Slivers has long been thought of as a broken deck by casual players and a joke deck by tournament players — such is the eternal divide between Magic players. The intention of this article is not so much to make a case for Slivers as a strong, competitive choice in Modern, but to make an […]
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I’ve always had a soft spot for Infect. It was the first deck I played in Modern, the first deck I built on MTGO, and the first Modern deck that proved to me how awesome Modern was going to be (rock on, Blazing Shoal!). Infect has changed since those early days of 2011 Modern, but […]
Budget decks have a bad name, and somewhat deservedly so: most lists are based on top tier decks and sacrifice a lot of their power, preventing them from winning enough to be fun (if you’re a spike, anyway). Well, it doesn’t have to be that way: Modern has a very large catalogue of cards, which […]
Wizards came, Wizards saw, and Wizards left the format untouched. The March 23 B&R Announcement is in, with no changes made to Modern. No bans, no unbans, and now almost four months until we start the whole circus over again. All things considered, this was exactly what I expected. Modern Nexus predictions are batting 100% […]
In last week’s article on MTGO statistics, I took a deep dive into the numbersĀ to see if Mono U Tron was really the “best” deck on Magic the Gathering: Online. There was a pretty strong case to be made for Mono U Tron’s power, but we can go even deeper to see if we missed […]
If you came here looking for the exciting new Modern-only site, Masters of Modern, donāt worry! You are still in the right place. Modern Nexus is the same site with the same content, coverage, and quality that we promised in the original site. The only thing that weāve changed is our name. [wp_ad_camp_1] When […]
It’s that most wonderful time of the year again: Modern banlist updates. There is no topic in Modern, and arguably no topic in Magic (with one strong contender…), that is so controversial and polarizing as the Modern banlist. Ever since Wizards laid out its vision in two inaugural articles, Modern has been defined by its […]
MTGO daily data is awesome. If you like Magic and like numbers/statistics/math in any way, it’s hard to look at the mothership’s dataset and not nerd out. It’s updated daily! It has full decklists! It’s presented in a consistent format! It has average game win percentage for decks! Although there are certainly ways Wizards coould […]
It’s not often Modern decks are definitively created by a single person, but that certainly seems to be the case with 8Rack, a discard deck created in 2013 that kills you with The Rack, among other things. Today we get to talk to the man behind the deck Robert Leva (aka MemoryLapse on MTGSalvation) and […]
I know a guy who calcuates deck prices in Tarmogoyfs. Affinity? That will be 2-3 Goyfs. RG Tron? 3 Goyfs flat. Burn? Whoa there, down to 1-2 Goyfs! When the moderately played version of a card is running for $165 with shipping included, you know you are either playing Legacy or you are talking about […]
The January 2015 bannings of Treasure Cruise, Dig Through Time, and Birthing Pod changed Modern as we knew it; Delver was sure to fade away; BGx attrition strategies were likely to return; Burn would have to stop splashing blue, and blue-based combo was going to suffer. Oh, and Pod was dead. Whether you loved the […]
Get used to it: Burn is Modernās premiere aggro deck. Although Affinity will always be Modernās oldest and most consistently successful aggro strategy, Burn has actually raced ahead of Affinity as the aggro deck to beat in our format. As of today, Burn is the most-played deck on MTGO and the third most-played deck in […]
Welcome to Modern Playables. Dragons of Tarkir has been fully spoiled, and so, with a new set comes the question: which of these cards is truly viable in Modern? We’re here to help you sort through the muck to tell you what’s a yes or maybe, and where it all fits. [wp_ad_camp_1] Dragons of Tarkir […]
