Frontier/Post-Modern Thread

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theres 3 thopter engineer you double-nigger

>siege rhino 40 $

I don't understand the appeal of this format. What makes you want to play this?

Same reason people played modern instead of legacy/vintage years ago.

Except that there aren't cool cards in this format that aren't viable in those formats

Depends on your opinions of "cool". Some people are Standard babies who miss the days of Hangarback Walker.

I do think there will need to be a few more years worth of sets before Frontier's cardpool is actually large enough to be worth considering, but there will eventually be an audience for it.

What is this new format?

M15 and up.
Basically, every Standard set since they debuted the new frames. Just be glad they didn't call it Beleren too.

>mfw I googled it while waiting for a response and read this
magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/frontier-magic-2010-05-24

The fuck?

Modern is horrible and oppressive, I hope this will catch on.

While I mostly agree, people who make this argument tend to ignore the fact that while yes, if a format is very popular its staples will be popular no matter what, Modern and Frontier are distinguishable in one huge way - the older modern sets like Mirrodin block through Lorwyn block had way smaller print runs than more recent sets. This is because the population of Magic players has what, maybe doubled? since Mirrodin came out. So Modern, while expensive due to its popularity, is doubly expensive because of a lack of stock in the older sets + WotX jew reprint policy.

Correct, there are distributors with a glut of product in their warehouses. But this does suggest that stock won't be the issue it is in Modern, unless in the next 8 years Magic's population doubles again, which would mean the same cost-prohibitiveness that Modern is having now. It seems unlikely that Magic keeps growing that feverishly, in fact I think it has probably plateaued

How's this? (Apologies, Not up on tappedout yet, new idea today)

>Thopter Engineer x4
> Whirler Rogue x4
> Giraphur Gearcrafter x4
> Aspiring Aeronaut x2
> Pia Nalaar x4
> Sharding Sphinx x2

> Essence flux x4
> Thopter Spy Network x4
> Mirror Mockery x4
> Lightning Strike x2
> Smash to Smithereens x2
> Mana Leak x4

> Island x8
> Montain x8
> Foundry of The Consuls x4

I'm a newish player on a budget hence no Hangarbacks, duals or fetches.

I guess it depends upon what cards you consider cool. Some people have pet cards that they liked in Standard that are garbage in older formats, even if those cards were average even in Standard.

>T1 land, Ornithopter
>T2 land, Ensoul Ornithopter, swing for 5
>T3 anything you want, swing 5
>T4 swing 5. Shrapnel Blast for lethal

Without disruption, of which coco decks play very little, it should blow them out of the water. Even if they do play a main phase dromoka's command, you've slowed them down enough to land another threat and keep swinging.

I played UR Robots during it's time in standard, and that shit was great. Only really lost to Rxx Dragons because of the ungodly amount of removal in that deck.

OP, if suggest some extra burn to help close out the game. Wild Slash or Lightning Strike. I'd go:

- 2 collateral damage
- 2 whirler rogue
- 1 phyrexian revoker

+4 lightning strike
+1 wild slash (with 2 in the side)

I'd only be interested in this format if Heroic was included, so I could go back to UW Heroic.

Vendors make a concentrated effort to price set important cards. Look at the price trend of IoK.

Spirits are a very potent tribe in this format:

>Spell Queller
>Rattlechains
>Mausoleum Wanderer
>Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit

Could Spirits be the face of Postmodern Tribal decks?, the only thing its missing are lords.

As much as I would like that, Humans looks like the go to for "tribal".

Either that or goblins. Gobbos looks good.

the funny thing is poorfags think nips are doing this because of the prices.

Elves also look good because you have elvish mystic back to ramp out and shaman of the pack is an excellent payoff card. I'm currently brewing GB Elves.

>they don't understand supply and demand
I find that people who say this tend to have a really poor understanding of economics, but because economics is such a hard field to quantify and demonstrate, they can run rampant with their usurped expertise.

Oh, shit, I didn't even think about that.

>CoCo into two shamans.

I think i just peed a little.

>tfw decimator of provinces as a shitty craterhoof.

Tried to play elves back in ori-theros-ktk standard. Board wipes (control decks were really popular at my lgs) like crux wrecked the deck hard.

> Aspiring Aeronaut x2
> Thopter Spy Network x4

Ain't worth it mate. Where's nerd ape? Where's bomat courier. Aeronaut is a huge offender here. So you get a 1/2 flying creature and a 1/1 flying token while they get value from coco.

> Sharding Sphinx x2

This isn't even legal

> Island x8
> Montain x8
> Foundry of The Consuls x4

Atrocious manabase, get at least painlands/taplands.

Also:

>huge mana curve
>20 lands

This shit DEEEEEEEED

I hope this meme never dies

>2016
>Being a poorfag
>Not buying Chinamen fakes to play modern, legacy and vintage

>2016
>implying anyone actually knows which chinaman to buy from
>people just shitpost about how they buy from chinaman even though no one does

Okay cool guy

Yeah, I know. Languish and board wipes would screw elves pretty bad. I've been brewing a bunch of decks and Esper control is looking decent.

