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[@Nitnelav1994]

Can't wait for the 23 hour long Complete History of Standard

[@SpitefulAZ]

I rather see complete history of legacy.

[@CHAREDot9]

Seth:welllllllllllll😅

[@thedoctorbob7]

I would actually love to watch that. It would be a great trip down memory lane, remembering decks like UG Madness and Fires

[@SilverAlex92]

Actually I would love a series videos about that. Would be awesome and extremely nostalgic, many past standard have been really amazing and others were WILD like mirrodin, og zendkiar (aka: cawblade) or eldrain.

[@carlosokelly4937]

Can we get Crim to do that video? I cannot stand Seth's voice.

[@IlCremo]

Up to 2019 the best decks where made by mostly old cards. Then from 2019 up until today it is only "Wizard printed this card and broke the format"

[@miguelfreitas5343]

29:20 Oh yeah, the classic Tron lands. Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower and Urza's Tower 😌

[@doodimgood]

Almost as powerful as the PLANESWALKER Deathright Shaman :P 5:52

[@SkyBlade79]

@@doodimgood nah people have been calling deathrite shaman a one mana planeswalker for a loooong time

[@inigomontoya4109]

​@@SkyBlade79As a long time tron player, I miss deathrite, so many jund players for Karn and team to eat.

[@Instant_97]

Great video! Surprised the decapitation of faithless looting with Hogaak wasn’t discussed more. It hit way more decks than just the Hogaak decks. 🪦 Mardu Pyromancer 🕊️ Sleep well sweet prince.

[@NecroNathancon]

Also Rakdos Hallowed Ones, that was a fun deck that Faithless's ban outright slaughtered.

[@xddddddddddddd]

ah yes, the entire reason anyone would actually ask about looting unban unironically when looting is responsible for so many other nonsense at the other times its playable in any deck

[@josephirgang6470]

Also phoenix which hasn't been mentioned yet.

[@SilverAlex92]

Faithless looting had to die for the sins of many degenerate decks :'( rest in peace indeed mardu pyromancer.

[@COZwei.]

i miss grishoalbrand

[@Duall8]

20:30 I think it deserves a mention that the recent printing of Fatal Push was huge for Death's Shadow, powering up Black's removal immensely as it was the best creature removal in the format, even if the key life-total lowering cards existed for years. While it also killed Shadow, it was key to playing an efficient suite of cards to be able to stay aggressive with the Shadow (to stave aggro) and also get out Gurmag Angler quickly. Also sad to not see Lantern Control getting a mention. Such a unique deck even if it didn't get anything banned and alongside Bloom Titan a deck that went undiscovered for a long time.

[@ThePancaked1]

Fatal push really is a godlike card considering how many broken creatures are 1 to 2 mana

[@leandroteixeira33]

As for Lantern, tecnically it had Mox Opal banned, but what really banned it was the release of Shenanigans.

[@lukecraig4984]

Absolutely love videos like this! I used to go to my LGS all the time for drafts because I was too poor to play Modern, so I'd only ever hear about various cards on the periphery. It's really cool to hear about all the context I missed during that time!

[@MTGGoldfish]

Glad you like them!

[@Kazooieandbanjo]

This video has really put into perspective how much Timeless is just recreating all of the old best Modern decks on Arena

[@MTGGoldfish]

Maybe that's why I've been enjoying Timeless so much :)

[@RafitoOoO]

And it's amazing.

[@tamerlanotrentasei]

Titan Field, Rakdos Storm, Necropotence?

[@BioMaterialz]

I'm just getting back into Mtg after a 4-5 year break. What is this Timeless, you speak of?

[@zackmorris4977]

​@@BioMaterialzyes

[@TransformersBoss]

It’s hilarious every time a card “designed for Commander” like Hogaak or Omnath accidentally breaks constructed

[@Garwinium]

Haha nadu brr, maybe in mh4 they will have finally learned their lesson

[@TransformersBoss]

@ you’re way more optimistic than I am about WOTC’s ability to learn

[@aidangraham7840]

This is a fantastic video! I appreciate the time and dedication that went into condensing over a decade of info into a consumable and entertaining end product. There are reasonable nitpicks around necessarily brief sections but the video as a whole is an awesome testament to one of Magic's staple formats.

[@jasonhamburger912]

Another great video Seth and crew! Thank thanks for the quality content!

