Dragon's Maze (Baseless Speculation and Spoilers)

[Birdbrain]

The gruul champion might go well in an all creature deck

I just had a horrible flashback of the Legions set. Shudder.

were there all creature decks in legions?

It was an all creatures set that was awful.

ill check it out in the card database to get a idea of how bad it is

[Birdbrain]

It seems like a Johnny set. And I can see they definitely was limiting the power levels on some things

[Dudecore]

Control will be back somewhere. USA Control decks don't have all that difficult matchups with {Izzet Charm}, {Counterflux}, {Searing Spear}, {Supreme Verdict}, {Boros Charm}, {Thundermaw Hellkite}. But those decks are all like "good stuff" decks, with no real synergies. Taplands create greedy mana bases and thus - "good stuff" (where you just jam the best cards of those colors into 1 deck).

Naya Blitz is just a boring deck to face, it's extremely difficult to gain traction against. The Aristocrats is the same way, it's difficult to keep those creatures from resolving and not being punished for controlling the board.

A number of very broken cards are going to rotate in October, neutering mostly all of the decks that are good today. With that being said, Gatecrash and Dragon's Maze are absolutely throttling control at this point. We gotta just wait and see.

Part of my overall problem with Modern is what you're saying. Wizards doesn't give it a chance to "hate out" all of the decks that are garbage, like what happens in Legacy all of the time. During RtR we had 5-color Reanimator, Azorius Control, Selesnya Tokens and Midrange. Tons of Midrange decks, then a whole bunch of Good stuff decks. The less desirable decks get hated out - come back as rogue and everyone moves on. In Modern they just ban cards. Eggs is a deck, but people play {Leyline of the Void} and {Rest in Peace} to hate them out of competition - eventually there won't be as many of them and other decks will win. They will ban something from Eggs, like {Reshape} or {Lotus Bloom}

What real way does control have to hate out aggro decks? Weak counterspells? Board wipes? Who wants to {Nephalia Drownyard} for 20 turns?

[FlickerYourOwnIdentity]

I love aetherling!

Simic will love aetherling, Azouris will love it too!

It dodges board wipes too, because we need a card that can do that.... Not really...

[Wackaman9001]

I love aetherling!

Simic will love aetherling, Azouris will love it too!

It dodges board wipes too, because we need a card that can do that.... Not really...

We need something that can dodge a terminus, we sure dont have that, excluding {legions initiative}

[Dudecore]

Restore the Peace is like a damage matters {Upheaval}. Priced pretty fairly. May see some action? I always feel that if I'm taking damage, I'm not winning, but it doesn't seem horrible. I'm sure that they're printing an aggro card to dodge it right now.

[whitedrake]

I love aetherling!

Simic will love aetherling, Azouris will love it too!

It dodges board wipes too, because we need a card that can do that.... Not really...

We need something that can dodge a terminus, we sure dont have that, excluding {legions initiative}

We definitely do not need that...

[whitedrake]

Oh Esper will love this card... especially against Aristocrats...

http://mythicspoiler.com/dgm/cards/cryptincursionmock.html

I like some commons more than most of rare ones...

http://mythicspoiler.com/dgm/cards/pilferedplansmock.html

http://mythicspoiler.com/dgm/cards/hiddenstringsmock.html

[Vyse]

Wow those are both really nice commons

[Birdbrain]

Someone should make a five-color blitz deck and call it skittles! Lol, just kidding

[Dudecore]

Crypt Incursion - if it is real - appears like a real plus card.

[FlickerYourOwnIdentity]

Crypt Incursion - if it is real - appears like a real plus card.

I agree completely, it gives amazing use to cards like {Mind Sculpt}!  Big boost against aggro!

[Bozo_Law]

Gaze of Granite    {X}{B}{B}{G}

Sorcery   
Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost X or less.
Golgari reclaimers resent the gorgons, begrudging the loss of so many fine nutrients locked away in stone.
Illus. Nils Hamm #72/166   

PERNICIOUS DEED IS BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In other more boring news:

Pontiff of Blight    {4}{B}{B}

Creature - Zombie Cleric   
Extort
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)
Illus. Seb McKinnon #27/166   2/7


Gleam of Battle    {4}{R}{W}
Enchantment (U)
Whenever a creature you control attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Every soldier returns from battle changed: by hardship, by blood, by a glimpse of glory.
73/156
Art by Raymond Swanland

[FlickerYourOwnIdentity]

Ponnif is cool, a little slow.

[Malleo]

Ponnif is cool, a little slow.

That's why you use  {Crypt Ghast}