So tonight my modern G/W deck beat Infect, Living End, and Gifts Reanimator. Got crushed by Tron and B/W Eldrazi. What are good sideboard cards against those decks?
Which version of Extended do you bring back, thoughThey should bring back Extended. It was the best format.
There are some other quirks to the reserved list. They can never print a 1WW 2/2 Flying, First Strike creature (something that sounds like a perfectly fine limited card), because Thunder Spirit is on the list, and the list prevents them from making functionally identical cards. They can never do a 4UU 3/4 Flying, Shroud because Zephid is on the list (OK, with the existance of Hexproof this woulnd't happen anyway, but lets think in 2011 terms here).
So tonight my modern G/W deck beat Infect, Living End, and Gifts Reanimator. Got crushed by Tron and B/W Eldrazi. What are good sideboard cards against those decks?
How do we explain Questing Phelddagrif?I don't think they can even print a Hexproof version because there's some kind of unwritten provision that prevents them from printing functionally similar/superior versions of reserved cards. See also why they can't just print Snow Duals
Abilities are different.How do we explain Questing Phelddagrif?
Against Eldrazi Leyline of Sanctity should help, stops their hand disruption, Oblivion Sower and Liliana of The Veil
Ghost Quarter Stony Silence of course against Tron. Pithing Needle and Aven Mindcensor/Leonin Arbiter (?), Gaddock Teeg would stop Ugin and Karn from being played.
I don't think they can even print a Hexproof version because there's some kind of unwritten provision that prevents them from printing functionally similar/superior versions of reserved cards. See also why they can't just print Snow Duals
To add to this, against Eldrazi the gameplan is very simple. Kill their Eye of Ugin, kill their Temple. If your meta is heavy with Eldrazi, Ghost Quarter is secret tech. Also, manlands. The deck is light on instant removal. GW doesn't have an answer for All is Dust that I can think of though, unlike any blue deck you can't just clog the board with small guys and get in beats.
Judge's Familiar?
They've clarified that another 1WW 2/2 Flying First Strike is prohibited by the letter of the law while Snow Duals would only violate "the spirit." (I say violate the fuck out of the "spirit" of a list whose spirit was "fuck you," but to each their own.)
I guess it's worth a shot, but it feels awful fringy.
Thinking on random Tron hate. Wonder if they could do something like:
"Mana Constriction 1W
Enchantment
Whenever a land is tapped for mana and it would produce more than one mana, it produces one mana of a type that land could produce instead."
But I'd want it to have wording where it works against both Tron lands (which this wording does) and stuff like Heartbeat of Spring and Fertile Ground which is tough because with those enchantments the land itself isn't producing the mana, it's a triggered mana ability. Hmm.
(This is obviously absurdly narrow.)
If only Stoneforge got unbanned, then Modern Death and Taxes could have been a thing.I guess I'll add in ghost quarters as a shared hate card against Tron and Eldrazi. Those plus infect were the most common decks last night.
I don't think this actually works rules wise the way you want.So you want a less restrictive Blood Moon? At least that's how I'd do it, so it's less narrow.
Tectonic Shift 2W
Enchantment
Non-basic lands lose all abilities and gain "Tap: Add one mana of any type to your mana pool that lands you control can produce."
This way the lands aren't useless, but they don't do their special shit.
I don't think this actually works rules wise the way you want.
I've always been a fan of land "destruction" ie
Destroy target non-basic land. Its controller puts a land token into play named Wastes with "T: Add C to your mana pool."
I understand your intent, but the point behind this thought experiment is to come up with hate that's both functional, clean, and effective, no? In your example the lands lose all abilities so they have no possible mana they could produce.I don't 100% understand the templating rules I guess? But what I want the card to do is obvious, no? Basically "Blood Moon" except non-basic lands become Reflecting Pool, not Mountain.
I understand your intent, but the point behind this thought experiment is to come up with hate that's both functional, clean, and effective, no? In your example the lands lose all abilities so they have no possible mana they could produce.
That's a little different than what I was thinking.
Basically I was brainstorming for wording that would:
1) Have Tron lands only produce 1 colorless mana.
2) Have Tolarian Academy and Gaea's Cradle produce, at most, 1 blue or green mana respectively.
3) Make Mana Flare, Fertile Ground, Heartbeat of Spring and other "double your mana" effects not work.
Oh actually i did misread what you originally posted. But i like your revised version more anywaysI don't see how it isn't functional, clean and effective.
They'd require a basic of some sort to function, yes. That's how Reflecting Pool works. It's hate that would require decks like Eldrazi to play basics, whether they are Swamps or Wastes.
Did you mean to imply that the hate should be functional, clean, effective and fair? Then that's a different story.
I would say something like this:
Tectonic Drain 2W
Enchantment
Non-basic lands lose all other abilities and gain "Tap: Add <> to your mana pool".
I guess this would be the "fair" version. It's at least cleaner and more functional. It's too bad Wastes isn't a sub-type. That would be even cleaner.
"Whenever a player would add more than one mana from any one source to his or her manapool that player instead adds 1 mana of any type the source would have added.
Enchantments can't add mana to players manapools"
I see no other way to stop land enchantments
Rally has access to Ayli as a sac outlet now, not nearly as good but she suffices and Reflector Mage also helps making the coast clear for the conventional way. Rally vs Rally with Hallowed moonlight was interesting to watch.
So now that there is a colorless symbol, I wonder if they'll ever make a rainbow symbol that could be paid by any colored mana.
That's generic mana. That's the number inside a circle.
There's really no good reason to have it design wise.Generic can be paid by colorless though. Generic can be W/U/B/R/G/C, I'm saying something that can only be paid with W/U/B/R/G.
Generic can be paid by colorless though. Generic can be W/U/B/R/G/C, I'm saying something that can only be paid with W/U/B/R/G.
Generic can be paid by colorless though. Generic can be W/U/B/R/G/C, I'm saying something that can only be paid with W/U/B/R/G.
I am trying to decide what to play in Standard. Might just give Elves a shot, I like the odd way the current Elves play together. Closer to Aristocrats than anything.
I'm settling on Mono-C Eldrazi or G/R Eldrazi Ramp.
The mono-c eldrazi deck is kinda of bonkers when it goes off
I liked it when they did hybrid plus a 3rd colour in the cost in Alara reborn. I hope that when we go back to Alara one day we'll get hybrid A/B C/2 costs. C being the center colour.
Finally got my OGW fatpack/box, gonna be opening that tonight. Results will be posted as images!
https://www.facebook.com/PatsGames/videos/vb.129417167191277/781847055281615/?type=2&theater
This is terrible, I hope they find the people who did this.