![]() ![]() Our plan this time consisted of some MTGO testing, and then we met in Valencia the Saturday before the PT-not as much time as we’re accustomed to having, but most people couldn’t make it earlier so we had to settle for that. The set is not super powerful and no card stands out as the flagship of a new strategy in Modern (a Valakut, Birthing Pod, Life from the Loam, and so on), so we have to look at how they are going to be inserted in the current format, but we didn’t know the “current format” so we couldn’t even do that. In this regard, the timing of the ban list was poor-not only did it make it hard to prepare, but it diminished the excitement for the new set for all involved in the PT. When you change even a couple cards, you impact every deck, regardless of whether they actually play those cards. We didn’t want to start testing even after the whole set had been spoiled, because we were pretty confident something major was going to change and didn’t want to waste time testing a format that would simply no longer exist by the time the PT came. PT Born of the Gods was unique in the sense that everyone knew that the ban list announcement was going to transform the format more than anything in the new set. I haven’t done that in a while and I think there were a couple of interesting scenarios, so I might as well just talk about it all. ![]() Today I’m going to try to go back to my old tournament report formula with a quick description of every round. ![]()
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