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Here's something I've never understood as far as tournament rules go, why allow infinite activation loops? A player should be rewarded for the interaction that infinitely looping activations create, but they shouldn't be allowed to use an arbitrary value, so why not 2? Double value for using the combo, but it makes them fair.

That aside, I like the diversity of the decks in the top8, and even though I like to play active-control, with little to no regard for metagaming, many of the decklists look rather fun to get paired against (yes, even the deck that has a god-hand of Emerakul on t2). To be honest, I see this as a sign of success in the larger-than-usual banlist because it means the "Control is King" troupe took a massive kick in the pants. Hopefully as the format gets more comfortable with itself and slows down the balance will be restored (since obviously a Rock went 5-0 on day 1, which means the format isn't oppressively fast)

Sep 4, 2011 -- 6:17AM, av.313 wrote:

It's hard, no impossible actually to take seriously someone who thinks FoW is bad for Legacy and Vintage.  Doubt you find any player of these formats, Pro or otherwise who'd agree with you.

Well to be fair, FoW was a "bad card" once upon a time (mind you, it was compared to Mana Drain ), because it was hand disadvantage, until the game matured and by 2005 ("Type 1.5" aka Legacy is born) most people thought that the entire game was based on hand-advantage to make powerful combo finishes (to be fair though, the atrocious post-Scourge Onslaught standard, Mirrodin standard and Kamigawa standard didn't lend much against this.) But as far as SCG and GP/PT Legacy goes, FoW or GTFO tends to be the rule of thumb Will Modern be fine without FoW? Certainly.

Sep 4, 2011 -- 9:03AM, Lunari_ wrote:

Sooo... Sjöblom starts 12-0, is #1 on the standings for the whole day 2, only gets one feature match and doesn't get shown AT ALL in the top 8 webcast.

Does the coverage team have any idea what they are doing?

Showing the US players was more important to them. I don't like it either, but I wasn't expecting anything else.