The Future of Midrange and Modern
Art Credit: WotC and Howard Lyon Where modern (midrange) is at Midrange isn't doing so hot in modern right now. The most successful midrange deck in the format is Mardu Pyromancer, and though it performed admirably over the last month or so, it was utterly stomped at the 25th Anniversary Pro-Tour just recently. I struggle to even call Mardu a midrange deck, to be honest. It is so grindy and gives up so much of its speed to stay in the game that it verges on what you might call "non-U control". The talk of the town at PT25A were decks that took strong stances as either combo, aggro, or control. Anything trying to be a mix of one thing or the other was sorely disadvantaged, at least in their pre-sideboard games. It seems perhaps, that this is the necessary, if unavoidable, progression of modern. In my estimation (and many a redditor's much more fatalistic estimation), the format revolves around Tron, and as it revolves it gets closer and closer to an end poi...