We have recognised this to be a large issue issue in the Max Banlist Modern community as we do not want goblin decks dominating and preventing a large range of archetypes. Goblin decks based around cards such as Bog Hoodlums and especially those with Ally sub themes based around Tuktuk Giants are recognised to be too mana efficient and aggressive for the format.
We have also noticed the dominance of Big Rig decks that power out powerful low costed creatures such as Mothdust Changeling and Woodland Changeling, whilst giving them late game relevance using Steamflogger Boss. This mixture of synergy and aggressiveness means that these decks can win consistently as early as turn 15!
Normally we would like to ban fewer cards to allow a wider range of strategies, and recognising Steamflogger Boss to be the core of both these decks, in the interest of competitive diversity, Steamflogger Boss is banned.
Despite this, due to a large outcry against these decks in the community we are banning the rest of the cards as well.

For you see, once everything is banned I will simply mill them out over the long 53 turn game. This is true next level brewing.

Oh yea, and Hive Mind has to go. Competetive Diversity and whatnot.

I accept your ban with a heavy heart. Guess we’re stuck playing sanctioned Modern.

Happy April 1!

More seriously, grape juice sounds pretty dangerous. In the interest of competitive diversity (and shirts), grape juice is banned in Modern.

Smart catch. Almost slipped through the cracks there, especially that Runeclaw Bear.

Good idea. We’re only at about 100 cards banned so far, so we have a long, long way to go before we get there. Plenty of wacky decks left in the mix, and I still don’t think anyone banned the key Goblins!

I’m glad Thomas banned it, because I was getting scared. This definitely looked like it would decrease the format’s competitive diversity.

Glad you enjoyed! Hopefully the only thing that gets banned in Max Banlist Modern is, as you say, the format itself…

I just banned your entire deck. It seemed too good.

You owe me a new shirt.

🙂

4 Chimney Imp
4 Marshmist Titan
4 Phantasmagorian
4 Tresserhorn Skynight
4 Skeletal Wurm
4 Mournwhelk

4 Ichor Explosion
4 Phthisis
4 Absorb Vis

24 Swamp

Also, someone banned all non-basic lands, but didn’t ban Blood Moon for some reason, weird. Don’t have a sideboard, the meta is kind of wonky, so I haven’t really decided what I wanted to put in yet. Anywho, thank you for the great article!