Daniel Bamford

Preferred Format: Modern

About:

Daniel, also known as MTG Tavern on YouTube, has been playing MTG since Khans of Tarkir. A well-known Modern Living End player, Tavern is probably most well known for being the creator of many jank decks such as Mono Red Living End and Sliver Prison.

Outside of MTG, Tavern is a videographer and passionate about the fact that mango and cherry are by far the best tasting fruits.

Magic

VIDEO: Top 5 Decks That Might Return to Modern

Daniel Bamford | 2021-03-16

With the dust settling from the recent bans, the Modern metagame is starting to take shape. With Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath and Simian Spirit Guide gone, there is a lot of space for some older decks to make a comeback. MTGTavern takes a look at what could happen.

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VIDEO: Top 5 Cards New Players Think Are Amazing but Aren't

Daniel Bamford | 2021-03-11

Every Magic the Gathering player was new to the game at some point. Whether that be 2021, or when the game first started in 1993. But no matter when someone was first introduced to the game, they always thought that certain cards were broken, only to go on to figure out that actually those cards were terrible.

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VIDEO: Every Kaldheim Commander Ranked From A-E

Daniel Bamford | 2021-02-16

Kaldheim is finally here! This set has some of the most unique mechanics we have ever seen attached to a legendary creature. A new Doubling Season, a discard commander that steals permanents and a leader that turns excess burn damage into a win condition.

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VIDEO: What the Hell Happened to Pioneer

Daniel Bamford | 2021-02-15

Just over one year ago, Pioneer was the fresh and new Magic format that everyone was excited about. Showing promise of a return to the golden age of Khans of Tarkir Standard, Pioneer gave us hope of being able to play some of our favorite cards from recent memory again.

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VIDEO: Force of Negation – a Mistake, or Modern's Savior?

Daniel Bamford | 2021-02-09

Force of Negation has seen a sharp rise in play since its printing in Modern Horizons. However, Modern players seem to be split on whether the card is good or bad for the format. Today, MTGTavern is analyzing whether Force of Negation is the savior of Modern or one of its biggest mistakes.

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VIDEO: Every Card on the Modern Ban List Ranked

Daniel Bamford | 2021-02-08

The Modern ban list is a scary place where dark memories of the format's broken past come back to haunt us. However, there is no doubting some cards are a little more broken than some of the others. In today's list video, MTGTavern grades every card on the modern ban list from A-E.

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VIDEO: These Modern Creatures Will Not Be Cheap for Long

Daniel Bamford | 2021-02-06

With a huge change in Modern meta over the past few weeks and good recent reprints, Modern is a format that has seen some staple creature cards recline in price. However, these cards will almost certainly go back up in price when paper Magic returns in 2021.

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VIDEO: Top 5 Cards in Modern That Should Never Be Unbanned

Daniel Bamford | 2020-11-21

There are currently 41 cards on the Modern ban list. While we can have a discussion about some cards that we might be able to take off the list, there are some that should never come off. Today we discuss the top 5 cards which should absolutely never be unbanned.

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VIDEO: Top 5 Expensive Lands You Could Have Bought for Pennies!

Daniel Bamford | 2020-10-17

Good lands in Modern have never been cheap. However, in recent years some lands that were once cheap are now very expensive. Today MTGTavern looks at five lands printed in sets like Time Spiral or Avacyn Restored that you could have, like in one case, bought for the price of a Burger but instead now you have to pay much more!

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