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What I find ridiculous is that you dismiss it so easily and that you don't even address that blue has a problem with drawing cards (seriously, Esper Charm, Thirst for Knowledge, Sphinx's Revelation, and Think Twice are the best card-draw spells we have and Charm and Thirst are both only playable in specific decks, Revelation is a worse Opportunity unless you have 7+ mana, and Think Twice costs 5 mana to draw 2 cards).
You know what will blow your mind?
Those cards you mentioned actually aren't bad. I would even add Sultai Charm, Izzet Charm, Peer Through Depths(which is a replacement effect) to that list, and call that a worthy Modern card draw spell. Why do you believe that there should be a card at 3+ mana, that automatically turns the tide in favor of the blue decks? Ancestral Vision may be the perfect card to help regulate blue, but the mere presence of so many other options would only make the better blue decks harder to combat.
You need to enable specific strategies. Blue and White are suffering completely right now as being viable control colors. Green and Black has taken that throne away from them, which I personally do not agree with based on my discussions with other individuals about the format. In order to help Blue and White regain some control in the format, those two colors need finishers. Snapcaster Mage, Restoration Angel and Celestial Colonnade cannot do those tasks. Broken card draw and increased power-level of counter magic will only further a problem of making it the secondary blue combo format.
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Bull!
I want SFM and Twin tomorrow, or I'm crying to Aaron!
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No offense, but I get the impression you are trying to just have it so Aggro can be as big a slice as possible.
Control is not Midrange. Why would you combine them? They are not remotely the same.
Combo is so far from Big Mana, its....unfathomable.
Aggro, is then the only piece of the pie that is not combined nonsensically, and it would still be more than the other 2 combined data sets!
Prison, as a subset of Control, I can get behind, but since we have 1 in Lantern (or 2 if you count Sun and Moon/Mono Red Prison) then thats not going to 'balance the numbers' anyway.
Aggro is, and has been since Twin was banned, over represented in Modern.
I agree, that the old 'I counter everything' concept is out dated and tough to get working. Someone actually called UWR (rightly imo) closer to a burn deck, and it kind of is. I mean I think my UWR has...7, maybe 8 cards that say 'counter X' and as we all know, there are various costs and hoops to jump.
I mean look at UW, its as much a mana denial deck as it is 'control'.
Enough, is enough. Its been almost 2.5 YEARS.
Blue Moon isnt good enough.
Kiki sure as ***** isnt good enough.
Breach isnt good enough.
Just give us back Twin.
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I have no issue with Aggro/Combo/Prison/Tron/Control existing, none at all. I may hate a deck, or a card, or whatever, but its 'all is fair, in love and war'.
What I think is flawed, is looking at 346 decks in day 2, and having nearly a third (31.5%) as Aggro, as a good thing. We can of course quibble over deck definitions until we are all blue in the face, but if your plan is 'you die by turn 3 hopefully' then you are aggro.
Midrange needs help. Control needs the finisher it has been denied, and sure, power up elves and storm and lets throw down on equal terms here.
Right now, you are only hurting yourself, if you dont focus on the decks which can spike people out of the blue, inside 4 turns.
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There are like 60 decks that could get into a top 8, or as holydiva mentioned, top 16 or top 32 when you look at breakers and how one punt can be the difference.
I mean honestly, we are not at the days of Jund/Pod/Twin/Affinity, not even close.
Do we honestly think that Twin would be too much? Look at Jace FFS! Jace the OMG HES GOING TO KILL MODERN Mind Sculptor. Wasnt even in the last SCG UWR deck, not even on the side, and didnt even show his face in the top 8 today.
Full disclosure, I'm not going to play Modern if these are the decks I have to grind against, and I do right now, and events like this only reinforce the feedback loop of 'well thats what I'm going to play' and then they show up in droves.
I want Twin back, I'm firmly biased about it, but would it even stem the flood here? I dont even think it would.
So what if 3 brands of Blue Moon become Twin again? Do we REALLY lose anything? So you win with Twin instead of Breach, or Kiki, or Jace activations.
Does that REALLY = diversity if they are all doing the same things anyway?
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lol....