Now that the new Rakdos aggro deck has overtaken Broodscale, which definitely had a target on its back, I've been thinking that this format needs unbans because of three reasons.

1. MH3 drastically increased the power level of the format, making bans from even the MH2 era unnecessary. You saw this most recently when Violent Outburst was unbanned and the most powerful deck of the end of the MH2 era, Rhinos, failed to make a dent in the format, and Living End barely budged.

2. Modern is a full turn faster than it used to be. Whereas older cards were banned for being too good for their mana value, many of them would help keep new strategies in check.

3. Some of the colors have gaping holes that banned cards fill, most notably green and black.

What I would like to see come off the ban list:

1. Deathrite Shaman. We need main deck graveyard hate in the format given the power level of the delirium cards and how much easier it is to shove cards into the graveyard.
   
2. Ponder. Control has been in the gutter ever since MH3 and Ponder would help control decks find their cards.
   
3. Grief. Grief was not even powerful when it was banned and is great at disrupting combo decks. Vexing Bauble also exists which turns it into a liability past turn 1 or on the draw.
   
4. Artifact lands. Affinity can already dump their hand early, and modern is fast enough to be able to handle artifact lands.

Those are the four things I would like to come off the ban list that would increase the diversity of the format and help with some of the swinginess we're seeing where new strategies come up that are hard to counter.

As the title suggests, I'm an edh player who's been playing the format for a few years at this point. I've been interested in getting into modern for a while, but I don't really know the first thing about 60 card formats in mtg. I'm not really trying to win any super big tournaments so I'm not too concerned with the meta, but I was hoping to get some advice on general deck building philosophies and what a game of modern typically feels like to play.

Hi, I'm very new to modern and was looking through a couple Ruby Storm lists on Mtgtop8, because Storm is a deck that interested me. When looking through the lists, I found a couple people playing a Jund version of the deck. I was a bit confused by the card choice and tried finding out more about it online but couldn't find anything. So I thought maybe here somebody knows more about it. So I wanted to ask: Why do some people play Jund over Boros? And why are there Fatal push's in the sideboard? I can make sense of the Thoughtseize against some control players or something, but Fatal push's I don't get.

Thanks in advance for any information regarding these choices.

A month ago aspiring spike posted a video with this deck.

https://moxfield.com/decks/2H6Z2o9Xz0yJs76IlKMRPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87r6lpnxTsA&t=2551s

Now, I'm not here asking if this is an amazing perfect tier 0 deck. Obviously, this is an off-meta deck.

I'm wondering if this can be at least competitive. I like the idea of playing murktide regent, this helps build a fetch and shock collection without being too expensive.

Now onto some deckbuilding concerns and choices.

How important is Wan-Shi?

Does Frog or Bilbo have a chance in here?

Some comments mentioned running Tombstalker as a one of, how viable do we think that would be?

I’ve been working on my Mardu Energy list for a while now, and I’m curious what you guys think of my 60 rn and in how I can improve my sideboard especially since I haven’t been paying much attention to the meta shifts lately

Link: https://moxfield.com/decks/BIGhAcsoo3-CQ4mKbiOGnQ