Weren't you trying to own me on the previous page because fuckstupid Eldrazi from a current block were shitting up Type 1.5? (When that format sucks I just go play Pauper, fyi.) Do you get paid to eat MaRo's ass, or is it just a top 8 sex event for you?
that would be a top 8 sex event for sure.
I honestly don't understand that power creep argument though. There are lots of things to bitch about in regards to how Magic is handled, my biggest gripe atm is the way MM and EMA were distributed, amazing draft formats but the supply is so low most people will be lucky to get to draft it twice. And so many asshats buying boxes just to rip even though EV is all over the place and they ain't going to make a decent return.
Eldrazi in Modern has been banned out of being format defining just like cawblade, birthing pod, shops, twin etc etc, trying to own you was a joke m8 because you were acting high and mighty about being able to ignore standard jank playing only the finest "curated eternal formats".
GR Eldrazi is still a thing in modern, but it's not format defining, just another deck now, if you want to complain about new cards dominating through power creep arguably Abzan Company is now top dog, maybe Collected Company is OP, though it's just a modification of the old Birthing Pod decks and Coco is the less broke Birthing Pod. A more interesting issue imo is the infinite combo is so clunky you can't play it on Magic Online because you'd run the clock down before you could run it out, so the meta between modo and paper magic in Modern/Type 1.5 is quite different. Modo is a shitheap etc. There's a lot of things that frustrate me about the way magic is handled but I don't think power creep is the problem. They don't test how new cards will impact Modern or the other "curated" eternal formats, the enablers are the real issue imo for some of this broke shit, goddamn fast mana: sol lands, mox opal, mox chrome, SSG, ancient temple, city of traitors. Of course you're going to get periods of broken dominant decks, and it doesn't matter at which point in Magics history you look there have always been short periods of certain decks breaking various formats, pushing Spikes to all run the same shit.
In legacy and Vintage, Eldrazi has taken the place of MUD, same problem different critters, is it the drazi or is it the broke mana? I think the meta would be pretty different there too if more people played it and the reserved list wasn't shitting up prices, the vast majority of decks are still based around old, powerful cards in short supply, and there's little reason to play it because there are rarely any events.
