Quote from HagalazModern is the worst format in my eyes, and with good reason. It is the least diverse format! When the vast majority of the format are midrange and combo strategies, and everything else is barely seen... we have a problem. Even standard is better off!
For serious? To name a few in modern we have:
Living End (Combo in game 1 and Control in 2&3)
JikiTwin (Combo)
Storm (Combo)
Infect (All in Aggro)
Affinity (Aggro)
Red Deck Wins (Aggro)
Pod Varients (MidRange - Combo)
ScapeShift (Control - Combo)
Jund (Midrange - Control)
RG Tron (Unique)
Eternal Command (Midrange)
UWR (Control or Tempo depending on build)
Merfolk (Tempo)
Complex Dredge (Control)
CawBlade (Tempo)
Rites Control (Control)
Soul Sisters (Control)
Control is about generating card advantage while providing efficeint ansswers. Control is different now because the most efficient card advantage and answers are no longer in the form of draw spells and counterspells. There is a healthy spread between aggro, combo, control, and midrange.
Quote from Hagalaz
Isn't that irrelevant? I mean, the permanents on the board thing? Are you familiar with legacy, even? Cause it doesn't look like it.
There are lots of legacy decks that do use permanents like stoneblade, rock, and aggro varients, but there also a large portion of legacy decks that simply don't. Storm, dredge, and Show and Tell. Modern has a much smaller portion of decks that do this as Living End and Storm are the only real culprits.
Quote from Hagalaz
The game doesn't have "all the depth and strategy it allways haD". When modern has such low amount of control, tempo and aggro, how can you say it has the same depth? When people no longer learn to bait and contain resources as they don't need to, how does it have the same strategy?
It has depth and strategy now just as much as ever the resources and answers have changed. Control exists but here's the thing, it usually isn't blue. Against Jund I always have to think what permanents I want to play first to bait out his Lilly and dreadbores. If I'm playing living end after they land some grave hate I have to be very particular on how I land my threats and when to cycle. I want to bait out the most creatures for my instant speed wrath. When you are playing soul sisters you have to be meticulous about when you play your spells to make sure you conserve as many resouces as possible. Complex dredge is probably the hardest to pilot control deck.
Quote from Hagalaz
I've been playing for 15 years, and I am also perfectly happy to enjoy the game as it stands. Doesn't mean modern is in a good shape. It's not.
Why? The best standard of all times in terms of richness and variety was invasion-odyssey. To this day we still haven't seen regionals and continentals (which no longer exist, I know) with such a diversity among deck types. What are you running away from?
See, this is where you are completely wrong. Legacy is one of the few formats where decks of all types are present and getting results. It is the format where when some new explosive deck comes up, most likely the metagame will self-correct and adjust to it. It is rich by its diversity, it is always evolving to beat itself, this is what every format should aim to be!!! This is the epitome of a healthy format and it shouldn't simply be ignored!
Richness and variety are characteristics which set magic apart from other games. Why do you want to ignore strong points of the game you claim to like?
Which is exactly what modern is. Self correcting with new explosive decks popping up regularly in an extremely diverse field.
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