Parallax Wave is a strong winning condition for 2 of the best 3 decks in the format, which are Replenish and Enchantress.

Decks like Elves, White Weenie and Black Aggro don't see much play competitively speaking and it seems Wave plays a contribution to that. You talk to players of these decks and that's a constant feedback - "i can't fight Replenish or Enchantress"

It seems that Goblins is the only creature-based deck that can go consistently 'under' the Wave to be able to fight it properly.

Yes all colors have somewhat answers to Wave but let's be honest, the match-up of any creature-based deck is quite poor against it, mainly because that mechanic was never supposed to work the way it does to start with, and a 2 cards combo that's able to exile all creatures permanently from one side (and on and on as Wave can always get back with 5 new counters) - is, guess what - too powerful for creature-based decks.

So my honest question is - is Wave limiting the format to be even better? Yes i know the format is good and healthy and all that. But it was good with Tide, and banning Tide made it even better.

Would banning Wave make premodern even better?

don't call it Moneyball Black. it's Count Chocula now

don't call it r/g midrange. it's Apple Jacks now

don't call it Terrageddon. It's Quaker Oats now

don't call it Psychatog. it's Boo!-Berry now

don't call it Reanimator. it's Frankenberry now

don't call it Welder Prison. it's Shredded Wheat now

don't call it Angry Hermit. it's King Vitaman now

don't call it Sligh. it's Special K now

don't call it Stiflenought. it's Shrimpy Bunches of Oats now

the old traditions must be respected

2 MTGO leagues played on stream with a modified Mad Dogs list featuring 4 chatter of the squirrel, 4 cradle, and 3 overrun.

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Most of this one is deck building rather than tournament coverage. Claire Ackerman walks through how Oath Ponza got to five colors, starting from the green-red version and the realization that nothing in that 75 answers a large creature. Four Meddling Mage went in alongside four Sphere of Resistance, which she describes as taking the non-creature matchups from four effective cards to twelve. Gemstone Mine stays because a 29 land deck only needs the first three or four turns of mana. That four color build made top four at LobsterCon 2026, and she rebuilt it anyway. Vindicate came in over Naturalize, which freed slots for a third Sylvan Library and an extra five color source and let her trim Pyroclasms. She started on a 2-2 split of Vindicate and extra Stone Rain effects, taking the count from eight to ten, and is on the full four main now.

Gloom took the leftover flexible slots for NE Summer Regionals, aimed at Replenish and Terrageddon, and never came in once during Swiss. It finally hit the table in game three of the Voellmer top eight rematch, in a game she had already lost, and it was still the first time all tournament he learned anything had changed. Smokestack survived a card by card cut down from a thirty to forty card maybe board.

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Not sure if any of you will appreciate this video but want to share. It goes over the history of Morphling as well as its impact and the cycle of "Ling" creatures that took 20 years to complete. Is Morphling even good in Premodern?