5 Once Oppressive Decks That Are Just Bad Now 

Yeah not even kidding - I got a bonus and decided to buy out 90% of my childhood monored Revised "oldschool"/"93-94" legal deck I played back then. Only I got every single card in Unlimited versions - Not cheap, but dealers just had the cards and only one didn't arrive and I got a refund (a Dragon Whelp so eh). I tried to spec the buyer matcher to all Beta versions but it would have cost 4500 euros LOL.

i would love to see a canlander episode omg

Take his deck and stick it in any older format. It's esssentially broken. It's the same thing, because the internet has streamlined every LGS/game group. In the 90's/00's, different play groups would have completely different opinions on cards/mechanics. Now, every group is basically the same. The players are cardboard cut out versions of the people from my last group with pretty much identical decks. The meta homogenizes when everyone netdecks.

was gonna comment this, not a fan of magicaids content but gotta give credit where credit is due

Absolutely this

Was just about to say that lol

Thank daddy for his masterpiece

MagicRainbows?

Hahaha that would have been good!

Beat me to it.

Fragmented Mox [0] T: Add one mana of any color. Use this mana only to cast spells with a converted mana cost of (1), or to activate abilities of permanents which have a converted mana cost of (1)

i agree completely, especially on the modern part. I remember I had just built Affinity a year or two before Mox Opal was banned and I was devastated. What I've been doing to cope is rebuilding all the classic modern decks I love now that the cards are a lot cheaper. I have Faeries, Affinity, and am working on Tron and Jund. After the absurd power creep combined with the introduction of universes beyond, I haven't really been interacting with much of the present product they're pushing. Plus, the removal of the block system made everything move way too quickly lore wise and the focus on commander and digital oriented design, I'm not really mechanically interested in MTG the same way i was before :( Maybe I'm just being overdramatic.

I agree. I think the point in the video is that - it can't be tier one especially because of all the new cards that hate on the strategy. Tier one decks can beat the hate where as tron gets easily crippled by sideboards

@@StickyBombLauncher definitely, hopefully March of the Machines brings something good for Tron, miss playing it to be honest.

This is true for any of the decks we talked about :) it's not because they are not taking down pro tours that they are not fun decks

@@CardmarketMagic funny enough, Toffles run at Mythic Championship 4 with Tron is what made me get into Magic in the first place, his Tron list was the first I built!

Last time I did that I had wurmcoil on turn 3, 2nd wurmcoil on turn 4 and died to 15+valakut triggers on my opp's turn 4.

Zombies was, unfortunately, never a popular modern or pioneer deck. But it was a great standard decks in Return to Ravnica and Shadows over Innistrad times :)

Jund was once so oppressive that it required several bannings in a row! Back in the return to Ravnica days

​@@CardmarketMagic Free Deathrite Shaman. Make Jund good again.

This was what I was expecting to see.

We chose to avoid talking about decks that got cards banned in them as we figured it would be a little too obvious :)

@@CardmarketMagic good call. I found it to be more interesting to hear about decks that haven't been banned and were perfectly fine, yet still disappeared from the meta game.

@@CardmarketMagic Okay, that's a fine explanation.... except that once the early bans to the deck were in, it was a feasible deck for a long time. Ravager Affinity was a perfectly reasonable deck from basically the start of Modern and it wasn't "oh these cards in this combination are too good" that got it banned out of the format, it was cards added in Modern Horizons that broke cards it used that got it banned into non-existence. Basically I'm offended that the Horizon sets are being given a pass when those sets are responsible for 90+% of the powercreep in Modern.

Tron is a deck that would continue to see play even if it's power level drops, because it's a lot of fun to play. That makes it a little hard to tell if its strength matches its play rate

I also notice a lot of Tron decks aren't playing red anymore which is a mistake, IMO. You really need Pyroclasm available on turn two to deal with Glistener Elf, Ragavan, Dragon's Rage Channeler, Frogmite, Patchwork Automaton, Puresteel Paladin, Stoneforge Mystic, Dark Confidant, Llanowar Elves, and so on and so forth. There's this long list of turn two plays that will result in you dying on turn three or dying on turn four despite having Tron assembled (Oh you have a Wurmcoil Engine to fight off my Monastery Swiftspear? LMAO get double Lava Spike'd). You can't play Lightning Bolt because it doesn't get around hexproof or protection from red. You can't play Warping Wail because it doesn't hit enough targets. You can't play Wrath of God because it's too slow. You can't race them with a Karn because they'll have you in range of burn spells before you exile their board. You can't play Anger of the Gods because it costs double colored mana that you won't have consistently on turn three. You can't play Dismember because you won't have the life. The only solution for this is Pyroclasm to get you through game one against aggro decks or creature-based combo, which Pyroclasm completely BTFOs. Affinity will scoop if Arcbound Ravager isn't on the table. Burn will fizzle out. Infect will be delayed long enough for you to land a Karn or All is Dust. Tron has always beat up decks that are good and fair, such as Jund or U/W Control. It doesn't matter if they blow up your lands because they can't win fast enough before you find another. Unfortunately, people aren't playing as many fair decks in Modern anymore.

