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the monsters > spells was the thing I noticed too. After college in 2010-2012 I went to play some drafts for a laff like I used to when I was a kid. I'd flip th

the monsters > spells was the thing I noticed too. After college in 2010-2012 I went to play some drafts for a laff like I used to when I was a kid. I'd flip through the card catalog for 20 minutes before it started and figured I'd just jump right back in. I lost pretty handily, and the big takeaway was what you found. I hate to say it because its the hokey hipster thing to note, but back when I was a kid and it was all Urza's Saga, Mercadian Masques, etc, the cards felt much more... gritty and real. Everything felt more bloody and less cartoonish and lightweight. Maybe that was part of being a kid. Play is actually much better/more balanced than I remember though, by far.

hajile 8y ago
NWO changed everything. Lowest common denominator plus the belief that magic players are idiots. They decided nobody likes stax decks. Then nobody likes land destruction. Then nobody likes combo. Then nobody likes counterspells. Then nobody likes any other kind of control either. Finally, nobody really likes spells. So everything became mid-range and aggro except that aggro generally loses to mid-range. So just mid-range turn creates sideways and nothing that adds real complexity to the game. Stopped with standard after RTR and every time I've looked, it's been too unfun for me to drop hundreds of dollars playing standard again. https://mtg.gamepedia.com/New_World_Order https://mtg.gamepedia.com/New_World_Order
- gpderetta 8y ago
  Modern currently is dominated by fast aggro and combo, with a resurgence of control to pray on combo. Midrange is basically dead.
  - hajile 8y ago
    The cards that power modern were mostly made before NWO started directly affecting the pipeline. Control can beat basically any deck that isn't completely broken (eg, eldrazi winter), but does so at the expense of losing to everything else. In addition, burn is cheap and played a lot day 1. It lowers most control deck numbers enough to make a top 8 contention impossible. Teferi has helped a lot as one of very few consistent win conditions across the field. I think modern really needs UU counterspell for control to be less than niche. Once the field diversifies a bit again, control will once again fade to T2.

hajile 8y ago

NWO changed everything. Lowest common denominator plus the belief that magic players are idiots. They decided nobody likes stax decks. Then nobody likes land destruction. Then nobody likes combo. Then nobody likes counterspells. Then nobody likes any other kind of control either. Finally, nobody really likes spells. So everything became mid-range and aggro except that aggro generally loses to mid-range. So just mid-range turn creates sideways and nothing that adds real complexity to the game. Stopped with standard after RTR and every time I've looked, it's been too unfun for me to drop hundreds of dollars playing standard again. https://mtg.gamepedia.com/New_World_Order https://mtg.gamepedia.com/New_World_Order

gpderetta 8y ago
Modern currently is dominated by fast aggro and combo, with a resurgence of control to pray on combo. Midrange is basically dead.
- hajile 8y ago
  The cards that power modern were mostly made before NWO started directly affecting the pipeline. Control can beat basically any deck that isn't completely broken (eg, eldrazi winter), but does so at the expense of losing to everything else. In addition, burn is cheap and played a lot day 1. It lowers most control deck numbers enough to make a top 8 contention impossible. Teferi has helped a lot as one of very few consistent win conditions across the field. I think modern really needs UU counterspell for control to be less than niche. Once the field diversifies a bit again, control will once again fade to T2.