I qualified for the Pro Tour with the deck I've been working on for a while, Simic Ritual. I wrote a short guide for the deck that I'm planning on expanding on for any interested in playing the deck at future events!
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Today's b&r felt like a personal attack on me. I'll never forget you my mouse friend.
“Twitter is not real life” I literally watched him cheat against Bailey in real life and now he’s judging events I’m in in real life
A copy of Sanctum of All signed by Sanctum of All team members.
Decklist submitted for Chicago. Vibes are good. Had an amazing week this week! Very thankful for everyone on @sanctumofall.bsky.social
Excited to watch you win the Pro Tour!
Encores are stupid. Just play the music. Stop making us all yell while you’re offstage. Why’d you even leave, we know you’re coming back
@moxfield.com is the best deckbuilding website by a country mile. My only complaint is that I wish you could group my mana value and sort by card type. I want to look at my curve and see all the creatures along the top with the noncreatures below them!
A cheerio's modern decklist from Magic: the Gathering. Sourced from https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2024-12-1712714134
This Cheerios deck that got 17th in last night's challenge looks like it can't ever beat a single Orcish Bowmasters in 1 million years, but also looks so sweet. Reminds me of a time when you'd see goofy decks on coverage of the early rounds of big modern tournaments.
There's a lot of Hollow One in the 5-0 decks from the past two days. Seems like a serious deck to watch out for early into the meta.
Depends on how many red seals you have. You generally want the same number of X Mults as retriggers. So with red seal + Sock, you get 3 triggers per king, and you'd want 3 x2s from Trib, so you'd want all your blueprint/brainstorms on it. Chad throws off the math a little as well. Sick set up tho!
The standard Gruul Prowess Magic: the Gathering decklist I registered: Mainboard: 4 Burst Lightning 4 Copperline Gorge 4 Emberheart Challenger 4 Heartfire Hero 2 Innkeeper's Talent 4 Karplusan Forest 2 Lightning Strike 4 Manifold Mouse 2 Might of the Meek 4 Monastery Swiftspear 4 Monstrous Rage 5 Mountain 2 Questing Druid 1 Restless Ridgeline 3 Rockface Village 4 Screaming Nemesis 3 Snakeskin Veil 4 Thornspire Verge SIDEBOARD: 2 Obliterating Bolt 3 Pawpatch Formation 2 Questing Druid 3 Scorching Shot 3 Torch the Tower 2 Twisted Fealty
I WON THE @vmlmtg.bsky.social CHAMPS 2024 AND GOT MY FIRST PRO TOUR INVITE!!!! HEARTFIRE HERO IS TOO STRONG!!!! 🐭💪 THANK YOU @themantisrider.bsky.social AND @nicoledubin.bsky.social FOR HYPING ME UP THIS WEEKEND!!!
I think they would remain a meta threat.
Finally, new aggro and midrange decks would have a change to shine. Carnivorous Flytrap delirium decks and Boltwave burn decks might be more playable if Energy gets weaker.
Let me know what your thoughts are!
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against it, it's probably far more playable. Belcher, Titan, and Storm would all be left untouched, so an eye would have to kept out for these strong combo decks, but many of them already feel beatable if you respect them in your sideboard. Finally, the Eldrazi decks would lose ring, but
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So where does that leave the format? Boros Energy would still be playable (Guide/Pride/Ajani/Raptor is a powerful core), but it would be a lot more linear, with greater weaknesses to board wipes and specific sideboard cards. Jeskai Control would loose some cards, but since Energy is worse
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another offender here, often allowing Phlage to come in for 12 points of damage in a single turn after the board has been cleared. Not only does banning Phlage remove a clearly powerful card, it removes an axis of attack from the best deck in the format.
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Like Uro, it's basically impossible to cleanly trade 1-for-1 with, since spending a card to remove it from a graveyard means that it already got value, and ignoring it in the graveyard means that it's going to come back and get more value if not outright win the game later on. Arena of Glory is
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Phlage is an interesting one, since it's both an aggro and a control card. That being said, it's a little too good at what it does. The lifegain and removal on the front half either lets the aggro deck clean up or allows a more controlling deck to stay alive long enough to get to the back half.
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printing of Arena of Glory in MH3, Jegantha pretty consistently has haste, which allows it to steal games out of nowhere that would otherwise be stabilized. The cost to do this is effectively zero in several decks, notably Energy, and just gives random decks a huge buff.
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Time Walks and Ancestral Recalls at bare minimum was always going to be too good.
Jegantha is another stupid companion that's just too easy to companion. After the companion rule change, it became an eighth card in your hand that was an 8 mana 5/5 with basically no other text. But with the
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allowed it to consistently beat control, so the whole point about Ring being good for control no longer stands. It also got a lot better with recent lifegain cards being printed, like Guide of Souls, Phlage, and Sire of Seven Deaths, to offset the life loss. That being said, a four mana card
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The One Ring was too good when it was printed, and most people knew that. It's dodged some bans due to mostly being seen as a control card, which needed help in Modern. Since then, it's been adopted by Energy, an aggro deck that also dominates the format. Energy picking up the Ring is what
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Which cards should be banned in Modern on December 16th? In my opinion:
The One Ring
Jegantha, the Wellspring
Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
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https://www.moxfield.com/decks/IZFtHyfKFUWReEFvUQDA0A
Just 5-0'd a modern league with this monstrosity. Wrath of the Skies is broken, play cards that are good with it & win. Deck is great against Energy and seems pretty decent against the rest of the field. Leyline/Scion was surprisingly good in this controlling shell. Ban Ring!