[@MTGGoldfish]

Thanks!

[@TheAweDude1]

Incredibly hot and controversial take that literally no one has expressed before: I think Modern Horizons is inherently bad for Modern.

[@vaazon]

Yeah, no one ...among Wizards execs.

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

Ah yes Deathrite Shaman my favorite Planeswalker

[@larrea000]

It's a joke based on it having three abilities. Confused me a bit at first.

[@ClubbingSealCub]

Even better, it can't be attacked!

[@youngmeIIy]

instantly opened the comment when he said that 😂

[@demiurge2501]

I’m so happy to have him in timeless

[@SmashCentralOfficial]

Have you literally never heard this joke lol

[@mrmagongus]

Appreciate the depth and accuracy with which this covers the ever-evolving landscape of the format. However, it wouldn't be a KZbin comment section if I didn't point out a few things missed. I can understand why rules errata was left out of the video for brevity's sake, but you can't mention the history of modern without talking about Tibalt Cascade (not talking about Tibalt's Trickery, but Tibalt the Cosmic Impostor himself). There was a brief period of time when the cascade mechanic allowed you to reveal Valki while casting his double-faced side. With accelerants like Simian Spirit Guide and Gemstone Caverns, players were dropping 7-mana planeswalker bombs as early as turn 1. All they had to do from there was sit behind free or cheap interaction like Force of Negation and Commandeer while Tibalt took over the battlefield singlehandedly. This also only lasted a few weeks before the errata was issued, at the same time as the Trickery banning. Shoutout to the Companion errata as well. You used to have free access to Lurrus every single game! Not just a free card in every starting hand, but a free powerful card. What the hell were they thinking lol And I feel like Urza's Saga deserved a mention for being the consistent card advantage engine/Hammer tutor that allowed Hammer decks to push to the forefront. Lastly, I want to address the controversy of the Splinter Twin banning, though this is more of an opinion. At the time of its banning, Modern had an acceptably diverse top tier of decks, but there were piles upon piles of good and interesting archetypes sitting in the lower tiers that just couldn't crack the top. The biggest reason for this was Splinter Twin -- the archetype was a true gatekeeper. You had to start every single Modern deck, every single *idea*, by asking the question, "how do you beat Twin?". The fact that it was fast, resilient, and required so few pieces meant that most ideas were meaningless in comparison, especially combo decks. Why do anything if Twin just wins on turn 4? The metagame was centered around beating it, which propped up a certain echelon of decks while critically hampering the rest of the field. Once Twin was banned (and Eldrazi was sent back to the shadow realm), the Modern metagame normalized into a place where you could actually take a pet archetype, put in a bunch of hard work, and end up with something competitively viable. Would Matt Nass be able to singlehandedly ascend KCI to the heights of the banlist if his under-represented deck was laughed out of the metagame before it even got off the ground? Would Lantern Control ever win a PT? The banning of Twin, in my opinion, was directly responsible for Modern reaching its pinnacle of deckbuilding ingenuity. Anyways, nowadays Modern has been warped so hard by the Horizons releases and F.I.R.E. design that I think Twin poses a significantly less risky question towards the metagame. But just speaking from personal experience, I don't want to go back to the days of wondering "how do I beat Twin"

[@anthonybrownbrown8602]

not that serious

[@leandroteixeira33]

About Twin, it's important to also emphasize how the answer to "how do you beat twin ?" was often "just play Twin yourself". Grixis Twin, TarmoTwin, you also saw from time to time even Temur Scapeshift becoming Temur Twin post-board. With anything between 5 and 10 slots, you had a combo that could win at basically any time and thus the opponent would always need to keep mana up for interaction. For this exact reason, I believe Twin should never be unbanned. While a pure UR Twin would probably never be relevant once again, Twin could fit very easily in many decks, mana is as good as ever making it very splashable, card selection has improved to the point where you wouldn't need the 10 slots while cards like 3Feri and Binding provide interaction and protection the deck never had access to in it's prime. It's just another angle of attack if the opponent ever underestimates it.

[@Sorran87]

Modern was truly a great and fantastic format. It will be missed.

[@subzero308]

Yeah modern is my fav format and its nowhere near as good as it was in the early days.

[@larsegholmfischmann6594]

Oh man, I SERIOUSLY miss the early days of Modern 😢

[@EmperorNapoleon1815]

29:16: *Urza’s Power Plant has left the chat.* I love these historical videos. Thanks for the content, Seth!

