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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
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| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
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| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
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| Limited | Legal |
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| Oathbreaker | Legal |
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| Pauper EDH | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Wrap in Flames
Sorcery
Wrap in Flames deals 1 damage to each of up to three target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.
Harashiohorn on A Moment of Silence... (Modern …
8 years ago
The older sets have contributed a lot to what modern is though. Tron, and Affinity hinge upon 8-9th edition, and mirrodin block respectively. Reducing the sets available to modern is not the answer. Blood Moon, could certainly go, but honestly most of those cards help fair decks. I know that sounds strange, but a integral part of the health of formats is having "fair" decks, and for fair decks to exist there must be cards that are relatively easy to deal with (Really, you can't get a SINGLE counterspell up against that Flashfires, don't have any non-plains, and don't already have enough of an edge since your opponent spent turn four casting a single sorcery?). Powerful hate cards encourage diversity, when done right. Wrath of God, Shatterstorm, and Blood Moon, all exist in modern, but land based, artifact based, and creature based decks still endure, they just don't completely out-compete mixed content decks. If you were to remove all of the major hate cards from modern, it would turn into rock, paper, scissors between the unfair decks. Modern has answers. Powerful answers. And that is actually important to its health. Outside of Blood Moon no other cards from 8th edition alone even see enough play to be having a truly "degenerate" effect on the format. This is also part of the fun of modern, you actually not only have responses to opponents decks, you have good responses. You aren't stuck with Wrap in Flames to deal with aggro strategies in red, you get Pyroclasm. It can be punishing to be on the receiving end of these powerful hate cards, but thats the tradeoff for turn two Arcbound Ravager kills, and turn three Karn Liberated locks. In the long run decks adjust to their hate, and sometimes even completely out-compete it a-la twin. Thats part of the challenge. And that's also part of why new decks can be so powerful in modern, hate is specialized and a new idea (like eggs was at the time) can revolutionize the format, and be game changing. There isn't this same kind of incentive to brew in say legacy, where Force of Will still probably stops your new creative deck, or in standard where you sometimes just don't have an answer to the top deck, no matter how hard you try. This is modern, in all its glory.
GarrukCallerofBeasts on
Goblin Horde
8 years ago
What about Wrap in Flames? That does a little more than Sparkmage's Gambit.
