I can say from personal experience that red decks are not a bad matchup for post. And while we could argue about this all day, it won’t actually do anything. Maybe people pilot post decks differently or have builds that skew the results, but I wouldn’t say goblins or mono red is favored against post. As for infect losing invigorate…There’s a format where the infect decks don’t have access to invigorate. It’s called Silverblack, and the rest of the deck is nearly identical. I have played against these decks and they are not even close to the same without that card. I’m not saying the archetype will die, but I don’t think it will be earning many tix.

I am not making snap judgments. I have played warrens storm for quite a while. I played it before people knew how to play against storm in pauper. I played it when it got completely hated out of the format. I played it when everyone else and their grandma was playing it. And I have played countless matches against it. I think I have a pretty grounded idea of how Empty the Warrens impacts the format. And I don’t think its impact was detrimental enough to warrant a ban. I think the storm decks actually helped keep the format balanced. Maybe that’s just another word for ‘stagnant’.

You’re the one that seems to feel the need to impress me, sooooooooo

I think it’s pretty easy to conceive of a monoblue deck that beats post. Pre-Delver I was winning about 90% of my matches against post with MUC. All you need to do is not by dregs like Cloud of Faeries.

Quote me where I said that the deck doesn’t get worse. Stop wasting both of our time with your drivel.

Also your claim that BBE is the most unfair card in the format is outrageous, especially when your entire argument is that the deck wins fair mirrors. Emrakul is probably the card you’re playing if you’re doing unfair things in modern.

I do think familiar storm will make a comeback, especially in a sea of post decks. At the same time, if post is the uncontested best deck now, land destruction will start creeping into maindecks. Who knows, but I’m glad you mentioned the pauper bannings. I don’t support them at all.

On a technical level WotC classifies only those two formats as eternal, but players are still going to recognize eternal as meaning non-rotating. I almost wrote “non-rotating” but didn’t because I guarantee you people knew what I meant.

Wrong.

Check the

Banned/Restricted page

This question was on both my rules advisor test and my L1 judge practice test. “Select all the Eternal formats”. I got it wrong the first time because I selected Modern.

Only Legacy & Vintage are Eternal.

Modern is an Eternal format. Eternal formats are just ones in which cards don’t rotate out.

I agree. While BBE isn’t what makes the deck the force that it is, it is the card that involves the most variance/ can reward poor play the most. It’s easy to perceive BBE as the major problem and that’s what most of the community does, and with WotC catering to popular opinion over most anything else the BBE ban is, like the Seething Song one, consistent if not very sound.

Those are two facets of the argument that are contingent on different factors. They are so far from contradictory that I don’t even know how to address your comment.

Eternal meaning non-rotating.

I just got into pauper. It was advertised to me as one of the “purest” magic formats, that combo, control and aggro are all equally viable. Now wizards just banned combo from the format. I know that R&D has decided that combo is a terrible thing, but let them force that policy on standard, leave pauper alone. When I play in person with friends, we’re just planning on ignoring the bans.

I feel like they banned bloodbraid because they had an image problem, not a metagame problem. Jund happened to win a couple of tournaments. But look at the top 8s of those tournaments! Additionally, look at the number of people playing jund. Of course jund will see some finishes when such an absurd number of entrants play it. People liked to whine about jund dominating, but to be honest, most of those people were just bad at magic and didn’t know what they were talking about. It saddens me that the dci appeased them.

While I don’t disagree, I don’t see what place this sentence has in this article. No bannings were made to either Eternal format.
https://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.as…
There are only 2 Eternal formats, and Modern isn’t one of them.

I couldn’t agree more…I don’t like this “perfect mana” Magic we have going right now…I remember the days when you wanted to tap a land for mana of different colors you took 1 damage for it.