I call them Helicopter Parents – as they care so much about my Boardstate 😉

“rebalanced” I hope you’re right!

Yep, but that’s what they’re called.

Aaron Forsythe Tweeted today about waiting until April to act, which I strongly believe is the correct call. I also believe there’s basically zero chance the Eldrazi survive April, so the format should be rebalanced again soon!

My suspicion is that tournament attendance will take a hit and this will be a strong vote in favor of a ban. Not that we need too much more of a message, given the obscene warpage in Modern. You’re spot on in identifying economic impulses as being big for Wizards, and I expect it contributes to action in April.

I try to avoid abbreviations in articles, but in everyday speech I often just use “P&K.” But I like a lot of these other suggestions! Very flavorful and fun.

It’s transformational in the sense that it goes from a combo deck to a ramp deck. As Chris VanMeter has explained both on camera and in articles, the goal is to start as the turn 2-3 Amulet Bloom combo deck with a Titan Plan B. Post-board against BGx and similar decks, you become a pure Tron-style ramp deck, probably with no combo plan A or B at all. That’s a big shift in playstyle, even if it doesn’t encompass a lot of changed cards.

Glad you enjoyed the piece! Hysteria is the last thing I want to be a part of, and I’m glad our content is coming off that way.

Kalitas is very interesting in the metagame (and the hypothetical post-Eldrazi metagame), and I’m curious to see how else he appears in the format. Jund is obviously adopting him but perhaps the lagging Grixis will soon as well!

P.K.Rents of course.

You can argue whether the deck was a ramp deck or a combo deck, but it doesn’t really matter – mainboard plan and postboard plan against bg decks were the same, get to six mana and cast something they can’t deal with. People didn’t sideboarded out Amulets nor Blooms nor lands, so why was it transormational

If you want to play Mtg you can choose to play 5 competitive formats:

Pauper, Legacy, Vintage, Standard and “Eldrazi”.

Eldrazi left Zendikar and now they are threatening Earth plane. Please Wotc seal them before they destroy modern realm.

PikiChute. Because PIa and KIran and chutes fly.

During gameplay? Like, you would cast them and announce “The Parents” and wait for a response? Seems off somehow.

I always just called them “The Parents”

I always used Parents, but Mom & Pop’s Thopter Shop looks good.

Mom and Pop’s Thopter Shop. It isn’t the shorter name, but it is the correct one.

Oooh goody, it looks like my asinine baying here and on reddit is finally starting to have some small effect. I will also suggest that you and others contact Professional Event Services and warn them that their tournament entry take could suffer due to the current state of Modern. I’m not sure who is running the other GPs, but they should be badgered as well.

WotC will respond if there is an economic impact to its core business partners. (Maybe… I actually still heavily doubt that we will see an “emergency ban” of any kind before April, but I am hoping I can be proven wrong)

Also, I’d like to see SOMETHING on the main page addressing this change to the comments section–clearly some kind of further identification was necessary, but still. Requiring connection to some sort of actual personally identifiable social media is somewhat obnoxious.

Except it’s not a ramp deck game one–it’s definitely a fast combo deck. Oh, sure, it’s capable of playing a ramp game before sideboard, but the deck certainly didn’t have the consistency of a real ramp deck (like Tron) at executing that gameplan. Summer bloom’s best use-case was as a stupidly powerful ritual, jumping from 2 to 6 mana. In sideboarded games, it was much more common to use it as a double copy of explore (call Bertoncheaty!)

What’s a good nickname for Pia and Kiran Nalaar? I mean, that’s a really cumbersome card name; I’d really like to call it something else during gameplay. Anyone have ideas? Ones I’ve encountered include:
– PaKNal (pronounced similarly to Pac-Man)
– P.K. Nalaar
– Mom and Pop’s Thopter Shop (okay, not shorter, but still fun)

Any other ideas?

– Jiggy