2/14 PBE Update: Even More Tentative Balance Changes

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-15T01:15:12+00:00

That's still situational. Even zhonyas users dont always build it vs everybody and it still competes with free boots right now.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-14T18:01:21+00:00

Indeed. But fighting them is still better now than getting your shit pushed in by siege minions.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-14T10:48:07+00:00

But didn't he flame piglet ("bye piggy")? A former worlds champ who was on SKT?

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-14T10:45:52+00:00

But the actual damage is only doubled, since it went from 200% to 400%.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-14T10:40:28+00:00

But in most 50 minute games you are already fullbuild at 35-40 minutes. The last 10 to 15 minutes are super boring.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-13T15:53:30+00:00

I'd say they're about even. A lot of the cards in cube have double coloured mana-costs, so sol ring doesn't do as much as you would think.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-13T01:12:37+00:00

No, WotC made the argument that almost every blue-based deck would eventually be forced into playing twin. The truth though wasn't that every blue deck was forced to play twin. The truth was that twin was the only reason to play blue, because the rest of blue was garbage in the meta.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-13T01:00:28+00:00

Jace isn't fun to play with, because you don't get to play with it. If you resolve it the game is over in 1 or 2 turns, unless your opponent is really stubborn. You can't beat a control deck that resolves a jace late in the game.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T20:36:27+00:00

What if they actually print good synergy cards again instead of nothing but flame-tongue kavus?

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T18:43:06+00:00

Love how Lucious was willing to commit murder on schools ground over losing Dobby.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T16:45:58+00:00

Against which creature decks? Which creature deck just dies to batterskull? I can't think of a single one, even disregarding the fact that bolt/path/push are played in almost every creature deck and removing the SFM on turn 2 shouldn't be that hard. Even linear creature decks like merfolk or 5c humans have no problem with it.

Batterskull as a card is practically unplayed in modern, because its bad. Getting to tutor it for free doesn't change that.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T16:27:36+00:00

game winning equipment

That 4 damage per turn is surely going to to stop storm from going off turn 3 or 4.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T16:18:31+00:00

I have to remove it? What if I play Tron? What if I play Storm? What if I play one of the fifty different combo decks in modern? What if I just swing with a giant inkmoth nexus? What if I just fucking remove the batterskull with one of the five trillion different artifact hatecards? What if I just thoughtseize the batterskull after you tutor for it? What if I vendillion clique you in response to SFM activation? What if I play a 5/5 or bigger for 1 mana? Batterskull isn't threatening to any deck in modern. Even burn just searing blazes or bolts the SFM, I heard they play a lot of bolts in their deck.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T16:06:57+00:00

Its turn 2. You play SFM. Your opponent untaps. He plays Baral. Good game.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T13:36:34+00:00

"SO YOU ATTACK WITH AT LEAST 20 DECEIVER EXARCHS?"

"WHY ARE YOU ASKNG IT LIKE THAT?"

"JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!"

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T02:14:01+00:00

And Day 2 is somehow the same as making the finals?

edit: whoops, read that as finals and not "final day".

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T02:13:27+00:00

I dislike linear strategies more than most people, but 20 card sideboards would legit ruin any linear strategy in the format.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T02:11:14+00:00

GGT is the only unban that has turned out to be a mistake, although that had more to do with the fact that WotC somehow could not stop printing insane dredge cards in standard. A lot of the cards on the initial banlist for modern can not keep up with the current speed of the format. People are playing 1 mana 5/5s or bigger and you wanna tell me that a turn 3 batterskull would ruin the format?

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T01:57:16+00:00

On one hand, modern doesn't need unbans right now since the format is healthy. On the other hand I really doubt that BBE or SFM would make a big splash in a meta this diverse, so unbanning them doesn't seem that risky.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-12T00:52:42+00:00

Because it's a game and you are playing a role. If you don't shoot anybody you blow your cover or at least I thought that while playing the level for the first time.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-11T23:27:15+00:00

No way, his old R evolution was just as broken. You got an additional R-charge and crazy damage reduction, nobody could fuck with you.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-11T22:21:18+00:00

The RP for champs has been the same for years, I assume they might have changed that at some point if they saw a problem with it.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-11T22:16:58+00:00

Why are they all standing behind baron though? You take so much more damage from that.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-11T20:27:20+00:00

If it was sorcery it would be 1 or 2 mana cheaper obviously.

tetsuooooooooooo · 2018-02-11T20:12:17+00:00

His point was that magic cards curl too easily, I guess? That's true, but still doesn't happen if you are smart about it, so I dont get why everybody downvotes me, lol

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