MTG Salvation

to be honest I think that the lack of any statement about the health of modern right now is the biggest take away from today. They didn't even say if they were watching anything

overall I would say I'm enjoying modern a lot right now, format doesn't seem too bad. I feel that maybe they could change it up a bit but I don't know if that involves banning or unbanning something. I would be fine with stoneforge mystic getting the unban even if they have to give it the golgari grave-troll treatment later

Frank Karsten wrote an article and a second on how many lands a deck should run given a few different circumstances

Hopefully these help you

It usually depends on number of colours, average cmc and the demands of different cards in your deck. For example, some decks may need to hit UU or BB early in the game, so they'd wanna include more sources able to produce both. I believe it also depends how much fixing you have, as in how much you can get lands from your decks

also some decks that are one colour, with cheaper spells, so they won't need as many lands as decks that are two or more colours.

I played one at GP Toronto and was mostly pretty fine with that choice. One reason why I like running one is because I'm running leyline of the void in the side so it's nice to be able to discard any copies that I draw in the late game. Other than that there are times when I don't wanna see it

as much as I'd like to see force of will in modern, I'm pretty skeptical on it. Counterspell on the other hand seems pretty fine. True-name nemesis is another card I'd be skeptical on but would be fine if they printed as modern legal as a test. I would also like to see some kind of combination of innocent blood, toxic deluge and diabolic edict would probably be fine

I believe it was because the winner of the Mythic Championship Cleveland identified as non binary, so they were describing them using "they"/"them" rather than he or she all weekend.

I think that this was a pretty reasonable choice tbh.

I didn't play much BO1 but just the idea of playing against any Nexus deck seemed annoying. Trying tp push Magic as an E-Sport seems counter intuitive when you can play a deck that can essentially "lock" your opponent of the game

played the Friday Mythic Qualifier at Magic Fest Toronto to 3-2 and the main event to 5-3, probably could have made day 2 if I played a bit better

I'll start with the Mythic Qualifier

round 1 I lose to dredge 1-2. Had no opponent for first 8 minutes, turns out he was a few table down so he got the game 1 loss. I got run over game 2, then g3 I mulled to 5 in search of leyline of the void but never find one.

0-1

Round 2 I beat Jeskai conrol 2-1. He ticks a teferi to 8, then I scoop in response to Jace. Game 2 I manage to ride an early a few shadows to victory. Game 3 I ride an early gurmag to victory

1-1

Round 3 I easily 2-0 blue moon the Kiki combo. He didn't draw much game 1 and I beat him. He was stuck on 2 lands g2 and by the time he drew his third it was too late.

Round 4 I 2-1 Amulet titan. he runs me over game 1. g2, I have an he trinket mages for an EE, leaving a mana open which he uses to cast ancient stirrings instead of the ee. I top decked a snapcaster to thoughtseize the ee away and ran him over after. Game 3 I won after using double shadow to block his primeval titan. After that he was never able to recover. He might have been too greedy by getting khalni heart garden to make a blocker instead of ee when he transmuted tolaria west. He says he didn't have enough mana to play and crack though

3-1

Round 5 i get paired against amulet again. I offer the draw since neither of us can top 8, wanted to see if he wanted to get the same amount of prize tickets. Turned out I was paired down. I quickly lose. G1 I mull to 5 and lost because he had both pact of negation and summoner's pact, so i couldn't stop him. G2 I couldn't get much going

3-2 at the end

In the Main I went 5-3

R1 I get paired against Humans. g1 he kept a slow hand but I drew 3 anglers so I couldn't really race the 3 mana thalia. Might have been better off if the third angler was a second shadow. Game 2 he had auriok champion, 2 mana thalia and an image copying the champion. I believe he also had 1 champion of the parish. I managed to draw an engineered explosives. Knowing how Thalia tax worked in this situation, I set X=1, then the Thalia tax would apply so sunburst would put 2 counters on. Thus I blew up most of the annoying stuff but leaving with a Champion of the Parish which I believe had 4 counters on before I won. Then he untaps and drops 2 more champions. I'm in rough shape. somehow the new ones got one and 2 counters on them or something like that. I was able to abrade-snap abrade to get rip of the smaller ones or something like that, leaving a huge one behind. My shadow kept it at bay for a while, me at 3 him at 28. I drew a thoughtseize which I used to fake removal. I drew a second shadow, so I thoughtseize his empty hand to take 2, bringing me to one. I then attack, he takes it going to 16. I drop the second shadow, leaving still the TBR he knows about. He had a slow draw game 3 and I won because of it. My logic with the thoughtseize at 3 was that I was dead to mantis rider anyways so I decided to take the high risk play to shorten the clock, even in the odd case he did have gut shot

1-0

Round 2 I lose 1-2 to spirits. game 1 I mull to 6 and kept a no lander with street wraith and bauble, my logic being even in a 17 land deck, the scry and draws would get me a land. I wasn't so lucky. TBR got me g2. G3 he was on the play and got 2 geist of saint traft. I untap, thoughtscour into an angler and hope he doesn't have path, which he does. I then take 8 after exalted and a lord pump. I never stabilize.

1-1.

I get paired against elves next and he makes pretty short work. I never get a threat after ripping his hand apart game 1. he explodes game 2

1-2. No more losses to give

Round 3 I lose to hardened scales 1-2. He makes quick work of me game 1, don't really remember what happened. Game 2 was grindy, I remove his threats and win off grim lavamancer activations. Game 3 I keep a reasonable hand with both bolt and push but he leads with llanowar reborn, then uses it to cast scales after it untaps and plays another of the same land. next turn drops another scales, worker and inkmoth nexus. bolt is dead now because of the counters. I push the worker and hope for another hard removal spell. which I don't and die.

1-3, dead but decide to play to avoid paying for more events

round 5 I run over titanshift in 15 minutes. He keeps a 6 with one ramp spell and double titan g1, take the ramp spell of course. G2 he keeps 6 with a valakut and no green. I take the ramp, by the time he can make a game of it he's done

2-3

next I get burn, who didn't know this match. Punted my way through g1, used a watery grave to cast thoughtscour instead of my steam vents and can't cast my angler, plus another punt or two. g2 I use stubborn denials without ferocious to make him decide if he wants to use his rift bolts off suspend or cast something else. Two turns of this saves me a bit of damage and I push through. G3 I get an early lavamancer, he suspended a rift bolt turn 2, when it came off turn 3. I asked him if he wanted to target me or my lavamancer, he decides the lavamancer. I believe I won at 5. His turn before I won I would have been dead if both the cards in his hand were spells rather than creatures but he had a goblin guide which I battle raged over

3-3. Doesn't matter but I'm even at this point

round 7 I 2-0 the opponent no show.

4-3, hoping to get the 5th win to at least feel better about staying in the whole thing

round 8 I 2-1 blue moon with breach package. G1 he breaches me on curve. I don't remember g2 but g3 was a combination of him blood mooning himself off cryptic and me tearing a lot of his hand apart the stuff he could cast

5-3. turned an awful start into the best non day 2 finish I could

Ironworks being banned is probably one of the only times I'll ever be happy about them just banning an archetype out of the format. I'm so glad it is done.

It made coverage boring, completely unfun to play against and was gross in the hands of a skilled pilot

I voted Phyrexians, I love the lore behind them more and I like what they do to a plane more than what the Eldrazi do