We had 1 year w/o wrath in core, the gave us planar cleansing instead. Then made day of judgment which with replaced wrath as the 4cc sweeper, which kinda rough but bad for control. All we know when scars gos all mass removal will be gutted, most of the mass removal played is all from scars block(eg slagstorm, whipflare, black sun). M13 red has shown pyroclasm yet, so red will be w/o a sweeper which will be bad for the red based decks. Killing Wave can't replace black sun zenith or life's finale, so with that they may bring back damnation(but its *** effect and *** hasn't been reprinted in years, considered to powerful).
Birds of Paradise not being reprinted is not a shock, the original plan was for the last printing of birds to be in ravnica(Hence the printing in black border like they did sengir vampire in torment). but with the exalted theme noble hierarch makes sense, to go with the theme of the set we're seeing.
Exalted and Nichol Bolas being in a core set means wotc is breaking the planning molds for the core sets that player bases has been used to over the years. This means they are rotating the staples we are used to having and keeping around, also could be they are planning on making new ones. But the core set every year pushes alot of cards in and out of the formats, when core sets were every 2 years you didn't have as much rotation of the staples.
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I do agree, however, that if we do get Jitte back Stoneforge Mystic should be out for good (though in the interest of full disclosure it's not like there was that big of a chance for it to be unbanned to begin with).
Is the card polarizing creature matchups? Doubtlessly, it would be foolish not to admit that. It's just that I don't think cramming Jitte into current decks is as easy as people make it out to be. To my mind even if they somehow could it would only represent one among many angles of attack in those matchups, not the only show in town and that's why I think it might be a safe unban, relatively speaking.
Is it a risky move to have it legal in Modern? Probably, but when compared to the simultaneous unban of BOTH Bloodbraid Elf and Jace, the Mind Sculptor is it really?
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It will be quite some time before we cross that bridge. It will take the format months, maybe even a full year or so, before it digests this. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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The way I see it they chickened out. They should have had the stones to see how the new cards will influence the format first before they decided to go on a banning spree, and this is the SECOND time they did so. What's the point of hyping new sets if you're just going to ban cards the new set was supposed to outshine? What's done is done however, and we better pray to Finkel-All-Mighty they did this right, because if they didn't and then end up having to ban cards AGAIN they might as well put a fork in Standard as a format.
Long story short, this announcement stinks.
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Unbans > Bans > theory-crafting
Granted, I don't think there is that much room for unbans ATM, but at least it is a somewhat more constructive discussion. If anything BBE might get the proverbial nod this time around, even though I think it's unlikely. They could say they are doing to diversify midrange decks (since E-Tron has a choke-hold on that archetype as things are). Alternatively they could go for a Temple ban under the same pretenses (which is more likely but would be less popular). DS should remain safe since if they try and axe it without adressing E-Tron that would be really bad.
SFM might be an interesting unban for the sake of color diversity but still unlikely. Jace is out of the question for all the second-market based reasons. Combo cards and cantrips are a no-go, even Preordain. Modern Nexus did a "testing" of Preordain in Storm but and seems to have deemed it "safe" but I'm all but certain their testing list for Storm was wrong...
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Not sure I understand what you're saying here. Wall of cards does not an argument make...
Is it ETB effects, cast triggers LTB triggers, non-basic land hate, static abilities, which one is it? And what in blazes is Signal Pest doing there anyway???
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Ulamog is a thing, but I don't think he is enough to warrant a very narrow hate card.
I don't think Valakut is as big of an issue as people make it out to be. You can hate on it, you can race it and you should be able to contain it with a control deck. It's not perfect sure but little is in Modern.
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Quite simply Eldrazi Temple isn't a healthy influence on the format by any stretch of the imagination and it needs to go. The sooner the better.
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I'm personally happy that all the storm decks that reached day 2 ended up in the top 16. I don't remember that the deck ever had such a good conversion rate.
On the other hand that exact number demonstrates what kind of an effect E-Tron has on the format. By pushing out all the other midrange decks the format is down to linear racing. There is no other way to explain storm's and affinity's numbers on day 2.
This effect, I feel, will become more apparent in the next month or so but I don't think I'm being overly paranoid when I say WotC needs to finish the job they've started when they banned Eye of Ugin (by banning Eldrazi Temple) unless they want a repeat of the last Modern PT.