@@nekrataali no one is playing those cards except rag and darci, and you dont auto lose to the other cards

@@nobacktalk not even Darcy, maybe to a Ragavan on the play

​@@nekrataali did you time travel from 2018? Half of those cards are not played in Modern. And there's a good reason no Modern decks besides control play board wipes anymore - there are no longer any tier 1 aggro decks (only aggro control and aggro combo decks).

Mostly just Elementals, Urzas Saga, Ragavan, and Wrenn and Six.

it turns put printing cards into modern isn't good for the format

@@mulch8995 define good for the format

@@mattw1771 not power creeping it modern into oblivion is good for the format.

@@sjdhrjrjejdhdhsh Well damn I didn’t realize modern was in a state of oblivion I’ve been having a great time

Gerne :)

Too broken for modern.

Also Tribal is not a gemstone so that doesn't make any sense. Every mox is based off a gemstone of sorts....

@@clocktowers1 Chrome is not a gemstone. Too late for that argument.

@@kylegonewild oh yeah lmao

@@kylegonewild It is still a tangible material at least that can be considered luxurious and or shiny... the hell is a "tribal"

15 Goblins Decks?! But.. why? :D

But... why not? 🤔

Humans was still good after MH1 (well, after some bans), it was MH2 and specifically Fury that pushed it out.

I, too, was/am a collector of goblins. Still have some i collected from the earlier sets before I left MTG around classic 6th edition.

​@@22781dave oh man, you missed the Goblin boom of Onslaught block.

I've got a BR Madness deck around Hollow One, Underworld Cookbook, Asmoranomardicadeistinaculdicar, Fiery Temper, Kitchen Imp, Burning Inquiry, Ox of Agonas, Basking Rootwalla, Flameblade Adept, Insolent Neonate, and Street Wraith. It hits hard and fast, and I've gotten people to scoop after turn 3-4. I'm just lacking 3 Blood Crypts, 2 Bloodstained Mires, 2 Searstep Pathway, and 2 Goblin Lore.

They aren’t banned. They just aren’t legal. :)

@@skykur if only that meant I could have used them.

today food chain goblins won another FNM =D

It was the best deck in the format while Lurrus was legal in modern as well

We would love to be on game knights 😅 we're crossing our fingers for an email from Josh like it's a letter from Hogwarts 🤞🤞

@@CardmarketMagic Heres to hoping.

You cannot play the combo in one turn unless you have a goblin warchief or something Conspicuous snoop only gains activated abilities and haste is not an activated ability if you could do it in one turn it would be a lot more threatening of a combo (at least in modern, legacy could definitely deal with it)

@@Goblin_War_Buggy Thanks. I'd misremembered "gains all activated abilities" as "gains all abilities".

​@@Goblin_War_Buggy that's why you play split screen. Four activated abilities are better than one😉

You can just use Mogg Fanatic for that, no need for haste when all of your infinite tapped Snoops can sac for damage.

@@IavraPlays you need the haste in order to activate the ability Snoop gains from Kiki-Jiki on the turn you play it. I guess Fanatic could replace Sling-gang if you wanted to (Depending on which is a more useful card in the metagame in case you draw it). However because Boggart Harbinger is a black card, this doesn't save a colour.

Old Lantern Control is one of my favorite decks of all time because of how it attacks on an angle I've never seen elsewhere. Losing Mox Opal made life tough enough, but with so many easy answers to / ways to win through Ensnaring Bridge, and Karn and of course Urza's Saga redefining what it means to be a prison deck, strategies like that will never be viable again.

Don't forget that fairies in pauper also got numerous bans! Which was a good thing, because the archetype was too oppressive (despite being oodles of fun to play)

We didn't want to talk about decks that got banned (as it's a little obvious). We were focusing here on archetypes that you can still play, but shouldn't :)

Tron can always getcha, but the deck is way worse than it used to be. I play a lot of Jund, and the matchup used to be nearly unbeatable, with the main plan being the recur Fulminator Mage with Kolaghan’s command and just hope they don’t have it on turn 3 on the play. Nowadays we play a Ragavan and start looping Boseiju with Wrenn and Six- I’m not sure if the matchup is all the way favorable now, but it’s just not something the midrange decks fear like that anymore

​@@faseel4392 as a Tron player that matchup is majority in your favor. Like i can get some jund players if they play dumb or misplay hard or hell even think no matter what they win. But majority of the time i just get my ass handed to me. I've been playing tron for years because I'm a monster and i love being a monster but anymore there's always something bigger and scarier then me and that's fine i had my fun in the sun and it will come again.

@@faseel4392 that’s definitely true! to be fair I started playing magic right around the release of MH2 so I never knew tron in the “before times.” It’s still always seemed like a viable deck to me tho and one that’s gotten me a couple times lol

Ooh thank you! Will fix the title now 😅