I realize these two articles express slightly different opinions—that’s because they are written by different authors. Here at MN we’re interested in presenting as much fact as possible, but opinions will enter into the equation and we can’t provide a perfect unified front.

Which is it, indeed, because certainly two people that write for a website are not allowed to submit articles that may have different perspectives…

Come on, one article is to say that sky, is not in fact, falling, the other is looking at metagame data from a tournament and drawing observations.

Well, different authors will have different opinions. Probably the truth lies somewhere between.

My view is that modern is extremely healthy format in small scale tournaments that have great variety of decks, but when you go into huge, long tournaments with 12 rounds, then the meta usually is different and a bit more “coward”, in a sence that peopel knwo they cannot deal with all decks in a huge player base, so they go for the race.

Oh, and you mentioned the wrong Borborygmos while talking about Goryo’s 😛

It is as fair as jund almost, considering it drops the 2 most powerful modern cards (goyf and bolt)

As I said.. if you feel the need to do something, I would first unban the elf before banning other decks. On current Jund modus operandi you really think brodbraid would make so much difference? Most of the decks would not trade kalitas for it..

DRS is just a rant of mine how cards are banned without real reasons, just lazy work It was banned because its a too good card.. oo great. There is no single interaction that made it broken. In fact its banning changed NOTHING on Jund status. They said “but it makes2/3 of deck play either green or black..) surprise! 2/3 of the decks still play either green of black! It changed NOTHING! (except making goyf stronger)

It is just an example like how early modern bannings were badly made (same history as with wildcat)

Couldn’t agree more. Hardly believe this is a ” Villain” deck. Lol!

Exactly my first reaction but no. It’s actually a very linear in it’s approach, interacting minimally to enable itself more than anything (thoughtknot is there to stop you from stopping them)

However post board it does become more of a midrange deck.
It’s kind of like a halfway between from and midrange

It’s a “fair” deck as they like to say here. But more like ‘fair’. Just one set of marks haha. It’s close enough.

I must heartily disagree with your unban suggestions XD

Jund is unwaveringly tier 1 without them. As much as I would love to play those cards in non Jund it would jus take Jund too good

Shhhh don’t let them know!

I’ve been playtesting it in my waste not deck. The card is bonkers. Really pushed for card selection.

Can I just say I don’t really appreciate the elitist tone and dismissal of anything less than common (8-rack and knightfall)

I always get this sort of time from modern players, despite success (6-3 at gp La, fnm wins, and top 8 in regionals) people scoff at my decks and chalk it up to luck because that deck must be bad.

I mean I was first seed going into top 8 at my last regionals (san diego, which also includes LA and people from vegas etc. and Tijuana. So a very high population area) I get so much shit talking from people.

Idk. Bothers me when people dismiss a decks success. And I feel it does those decks and players an injustice.

Why is knightfall so well positioned? I’d really like to know (I have a deck very similar but less zoo-ish and more controlling)

Sorry if this sounds like a rant but as an active subscriber I just wanted to give my feedback on what I perceive to be a bit of an issue

A sinkhole equivalent isn’t bad, but we have Smallpox. Perhaps a different focus for BGx decks.

If changes are wanted I would look to unban a few things instead. Specially things that are good at delaying other decks or/and are not so cheap manawise. Unbanning brodbraid elf for example. I would even unban DRS before banning anything on current meta (it hurts dredge and it does not make any deck broken by any super synergy).

Sometimes I think what this format needs is a 2 mana LD with a heavy side effect, something that would work wonders to halting super linear decks.

Sure, it plays a bunch of pushed creatures and it fast draws are mana acceleration (Noble, Temple) may seem unfair and all, but isn’t it just a bigger Jund? It baiscally plays 12 Goyfs, interacts with the hand (TKS), has removal (Path, Dismember), both Displacer and Drowner scream interaction and it even runs sideboard counterspells, Explosives, Alliance, Elspeth.

Just food for thought.