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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
That is most sets though, Explore is much weaker without the full package, Energy is crap without a mass of energy producers. Kamigawa had the compound effect of being limited to Tribes that don't exist outside of Kamigawa.
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Right, but not all mechanics are equally parasitic: Legendary worked with Artifacts in general, Explore worked with +1/+1 counters synergies, landfall + enemy fetchlands worked well with Alara's multicolor matters theme. Soulshift and Energy don't have these "sort-of" synergies so you get these extremely focused decks.

Honka Honka Burning Love said:
The sad fact is that Set mechanics outside of absurdly broken things like Affinity and Delve rarely ever affect Constructed play.
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Wizards is also willing to use bans/unbans to shake up Modern whereas Standard bans are a last resort: Printing Modern-usable cards in Standard risks breaking the format, so every now and then they'll "add" cards like Bloodbraid, Jace, and Stoneforge back in instead. It has the added (for them) benefit that they can get away with little or no playtesting for Modern this way.
 
twattycake said:
Wizards is also willing to use bans/unbans to shake up Modern whereas Standard bans are a last resort: Printing Modern-usable cards in Standard risks breaking the format, so every now and then they'll "add" cards like Bloodbraid, Jace, and Stoneforge back in instead. It has the added (for them) benefit that they can get away with little or no playtesting for Modern this way.
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Bloodbraid probably died for Deathrite Shaman's sins in modern early on truth be told. I have mixed feelings about DRS in Legacy, I almost feel like it was a necessary evil of sorts kind of like FoW is in the format even though the mana fixing aspect and it being able to kill 1/1's in combat all for a G/B was a bit much. I think if you made his effects only work at sorcery speed and made him a 0/1 he'd be a lot more reasonable.

Jace and SFM's day 0 bans were just cause of the fear of Stoneblade from from it's standard for the most part. Admittedly removal was crappier then and you didn't have Khoalgan's Command to deal with the Batterskull and such but once KC came out I always kinda felt like they should have taken SFM off the ban list for modern.

The Jace unban was mostly just to sell Masters 25 packs cause the set was pretty "meh" but by that point his power level had gotten to where he was just really good instead of stupid broken for his casting cost.

Hot Take: With all the -1/-1 to all creature effects modern has now I think True Name Nemesis would almost be safe enough for the format and give merfolk that little extra push the deck could use. I know the card is generally considered by R&D to be a mistake though, so I'm not holding my breath on ever seeing that come to pass.
 
Ebonic Tutor said:
Bloodbraid probably died for Deathrite Shaman's sins in modern early on truth be told. I have mixed feelings about DRS in Legacy, I almost feel like it was a necessary evil of sorts kind of like FoW is in the format even though the mana fixing aspect and it being able to kill 1/1's in combat all for a G/B was a bit much. I think if you made his effects only work at sorcery speed and made him a 0/1 he'd be a lot more reasonable.

Jace and SFM's day 0 bans were just cause of the fear of Stoneblade from from it's standard for the most part. Admittedly removal was crappier then and you didn't have Khoalgan's Command to deal with the Batterskull and such but once KC came out I always kinda felt like they should have taken SFM off the ban list for modern.

The Jace unban was mostly just to sell Masters 25 packs cause the set was pretty "meh" but by that point his power level had gotten to where he was just really good instead of stupid broken for his casting cost.

Hot Take: With all the -1/-1 to all creature effects modern has now I think True Name Nemesis would almost be safe enough for the format and give merfolk that little extra push the deck could use. I know the card is generally considered by R&D to be a mistake though, so I'm not holding my breath on ever seeing that come to pass.
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People will use EE, blast zone and even edicts before bringing in -1/-1 effects (outside of hardened scals) to deal with True Name. Definitely harder to beat in modern but the same things that deal with true name are in modern, with less effective counter spells to protect it. It will warp all sideboards and obliterate in some matchups, so I don’t see it coming soon.
 
Only reason I even think there is a tiny chance is that Modern seems to slowly be edging it's way into Legacy territory as is. Could see some version akin to the MH Force spells where it only has the protection during just one of the players turns or something like that. Not that I expect that even cause It's not like I really expect them to print something like that, but then again they printed Hogaak and didn't pick up on quite how broken it was either.

