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Magic: the Gathering - Oath o/t Gatewatch |OT| Look again, the mana is now diamonds!
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Angry Grimace
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My problem isn't that Elvish Mystic rotated out, it's that Sylvan Caryatid did. Straight up Elvish Mystic at 2 mana is pretty terrible because you're doubling the mana investment of something that does to Fiery Impulse.
The Latest Developments in making excuses for their piss poor reprint methodology. The article reads like a long-winded excuse for why BFZ block didn't have any real reprints of note. With prices going crazy all over the place they are starting damage control early to get ahead of the blowback they'll see once Modern season actually revs up. If the Summer set, Eternal Masters/Conspiracy 2/Whatever, isn't chock full of Modern staples they are in for a pretty epic shitstorm.
Angry Grimace
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Honestly, this just sounds like generalized whining about wanting expensive cards for cheap. He makes a very good argument for why Thoughtseize was miserable (Thoughtseize IS miserable in Standard and its also a brainless card to run), why Liliana is probably too powerful for a Standard reprint (it IS too powerful for a standard reprint) and why removing certain taken-for-granted staple cards lets them freshen up standard because the rest of the environment has to be balanced around those cards. I don't get what your counterpoint is other than "I want expensive cards for cheap." That really isn't what he's talking about at all.
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This PT coverage has been pretty cool so far.
I don't personally need these things in Standard. But a more regular situation needs to be figured out. If they're not going to reprint MM ever year, they need to do some sort of Modern Deck series or something in the off years.
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The format is definitely more aggressive than BFZ. Fewer Scions and smaller creatures overall in OGW make aggro strategies a lot more viable. Cohort also helps give the aggressive decks a bit of extra reach; in BFZ the landfall deck would often run out of gas and fall short on the last few points.
And it being timed to coincide with all the grumbling about BFZ block reprints, or lack thereof, and the modern price swings is entirely coincidental.
Uh huh, right.
Angry Grimace
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Grumbling about prices and reprints have existed since Magic the Gathering invented formats. He's explaining in detail why you can't just print [Beloved Card X] into Standard and you saying "HMMMM TIMING SEEMS SUSPECT" isn't the same thing as having a coherent counter-argument to his point.
SigmasonicX
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Also on the Mothership, a good overview of Modern decks we should expect to see at the Pro Tour.
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Everything he says is correct though. Thoughtseize and Mutavault were unpleasantly omnipresent, and Liliana and Inquisition would have been similar. If you're interested in seeing reprints to address price and availability of Modern cards, you should be happy to read this because it means they'll stop putting aside cool reprints to use in Standard (thereby excluding them from sets like MM) only to pull them for power level at the last minute, leaving them unreprinted. Once they accept that Standard isn't the venue for these reprints they can focus on doing them in places that actually make sense.
I wasn't thrilled about how Caryatid just completely gummed up the ground in the format of the time. I feel like there's gotta be a good option that's maybe at the midpoint of that card and the 2/1 1G Mystic guy.
Angry Grimace
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I would be okay with 1/1 Hexproof 1G T: Any color. I just did not like the fact that you can pay 2 for a guy and get Fiery Impulsed.
Yeah I'm really happy about that. I've thought for years that WBR was an underplayed color combo and just needed a push, though we'll see if now is the time.
Angry Grimace
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This is the first round of Modern, there are no top tables lol
It's just people who did good at draft.
I know, I meant in the featured tables
Infinite Stars
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Honestly, they need to fire half of Wizard's Coverage team. Maybe even make it into two/3 sub teams:
Marshall/Someone on limited
Ian Duke/Someone on Standard
And another pair on Modern.
Randy/Rashad are just awful at commentary.
SigmasonicX
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Glad that Death's Shadow won that match against Affinity. It's nice to see weird decks like that succeeding.
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Bob Maher 1-0 at this Pro Tour so far.
SigmasonicX
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Huh, they mentioned an Eldrazi deck running Pack Rats.
And 4xEndbringer! And a ton of pain lands! I really want to see that deck.
Which has be explained through various channels by a number of WOTC representatives plenty of times with Thoughtseize being the most commonly used example. They dropped that article just prior to the the Modern Pro Tour so they can point to it after the post Pro Tour price bump hits and the ensuing wave of complaints roll in. This isn't new information to anyone and should have long since been integrated into their reprint strategy regarding supplemental product & promo cards.
Angry Grimace
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Good on him for trying to do the interview in the language that the viewers can understand. He clearly understands more than he speaks.
I can't say I like the premise of this article. I like playing cards that are plain and powerful. They're my absolute favourite cards.
For me, cards like Lightning Bolt and Llanowar Elves do the opposite of "make Magic less fun" -- I love casting simple spells, and when I lose to a simple spell, it doesn't feel nearly as bad as when I lose to a rainbow-coloured creature with four-plus lines of text. Even Counterspell, Dark Ritual, and Swords to Plowshares are pretty damn fun, provided they're in an environment that isn't broken in half by them. That's part of why Cube is such a beloved format, right? You get to play awesome spells and feel awesome without facing a degenerate, over-centralized set of decks on the other side of the table.
Angry Grimace
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It's more complicated than that though. Dark Ritual existing means every black spell costs about B more than it should otherwise, which isn't interesting gameplay.
Bolt severely limits what kind of cards can see play especially in the 3 toughness range.
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Bdm sneaking around the table. So awkward.
Angry Grimace
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LSV is playing the Eldrazi deck haha.
Angry Grimace
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Holy shit, Turn 1 Chalice of the Void on 1 against burn.
We Legacy now.
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Hey, Endless One seeing Modern play!
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