Comments on: The Colors of Modern – Part Five: Green

By: Evan Stoddard

Evan Stoddard — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 18:41:35 +0000

hey you forgot about a lot of the elves, heritage druid, nettle sentinel, lannowar, etc. they is an entire deck based around them. also missing chameleon colossus from side board cards.
over all really well written though, quite enjoy the series.
also happy you’re streaming again.

By: Michael Osobsky

Michael Osobsky — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 07:15:49 +0000

It would be great if you could continue the series also for Artifacts. Even though you already treated Multi-Colour cards as part of the colours, why not also spend an whole articel about them?
Also want to use the opportunity to tell you that Modern Nexus really developped into something providing good information and analyzes – keep on going with that! Would be great if you could also do some more content on magic finance.

By: Trevor Holmes

Trevor Holmes — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 02:49:03 +0000

In reply to Noah Andrew.

Hey guys,

Thanks for the response! I detailed my “classification philosophy” last week with Red and thought about copying it over but decided against it. From last week:

Staples, in my mind, are unquestionably powerful spells that are considered auto-inclusions in certain archetypes (and powerful elsewhere) or enable whole archetypes by themselves. Lightning Bolt needs no explanation, as it is ever-present in the format and many archetypes stretch to red just to play Bolt, but almost everything else can be argued as stronger or worse than another option. The line between staple and strong option here is very blurred.

While Kitchen Finks is more prevalent in the format, if I was forced to classify it I would consider it just a “strong option” and not a “staple” as it’s not clearly the best option out of similar cards that perform relatively similar tasks for the mana. Whereas something like Scapeshift provides the best effect for the mana cost (compared to other four mana “ramp” spells like Oracle of Mul Daya or the like). Obviously not the cleanest comparison, but when comparing the “necessity” of something like Glistener Elf or Scapeshift to Kitchen Finks, that’s where I chose to draw the line.

Hope this helps, and if not, let me know if you still disagree! Thanks for the feedback!

Trevor

By: Noah Andrew

Noah Andrew — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 01:28:03 +0000

In reply to Marco Peluso. I agree. Glistener Elf is listed as a staple, and Kitchen Finks isn't? Finks is the number two creature in modern and G Elf is only played in infect.

By: Marco Peluso

Marco Peluso — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:51:45 +0000

I feel as though, as objective and simplified as this innately is, that some cards on the “strong options” list, like Tasigur and Kitchen Finks, are prevalent across many lists, whereas in the same colors, Scapeshift and, to a lesser degree Inquisition, are only seen in one or two decks.