![]() ![]() Throw in sideboarding decisions in combination with Modern’s diversity and we’re looking at a deck that looks like it can beat everything.Įxcept that it can’t. And, of course, there’s the decision to play Archangel of Thune or not. What tutor targets one sleeves up for Ranger-Captain of Eos will, over time, be more than simply Walking Ballista. In others, one will prefer Noble Hierarch and Birds of Paradise. In some Modern metagames, it’s going to be correct to play Arbor Elf + Utopia Sprawl. The other thing to like about Selesnya Company is how customizable it is. Because while the deck is powerful (it can gain infinite life, it utilizes Collected Company better than anything else, etc), it’s also incredibly fair when you consider Modern’s past (it’s a deck with 30+ creatures, Selesnya is generally fair color combination, etc) but also very easy to understand (which is not something I can say about Ironworks or other decks of Modern’s past). Simply put, Selesnya Company is incredible and it’s a perfect best deck for Modern to have. It takes a special kind of hubris to not be able to take a step back and think “Maybe the dude with a 73.6% win percentage in the event and a Pro Tour title may know more than I do” but we got plenty of that and then some. But I do find it rather interesting that people who have never accomplished much of anything in Magic, let alone what Merkel has accomplished in Magic before he won Sunday’s event, were so supremely confident that it was in fact he who was wrong and not themselves. That’s a combination of dangerous and irresponsible. And if that doesn’t sum up Magic Twitter in one fell swoop, I don’t know what does.ĭo I think we should trust people blindly? No, I do not. And then people called him some combination of lucky and/or an idiot. Jan’s thing worked just like he said it would. At the end of the day, said unique thing is either going to work or it isn’t and then I’ll go from there. The number of interactions I’ve had in convention centers of “check out this unique thing that no one else is doing!” has desensitized in ways I never thought possible. ![]() All Magic players have their preferences, especially successful ones, so for Merkel to note that he liked something that most people don’t even consider viable wasn’t an earthshattering event. I won’t speak for Patrick - he’s plenty good at that on his own - but I’ve been doing coverage of Magic tournaments for almost a decade, so when I say that nothing about this interaction from Merkel was out of the ordinary, know that I mean it. If everyone good agrees on all plays, picks, deck choices, etc., isn’t that really boring? Why would you want to watch something like that?- Patrick Sullivan March 15, 2021 It is cool when someone good ignores convention and wins. I don’t care if Splicer over Channel/Elspeth over Crypt is “bad” or not. ![]()
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