[@vaxfantomen]

A nod towards Magic Aids as one of the pioneers of modern humans deck

[@JT-91]

he was there was drama at the time too because i forgot which pro player tried to claim he made it and magic aids video predated his stake

[@Atmapalazzo]

Not this bullshit again. Aids takes claim for anything and everything. His name really is true to his role in the community.

[@Dikarika]

He did say "The depths of KZbin"...

[@vaxfantomen]

As if it matters but: It don't really matters who created what because its a card-game and prestige is pointless. He was the one that showed the deck on youtube and got some traction before others did. So I find it fitting to give an comment on the same platform in case people want to check out his old videos about it. Not everyone's taste but I fond him entertaining and the brews solid

[@NathanLipetz]

@@Atmapalazzo exactly

[@nvvv_]

Love the shoutout for two of my favorite magic creators. MagicAids is amazing, and ManaCymbal is GOATed

[@bensteinhauser784]

What a blast from the past! It's cool to be reminded of all the past top decks but also kind of depressing how many of the recent ones are MH2 adjacent. It would be nice to see most of that set (and leyline binding) banned and have the power of the format reduced a bit. MH3 terrifies me lol.

[@jPache]

Thanks for putting this together! It was a fun lookback through one of my favorite ways to play!

[@BakaShift]

Very much appreciate that this video is already very long and had a lot of work and research put in, so you were only really had time to highlight the most played deck of each era. But I must say, only alluding to cascade valki in an offhand mention when many who played during that time consider it to be the most broken and best deck in the history of the format is a shame. Especially as it was during a time where there were so few eyes on the format, so it's a deck a lot of people who don't closely follow the format wouldn't have heard of. Either way, great work on this. ✌️

[@evanmurdzek2935]

Um... so I remeber that deck being stupid and good, but I never heard anyone calling it the "most broken and best deck in the history of the format". There have been many broken decks in modern that I would list above it. I don't know if I somehow completely missed the hype?

[@ianshevlin8675]

​@@evanmurdzek2935i mean they literally changed a whole keyword so-

[@Xoulrath_]

​@@ianshevlin8675that's just because they're shitty game designers and don't actually have the ability to forward think. Cascade has been a broken and bad mechanic since it was introduced.

[@NathanLipetz]

@@ianshevlin8675 There were several much more broken modern decks than valki

[@doylerudolph7965]

Yeah this is a ridiculously shallow video tbh

[@JoeyFangaz]

Overextended sounds wonderful. Modern with no Horizons

[@daveydesjarlais8838]

We used to just call that Modern. Honestly wish Wizards would stop with "Horizons" and just bring back Modern Masters.

[@RG-fp1lg]

early era of modern was the best magic will ever be, and it will never be nearly that good again

[@adamjohnson3779]

Your not wrong. What a golden age we didn’t know how good we had it.

[@bexclue3007]

the best at what? you just enjoyed it the most. doesn't mean it was better

[@RG-fp1lg]

there was no such thing as a wrong opinion until you posted this on the internet@@bexclue3007

[@KarlRobespierre]

Ah yes, the "the best era was the era of my youth" fallacy.

[@joshua_lee732]

I loved modern from Theros to Just before eldrazi winter. It was an amazing format in those days, and you really could play anything beat anything and lose to anything. Nowadays I watch modern and all I see is just another Legacy format with all the free to play cards, auto includes, and ect

[@JJFN]

Yeah, every format has been ruined by WOTC's greed. Just printing super powerful cards to sell more and more packs

[@daveydesjarlais8838]

Grixis Control with Goblin Dark Dwellers and Cryptic Command in the same deck was just unbelievable.

[@porthabalar5014]

2016 was peak Modern, splinter twin and Abzan Leige Decks plus Jund, zoo, Merfolk, and good control decks

[@Money4Nuthing]

Great video! Love this recap of the best modern decks. Here are some other decks that deserve recognition in modern's history: Jund Saga, Living End, Burn, Yawgmoth, Oko Titan, Hardened Scales, UWx Control, Rhinos.

[@t.s.dragon2408]

Shocked that some of these decks didn’t even get so much as a shout out. Also, don’t forget Phoenix!

