Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Modern Staples to Born of the Gods

This is a sample of 14,412 cards that exclude basic lands and are from the last few weeks of online tournaments. I did a similar look up in November 2012, and back then the top four creatures were Tarmogoyf, Kitchen Finks, Snapcaster Mage, and Dark Confidant, in that order. Lightning Bolt topped the list back then as well.




Delver of Secrets is still a dominant creature, but not anywhere near as prevalent as back in November 2012.



Geist of Saint Traft (17) is no where near the level of dominance that it used to enjoy back in November 2012. Courser of Kruphix is the highest ranking card from Theros and Born of the Gods (26).




Poor Theros block has so far been mostly a non-entity in Modern. Master of Waves is in the (14) range.

The Scry lands have been used selectively:

Temple of Deceit 1
Temple of Enlightenment 6
Temple of Epiphany 2
Temple of Mystery 1
Temple of Silence 3
Temple of Triumph 3

Liliana of the Veil, Karn Liberated, and Ajani Vengeant are the planeswalkers found in these top ranges. Here are the others.

Ajani Goldmane 1
Garruk Relentless 2
Garruk Wildspeaker 10
Garruk, Primal Hunter 2
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad 1

All of two Thragtusks saw play, and not a single Griselbrand (although the latter is very popular in Legacy, hence the high price).