people believe it. My guess is that many of them try to succeed in Modern using decks and approaches that don't work in Modern, and then look to blame some external factor for their personal shortcomings. That's been my experience of these complaints, anyway. If enough vocal people experience this, they will all eventually gravitate towards the same vocal narratives. That said, no one here should even be repeating this narrative as anything other than a myth; it's been thoroughly debunked at this point.