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This week, Kelly and Doug talk about their experiences at the Pro Tour. They talked about doing coverage, watching the Eldrazi decks rise, and how the rest of the decks got mostly ignored.
The cast also talks about:
- the Death’s Shadow aggro deck being really good and still under-the-radar
- The Shadows over Innistrad Spoilers were not intentional
- With Madness returning, Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy gets better (sigh)
- This is the time to get rid of Eye of Ugin if you have them.
Temple is the correct ban. You can’t have 2 Eyes in play. You can’t cast Thought-Knot Seer or Reality Smasher off Eye. Yeah you can have random 3 Mimic draws with Eye, but lots of decks in modern have very unlikely yet busted draws. The deck doesn’t become degenerate without Temple.
Even all things being equal and looking at one vs the other, banning Eye also completely nerfs another archetype in Tron, which is just totally unnecessary.