Evan Hamlin
leafbladefighter.bsky.social
Evan Hamlin
@leafbladefighter.bsky.social
24 year old blonde gamer
“Twitter is not real life” I literally watched him cheat against Bailey in real life and now he’s judging events I’m in in real life
June 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Excited to watch you win the Pro Tour!
February 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Depends on how many red seals you have. You generally want the same number of X Mults as retriggers. So with red seal + Sock, you get 3 triggers per king, and you'd want 3 x2s from Trib, so you'd want all your blueprint/brainstorms on it. Chad throws off the math a little as well. Sick set up tho!
December 8, 2024 at 11:10 PM
I think they would remain a meta threat.

Finally, new aggro and midrange decks would have a change to shine. Carnivorous Flytrap delirium decks and Boltwave burn decks might be more playable if Energy gets weaker.

Let me know what your thoughts are!
11/11
December 2, 2024 at 9:00 PM
against it, it's probably far more playable. Belcher, Titan, and Storm would all be left untouched, so an eye would have to kept out for these strong combo decks, but many of them already feel beatable if you respect them in your sideboard. Finally, the Eldrazi decks would lose ring, but
10/X
December 2, 2024 at 8:57 PM
So where does that leave the format? Boros Energy would still be playable (Guide/Pride/Ajani/Raptor is a powerful core), but it would be a lot more linear, with greater weaknesses to board wipes and specific sideboard cards. Jeskai Control would loose some cards, but since Energy is worse
9/X
December 2, 2024 at 8:51 PM
another offender here, often allowing Phlage to come in for 12 points of damage in a single turn after the board has been cleared. Not only does banning Phlage remove a clearly powerful card, it removes an axis of attack from the best deck in the format.
8/X
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Like Uro, it's basically impossible to cleanly trade 1-for-1 with, since spending a card to remove it from a graveyard means that it already got value, and ignoring it in the graveyard means that it's going to come back and get more value if not outright win the game later on. Arena of Glory is
7/X
December 2, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Phlage is an interesting one, since it's both an aggro and a control card. That being said, it's a little too good at what it does. The lifegain and removal on the front half either lets the aggro deck clean up or allows a more controlling deck to stay alive long enough to get to the back half.
6/X
December 2, 2024 at 8:46 PM
printing of Arena of Glory in MH3, Jegantha pretty consistently has haste, which allows it to steal games out of nowhere that would otherwise be stabilized. The cost to do this is effectively zero in several decks, notably Energy, and just gives random decks a huge buff.
5/X
December 2, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Time Walks and Ancestral Recalls at bare minimum was always going to be too good.

Jegantha is another stupid companion that's just too easy to companion. After the companion rule change, it became an eighth card in your hand that was an 8 mana 5/5 with basically no other text. But with the
4/X
December 2, 2024 at 8:41 PM
allowed it to consistently beat control, so the whole point about Ring being good for control no longer stands. It also got a lot better with recent lifegain cards being printed, like Guide of Souls, Phlage, and Sire of Seven Deaths, to offset the life loss. That being said, a four mana card
3/X
December 2, 2024 at 8:39 PM
The One Ring was too good when it was printed, and most people knew that. It's dodged some bans due to mostly being seen as a control card, which needed help in Modern. Since then, it's been adopted by Energy, an aggro deck that also dominates the format. Energy picking up the Ring is what
2/X
December 2, 2024 at 8:37 PM