If your articles doesn’t inform their decision making they’re idiots. Anyway, not discussing something because you don’t know for sure if it will happen seems a lot more illogical to me than discussing something you already know the answer to. So I don’t understand why we shouldn’t speculate just because we don’t know for sure what will happen.

The problem with twin though is there was ONE blue deck. Every control deck starts blue, adds snapcaster, then obviously you need red for targets for snapcaster, so since you have red may as well run twin. It became stale.

I’d love to see twin again as an infect player my win rate was high. But it’s not gonna happen because of peoples wants

Responding to the last three comments here. I can understand your guys’ frustration with this article. Personally I feel that Modern can definitely use some tweaks, but I also think what David’s saying is true—it’s hard to know exactly how Wizards will apply their banlist philosophy, even if we do have a better understanding of it now that the Pro Tour wildcard has been removed.

For what it’s worth, I am skeptical that any of our past articles have informed Wizards’ decision making. Certainly discussion of stuff like the banlist in the community at large is something they take notice of, but I’m not sure we’re on their radar as a go-to source. Our data analysis serves more to describe their process post hoc, although I suppose if we can move the needle on their views that’s valuable too.

Finally, Sheridan has been busy with a new job, but he’s been in contact with me about writing an article or two. He pretty much has carte blanche to write as he sees fit, as pretty much everyone (myself included) loves to read his analyses. Unfortunately, I don’t really have the same expertise as him when it comes to quantitative analysis, so it’s hard for me to fill the gap. At this time I don’t have a good sense of when he’ll have another article ready (I’m not sure if he does either) but I know one is in the works.

While the sentiment in this article is perfectly fine the conclusion is quite… underwhelming. “Guys, don’t complain. Play spellskite”.

Where is Sheridan!?!?!?!?!?!

Modern Nexus made its name as a data-driven website that put in the work for factual analysis and comparison, backed up with contextual interpretation of the results.

This article represents the exact opposite: contextual interpretation of information being used to avoid application of un-biased analysis of raw data. I can get that out of any MTG content website–maybe not as well reasoned or reasonable, and maybe not with the same quality of editing, but identical as far as information content goes.

And there are some objective numbers. I crunched the win %’s, the actual and effective kill turns, and the prevalence and effectiveness of dedicated hate for every dredge and infect match that’s been on camera at major events in the last month. Spoiler alert: Infect looks a lot more like grapeshot storm did before the seething song ban now than it did when I did this same look last year, Dredge on the other hand did not. Whether I think wizards very public dislike for dredge will prompt more severe action than might be actually necessary is another issue entirely, but you can use the same methods Sheridan did and draw your own conclusions from the data and the historical patterns of WOTC.

Id want to know if dredge infect or ds zoo are breaking the rules or not (share, top 8s, turn 3 kills, etc). If they arent then sure “more spellskite yo” (dont forget your four surgicals and four artifact disrupting cards and some way to stop valakut and other combo decks too…) but if there are clear violators like amulet bloom was, telling people to suck it up and adapt is like standing in the middle of eldrazi winter telling folks everything is fine just play two copies of damnation main…

I have been guilty of complaining about problems far more than trying to solve them. Well, moreso complaining about the cost of solving them, but at some point it is just time to decide if I want to spend a little extra cash to win.

If nothing does happen, I propose to adapt – I’ve been long advocating that decks like Merfolk dedicate themselves to beating fast linear decks because of how comfortable I feel facing interactive decks. Spellskite is a good start, as are cards like Dispel and Remand (which blows out the likes of Become Immense or a flashback spell). If you make them your focus, you will do well.