Plus GW/ Bant will be the CoCo deck of choice, and has was more utility than elves.

And Rabble Red will be way too fast.

But I can still hope.

I've been thinking of trying to compile a list of decks and try to predict the metagame. Is this even a good idea?

With cards like Sylvan advocate, chord, decimator of provinces (or maybe the green gearhulk instead), woodland bellower (sweet, sweet 2 for 1 and tutoring a shaman) elves stand a chance. Remember we also have access to one, not completely shitty lord (though it misses coco).

Oh, also I would forget - you can even try to go full on Abzan elves and splash white for sideboard options like selfless spirit/Eerie interlude to counter boardwipes (Eerie interlude kinda works with shaman of the pack)

>I don't understand the appeal of this format. What makes you want to play this?

It's a meme being forced by people who started playing during M15 or Khans and are just now encountering the concept of standard rotation making their cards worthless.

Standard has already rotated three times since that time.

Jokes aside, I have no fucking clue why the fuck anyone would want this format to exist. Are there really people so nostalgic for Meme Rhino Standard that they want to bring it back? Abzan mirrors all day long? Now with an extra dose of CoCo cancer on top of it?

Previous formats came to be because they were necessary. People were desperate to have a non-rotating format that wasn't as expensive as Legacy (ironic since current Standard is more expensive than Legacy was back then). What problem is this new proposal supposed to solve? Do you think it's going to do fucking anything to the prices at all?

Also, once again: Your name is shit. "Frontier", what the fuck is that? Call it Postmodern or don't do it at all. There's literally no point to any of this unless you do that pun.

>Are there really people so nostalgic for Meme Rhino Standard that they want to bring it back?

Yes.

The japs wants it, with a different reason than what delusional poorfags think they want it though.

>delusional poorfags think they want it though.

The only poor people here are the ones playing only one format and getting anal over people playing more than one deck.

Sorry poor user, pauper is not a format however hard you scream it over the internet.

Too bad I play EDH, modern and standard mate. Hows your modern draw go/mono U tron? I heard those are solid decks for rich people.

Hasn't there been tons of talk about something like this being made for months?

Yep, and now japs are making a tournament.

I had G/B Elf Company in standard and I found that more times than not I was able to muscle in enough damage with obelisk of urd on board or shaman of the packs. The key here will be to utilize token makers like dwynen's elite to turn on convoke quickly.

Likewise with Zulaport cutthroat, boardwipes can turn lethal due to the amount of triggers you can pull off. I honestly think elves can carve a place out in the meta.

Villa Zheng is the best to buy from, you just email him. I've been using fake dual lands for legacy for almost a year now, even took them to an acg event and a gp and nobody said anything, even passed a deck check. Nothing wrong with outsmarting the system :)

>WotX jew reprint policy.

There's more in play than just WOTC, user. They aren't making money off of singles.

Bumping a dead thread for a dead format

Extended was released the same year as Legacy dipshit

So, how likely is WotC making Post-Modern an official format?

>mfw I bought a case of each set since M15.

How much is that anyway, like 6,000 dollars?

Yup.
A career in medicine, no wife, no kids, no pets and living with my grandparents.
I got a lot of cash to burn.

I don't think they like being one upped by a bunch of japs.

jesus christ bro, 100 bucks for me is a hard choice.

Jap TCG companies vomit waves of shit games each year and their one and only breakthrough came from doing the most overdue thing in MTG: Kill modern and reboot.

Filthy mooks did the one thing WotC pussied out for years. Of course they are mad.

On second thought, maybe MaRo and company planned this all along and were waiting to make it official by the end of Amonkhet block.

>tcg company
wat?
The one that's doing this tournament is an lgs, not tcg company.
Anyway even if wotc have any plans of making such format in the future, i think all of it have gone to bust due to this.

>Anyway even if wotc have any plans of making such format in the future, i think all of it have gone to bust due to this.

New borders and holographic stickers were a huge sign, user.

MaRo pretty much just said there's a 1% chance Damnation will be reprinted becuase they make a list of cards people want and WotC pushes the ones they actually want to reprint to the top of the list so we just have to wait indefinately for the rest.

cheers mate, its a little difficult adjusting, y mind went straight to collateral damage and forgot lightning strike (honestly, its a pretty good spell, hopefully they reprint it in standard soon)

Don't know if you're being sarcastic but I was there when it happened so I'm pretty fond of it

uhhh, sauce?

>The one that's doing this tournament is an lgs, not tcg company.

>hareruya

wotc aren't the ones who rely on the secondary market, dumbass

who does you ask?

all the fucking LGS and game stores that buy and sell singles for profit and wotc isn't going to shit on all of them, potentially putting many out of business to please some poor people

and? hareruya is a gaming store, not a tcg company.

Little Witch Academia.

It's not a Hentai, this is just a clever edit of a split second.