Comments on: Context: Card Values and Constraints

By: DNLK

DNLK — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:31:41 +0000

There’s that thing when game is 20 years old and the format we play isn’t young either. So when we see grave strategies prevail, there obviously is a hate around or just bannings if it’s not enough to hold them back. That is for every other thing you would bring to the table. Going rogue works in this situation only if you are on small scene where you could expect certain decks to show up. On a big one you get hit by said collateral damage just because right sideboard is which hits all the possibilities. Oddly enough, 15 slots are often capable of doing so.

So where do we go from this point? I don’t know, but it seems like modern still rewards linear decks the most with Affinity on top of the format right now.

By: Sergio Becerra

Sergio Becerra — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 20:18:16 +0000

So basically Jund plays the most punishing cards in the format. Aside from stony silence. Also help me out here, trying to understand lets say affinity vs creeping corrotion and/or stony silence. Why do we still see affinity winning tournys or being a top tier deck and not Gifts against graveyard hate. Is it because of consistency? Resilience? or something else?

By: Darcy Hartwick

Darcy Hartwick — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:55:57 +0000

Liked the content here as separate pieces of observation, but it really doesn’t feel coherent… jumping from combust to tezzeret to tarmogoyf to stony silence to birds of paradise leaves me wondering what exactly you’re trying to tell me about the format.

was it that a good deck or card can be killed off as collateral damage?
was it that new cards have to do more “output-per-mana” than old ones to see play?
was it that we can play hate-card-vulnerable decks if we “next level” the hate card?

I’m not sure. But I think its relevant to point out that grixis control can k-command a relic, or spell snare a rest in peace, but realistically can’t beat a t0 leyline of the void – the deck still exists because there aren’t enough competitive decks that can or want to pack leylines in their board.

Similarly the age of leyline of sanctity has pretty much come and gone (if it was ever real) as burn moves on to more creatures and spells that bypass leyline – that makes it a good time for 8rack – or does it, since kolagan’s command puts people on maindeck 2-for-1 artifact hate that incidentally also fights rack effects?

I’m not totally sure what the msg here was so not sure if those observations have any relevance but they might ;p