Quote from CrashCapt »I find myself winning via residual damage and combat steps and this new spoiler seems interesting. Im sure I'll slot this in
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/cards/modern-horizons/36362-fists-of-flame
Fists of Flame - it could be decent. In a lot of cases its going to give like +3/+0 and trample plus cantrip itself as kind of a baseline. I guess the question is how strong would you want it to be before its really solid. Its not all that likely that we would get much out of it on Jori En herself unless you are fork casting it. Its a card that gets better with running forks, without them though its probably going to be a bit so so. Its not really that good of draw being that its two mana with no card selection. I actually think it fits a Feather, the Redeemed deck a little better than it does this list.
Collected Conjuring - hummmmm this is an interesting card. I think the overall consistency of EDH decks will probably ultimately make it not great here but its interesting. If it could hit instant / sorceries I think we would have been in business but as it stands I think it just narrowly isn't quite good enough due to deck consistancies of 100 card decks.
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Titan I put as a maybe because they get lumped together often. But honestly its tron I hate
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I think WOTC has a decision to make, modern is supposed to be a fair format or it isnt? what kind of decks do we want? Jund and Abzan grinding or t3 karn.
A slower, fair format allows fair combo to exist, it allows control to exist same for aggro and midrange. Thats a healthy format. Unfair decks stop other decks from being able to exist in the meta. Tron being arround stops several decks from being playable
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I love modern, I get to play my favorite cards from past standards together its sweet. Except I can't. the format is warped arround some decks that make most other strategies flat out unplayable. How many threads you enter and see it's a autoloss to tron? Way to many.
Modern is set up in a way the that we can't really be creative. Phoenix, Tron, Titan and maybe dredge make everything follow some kind of rules when deckbuilding and yet theres not much one can do against it. When it was the last time we saw some midrange deck have some solid runs? Whats a sweet token build people are running? we have the same decks doing the same things
My take is : Tron was a mistake, actually messing with mana in unfair ways usually is. WOTC has printed way too many 1 collor/free cantrips that let you filter your deck way too much, letting izzet get away with playing so few lands, shaping their hands and fueling the yard and by extention allowing some degenerate things happen. Modern isn't healthy right now,I feel I could pop on standard and have a higher variery of decks be viable.
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