Are people going to put it into their testing gauntlets? Yes. It hasn’t had a best deck for over six months. ‘Modern right now doesn’t have a deck to beat. – Ryan Overturf, Fact Or Fiction: Modern At The Pro Tour It’s just another one of the fine decks that you can play if you want to.’ Many of these decks present the occasional absurd hand that makes you want to believe that you’ve found something special… Don’t fall for it. ‘When exploring the Modern format, one thing that you come to accept is that the overwhelming majority of decks are exactly fine. Here are some examples of what others have been saying about the modern format as they look ahead to the Pro Tour: It turns out my feeling of hopelessness testing for modern is shared by many. I use social media to help calibrate my own opinions about decks and formats. This has been the advice in modern for awhile and it’s particularly true now in a meta as unfocused as this one. The best you can do in modern is pick a playable deck, know your matchups, know how to sideboard and know your lines of play against as much of the field as possible. Without a strategic advantage available, I focused the remainder of my time on gaining a tactical advantage: playing one or two decks a lot and knowing them very well. If it’s impossible to gain a strategic advantage through deck selection and tuning, even if you had infinite time and resources available, then what’s the point of investing any time or any resources to testing the format at all? No number of hours invested was going to turn up a deck with a clear advantage.Īt that point, preparing for Modern was a hopeless feeling. There are dozens of viable decks and no best deck. The more I tested modern the more I realized there wasn’t much to learn. I tried some newer or less played decks that were still being innovated and did equally mediocre with all of them: UR Moon, Goryo’s Vengeance, UW Control, Esper Death’s Shadow, Jund Death’s Shadow. I tried a lot of the top decks and did equally mediocre with all of them: Affinity, Humans, Burn, Grixis Death’s Shadow. I’ve played more than 100 hours of modern in over 50 competitive leagues totaling 247 matches. It didn’t feel special and I want my first Pro Tour (or any Pro Tour) to feel special and exciting!īut I don’t get a choice in the matter, so let’s talk about the modern format. Testing for this modern Pro Tour so far has felt no different than testing for any other tournament with an established metagame. I’d prefer the excitement of unpacking a fresh format even though it would put me at a disadvantage to the bigger teams in the actual tournament. Not only did I have much more time to test, I’ve played modern a lot so I already knew the format fairly well. Modern on the other hand I could start testing as soon as I qualified in October – more than 3 months of testing time ahead of the Pro Tour in February. The best players working together in a house full-time for a couple weeks are going to come out with a much better picture of the format and more tuned decks than an individual testing part-time at home. It’s a lot of work in a short amount of time which gives an edge to the bigger teams of pro players. Attending a standard Pro Tour would give me a reason to dive back into that early discovery process which was always a lot of fun.īut trying to solve a format is a lot of work. I’ve stopped doing that lately and instead choose to wait for the Pro Tour to establish a metagame before I put a lot of thought into my own opinions on standard. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about new cards as they got spoiled, brewing new archetypes in my head, finding new synergies to build around, and writing decklists on scraps of paper or on my computer. There is a lot of work to be done to develop an understanding of how the new format will take shape. For me, one of the most exciting parts about the PT is the deckbuilding and testing that goes into trying to solve a fresh format.įor a standard Pro Tour there are rotations and printings from the new set that always shake up the format. Qualifying for the modern Pro Tour has its pros and cons.
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