This card is played occasionally in Modern Red Blitz and RG Midrange decks. The card Bonecrusher Giant does a fantastic job of illustrating the problem I’m getting at… There’s a ton of great diversity between the decks in the meta and a bunch of exciting new cards being played. It’s a damn shame, too, because the Modern format is in a particularly good place right now. Unfortunately for Modern players, this seems to be one of the only ways to interact with their favorite format in an age where in-store play is suspended due to a pandemic. Now, it’s certainly not the responsibility of just one particular subgroup of consumers to be solely responsible for infusing these pieces into the MTGO environment, however, removing the Standard/Limited element from MTGO has done quite a bit of damage to the balance of an economy that was reliant on and designed for consumers of a wider diversity of formats. philosophy has made for a HUGE influx in Standard-legal cards finding homes in Modern decks, yet the number of Standard-legal cards being infused into MTGO has been drastically limited (due to Standard and Limited players migrating to Arena combined with a general disinterest in the Standard format overall) causing availability limitations on what are now Modern staples. The general trend for power creep resulting from WoTC’s F.I.R.E. While high prices on newly printed cards are problematic, the value of older format staples has decreased. Having not made many significant updates to these lists since Throne of Eldraine, I’m finding that doing so with competitive consensus in mind would cost hundreds of dollars on average for nearly any list to be upgraded. I’ve assembled Death and Taxes, Death’s Shadow, Scapeshift, Humans, Spirits, Devoted Company, and Control to name a few decks. Keep in mind that I’ve got a rather large collection built over years of playing the game. I’ve felt this on a personal level recently as I’ve logged in to MTGO to assess what updates I can make to my Modern decks after just a few months away from the client. As a result, older formats that are not supported by Arena are being left to die due to the unruly cost to build new decks or update old ones to remain competitive. Though Standard-legal product has continued to be released on Magic the Gathering Online, the focus on any format that pushes the sales of new product has shifted in a big way to WoTC’s new flagship client Arena. It’s no surprise that Magic: Arena is the number one priority for WoTC these days.
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