MTG MODERN GENERAL [COMPETITIVE FORMAT]

>Just finished my burn deck and played my first FNM
>Opponent is playing GDS like everyone else at the venue
>Opponent Fetches/Shocks/Thoughtseizes
>Sees two Goblin Guides, 2 Bolts, and a Riftbolt in my hand
>Immediately scoops and takes a round loss

>not running both ballista and triskelions
I bet your lodestones were nothing compared to the might of the kithkin meme

Thanks for the help. Yes Bravour is Prowess in german, forgott to translate sry.

Burnbros are the saviors of this format. Interactive games with a very clear and interactable gameplan, and it fights the good fight against shadowfags

For my first time playing I did pretty well, beat GDS obviously, lost to Scapeshift and some meme Polymorph into Emrakul deck, 1-2 with 4 games won is fine with me

how's normal green ramp tron doing at the moment? seems like GDS and Etron would have the edge with all the hand attack

sounds like your FMN is full of retards, GDS is favored games 2 and 3 against burn if you play correctly

Is Modern worth getting into now or should I wait and see whether DS gets banned first?

How important is cavern of souls and horizon canopy for elves?

They're not important.

It's safe to say they're the last pieces of the deck you need to buy.

>burn
>chalice
>building revolt zoo rn
>running two deflecting palms since a lot of my meta is shadow and eldrazi variants

Tron is still in a great spot. No idea what green ramp tron is sounds like a oxymoron.
sick. always wanted to try elves maybe upgrade it to combo elves eventually.

>infect
>telepathy
>elves
>running as much +4/+4 spells as legally possible with minimal evasion and the weirdest thing is that it works

i want to play moon+bridge prison buuut chandra and chalice spikes say otherwise
i just had the pleasure of slamming a turn 1 trinisphere and turn 3 rabblemaster while my goblins opponent stared at their one land

>No idea what green ramp tron i
maybe they're referring to 2016 Gx tron?

Swiftspear does not die to pyroclasm if that's the question.

I hear that from the players themselves, but I've never seen a bro lose to them while playing conservatively.

Eldrazi Temple should have been banned. Eye of Ugin wouldnt have allowed the deck to even be good.

Just ban Eldrazi Temple and Mox Opal
Make a stance on no fast mana, and no SSG doesnt count because its just a one time burst that costs a card. Opal is just another land and functionally can be a Lotus Petal if you have multiples. Eldrazi Temple is a no downsides Ancient Tomb for an extremely pushed Tribe.

I want to be the fun police.

How does Bloodghast+Prized Amalgam+Smallpox+Liliana of the Veil feel to anyone else?

Is he actually good?

I'd probably concede right there

>T1 workshops/crucible
>T2 strip mine
It wasn't that hard

Can you think of some kind of permanent that lets me sac creatures to make you sac creatures?

Hes really good but the deck hes good in right now is shoved out of the format by gay shit like Eldrazi and Death Shadows

Only if you have crucible/loam

Grave Pact

>Gay shit
Go to standard midrange safeshitfest, nobody wants fair players here

no no, I need to be able to do it on command so I can break up their creature combo pieces

I don't think I have enough room if I also want to run Negates so I can't just get rofl combo'd

I'm considering putting one instead of a thragtusk in my titanshift sideboard, but who knows

The only thing that comes to mind that actually lets you sacrifice and force the opponent to do it in a single card is voldaren pariah but grave pact with any sac outlet does it

Deaths shadow isnt a problem. Dont play a fragile deck

My friend seems to believe based on what he's seen on mtg goldfish or something that infect has gone the way of the dodo and wants to know why. I don't play modern (my area is almost all standard or legacy for some reasons) so he asked me to post here to find out why the deck is apperently dead.

git probe is dead, which was the main piece that allowed an infect deck to see if it could go all-in in one attack

everybody packs some form of graveyard hate, which shits on become inmense and there are now ways to deal with protected single attackers like blessed alliance

It used to be an all-in deck that had git probe to see if it was safe to go for the win. Probe got banned. Also deaths shadow udually pack around 8 discard spells and a ton of removal that doesent care about p/t

I might just honestly run Bone Splinters

Thanks, as a completely unrelated follow up. I was thinking of building a jeskai delver deck just because ir uses some cards I already own (swiftspear and monastery mentor) I can't really grab the snapcasters for it right now tho. I'm not stupid enough to think there is a card that can act as a real budget replacement, but is there anything decent I can throw in to fill the slot. As I said before there isn't really a modern scene here so it's mostly to play with casually. (Or suggest me anouther deck that uses those cards)

Use think twice. There's not really a good alternative though

>Gonna play casually
>Not using chink fakes
what?

