Where did I say I identified as white ? You can ' t even keep track of your own words let alone mineI know it is hard for white people to believeNice try you racist . <| sep |> I mean , he took one line from their announcement there is no evidence that it was used so heavily . Let ' s look at the announcement , shall we ? Antonio Del Moral Len won Pro Tour Fate Reforged playing Splinter Twin , and Jelger Wiegersma finished third Splinter Twin has won two of the four Modern Pro Tours . Splinter Twin reached the Top 8 of the last six Modern Grand Prix . The last Modern Grand Prix in Pittsburgh had three Splinter Twin decks in the Top 8 , including Alex Bianchi ' s winning deck . Decks that are this strong can hurt diversity by pushing the decks that it defeats out of competition . They can also reduce diversity by supplanting similar decks . For instance , Shaun McLaren won Pro Tour Born of the Gods playing this Jeskai control deck . Alex Bianchi won our most recent Modern Grand Prix playing a similar deck but adding the Splinter Twin combination . Similarly , Temur Tempo used to see play at highlevel events but has been supplanted by Temur Twin . We considered what one would do with the cards from a Splinter Twin deck with Splinter Twin banned . In the case of some Jeskai or Temur , there are very similar decks to build . In other cases , there is KikiJiki as a replacement . In the interest of competitive diversity , Splinter Twin is banned from Modern . So , the first problem was that it had been putting up results consistently over a long run . The second , and it looks like bigger , problem was that other decks that showed up were then showing up as that deck Twin , meaning that Twin was always just the best version of any deck playing U and R . The post itself is meaningless , because the big conclusion is based on an assumption of what the metagame would look like with Twin unbanned that is complete assumption and one that I think shows an extreme lack of understanding of why the metagame was what it was when Twin was legal . So the point of this post may be Twin performed as expected at GPP , but then drawing the conclusion based on that , if you reintroduced it , it would be expected to do much worse is so faulty as to render the whole exercise meaningless .