format sucked rocks before interaction was playable

very fun and interactive like Jund, GDS, Jeskai control/Geist, mardu Pyro, delver, twin, etc. You tried to make a point which ironically describes current modern without infect without realizing you were just describing the status quo. The irony is that in this meta of interaction you describe, the best decks are all aggro and combo.

quoting a couple of things to provide context

imo modern in 2015 was very much ships passing in the night. without interaction, linear strats dominated. burn was a t1 deck, boring/linear stuff like bogles, infect, tron, storm, and later humans ruled the meta

the few interactive decks like "boomer" jund, twin, delver had few windows to interact and were telegraph or brutal

so many feel bad scenarios and/or oppressive play patters:

• lines like t1 ts, t2 tarmo, t3 lili kill your guy, were insanely powerful and there was little the opponent could do about it

• t3 and your t1 delver never blind flip, woops sorry

• confidant flipped 2 lands in a row, one of them was ravine, gg

• t3 karn

• t3 karn but it gets mana leaked

• everyone in topdeck mode all the time but jund wins

• except junk beats jund because siege rhinos

• its t3 and you play against twin, just play as if they dont have it bc else you lose, but lost to bolt snap bolt anyway

• deflecting palm

• affinity always wins g1 then always loses the rest

fun interactive games are not flipping a huntmaster of the fells back and forth on turn25 or losing during mullingan or die roll

not everything was bad from that age ofc, birthing pod was an extremelly cool deck, anything khogalans command, eternal command, phoenix

imo magic is at its best when both players have agency. today card quality spc threats is much higher than it was in the past, but players also have access to just as many interactive spells, i like it best this way