Magic: The Gathering Modern General
(competitive discussion)
Eldritch Moon card image gallery:
>magic.wizards.com
MTG Modern General
Daniel Evans
Dylan Young
The overall and paper Modern Metagame
Decklists:
>mtggoldfish.com
Modern deck primers link:
>mtgsalvation.com
Tiers are usage-based. A Tier 2 deck may be better than a Tier 1 deck in a specific Metagame.
Samuel Allen
>As another user said you need something to play before your 3 drops and it doesn't get better than a Noble Hierarch for a deck like that.
You can always just Serum Visions and Tarmogoyf. T1 fetch Visions, T2 Goyf. Congratulations he's a 2/3 that doesn't die to Bolt.
Daniel Moore
Personally I don't like Goyf in bant coco for just that reason; I really like the mana dork route, and with paths and cocos you aren't going to get much goyf fuel.
Nobles do so much work, and at the very least offer another coco target if you whiff. The exalted is way too good. Honestly the deck plays a lot like Bant Eldrazi but instead of going for stirrings/temples you go for classic creatures. There's so much good stuff going on for it, and Tamiyo, Queller, Selfless Spirit, Tracker, even Corralhelm and Reflector Mage, have given bant some nice toys. Theres even Thalia and Duskwatch as decent additions.
Unrelated but I'm surprised so many people are jamming spirits too, when tribal Humans is at it's peak.
Samuel Foster
Was there any other creature like Bloodbriar in Eldritch moon?
I'm gonna try making sac deck around that dude and possibly Rot Shambler.
Jace Wilson
If I were going the CoCo theme I would keep my creature count high and not run Serum Visions at all. The play you suggested is good but fits better in a control/midrange strategy instead.
Austin Mitchell
I was envisioning Bant Company in modern as a midrange list though. In Bant colours, 3 mana is practically midrange.
Thomas Williams
It might just be a matter of definitions. Look at Junk vs Abzan CoCo. They are both value decks (even though the second one is also a combo deck) yet they have different shells. The Junk type is what I meant with midrange - value creatures but also good removal and other stuff like discard and lili. CoCo decks just want a lot of value creatures below 4 mana and not a lot of non creature spells.
Jeremiah Brooks
For standard or modern?
For modern, go aristocrats. It does the same thing except it does right for the life total instead of combat, and it does it quite well.
For standard, you want zulaports. I like shambler but bloodbriar seems too slow. Blisterpods are sweet, relentless dead might have synergy, catacomb sifter is made for the deck, same as flip lilly. Evolutionary leap is op.
Carrier thrall and hangarback are decent, smothering abomination and nankuto husk are cool, elvish visionary is filler, fleshback is ok, duskwatch recruiter ok, primal druid is ok, a single cryptolith rights is neat
Lincoln Adams
I personally feel like Catacomb Sifters are ment for emerge.
There are better choices than them for golgari sac deck, but about aristocrats modern sac deck I never actually even considered that, althou I'd need to make more research about those since it didn't come to my mind at all.
Meanwhile reassembling skelly man + shambers + husk deck with from beyond and blisterpods is a deck I've wanted to make for quiet some time.