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Yeah I mean Mox Opal has to be on the short list.

drtyrm said:

I'd say it's Simian Spirit Guide and Mox Opal next up. Maybe Street Wraith if Death's Shadow decks become too dominant?

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Would think Become Immense would be more likely than Street Wraith, but who knows. What Modern really needs is actual Counterspell.

God Modern would be so much better if they'd just print fucking Force of Will.

Heylel said:

God Modern would be so much better if they'd just print fucking Force of Will.

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Yeah, that's not going to happen. You could have Counterspell in Standard for a little bit if you make sure it's in a format without a bunch of other good counters. I mean they had Lightning Bolt in M10/11 and Thoughtseize in Theros and both of those cards are stronger than Counterspell.

I don't think Counterspell would even do all that much to modern the way things are currently. Mana leak is counterpsell like 90% of the time right now and it's nowhere near good enough. Remand isn't good enough and it's arguably better in some ways. Logic Knot is functionally counterspell in any deck that runs it.

It'd help but I don't think it would change the meta at all.

Daze for days!

WotC will fuck up soon enough and give a solid counterspell answer just like they've been fucking the goat with undercosted threats the last couple of years.

It's funny. The worse standard gets, the better it is for proper eternal formats. Sometimes modern gets a few crumbs.

First box out of 4... not sure I can bring myself to open the other 3

I hate you.

Also yea, sell your other boxes. It's 100% downhill from there.

Damping Matrix is the trollest rare in the set. It took the Set # Slot of Chalice of the Void/Crucible of Worlds, and I have basically no idea who it's intended for. It's not played in modern and barely played in EDH. As a rare, it doesn't provide any compelling "counterplay" to activated-ability heavy decks (Which in this limited is... B/R Sacrifice? And maybe shutting down an opponent's Mistmeadow Witch/Sunhome 2-drop, cards which are themselves maybe 1 per draft pool), since you'll just rarely have it available as a pick.

It used to see play in the old Dark Depths/ThopterSword Extended. And not literally every card is going to be 5 stars.

Sterling said:

It used to see play in the old Dark Depths/ThopterSword Extended. And not literally every card is going to be 5 stars

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Agreed, crucible would have been fun though.

You do any mass cracking? What did you end up selling your boxes for?

rad said:

Agreed, crucible would have been fun though.

You do any mass cracking? What did you end up selling your boxes for?

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We didn't open any product for singles no, we didn't get enough allotment to do that and we sold through pretty fast.

Drafted at work. Opened a free Damnation.

Could be better, could be worse.

Because Ghost Quarter and Path to Exile are very commonly played cards in modern that have the drawback of letting the person you use them on search their deck for a basic land. So depending on which Colored Spell of Choice your version of Affinity is, having 1 basic of that type is a low-cost hedge against Paths/GQs to make sure they aren't just straight up Superior Swords to Plowshares and Strip Mine.

Finally broke down and ordered peasant versions of old school beta shit I can't bring myself to acquire, like $90 Elvish Archers.

The worst are chronicles City of Brass. Much shame.