[@khalilaboidbetancort4079]

Nice video, I missed a mention to UR Phoenix or Temur Rhinos at the end of the video. Anyway, a really good video! :D

[@999Lucas]

I appreciate this kind of content from you and the fishbowl! it would be fun to explore some other formats, or even some of the most used spells, to drill down further. cheers!

[@savagesnadgaming7252]

I love this video. I really hope the analytics bear that out so you can make more like this. I rarely watch a video entirely from start to finish but this one I did. Seth is so good at narrating with his up and down inflection. He can make Hogaak seem interesting...

[@Btaks]

Love these MTG History videos with narration by Seth. Would love to see more of these!!

[@8628416]

It's both super interesting and sad to see this video. Seeing "power creep" (rather power explosion) dominate the game's design crew so blatantly since 2019 makes me VERY happy I made the decision to make my own cube. Probably never playing competitive again. Started playing modern in 2017, those times are unfortunately over.

[@Inti.G.Olivares]

The idea behind overextended was in fact the use of previous cards from sets already outside the 2 and 4 years of standard and extended, without pushing to hard as to go to legacy levels and it's cost of investment... That change with sets printed solely for modern (Now is all about the money. The variety of strategies and cards used in tournaments has being reduced to however can pay to stay in the tournaments)

[@WolfPage-f8w]

Great video only comment is that you missed out my favourite deck, LANTERN

[@ericbasnight2068]

Mr. Olive I don't think you put enough emphasis on how cold that winter was... It was just as intense as Hogaak Summer.

[@kylekovacs497]

I've been waiting for a video like this for 3 years. Thank you Seth

[@RaulFelixINC]

Thank you! I've been getting back into the game after stop for 20 years and this helped me catch up on all the changes. The power creep is a thing but its been learning all the new stuff and catching up. This gives me a good idea of how the format works and what kind of deck I want to invest in building.

[@theyonlycomeoutwhenitsquiet]

I started following modern in 2012. This history lesson felt like a gaming life journey.

[@Matti_Mattsen]

Seth's hatred for eggs is hilarious, i for one really liked the archetype (though my favourite version is the one with aetherflux reservoir and mystic forge)

[@LaughingDepressed]

Have you tried the new version that runs beseech the mirror and amulet of vigor with lotus field? Got 2 turn 2 kills with it and consistent turn 3's.....so what I'm saying is....eggs are back on the menu. Stay sunny side up 🤓

[@Matti_Mattsen]

@@LaughingDepressed oh i don't know that deck, do you have a decklist? sounds fun

[@LaughingDepressed]

@@Matti_Mattsen I do I'll go ahead and put the list in a copy paste one sec

[@LaughingDepressed]

@@Matti_Mattsen the Aetherflux in the side you switch out for codex against graveyard hate and the preordain are the flex slots. Switch out a hallowed fountain for breeding pool if you want to run the haywire mites 4 Amulet of Vigor 4 Beseech the Mirror 1 Bolas's Citadel 4 Chromatic Sphere 4 Chromatic Star 1 Codex Shredder 4 Conjurer's Bauble 4 Faith's Reward 4 Flooded Strand 2 Hallowed Fountain 2 Island 4 Lotus Bloom 4 Lotus Field 1 Otawara, Soaring City 1 Plains 4 Preordain 1 Pyrite Spellbomb 4 Reshape 4 Urza's Saga 2 Wizard's Rockets 1 Zuran Orb Sideboard 1 Aetherflux Reservoir 1 Breeding Pool 2 Haywire Mite 4 Leyline of Sanctity 1 Pithing Needle 2 Prismatic Ending 4 Silence

[@Matti_Mattsen]

@@LaughingDepressed awesome, thanks a lot!

[@ryanrichard2736]

You know what’s fun about WotC? They hire all these geniuses who just adopt fan made formats, print cards directly to it, then ruin the spirit of said format Thank bob for MaRo and Gavin. Saviors.

[@pomposso_typer]

1:03 lol how the times have changed

[@brandonbagley795]

Great video, would love to see more modern content in general. You guys have really cut back over the least year

[@Sandovian]

I have a random copy of Second Sunrise in my collection that I decided to throw in my Equipment EDH deck recently, I had no idea it saw any play let alone was/is banned in a format

[@Wishgoat]

This was a nice stroll down memory lane

[@K_Renegade]

11:50 It’s a minor detail, but Patrick Chapin lost in the finals of that World Championship in 2014. That was the year Shahar won his second title.