Are there any good mutual discard spells other than Liliana of the Veil?

delirium skeins

You missed the word "good".

You could try a torrential gearhulk and use saheeli to spam its Enter the battlefeild ability

Smallpox

Already have 4

>tfw permabanned from SCG twitch chat for typing """emma"""

>tfw banned from wizards twitch chat for calling one person a fat ugly fuck

Which sets are going? BfZ and SoI?

Deck rate Please?

5x Plains
5x Swamps
5x Forests
1x Terramorphic Expanse
1x Sandstone Bridge
1x Fetid Pools
1x Irrigated Farmlands
1x Forsaken Sanctuary
1x Bruna, the Fading Light
1x Giesla, the Broken Blade
1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
1x Yaheeni, Undying Partisan
1x Angel of Condemnation
1x Aven Wind Guide
2x Sanitarium Skeleton
1x Scute Mob
1x Aegis Angel
1x Aetherstorm Roc
1x Aether Herder
1x Lord of the Accursed
1x Xarthrid Gorgon
1x Visier of the Menagerie
1x Desolation Twin
1x Thicket Elemental
1x Sanctifier of Souls
1x Eternal Scourge
1x Wayward Servant
1x Graf Rats
1x Midnight Scavengers
3x Anointed Procession
2x Campaign of Vengeance
1x Call for Unity
1x Divine Favor
1x Haze of Pollen
1x Sudden Spoiling
1x Erase
1x Harvest Season
1x Ironwright's Cleansing
1x Behold the Beyond
1x Dispossess
1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh
1x Oracle's Vault
1x Fabrication Module
1x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Seems fine, if you reduce your swamp, plains, and forest to 1 each and then play a bunch of other singleton lands, you can play Reno Jackson to give you +30 life.

>scg website says the modern side event is at 2:00
>show up at 1:30 to register
>those faggots got the standard and modern event times swapped on their website
How am I the only person to have been affected by this?

Cuz ur gay xD

This probably isn't going to get anywhere in modern. If you're new to MTG, you should probably convert this to standard and start there.

Tezzeret report in, not sure if i want to have Chalices maindeck or 1-drops like Serum, Thoughtseize and Push. I can't have all 3 because I need Tezz AoB to hit reasonably consistently but I could find room for a few Serum Visions to smooth out my draws.
tappedout.net/mtg-decks/13-02-17-modern-tezz/

You broke the format desu

2x Copter in Merfolk, why or why not?

Easy, not a merfolk

anyone here playing vizier knightfall? what do you think of the deaths shadow and affinity matchups?
just picked the deck up a week or so ago

How so?

Chameleon Colossus in UG Merfolk as tech against Death's Shadow ;^)

Played against someone running them in merfolk. They're pretty good.

I'm playing devoted company, which is pretty similar, and affinity is a fairly easy match up, especially post-board. DS is a bit annoying due to discard and removal, but Ewit and CoCo help a lot.

So long as your deck contains a certain core of cards, you can get away with a LOT of shit in Modern honestly. If you're playing black and your deck has Thoughtseize/Inquisition, you'll automatically do much better. BW Midrange isn't even considered a deck but a guy at my LGS is taking it to a GP and can hang and bang with good decks.

ive found assembling the combo isnt difficult but getting a wincon out by the time ive been raped by discard is the problem

trolling desu

I know you're joking, but hey, it's been confirmed there are G and UG Mefolk in Ixalan. I don't think the leaks have shown any that that are good enough for Modern, but there's still a chance UG Merfolk may be a thing in modern at some point. If UG Merfolk does become a thing, it may be interesting to see if it could incorporate CoCo.

In Devoted Company, what do you side vs Tron?

