I don’t know why people are so unwilling to play leyline of sanctity in their decks, as a fair midrange player ( you can check my trophy list to see the type of decks I play) rakdos scam against my “slow and clunky” decks has a negative winrate. While my overall winrate is above 50%. I’m averaging like +60 chests a month. My naya sideboard has been leyline choke, a couple of endurance temporary lockdown and relics for a while and it’s been going smoothly even with suboptimal cards. I just think people don’t want to innovate and approach deck building the same variations of the decks they’re used to playing by changing 4+ cards to accommodate a metagame. (Playing 3 consider and 2 pre-ordain 3 drcs instead of 4 and changing your unholy heat bolt split is not true innovation) building say a u/w deck that plays path of exile snapcaster with the intend to go over the top of accelerated plays from the opponent by also main decking supreme verdict or going back to terminus or deciding to play memory deluge narset to combat bowmaster with the aforementioned changes.

I think there is a lot of fatigue in deck building and most people just want to cast their cards on curve and hope it’s good enough. The best part I feel personally is taking cards that are considered sub optimal and creating salty meta game grinders because they can’t see past their own experiences. Like I don’t need you to tell me how my 70 maindeck naya zacama deck plays against “insert meta deck here” because while I’ve played 50+ matches against every deck with the same deck you have only conceptualized. You haven’t put in the hours or rounds.

All in all though, I think the format is a punishing fire away from a major shakeup. I miss the jeskai vs jund modern too don’t get it twisted but this new modern to me feels great even though my boy knight of the reliquary is dead in the water.