![]() ![]() Other than the sick joy you feel for destroying a Creativity player with bullshit (they may deserve it in my humble opinion), Orvar is not fun or skill-testing at all. ![]() Any Combo Control deck is worse Creativity granted, all of those are pretty huge oversimplifications, but you understand the point.įinally, since I did not find another place to put this I'll say this at the end: Saying "you can just play Orvar" should not be a defense of Modern. Non-saga Jund is an amalgamation of worse Scam and worse Omnath. ![]() This makes a lot of lower tier strategies just worse versions of the top decks. Those decks are really really good and run all the best MH2 cards (which, are the best in the format by a decent margin). Modern has some representation of pretty much every archetype among its limited number of top tier decks, apart from full-combo decks (not like Yawgmoth, Living End and Breach, Titan is somewhat close) and big mana (ok, Tron is actually at least somewhat decent, and of course I am not considering The One Ring or any other LotR cards). Everything in this paragraph is of course good and how it is supposed to be, I just don't really believe that the statement "yeah you can aggressively sideboard for your bad matchups"is really fully comprehensive (of course, this may be a strawman misinterpretation of what you are saying, but at least that is how I interpret it).Ī lot of the lower tier decks just sort of do what top tier decks do.much worse. Very few cards are super multifunctional and hose like half of your matchups (Veil of Summer comes to mind). Most of the cards which shut down the best strategies either come with big deckbuilding restrictions (Chalice), or are silver bullet sideboard cards, which are only really good in a few matchups (Force of Vigor, Hallowed Moonlight, Spreading Seas), leading you to not really be able to plug every hole with sideboard cards. Top decks in the format are just good enough to consistently do good in big tournaments if you play well, but just bad enough that they can lose to fringe strategies. If you add to them the various tier 2 decks (which are still very good) you can cover every color pair too (ignoring 5c decks). These decks literally cover every core archetype. It has an extremely balanced metagame, with every top deck (and as I'll get to later, there are a lot if them) has a winrate between like 48% and 55%, with most hovering around 49-51. Meanwhile Pioneer pretty consistently has around 7 different archetypes in every top 8 despite an extremely popular Rakdos Midrange deck. Yes, there have been select pilots who have done really good with other archetypes such as Boros Obosh, UW Control and Merfolk, but those are few and far between. Realistically, I cannot see a player winning a pro tour with anything other than these 10 decks. Then everything else is significantly worse. ![]() The next statement is specifically going to be talking about Modern pre-Tales of Middle Earth: It is exceptionally hard to build a competent Modern deck right now without any of the MH2 pillars of the format, and if you put any of them in, you're probably in one way or another playing a straight up worse version of a top deck. Creativity is especially egregious, because it really punishes decks that fail to go under it (and surprise, surprise, most low tier decks cannot). Every time we play Modern, there are a few people going in with some slightly older archetypes and get absolutely destroyed by the most recent tier 1 decks. We started doing Pioneer tournaments in our store because a lot of people got really sick of Rhinos and Creativity. Deck Primers Top Tier Thursday Archive Deck-Specific SubredditsĬompletely disagree. Try to do some metagame testing to get a feel for your deck so you can talk about it better. People are not here to critique the brew you slapped together with zero thought. Please, make sure you include a description of what your deck is, what it intends to do, and specific questions that stimulate conversation. When posting deck lists, it is generally preferred that you link to a deck building site such as or something similar. It can be as simple as typing your query into google, along with the word Reddit, to see if your question has been asked before. Please do not try and sell cards or decks within this subreddit.Īll we ask is that before you post, do some research yourself to try to find the answer to your query. This subreddit is for players of any level of experience to discuss any topics regarding the Modern format, whether it is decks that pro's have been winning with, metagame discussion, card discussion, or home brews. ![]()
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