Not a CoCo player, but CoCo-ing in Fulminators is a good game plan off of dorks.

BB seems like it might be somewhat unreliable in Abzan company though, the black is really just a splash.

How about Dusk//Dawn?

New guy here, where is the best place to check for card prices?

tcgplayer mid is the standard most people use.

I'm perma banned on scg for saying a fat fuck only played type 2, like his diabetes.

For the past month I've been playing gifts storm to pretty good success and I expect people to start considering it in deck choice and boarding decisions. So I cribbed the burn list that top8'd Cincinnati and will be running that next week.

Any burnbros able to explain how to properly sideboard?

...

Honestly the only slots your really need in the sideboard are for Destructive Revs and Skullcracks. Paths, graveyard hate, Dpalms, are all nice but basically Revs are great.

A one of walking ballista is your only wincon?

Horrendous. What are you even trying to accomplish?

Yessir! Isn't Eggs beautiful?

in some classic versions a single Spellbomb/Codex Shredder was the wincon.

I got out of the game a while back but im starting up some fnm games at the lgs, I only kept one modern burn deck as I also have the cards to make it a legacy burn deck, question is;
>mono red
>naya
>boros
Whats is the best setup to run in the current meta?

Titanshift player here just play baloth over huntmaster or tusk. Your welcome

The green splash solely for destructive revelry seems odd to me. You're already in red/white, is there a good reason to run that over wear//tear?

Also I was asking for more "what non-obvious cards come in against what matches"

RW offers Boros Charm (4 damage for 2 mana) and lightning helix (6 life swing for 2 mana) as well has several good hate cards (stony silence, Rest In Peace, path to Exile, deflecting palm) in the board. Naya does give you access to atarka's command, wild nacatl and destructive revelry in the board, but I kind of find it almost winmore.

Wear/tear is good but does no damage.
For white only, battlepriest of thune (1W 2/2 etb kill enchant) and smash to smithereens are good.

Right now it's RW with a small g splash for sideboard options. However, people are starting to go back to pure RW.

The G splash also opens up a few more sideboard options. Ancient Grudge and Atarka's Command being notable off the top of my head. I'm sure there are others, too. And Destructive Revelry deals damage where Wear//Tear does not. But, they're fairly comparable to each other as far as overall gameplay is concerned. Revelry requires you play your stomping ground, netting you less life for more versatility and damage. Wear//Tear damages you less, because you should have already shocked with Sacred Foundry, is equally versatily, but doesn't deal damage.

Fair enough. Ironic that the second most worrisome enchantment we would want to kill, we actually can't.

Also
>tfw you win a close match by chalice checking your opponent and farming the salt that forms after he scoops up his cards.

>go to first pptq without any practice and without attending events since 2016
>top 4 it

Am I pro yet?

How helmet a deck did you play, and how many people?

Burn and 56 players
events don't really get too big in the city

List, but probably still helmetscrub/10

>how helmet a deck
>helmetscrub

I can't be the only one confused by what you're trying to say here. Seriosuly, what the fuck do you mean?

No, I'm confused too, but if it means what I'm assuming it means, it's pretty funny.

You remember in school there was the literal retard class? The ones that had to be escorted everywhere ever day because they'd literally forget to breathe and suffocate if not reminded?

You remember how they wore these giant blocky helmets whenever they weren't in the retard room so they wouldn't kill themselves when they fall into a locker because they can't tell when to turn?

A helmet deck is one that even those people could play and win with.

Stop trying to force autistic lingo that only you can comprehend. That's some real Chris-chan type shit

Blame /dng/ for that one.

No, actually, I don't remember those people, because I was home schooled, but I get the point. So, which decks qualify as, "Helmet Decks"? Because, the way I see it, every deck in existence can be trivialized to meet the qualifications, to the point of meaninglessness.
>slam 7 burn spells
>get 3 different lands, play Karn
>almost kill yourself, windmill slam Death's Shadow

It's a pretty meaningless insult.

>thinking any deck in modern is no skill
Found the real scrub

List was basically this mtggoldfish.com/deck/702340#paper

with
-1 arid mesa
-1 bloodstained mire
+1 Stomping ground
+1 Sacred foundry

Don't have time to practice or go to events with my job