Gotta take a stand.

Plus…that sort of discussion is an article idea. And those are scarce this year.

Damn it David, alway with the level-headed, data driven, sensibilities! Don’t you know this is 2020!? Up is down, black is white! Cats and dogs are living together! It’s mass hysteria!

As the October data is coming in, I’m seeing some contradictory trends. Omanth and Uro are taking up a large part of the meta, as is Rakdos Shadow. However, they’re not doing too much better than the rest of the meta, especially with DnT coming on strong. Particularly, Uro’s average points are fairly average and Rakdos is below average. I’m not seeing anything too problematic in the data.

Thus is Wizards chooses to do anything to Modern, it would have to be on the basis of things being unfun. Which is so subjective that action is pretty unlikely. We’d need to see saturation and complaining similar to Astrolabe for anything to happen. I think it’s as good as realistically possible at the moment.

Now, I’d like to see certain cards gone, but I’m not sure that would actually improve anything. The metagame looks too balanced to justify shaking the tree, and it’d be easier to unleash something bad than positive. And I also can’t justify it as anything other than I don’t like them. And that’s not a good enough reason.

It seems that the consensus is that modern is in decent shape. Diversity seems to ne the order of things. And new decks are taking the stage along with established juggernauts like Titan and Prowess. While I’d argue thst diversity alone doesn’t make a format “healthy”. I have to admit even for us Fish players, things seem to be pretty fine. Not amazing, but fine.

Standard seems to have been the focus (justifiability so) of Wizards’ efforts. But, i wonder, now that standard seems to more lor less in a decent place, do you think there’s anything that can be done to hone a good modern format into a great one? What problems do you see in the format? What jalopies could use a boost? What hot rods need to have a governor installed?