[@SilverAlex92]

Just starting this video and im getting massive nostalgia from when I started playing magic. Pyromancer storm was my first construced deck and it never really had the chance to shyne. In standard Valakut Prime titans withs Gaea's Vengance derstroyed it, and in moderm it got its wings ripped before it could even fly. After watching some mroe all I cann say is amazing video, this was truly a treat to walk down the nostalgia road of my entire magic career :)

[@cousinpatsey2471]

I'm surprised there was no mention of Izzet Phoenix. That deck was solid solid for a bit.

[@JoeyPasco]

5:27 FYI, WotC gave previews to sites and podcasts in those days as well. Specifically, the podcast I co-hosted at the time (In Contention) was given the card Slitherhead to preview from RTR 🙂

[@int3r4ct]

I was an affinity player from 2012 until it was banned in 2020. Then I was no longer a Modern player because they killed my poor robot children. Also I had actual children and just kinda got too busy to play MTG as much as I was but I’ll continue to blame WotC for banning my Mox.

[@t.s.dragon2408]

Love the video! I have to say though, I was floored by the lack of mention of Izzet Phoenix and the Faithless Looting ban.

[@jacktorborg9862]

One quick add is that scam being good v creativity is 100% not the reason creativity fell off, it was the one ring and a meta change where combo decks were stronger after fury got banned. When all the other decks got one ring, and people assumed (falsely) that creativity had a bad scam matchup, they stopped playing it. Then, when the meta became all combo like living end and rhinos after fury got banned, creativity had a lot of really bad matchups. The deck is quite a bit better now that murk and scam are good again (creativity preys on both slightly, good pilots dumpster scam and are above 50/50 vs murk), and the addition of elesh norn grand cenobite has given the deck a lot of reach vs yawgmoth. That aside, and other than some of the minor things others here pointed out, what an amazing and nostalgic video. Moder has a huge history to celebrate and a really bright future. I can't wait to see what modern horizons 3 brings.

[@jancukasu]

23:45 OMG Daddy is mentioned here by Seth! 🤩

[@QuietlyHere666]

Grief still needs to catch a ban before i can recommend the format. Two cards being ripped from your opening hand and leaving an evasive creature behind is busted, no question. Even if you've got two answers, you dont now, you have to topdeck a new one. With fury banned, ephemerate grief is the new pain in the ass and cant even hate on that with grave hate

[@yourirodrigue7247]

Awesome informative video Seth ! I love all your content, these are very cool as a long time magic player

[@EspeonGaming0]

On one hand banning Fury over Grief is a better idea, because of how easily Fury can go +2 in card advantage as well as leaving you with a 4/4 Double striking body on the field by turn 1. Fury was also stopping creature decks from being in the format. However, now that we don't have Fury, the headlights are on Grief and he it should have been banned instead. Fury was a bigger issue in the format compared to Grief. Grief is still a problem and if it's not banned by the next modern banlist, modern as a format is going to die. While they're at it they should ban also ban Orcish Bowmasters, and the One Ring (Or maybe just the One Ring).

[@necrow4155]

My entire home town quit playing magic just after the Splinter Twin banning. They were sick and tired of pro tours making them lose their favorite decks. The B&R committee kills small town magic.

[@gavinmarlow3545]

As a long time lover of affinity, I’ll never forgive them for banning opal

[@LaughingDepressed]

I still remember the day....I walked into my local tournament with my 2 favorite decks at the time. Paradoxical outcome and affinity 😂. That night I created an amulet titan deck and have been meaning to create hardened scales to get that archbound ravanger "itch".

[@kaylee42900]

The Splinter Twin ban bumped me out of mtg for like 5 years. Just didn't have the time and money to rebuild and relearn a new deck.

