Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Modern”
Mason takes a look at one of Magic’s defining characters in Yawgmoth – and where the archvillain of lore fits into the Modern format. If you have been playing Modern for the last couple of years you might have heard of the Yawgmoth deck. Since its first big debut at SCG Knoxville in 2020 by Aaron Barich winning the whole …
An archetype stampedes back into the Modern limelight, and Michael Rapp is here to break down the strengths and weaknesses of Rhinos! Great news! The crash is back! It would seem that over the last couple of weeks the Rhinos population has skyrocketed from the endangered state it was in before the Lurrus ban. The question is, why? The deck …
Welcome back for the March 2022 edition of the Modern Tier List. Last weekend we had the Team Trios event, and a $5K in Indianapolis, as well as the MTGO challenges to take data from. While a Team Trios event isn’t the most concrete source to take data from with regard to win rate, we can still look at popularity. …
When Lurrus was banned, I had an initial feeling of, “well what do I do now? I’m flying to a tournament in two weeks” the answer to that question is simple: get into the lab and figure it out. I believe in a relatively public testing process. Today I want to go into my testing process, my experiences along the …
The more things change, the more they stay the same. We are heading into the first big paper tournament after the Lurrus ban two weeks ago. We have had an online Super and some other events to draw information from, but what will people end up bringing? Today we are going over what I predict will be the five most …
On Monday, Wizards of the Coast made a bombshell announcement by banning Lurrus of the Dream-Den in Modern. Now, there could have been a number of different possible bans, but I’m not here to talk about that today. If you want to read my expanded feelings about Lurrus being banned, you can find them here. We can only play the …
It’s no secret that Lurrus of the Dream-Den is one of the most successful cards in Modern. And once a card reaches a certain level of popularity or success, talk of bans inevitably follows. Today, I want to address the elephant cat in the room. To be clear, I don’t think Modern is in need of bans for balance reasons. …
If you’re like me, you’re bored of the Cat. Lurrus of the Dream-Den, that is. Before the companion nerf, Lurrus was in the running for best Magic card of all time, and it’s still one of the best in Modern. But while Lurrus has been very prevalent in Modern, it isn’t exactly popular. The Cat pushes many strong cards with …
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty has only been legal on Magic Online for about two weeks at this point, and the hive mind is integrating new cards into decks faster than ever. By now, we have a solid idea which Neon Dynasty cards are going to make an impact in Modern: six unique cards have made enough appearances across nine different decks, …
Welcome back for the February 2022 edition of the Modern Tier List! Last week, we had not only the two Modern SCG events, but two MTGO Challenges and a MTGO PTQ to pull data from. We normally don’t get to look at five large tournaments in just one weekend, so we have a much clearer picture of the metagame than …
