Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
are they supposed to show players not up for contention?
The way pros are flocking to DS is reminiscent of infect. Expect a ban on something sooner rather than later.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT12| Hour of Devastation - Hour of Jace getting dunked on
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The way pros are flocking to DS is reminiscent of infect. Expect a ban on something sooner rather than later.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I want Splice to come back
charlequin
Banned
I feel like "Splice onto instant" is one of those things that for any given set is a low chance, but is kind of just inevitable given a long enough time window.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I thought Amonkhet was pretty bad in that regard but the invocations so far look like they were cut from a single humongous picture almost.
First they came for my Street Wraith, and I said nothing...
Lazy vs Crazy
Member
I'll tell you what's oppressive is quad sleeving your deck.
Whet the hell is this dude thinking.
Whet the hell is this dude thinking.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Has anyone seen jund? Pour one out for the decks that have fallen by the wayside.
If it's not oppressive it's definitely pretty meta warping
I feel it's like Miracles, not oppressive but way better than anything else and kind of metagame warping. Then again there is always a best deck.
It's currently the best performing deck but definitely not oppressive. Pod and Eldrazi were oppressive. What would you even ban? Street Wraith and Shadow are really the only potential targets imo. Snapcaster is probably the next most essential card and banning that effectively kills any viability of blue control.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
according to owen he quadruple sleeves
Street Wraith is the obvious target for a ban to hit DS.
Street Wraith is the obvious target for a ban to hit DS.
I think it is triple sleeved. Inner, regular, and then character guards or w/e they are called to go over art sleeves.
Ari lax is a douche as usual it seems. Dude dropped a card while shuffling and he called a judge.
Jund is outmoded. Shadow is a better midrange deck and Abzan is a better traditional midrange deck in a shadow meta.
Time to unban BBE.
TheBlackMarvel
Member
Those sleeves are obnoxious.
I believe he's talking about Jund Death's Shadow (the traverse/goyf/bauble one). That was the deck to beat for a bit before people realised that you can play Anglers and Tasigurs and Stubborn Denials instead of bad cards like Tarfire and Bauble.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Or just knock DS down a peg and see where it goes.
I was referring to Jund in general a pillarstone of the format completely gone seemingly.
It's also completely foiled out.
blindrocket
Member
I've got my paper set and digital set on MTGO ready to go.
I'd prefer no bans in that case
This is where I'm at, too. The deck isn't completely oppressive like marvel was (and jund or stoneforge were) and if the idea is to ban something just to knock it out slightly, I feel like it's the wrong move by far.
They had it up while they were sideboarding so it should be up on the vod soon.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Dude didn't even get to put a single spell on the stack.
I'd prefer a healthier metagame for Fish
If that is true about him calling a judge then I hope Ari loses here.
blindrocket
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Even though I rarely, rarely ever take it out of the deck box, I'd feel bad for my Living End deck if Street Wraith takes a ban.
I suppose it's time to sell/trade them at this point while they are like, nearly $10 each.
I suppose it's time to sell/trade them at this point while they are like, nearly $10 each.
charlequin
Banned
Modern isn't at all at a place where it needs a ban to be healthy. Wait around, see what happens with some more time and some more set releases, and then ban something if DS actually hates out enough other stuff to wreck the metagame.
Huh?
Well he ended up losing. It just kind of rubbed me the wrong way in terms of it being an honest mistake. I know there have been other times where he has been called for things similar.
The turns deck is sweet. Cast tasigur, miracle a temporal mastery and just attack him for lethal. Chalice is a hell of a card.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Looks like boil so it probably isn't
blindrocket
Member
Good call
I went to sleep at 11 pm last night while my roommate, who has a flight at 6 am this morning, stayed up to order and eat pizza. I woke up at 1 am randomly and noticed he fell asleep on a futon with his phone open, all the lights on and none of his stuff packed. I decided to set my own alarm for 3:30 am to make sure he got up in time to pack and make it thinking that if I woke him then to the same end he'd end up waking me up when he left anyways.
I wake up with him in the morning, make sure everything's in order, and go back to sleep after setting my alarm to 7 am to make sure I have time to eat for my med's and checkout before heading to the tourney for modern at 9. I sleep through my ipad, phone, and the clock alarm and wake up at 845.
I'm rush to the tourney with my left foot completely soaking my sock and shoe in blood from a now burst blister on the back of my heel agitated by me running to the convenation center. I clean it up as best i can but atill need to rush to the table. I make it to my table 2 minutes into the round and the judge gives me a game loss for beING late. I play a close game against a merfolk opportunity who I run out of cards and get down to a single master. He goes to his turn, draws, and swings with it. I activate a colonnade and he vials in the last lord he drew to islandwalk through it, win the game and by extension the match.
At 7 3 still needing to check out before 11 and beginning to feel withdrawal effects from beING a day and a half off cycle from my antidepressants, I drop. Checked on the ptqs for the day and found out I was a few minutes late to join. Just packed up and decided to leave Vegas. Hour of devastation indeed.
As far as the deck itself goes, I felt it was perfectly positioned for the tourney. Disn't play a single match I didn't think I could win.
I wake up with him in the morning, make sure everything's in order, and go back to sleep after setting my alarm to 7 am to make sure I have time to eat for my med's and checkout before heading to the tourney for modern at 9. I sleep through my ipad, phone, and the clock alarm and wake up at 845.
I'm rush to the tourney with my left foot completely soaking my sock and shoe in blood from a now burst blister on the back of my heel agitated by me running to the convenation center. I clean it up as best i can but atill need to rush to the table. I make it to my table 2 minutes into the round and the judge gives me a game loss for beING late. I play a close game against a merfolk opportunity who I run out of cards and get down to a single master. He goes to his turn, draws, and swings with it. I activate a colonnade and he vials in the last lord he drew to islandwalk through it, win the game and by extension the match.
At 7 3 still needing to check out before 11 and beginning to feel withdrawal effects from beING a day and a half off cycle from my antidepressants, I drop. Checked on the ptqs for the day and found out I was a few minutes late to join. Just packed up and decided to leave Vegas. Hour of devastation indeed.
As far as the deck itself goes, I felt it was perfectly positioned for the tourney. Disn't play a single match I didn't think I could win.
That much is obvious.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
It's actually boil
damn that's some tough beats.
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