[@Durgenheim]

I love how Seth says “Gol-Gary Grave Troll” 😂

[@1AKAvg]

Now I want a "Gol-Gary Merchant of Asphodel"

[@trappychan]

I've been playing Modern since the start and I love this video. It always irks me when ppl talk about Modern being "eternal", "diverse", "non-rotational"... The reality is Modern has only ever been nice like that for brief periods, or if you're okay with not playing tier 1. It's always been a format of broken metas being succeeded by new printings and bans "rotating" the tier 1 over and over. Your (very expensive) deck could be rendered unplayable or tier 2/3 by the meta or a ban, which have always happened constantly. Some decks have had longevity, like mono-red burn, infect, lantern, 8-Rack, Dredge... but these were tier 2 or tier 3 (or tier 4 sorry 8-rack lol) decks for most of their longevity (I did love when Infect and Dredge were tier 1 though). I just love the Modern powerlevel. It's a great format if you don't go in with the illusion that it's "eternal" and "non-rotational" (no format truly is if you want to play tier 1) and instead enjoy it for what it is: Really fun and competitive Magic. Peak Magic, one may say. :) The true "eternity" of Modern is just that you can carry fetch lands and shock lands through the years, making the financial burden of the meta a little less frustrating (specially now with 10$ fetches and 5$ shocks, thank you WotC!)

[@megapixzel]

I'd watch like an 8 hr version of this ngl. the meta shifts are fascinating, i remember scrolling through old Frank lepore videos when he was still with and just watching the story play out in video titles "what is jund? Junds not that good. okay junds pretty good, i've finally found the jund killer (repeat 8x), so anyway i'm playing jund"

[@MorNamoAnnatrar]

Oh, this took me back... Thanks for the great video!

[@johnmack6218]

I love this Magic history series!!! Thanks!!

[@mikotagayuna8494]

It amuses me that Wizards still cannot bring itself to call Scam by its proper name and still refers to it as "Rakdos Midrange". It's like a string of mistakes they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge and learn from.

[@special_circumstancs]

I love these kinds of videos as someone who wasn't following magic for the last dozen years.

[@onglt27]

Thank you for the trip down memory lane :)

[@SpecialKail]

Lol someone did the F6 gag on Commander at Home's most recent episode. I knew what F6 meant, but I didn't know the historical context. Good stuff

[@KynElwynn]

"someone" being the Professor from the Tolarian Community College channel

[@SpecialKail]

@@KynElwynn I couldn't remember exactly who it was

[@josephkrohlow4341]

Shoutout to GP Dallas 2016 winner Kevin Mackie with Skred Red

[@RafaGonzalezGouveia]

loved this video since I am a relative new player !

[@MTGGoldfish]

Glad you liked it!

[@1Samsak]

I love your MTG history vidoes so much

[@MTGGoldfish]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@LlywellynOBrien]

I don't want to sound like a purist, but I really feel there needs to be a revamp of formats to cope with horizons, universes beyond, alchemy etc. I think there should be a parallel system with one set of formats including these and the other (using the same era designations) including only cards that have been printed in standard legal sets (and not the commander pre-cons for those). I find the core idea of older sets is the wonder of pretty banal a standard cards becoming amazing when clever people think about how they work with a much larger cardpool. Having cards just jump into those formats, particularly when designed for them, really degrades that puzzle.

[@Slapfight12]

Super cool to take a trip down memory lane.

[@Skylersuzy]

Amazing content Seth. Thank you so much

[@stephenporter1866]

Does the fact that izzet Phoenix wasn't even briefly mentioned mean that faithless looting was unjustifiably banned? I like to think so

[@azraksash]

How long were they in in the format? Wouldn't phoenix decks be now good vs scam even without looting since you need to exile them instead of discarding or killing to get rid of them?

[@jonathanmillis2015]

I always thought that eggs as an archetype referred to the mana cost 0. I didn't know the egg cycle even existed.

[@tripleeyeemoji]

Great video! I know there was a lot to cover but surprised to see no mention of the hallow one and phoenix decks in 2018. 2017-2019 was by far the golden era of modern. I miss that era so much. It hasn’t been the same since MH2 and now LOTR. Wizards makes “modern” sets but they seem to be more for commander players, which in turn hurts modern. Commander has been ruining modern for years now, which is unfortunate.

[@jackl8025]

It probably wasn't a healthy format but Treasure Cruise Modern was my favorite. Delver was a deck full of commons. Even Mono Red burn played a playset of treasure cruise. Still waiting to see it eat a ban in Pioneer

[@clashcitycretin10]

It prob never will. Only 1 deck in the entire format plays it.

[@zirilan3398]

The chance of Cruise getting banned in Pioneer are close to 0 as you don`t have actual fetchlands to speed up the grave. I am more concerned about Amalia seeing a ban than anything else in Pioneer really.

[@clashcitycretin10]

@@zirilan3398 Amelia loses to gravehate and simple interaction.

