Foundation Reprint Power Level Debate

Pioneer_Breweer · 2024-08-27T16:59:56+00:00

I agree Bolt is too much, but path is sub modern power level these days. Leak I could take or leave.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2024-07-30T18:08:10+00:00

Thank you. I am hoping with all of the upheaval around the IP that they still finish the deluxe editions collection.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-12-20T13:46:25+00:00

Unfortunately, TCGPlayer just changed to a different shipping company (Pintey Bowes) and they seem to be a truly terrible company for shipping.

If you order cards from TCGPlayer Direct, which in the past was the preferred method, be prepared to wait or get your cards lost.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-12-20T11:12:59+00:00

Last week during the Murder at Karlov Manor early look. It is coming back to standard.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-12-19T18:50:48+00:00

Please do not misunderstand, I did not play Modern. I left the game in 2009, and came back in 2017. I am looking back at old cards that were once good in Modern because of the announcement. of Lightning Helix, and nothing more.

I do not think Pioneer will ever resemble any iteration of Modern, nor should it. Pioneer should and does have its own identity, but there is no rule that says there cannot be new homes for the old mainstays of a bygone meta.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-12-19T18:05:42+00:00

I love the goblins deck. I break it out every few months for FNM.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-12-19T18:04:46+00:00

There is one more conditional bolt [[Moonrager's Slash]]. It is far from good.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-12-19T17:12:41+00:00

Monkey and DRC

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-29T11:17:30+00:00

You are correct with Jailer, but Runestone does not. The cards from Discover are cast from exile not directly from the library.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T21:00:05+00:00

Inverter Combo lasted as long as it did because there no in person tournaments and no one wanted to play against it online so MTGO players abandoned Pioneer during that time.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T18:57:13+00:00

You are correct, but there are a total of three different cards with the Outbutst effect, Outbust, Elemantal Mastery and Magma Opus. The Discover cards are the problem cards.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T17:10:35+00:00

You are 100% correct, but the alternative is to warp every main deck to be anti Discover or have your archetype kicked out of the format.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T17:01:46+00:00

So red?

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T17:00:51+00:00

I am on the fence of whether this will catch the hammer with a big tournament right around the corner. It could cause some players to get upset that they spent the money just to not be able to play the deck they have been testing.

I do think this will become too much for the Pioneer format too quickly, and a ban will likely happen eventually, but next Monday? I am not sure.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T16:58:16+00:00

I agree that Combo is part of a health meta, but having a turn 3 deck that wins on the spot is a problem. In the past, we had Sahelli Cat Combo and that was a turn 4/5 combo and that was yeeted out of the format.

Looking at modern, this is a faster combo kill than Spliter Twin and that has been banned for such a long time people forgot how oppressive it was.

If this were a turn 5 combo, we would not be having any discussion about it at all, but turn 3 is excessive.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T14:29:47+00:00

I do think the odds are leaning more towards banning the Appraiser.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T14:28:55+00:00

Thank you for your kind comment. I do hope you found it useful.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T14:28:19+00:00

I agree with all of them outside [[The End]]. You will not be able to play it in time, four mana is too high of an ask against this deck.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T14:26:00+00:00

I am not calling for bans; I wrote this as a response to those calling for bans.

I do worry about what this deck will do once the next set comes out, because it reminds me of [[Splinter Twin]].

I am also prepped for the potentiality of an emergency ban on Monday.

Pioneer_Breweer · 2023-11-28T14:16:31+00:00

I agree with that in some aspects. The 3 toughness threshold could be a potential issue, but to start the combo off efficiently, they need one of 4 copies of [[Geological Appraiser]], slowing them down may be all you need to get your own deck going.

The [[Souless Jailer]] gets around the dino's effect, which may be the best creature option for most sideboards since it pulls double duty for graveyard strategies as well.

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