Empty the Warrens

Drafting MM

Hey MaRo, I just wanted to say Modern Masters was the most fun limited environment I have ever played in. We did two drafts in the store and in the first one first picked cryptic command and drafted a solid control deck and second game got to go desperate ritual splice ritual splice burnspell play second ritual chalice of the void for 1 lava spike empty the warrens turn 4. Never got to play storm before, so that felt pretty sweet.

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Chalice of the Void Cryptic Command Desperate Ritual Empty the Warrens Keyword Abilities Lava Spike Limited Mark Rosewater Modern Modern Masters Spike Splice

Pauper Bannings Reasoning

What encouraged the seemingly abrupt banning of Grapeshot, Empty the Warrens, and Invigorate in Pauper? Did Wizards recently decide that it would be best to reduce the impact of combo on the format? If so, does this mean that Pauper will be undergoing a paradigm shift? Did I ask that last question just so I could find an excuse to use the phrase "paradigm shift?"

The banning team got a lot of input from people playing Pauper as well as looking at the data from Magic Online, one of the places where the format is the most popular. The general feeling, as well as what data crunching showed, is that storm was a little too dominant, so they did what banning teams do, they corrected.

Bannings Empty the Warrens Format Legality Grapeshot Invigorate Keyword Abilities Paradigm Shift Pauper The General

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