Bans and What to Expect
Power creep is a real thing and at times will have its real cost on the player base. Even if it’s a welcomed power creep – at least, in certain formats – it will always have a good and bad effect on the game. We’ve had a great number of bans in these last two years but today we’ll talk mostly about the latest Modern bans. They definitely hit the format where it hurts as many players were priced out of the format due to some players basing their collections off of the existence of Mox Opal. With the bans of Mox Opal, Mycosynth Lattice, and Oko, Thief of Crowns, a lot of money was lost for players. In a more positive light, these bans finally revitalized one of MTG’s most premier formats: Modern. Considering the toxic effect of “Lattice Locking” your opponent, and deckbuilding costs of Oko literally just existing in the format, it really feels like a reinvigorated new Modern format which is very welcomed and necessary for the well being of the game.
Deck Choice and Proficient Archetypes
Primeval Titan seems to be the card to look at if you’re planning on playing the most powerful cards in Modern right now. With the combination of utility lands and new additions like Once Upon a Time, Field of the Dead and Veil of Summer, it really seems like Amulet Titan is positioned to be one of the best decks of the format, among other variants of the Primeval Titan decks. I do feel like many different strategies get inherently buffed due to these bannings so it’s very possible that the meta readjusts itself and these Titan decks won’t be so relevant in due time, but only results will tell in upcoming tournaments. Many pro players tend to be specialists in classic archetypes like Humans, Jund, Storm, Titanshift, Burn, Death’s Shadow, etc. So I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of these old school decks have a resurgence of popularity.
The Next Step
People will be brewing with both old and new archetypes, so personally I’ll be quite excited to see how the meta shakes up and adapts to itself with the given tools in the format. I expect Veil of Summer to be one of the most important cards currently considering I’ve seen even decks like Burn and Storm just splash a green dual and use fetches to splash for that card. In any case, the meta will adapt, non-blue and black answers will be more useful and prevalent in sideboards. From there I’m looking forward to watching and reading the coverage of these up and coming events!
Stay tuned for more Jund posting later on as I talk about the way I prepare and decide to take on the next SCG IQ I’m gonna compete at on February 2nd.
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