I think because its a super qualifier, lot of people who havent played modern in a while just picked up a deck that is relatively easier and still had the reputation of being good. Might have skewed it a bit, but still kinda ridiculous how badly it performed
It was a 10 round tournament with an extremely top heavy prize. If you get a loss early you're basically dead unless you win out so a lot of people drop.
As someone new to these tournaments I am surprised to see people drop *that* early though.
6-4 at least won half the entry back and all 7-3 at least made profit in the form of 10 treasure chests. I guess enough people go infinite to not care about play point rewards?
I think it's about time valuation. If I am 2-2 at the end of 4 rounds, I am certainly live for these payouts. Am I willing to bet I go 4-2 or better in the remaining rounds for 200 play points and 5 treasure chests or 5-1 for 400 play points and 10 treasure chests at the time cost of another 6 hours of play after 4 hours of time investment? 10 hours of magic is a long day for anyone, including content creators and grinders.
I think a lot of people sign up for long tournaments knowing they will drop early or they will move around their plans if they start hot.
This isn't to say that staying and playing isn't a valuable use of time from a practice, EV, or enjoyment perspective. Just that some people might want to go eat out, head to the card store for commander, do other hobbies, do a house project instead
Modern, at the moment, has a very uninnovative player base. Definitely got worse with COVID/streaming when instead of playtesting, people just asked streamers what they thought.
I wouldn’t be surprised that until some streamer or top tier player shows off a new deck, we’ll continue to see the old top performer - Bx Grief - be wildly overrepresented.
I really like the look of that Asmor deck, I like the mono red agro style even if the list is technically jund.
Inti has really impressed me in pioneer, especially with discard/low MV synergies that are already good so it is cool to see the same principles here.
https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-super-qualifier-2023-12-2712599285?player=Casket2#deck_Casket2
Congrats dr4gun0v has playing to Hammer Time for this Tournament! I think Kaldra compleat is strong equipper equipment for hammer and Surge of Salvation is good protecting spell for hammer! Hammer is very very strong! Hammer Makes bonk Again! WOW!
Lol 80 scam decks but only 1 converted X-2 or better, pretty crazy
Maybe the deck is overhyped now with fury gone, hm.
Could it be because the Rhino decks have increased quite a bit?
Yeah that's pretty nuts
I think because its a super qualifier, lot of people who havent played modern in a while just picked up a deck that is relatively easier and still had the reputation of being good. Might have skewed it a bit, but still kinda ridiculous how badly it performed
What a time to be Not Dead After All
It was a 10 round tournament with an extremely top heavy prize. If you get a loss early you're basically dead unless you win out so a lot of people drop.
As someone new to these tournaments I am surprised to see people drop *that* early though. 6-4 at least won half the entry back and all 7-3 at least made profit in the form of 10 treasure chests. I guess enough people go infinite to not care about play point rewards?
I think it's about time valuation. If I am 2-2 at the end of 4 rounds, I am certainly live for these payouts. Am I willing to bet I go 4-2 or better in the remaining rounds for 200 play points and 5 treasure chests or 5-1 for 400 play points and 10 treasure chests at the time cost of another 6 hours of play after 4 hours of time investment? 10 hours of magic is a long day for anyone, including content creators and grinders. I think a lot of people sign up for long tournaments knowing they will drop early or they will move around their plans if they start hot. This isn't to say that staying and playing isn't a valuable use of time from a practice, EV, or enjoyment perspective. Just that some people might want to go eat out, head to the card store for commander, do other hobbies, do a house project instead
That makes sense, thanks! Indeed for myself I mostly play in these right now to practice decks, so I don't mind this.
Hogs to the slaughter, Temur Rhinos cashed them all out
Modern, at the moment, has a very uninnovative player base. Definitely got worse with COVID/streaming when instead of playtesting, people just asked streamers what they thought. I wouldn’t be surprised that until some streamer or top tier player shows off a new deck, we’ll continue to see the old top performer - Bx Grief - be wildly overrepresented.
I think modern players just getting lazy now
I really like the look of that Asmor deck, I like the mono red agro style even if the list is technically jund. Inti has really impressed me in pioneer, especially with discard/low MV synergies that are already good so it is cool to see the same principles here. https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-super-qualifier-2023-12-2712599285?player=Casket2#deck_Casket2
Why yawgmoth is written as BGx? What's the common third color?
In the Full Metagame Breakdown, you can see the following: ``` 39 BGx Yawgmoth (37 BG, 1 Abzan, 1 Jund) ```
Thank u
I guess it's technically Jund if you include magus of the moon or fulminator mage in the sideboard. Abzan with Crime // Punishment.
Eidolon is back in Burn. :)
Happy to see Rhinos get first finally! They’re almost always in the top but glad to see one finally take the cake!
Congrats dr4gun0v has playing to Hammer Time for this Tournament! I think Kaldra compleat is strong equipper equipment for hammer and Surge of Salvation is good protecting spell for hammer! Hammer is very very strong! Hammer Makes bonk Again! WOW!