[@bensteinhauser784]

​@@zirilan3398Problem isn't really Amelia though, it's collected company. Amelia combo is about level with Greasefang in terms of power but one uses CoCo way better and is a much stronger deck because of it.

[@Duall8]

Expressive Iteration truly died for Cruise's sins, and banning Iteration over it basically soft banned all other Izzet+ decks except Phoenix out of the format as there are no other Izzet multicolors even close to what other multicolors have in the format. It's sad, and kind of crazy with people like Gab Nassif running UB Phoenix now showing you don't even need red mana to play the deck (though you probably definitely would if Cruise and Iteration were legal).

[@BAAWAKnight]

What are the odds that with the release of MH3, all of the top 20 cards played in modern will have been printed from 2019 on?

[@kingdom2]

5:55 deathrite shaman is my favorite planeswalker!!

[@-Karnage]

Awesome video. Hope to see more videos like it!

[@jetto__421]

Love these wouldn’t mind more thank you!!

[@starkiel]

My only hope and dream is that wizards stop printing 'money' and return to the olden ways of Magic that looks and plays like Magic used to before Modern Horizons...

[@fireemblemistrash75]

Same man same… but it has been a long time

[@Aetohatir]

Love the magicaids credit. While a bit problematic, his builds and humor are still great, and he deserves the recognition.

[@timstreeter2392]

Well played Saffron Olive, well played.

[@tcgdude]

Awesome video. Fingers crossed for this summer with MH3!

[@pote941]

40:35 Fury was the primary problem of the deck, not grief. The issue with fury was that it made pretty much all creature-based decks unplayable, while also being a turn one 4/4 with double strike. Grief is still a pretty busted card, but fury was just on another level.

[@mr_go0se469]

I would love if we got a history video of each major format

[@henrye3935]

I miss classic Modern so much

[@DannyB0y257]

All these years later and Birthday Pod is still my favourite card

[@karanojin]

i remember like two weeks where everyone was having a panic attack over lantern control

[@zirilan3398]

Mox Opal died for the sins of KCI and I`m still not ok with it

[@PokeMultiverse]

I stopped MTG in 2014 but that 2016 infect deck looks a lot like my very first infect build. I hadnt even discovered standard yet, I was just getting into the game, and with some old cards and some new cards, I built an infect deck that my friends hated because I could consistently win turn 2 or 3 with a cheap infect boy and mutagenic growth, giant growth, and might of old krosa (from a friends older collection).

[@jaysonking4055]

Love these kinds of videos help me wake up and have a positive day

[@rastapancake9428]

Love this type of content!

[@spinelliludovic2966]

Thanks lot of for this video because modern it's my favorite format ! I love so much this and know this history it's so good really ! 👍👍

[@Menttih]

I won tournament at Local game store with Robots. After Mox Opal ban i just switched my deck to Legacy format. Soon i noticed that deck does not manage to get enough wins so i just sold my whole deck. I have to figure it out what to play in Modern still if i want to continue with at all. Thank you Seth for doing videos that matter for mtg scene!

[@bensteinhauser784]

I strongly recommend Pioneer instead. Significantly better price wise and there's no direct to format sets.

[@TehSeksyManz]

Hardened Scales is a pretty legit deck these days and can be built for a relatively low price and can be upgraded over time

[@lesternomo6578]

Hardened scales is probably the closest thing in modern today, very strong deck but is hard to play

[@twi1ightknight]

Jim playing the tron in that clip is hillarious

[@matheusdanieldasilveira8788]

How could no one noticed that the video has a huge mistake at 11:50? Patrick Chapin was NOT the world champion in 2013. Shahar got his second world championship that year.

[@cole_CK]

Bruh didn’t even mention astrolabe.

[@brianstephens8337]

I'm so glad I've gotten to see Modern grow and flourish and become riddled with exactly the money problems that legacy had.

[@zunamie]

Please do this for all formats

[@roboto_o9700]

Are you saying that wotc instead of get rid of the reserved list to make legacy more accessible they created a new format?

[@ClubbingSealCub]

Yes, that's exactly what happened, and what is happening with pioneer

[@RafitoOoO]

​@@ClubbingSealCubPioneer is the true modern nowadays. No sets designed to completely warp the format, just slow trickle down cards from standard like modern and extended back in the day.

[@MTGGoldfish]

Basically, yeah.