Time to sleeve up arc bound ravagers and cranial platings

Someone commented that Opal wasn't that good in standard during Scars, but Scars rotated before the legend rules change buffed Opal. It was a lot worse under the old legend rule where you lost both if you played a new one.

This is the deck I was most excited for when they announced the unbannings

Faithless was a solid unban

Splinter will be as effective now as jace was when he was unbanned

My conspiracy theory is that they'll reprint mox opal in 2025 and that's why they unbanned it!

I do get a laugh out of imagining the hypothetical person who decided "yeah, I could open Ocelot Pride, or Ugin's labyrinth, or any of the other cards in this super pushed set... But I could open a rare that still sees play in Legacy and Commander but not Modern proper."

Does spuke have kids? That 'its fine to have fun' was gotal dad voice

Tron is so damn dumb dude. Can't believe how many times I've lost to double top deck

Why not try old thopter combo

Could green suns zenith be good in jund goblins?

Do you think traditional affinity (circa 2018) would have legs in the meta?

Tamiyo, Basim, Emry, Urza, only 16 cards that are basically there to just draw more cards. What could go wrong

In regards to packs. Guide of souls is probably a poor example. The one ring was a high value chase card especially with the many limited/foiled versions . Either way there are people who open packs and don't play. They open packs for the gambling aspect of investment. So when a chase card is banned it's value tanks for the packs because the secondary sales market tanks. So people buy less. Look at the Pokémon market. A ton of non players buy packs and a ton of non playables have "high value". Mtg is similar but has a higher player base.

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Salam brother and sister happy new 2025 modern

imo the bigger thing about the "pack sales" argument is like. mh3 came out 6 months ago. how much are people still buying packs of it anyways? im sure they are, but is it enough for wotc to actually see revenue? because people are buying the packs from shops. are those shops seeing enough sales to order more boxes? because thats the only time wotc sees any money at all. most of the money from packs wotc gets is when the set comes out, and, if it does well, for a couple months after. I don't think we're in a phase where 1 rare being banned makes enough of a difference to make its way up the supply chain to them

Man im keeping 2 thoughtseize and all 4 street wraiths in. Taking out 1 district 2 push 1 urge… is probably wrong though

Jund just has that real gamer aesthetic. R B G

will you still be brewing for standard? Glad you're having fun with modern again though. Could you try scales out?

looting with dreadhorde?

8 key please! i love 8 key!

Match one game one and match two game one gave me Deja vu, same opening hand same mention of Wild West format. I had to check my time in the video to make sure I hadn’t mistakenly rewound 😂

careful, dont cry

Flytrap is such a cool card

Just realised we've never really seen food with flooting

God we are so back. My first paper deck was modern UR Phoenix. So much good memories with looting.

if they ban 2 good pulls from a pack, people who like to open for value won't

Any chance you revisit boros collector’s cage? Seems super natural to fit in looting and mox opal

If people are worried about modern horizons 3 not selling because guide was the one to get the axe, idk who is opening packs for the $4-6 rares.

There are absolutely players who will not buy packs that have banned cards in them. They don't always even know what the banned card is but if you tell them there is a chance that the rare in their pack won't be legal for play they just won't buy that pack. These tend to be casuals for whom FNM is the highest level event they'll ever play.

do an altanak deck with looting

Would you make any changes to the list after running it through a league?

Rest in pepperonis strikes again.....

I can’t fathom how this deck beats any of the broken things in Modern, it doesn’t race or interact well at all - what’re we doin chat

Any chance of fitting in 2 copies of unearth and 1 copy of splinter twin into this deck to get some small amount of out of nowhere wins

Hollow one + faithless looting or i personally will riot (alone).

If pack selling is the real goal of ban / unbans, what current product would start selling more from the 4 modern unbans? Guess that is a very difficult question to answer heh

first game of match 1 is in there twice. love the videos regardless! it's nice to see Spike so excited about the format again

first match is duplicated?

A jund deck with only tarfire has removal its not the way for sure in 2024/5...

We are still dreaming

Delirium* pls editor

Still can't believe it's real

First!

1st!

Elves, Spike...you have to give us hope! We believe in you.

Watching this clearly filmed before the unbans looking for the GSZ’s gonna be a nice upgrade to this list

Spike: winning with demilich Chat:✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️

10:23 kinda big mistake not casting Exarch first and then Counterspelling, if he had FoN for the Twin you were definitely cooked with him having so many more cards 😁