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2020 Visions: Modern Cantrips, Part 2

2020 Visions: Modern Cantrips, Part 2

February 21, 2020 – by Jordan Boisvert 1

Back when Opt was spoiled, I wrote “Opting In: Modern Cantrips,” a piece dissecting the intricacies of and nuances between Serum Visions, Sleight of Hand, and other Modern draw-a-cards. Two years and some change later, Modern is all but crawling…

Testing Preordain: Quantitative Results

Testing Preordain: Quantitative Results

October 3, 2017 – by David Ernenwein 5

The time has (finally) come to actually reveal the results of my latest banlist test. Looking back, testing two different decks made this harder than it needed to be. Focusing just on Storm would have yielded more satisfying data, though…

Walk Hard: Brewing with Temporal Mastery

Walk Hard: Brewing with Temporal Mastery

September 29, 2017 – by Jordan Boisvert 18

When Opt was spoiled for Modern, I wrote a piece about how I didn’t think the card would see much play. That didn’t stop me from putting together a bunch of decks with the card. During those experiments, I took…

Testing Ixalan: Exploring Traps

Testing Ixalan: Exploring Traps

September 26, 2017 – by David Ernenwein 13

With a new set comes new speculation, new brews, and new bold declarations. Archetypes are revived, archetypes are doomed, new decks exist, the new decks are terrible—we’ve heard it all before. I try not to speculate and only talk about…

Opting In: Modern Cantrips

Opting In: Modern Cantrips

September 8, 2017 – by Jordan Boisvert 7

This week marked some big news for Modern: Opt is finally entering our card pool. I’ve heard some decry the card as a worse Visions that will only see play in draw-go and tempo decks, and others still call Opt…

Current metagame: 12/1 – 12/31

RankDeckMetagame %
1Grixis Shadow5.5%
2Burn5.4%
3Gx Tron5.2%
4Jeskai Tempo4.8%
5RG Valakut4.7%
6Eldrazi Tron4.6%
7Affinity4.5%
8Humans4.5%
9Gifts Storm4.4%
10Counters Company3.7%

NOTE: Metagame % is calculated from the unweighted average of all MTGO leagues, paper T8s/T16s, and GP/PT/Open Day 2s in the date range. Data is tracked in the Top Decks page, which you can browse for more details.

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