Modern Musings: The Impact of Throne of Eldraine and the State of Modern Michael Shapiro November 11, 2019 Modern Musings 1 Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings! This week we are going to take a step back and look at the current state of Modern. What was hyped that didn't end up working out? What flew in under the rada... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Modern UR Kiki-Faeries Nikachu November 7, 2019 Channel Nikachu Faeries got a lot of upgrades in Throne of Eldraine with the addition of Brazen Borrower and Hypnotic Sprite as extra bounce spells and counterspells. How to put it together in a Modern list? Nikachu pairs Faer... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Modern UW Spirits Nikachu October 31, 2019 Channel Nikachu Modern UW Spirits have picked up in popularity and results. The deck rewards patience; holding up Rattlechains to protect your creatures from removal or waiting for the right spell to Spell Queller. Spirits run... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Brazen Borrower is Modern Merfolk’s Premiere Bounce Spell Nikachu October 24, 2019 Channel Nikachu Modern Merfolk has struggled to find the right bounce spell in the deck to tempo out creatures and to answer Ensnaring Bridge. Venser, Shaper's Savant, Echoing Truth, and Hurkyl's Recall all have their pros and... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Oko Is the Planeswalker That Modern Merfolk Was Waiting For! Nikachu October 17, 2019 Channel Nikachu For years Modern Merfolk longed for a planeswalker that would be playable with Merfolk's strategy and answer the problems Merfolk needed solving. With the release of Throne of Eldraine, Modern Merfolk has acces... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: A World Without the Faithless (Part 3) Ben Iverach-Brereton October 14, 2019 Rants of Valakut, Uncategorized Are you digging for answers, or maybe just digging for the beginning of the article? Draw these two links, then discard two cards: A World Without the Faithless - Part 1 and Part 2 It has come down ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: A World Without the Faithless (Part 2) Ben Iverach-Brereton September 30, 2019 Rants of Valakut Did you miss part 1? Don't lose faith! You can find it here. Most of the options to replace Faithless Looting we looked at last time were instant or sorcery spells, with a couple of exceptions. As it... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Master of Waves is BACK in Modern Merfolk Nikachu September 17, 2019 Channel Nikachu 3 Mono-Blue Merfolk is still competitive over Simic for two good reasons: it dodges Blood Moon, and it has a good Burn match up. Burn has been rising in numbers, filling up top 8's and winning several events. Wha... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: A World Without the Faithless (Part 1) Ben Iverach-Brereton September 16, 2019 Rants of Valakut So, Faithless Looting got banned in Modern. I think it's fair to say in hindsight that the card was just too powerful and that it warped the format around it. While it did enable a variety of decks, ... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Simic Merfolk in the New Modern Metagame Nikachu September 12, 2019 Channel Nikachu With Faithless Looting banned and Stoneforge Mystic Unbanned, certainly Modern will change all over again. When a format changes drastically, how do we change our deck? We don't. Nikachu sticks to the exact sam... Read More...
