So, I have no idea how to post an article on this website so I decided to make a deck description and hopefully someone will publish it, so here it is, enjoy!
Disclaimer: This article is all speculation based on the bannings in modern that have been happening for the past year. It is not at all meant to hurt, offend, or insult Hasbro or Wizards of the Coast in any way. I love the game, I hope it goes on forever and my theory is totally wrong.
Before we start, let's travel back a year from now, when the ban list was updated, Wotc decided to ban Birthing Pod from modern. Pod was one of the most popular, if not the most, popular deck in modern, especially right before the ban due to top placings in GP's. Alas, Wotc decided to let the deck die and it did, rip pod.
Now let's go forward a little, to Sept. 28. Dig Through Time was banned. Delver Dig was the deck that was being played at the time and it was fantastic. I don't know if it was #1 or not but regardless it was good. Dig was also getting play in other decks, but this was the main. Another deck down.
And now we come back to present day. Splinter Twin and Summer Bloom were just banned from modern. I'll talk about bloom first. Now Summer Bloom was played in Amulet Bloom and Scapeshift, which were both fringe tier 1 decks, maybe tier two. Regardless, they should have banned Amulet of Vigor since you can still play both of those decks without bloom, you just have to wait 2 more turns in scapeshift and 1 more turn in amulet, ONE! Anyways, that's not what the article is about, it's about the slow death of modern, and eventullay magic, and it all starts with Splinter Twin.
Now Splinter Twin is a card that was originally printed in Rise of the Eldrazi, and since then has re-defined modern. It was an infinite combo with the cards Deceiver Exarch and Pestermite if you didn't know, and it ranged from Izzet to Grixis to Jeskai to Temur with Tarmogoyf to Scapeshift twin, the list goes on. Every deck had to be prepared to face the twin decks, and because of that, it kept the format in check. It kept decks like tron and affinity from being unbelievably broken to the point where it would just break the format. Now Wotc has just taken away that piece. There is now nothing stopping Tron from being overpowered as crap and it will stomp modern for the coming months until it is banned 6 months from now.
This is where Modern starts to die. After Tron is banned 6 months from now, your burn deck of choice along with Affinity will rule modern for the next year. Then they will ban the affinity deck along with Goblin Guide and Lightning Bolt. Next, Abzan and Infect will be the top dogs of modern, until Siege Rhino is banned along with Loxodon Smiter and Scavenging Ooze. 6 months later Glistner Elf, Blighted Agent, and Noble Hierarch will all go. Then CoCo after that, and so on. This will happen for about 10 years until, modern will be a dead format, since nobody will want to play the top decks because they'll just get banned, and nobody will want to play the rouge brews for 1: it will turn into the top deck and get banned, or 2: it just gets killed by the top decks. It is those reasons why I believe in 10 years or so, modern will be like Legacy today, dying and nearly dead.
By that time, Vintage and Legacy will both be long gone, and Standard will be too expensive for anybody to want to play it. So you might be asking, what's left? Well there's Limited, EDH, and Pauper being the last big 3 formats left. Pauper will also be dying along with modern due to more and more broken decks popping up as it gets more popular, so I give that format 15 years before it goes, just 5 years after modern. EDH isn't a sanctioned format by Wotc, as far as I know correct me if I'm wrong, and even if I am it will be so ungodly expensive that new players aren't going to want to get into it, and MTG will stop bringing in new players. But what about Limited? As long as new sets keep coming out, there will always be limited, but if they're just pumping out sets for limited, there's just no point to putting that much effort into it, and with it, the quality of the expansions get worse and worse, to the point where limited is just boring and uninteresting.
And that's where MTG dies, 20 years from now, MTG will not be anywhere close to the game it is today, and the last set will be released, closing the book on Magic: The Gathering.
However, there are several ways to avoid this path. Maybe, just update the ban list once a year, or every other year, giving players more time to play the decks they love. Or, get rid of the reserve list. Have a Vintage Masters Set and keep the old formats alive, instead of slowly watching them die.
Who knows, maybe I'm just 100% wrong, and that I never should have written this, but after I had a conversation with my friend, I felt like I needed to make this heard. I would love to hear your opinion on this and your theories and/or ideas, so if you have one, leave it in the comments below. Thanks for reading!