See Also: Not noticing Felidar/Saheeli combo in standard. I know they brought pros in to help stop stuff like that from happening again but MH was cranked out probably the fastest they ever did a set from what I remember hearing so that lends itself to dumb things like Skullclamp, all of Urza block, Looter Scooter, ect coming into being.
 
Wizards sure does love their tokens.
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niconiconecro said:
Wizards sure does love their tokens. View attachment 945554
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Part of the big reveal in the end of the new book about the set is that Will and Rowan Kenrith (two of the most Aryan looking kids I've ever seen) discover she's not their birth mom. They have two obviously mixed siblings too.

Like I'm not even annoyed about the tokenism, it's just hilariously bad writing.

Teferi's a black fella, but nobody complains about him being black or being token character that I've ever heard. That's cause he's a fairly fleshed out character that's been around in the lore forever and is generally thought of fondly. It's like some Goofus and Gallant type shit when it comes to character design.

Also wish Nissa was still an Elf Supremacist, just cause that actually made her interesting.
 
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Ebonic Tutor said:
Part of the big reveal in the end of the new book about the set is that Will and Rowan Kenrith (two of the most Aryan looking kids I've ever seen) discover she's not their birth mom. They have two obviously mixed siblings too.

Like I'm not even annoyed about the tokenism, it's just hilariously bad writing.

Teferi's a black fella, but nobody complains about him being black or being token character that I've ever heard. That's cause he's a fairly fleshed out character that's been around in the lore forever and is generally thought of fondly. It's like some Goofus and Gallant type shit when it comes to character design.

Also wish Nissa was still an Elf Supremacist, just cause that actually made her interesting.
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>Tfw no big titty elf supremacist gf to hatefuck me
 
Ebonic Tutor said:
Part of the big reveal in the end of the new book about the set is that Will and Rowan Kenrith (two of the most Aryan looking kids I've ever seen) discover she's not their birth mom. They have two obviously mixed siblings too.

Like I'm not even annoyed about the tokenism, it's just hilariously bad writing.

Teferi's a black fella, but nobody complains about him being black or being token character that I've ever heard. That's cause he's a fairly fleshed out character that's been around in the lore forever and is generally thought of fondly. It's like some Goofus and Gallant type shit when it comes to character design.
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Wizards has gone downhill when it comes to writing and it’s funny that they put so much effort into trying to make it inclusive to try to appeal to everyone. Teferi was such a great character because they were able to flesh him out over the span of the original dominaria sets as opposed to the multitude of diversity characters like Tomik that they just decided was going to be the gay lover of one of the planeswalkers.

I wish they’d put that kind of focus into product quality, my copy of descent into avernus was miscut and I had to send it back for a replacement. (:_(
 
twattycake said:
Right, but not all mechanics are equally parasitic: Legendary worked with Artifacts in general, Explore worked with +1/+1 counters synergies, landfall + enemy fetchlands worked well with Alara's multicolor matters theme. Soulshift and Energy don't have these "sort-of" synergies so you get these extremely focused decks.
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Only one of those really worked in standard without being hugely parasitic. The Explore Package required half your deck to Support, Historic as a mechanic did bupkis outside of Limited and Frankly the strongest Landfall card in the game isn't even a Landfall card.

Ebonic Tutor said:
More into weird autistic girls...
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She is Azorious Colors, I bet 99% of of that color combo is Autistic.
niconiconecro said:
Wizards has gone downhill when it comes to writing
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Not really, The Phyrexian invasion might have been Epic, but it was not well written. Even the good books in MTG are not..fantastic. The 3 Kamigawa books are about the pinnacle of MTG writing and they are just slightly above average.
 
I was flipping through an old Magic Encyclopedia and was taken back by how odd and surreal the art used to be.

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I miss it.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Frankly the strongest Landfall card in the game isn't even a Landfall card.
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I'm assuming you mean this fella here.
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Cause if you're not talking about ol' Tracker boi there then I'm really kind curious as to what you're talking about outside of maybe Valakut.

Ted_Breakfast said:
I was flipping through an old Magic Encyclopedia and was taken back by how odd and surreal the art used to be.

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I miss it.
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Ah, 5th Edition artwork is a little more weird than normal cause all the classic artist from early MTG pretty much told WotC to fuck off after they changed how much they were paying to something kinda ridiculously low / some other fuckery with how much they would pay them.
 
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