For all those who live under a rock, Pod, Treasure Cruise, and Dig Through Time were banned in Modern this week. Golgari Grave-Troll was unbanned.I'll admit that I didn't think Cruise and Dig were getting banned, they were good, but not so good that they were unbeatable evidenced by 5 of the last 12 Grand Prix winning decks being Pod.
Does that make Pod unbeatable? No, but it makes it the best deck when it won almost half the GP's. Since Pod became a deck i always thought it was overpowered and it got banned because of it's power level.
So now that Pod is gone and Delver isn't good, what is there in Modern? Not much. The only certainly tier 1 deck is Twin. How about Jund? Jund was good but has been hurt repeatedly by bannings. First it was bloodbraid elf, then it was Deathrite Shaman. It still existed after Deathrite was banned and it was still good powerful deck. Treasure Cruise and Dig made the 1 for 1 trades bad when Jund traded and traded until the other player Treasure Cruised or Dug Through Time, then Jund lost to overwhelming card advantage.
I'd wait Until the release weekend of Fate Reforged and pick up the "money cards" from Jund. I have a feeling that Jund and other G/B type decks are going to be tier 1 competitors now that treasure cruise is gone.
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