Comments on: Insider: #PTFRF Early Winners: Reading Charts to Get The Full Story https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kelly Reid https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-409428 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:24:40 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-409428 In reply to phyrexian trader.

yep, absolutely. Modern has been a very interesting format to follow

]]> By: Kelly Reid https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-409427 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:24:18 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-409427 In reply to Ryan Overturf.

Good point.

]]> By: Kelly Reid https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-409426 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:24:03 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-409426 In reply to Chris Tidmore.

Oops, you’re 100% correct. Fixed.

]]> By: phyrexian trader https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-409041 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 14:55:21 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-409041 I notice a correlation over the different graphs. They all jumped very high in the beginning of 2014. double or triple. that’s huge.

]]> By: JP https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-407884 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:09:37 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-407884 “Snapcaster Mage: It seems interesting that the retail price of Snapcaster is trending upwards right now, as it’s not one of the cards that truly gained from the bannings of Birthing Pod and Treasure Cruise. ”

I disagree. Snapcaster’s playability in modern in a lot of ways seems inversely corrolated with the existence of Cruise. Snapcaster is a part of Twin, which has been one of the big winners post-ban. On the other side of Treasure Cruise’s stint in modern, realize also that Twin was considered a tier 1 deck pre-KTK, and then became (arguably) a tier 2 deck in the face of a deck ruled by UR Delver and UR(w) burn.

Snapcaster is a card that can be better in decks that want to play a grindier, more attrition-based game, while the UR Delver meta was one that cut a lot of those kinds of decks out of the format.

Also on a more basic level, Snapcaster is kind of a nonbo with Delve cards like treasure cruise. Arguably, drawing 3 cards (or digging 7 cards deep) was a better use of your graveyard. Now, Snapcaster has more of a monopoly on the graveyard, making him a more effective 2-for-1.

]]> By: Ryan Overturf https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-404911 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 05:19:14 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-404911 Snapcaster absolutely gained from the Treasure Cruise ban. It was arguably the best card in Modern pre-cruise and the fact that they don’t play exceptionally well together caused people to play fewer Snapcasters. Delver decks generally ran one, if any. With Cruise being banned, Snapcaster may be the strongest card in Modern.

]]> By: Mistrblank https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-404605 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 02:01:34 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-404605 In reply to Ben Roome.

Chapin is not on infect. He’s on some homebrew tasigur hybrid.

]]> By: ExpletiveDelete https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-404531 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:58:40 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-404531 Each color combo in the first MM had its own theme. Personally I think there is a >50% chance infect will be included, my guess in either UG or GB.

Also, I sincerely doubt any Innistrad block cards will be included. I think there’s documentation somewhere stating MM2 will contain cards printed no later than Scars. I just don’t care enough to look

]]> By: Ben Roome https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-404463 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:20:56 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-404463 In reply to beaneau.

Infect.

]]> By: beaneau https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-404411 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:48:16 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-404411 The Chapin on Ghostway rumors… He is on something completely different. Haven’t even seen that deck, or heard talk of it on the coverage.

]]> By: Chris Tidmore https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-404261 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:40:44 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-404261 In reply to Ben Roome.

Same for Snapcaster Mage.

]]> By: Ben Roome https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-ptfrf-early-winners-reading-charts-to-get-the-full-story/#comment-404223 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:10:24 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=56748#comment-404223 Geist will not be in MMA2. Its from Innistrad.

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