Anyone tried replacing banana man with Soulflayer for the memes? Can it do anything fun?
Ryder Cook
Green eldrazi tron.
I got sick of doing nothing for 5 turns if I didn't get a creature. So ancient stirrings helped a lot. And turn 3 world breakers are much better than reality smashers
Juan Bell
>What are some cards you think are underused in Modern right now?
Desecration Demon.
Jaxon Lewis
You'd have to really build around it. Lots of discard, lots of (probably unplayable) creature cards chock full of keywords. Not worth it.
Hudson Sullivan
Is it worth playing and buying mtgo?
James Martinez
Depends if you have an active local scene or not.
James Cox
Not when Xmage exists not
Daniel Ross
if youre good you can make money on it so yes
Tyler Parker
Wait for magic arena
Angel Bell
this is the modern thread budddy
Daniel Lewis
>standard
Juan Hughes
do any of you actually think search for azcanta is usable in modern? I wanna know how serious modern gen is about mtg
Liam Cruz
Flip jace got played for a bit and Rhino was king for awhile, so it might.
John Gutierrez
Playing B Vamps. Hating UW control. There's a lot of net decking in my meta, so basically every deck that's placed at a PT. Building Eldrazi Tron since pieces can be hard to get hold of and I trade for fun.
Josiah Nguyen
It'll have modern eventually, just standard for the release.
Adam Phillips
How bad will it be if I try to brew up some UWB Thoptersword Stockpile deck with a bunch of aggro artifacts and Tidehollow Scullers? If I play 4 Ravagers, 3 Stockpiles and 4 Thopter I'll have a ton of sac outlets to sac Tidehollow to in response to etb. Throw in some Overseers and 3 Tezzerets and we've got a shittier affinity. Some Skirges and Signals round out my creature base and I can play Dispatch, Thoughtseize and Inquisition as interaction
Ryan Richardson
After testing it quite a bit myself, it's certainly a powerful card if you enable it properly, but it's not a huge game changer. Just another "win-con" option for control that has upsides and downsides.
Aaron Carter
Delete your last post. Also, replacing Stockpile with Bitterblossom would probably be better.
Nolan Williams
Oops, didn't even see that. Dipping in and out of wifi so posting is kinda shitty. The reason I'm interested in Stockpile is that it makes artifact tokens and is also a sac outlet for Tidehollow, Bitterblossom tokens don't get boosted by Overseer and can't be sacced to Arcbound.
Ayden Evans
Are there any cards with worthwhile effects that include sacrificing one of your own creatures? Like Bone Splinters, but preferably not completely outmoded by better cards.
Angel Collins
Just use the gatherer or scryfall and look up cards that say "as an additional cost to cast". There's actually quite a lot of cards like that, none are really played though.
Julian Morales
Look up Orzhov/Mardu Aristocrats.
Cooper James
I also saw some memey Butcher of the Horde/Pyro/Mentor lists running around with Lingering Souls and Crack the Earth, seemed cool.
Sebastian Kelly
Anyone watching SCG?
Wow how is anyone going to be able to beat the new 5 color death shadow?!
Brody Wilson
Which is the cheapest way to protect my green fat hydras from blue faggotry removal?
Kevin Williams
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Ayden Davis
Vines of Vastwood/Blossoming Defense or give them a taste of their own medicine. This is a terrible idea do not do it.
Jack Howard
underused cards or cards that I don't see in Modern for some reason >Elder Deep Fiend >Smuggler's Copter >Shrine of Burning Rage >Fevered Visions >Lone Rider >Dispatch >Madcap Experiment >Blessed Alliance >"Hunted" creatures
Mason Sanders
Shrine sees play in burn, Blessed Alliance gets put in some white sideboards. I'd love to hear your reasons for giving your opponent more draw or paying 4 mana to burn yourself for a random artifact instead of just playing Ancient Stirrings or Glint-Nest Crane.
Joseph Flores
>new Please.
Aaron Cook
I already have those (along with some gaea's revenge) but I want a way to protect my other hydras.
I was thinking about using either vines of vastwood or autumn's veil.
Nathaniel James
I've seen Shrine recently, but I don't know if it has caught on over Eidolon. Blessed Alliance seems super helpful against Aggro or Death's Shadow. Madcap Experiment has potential if one is playing Platinum Emperions as their only artifacts, since Platinum Emperior negates life loss, but I'm not so sure if it has much potential.
Jason Moore
There is no Mardu, there is only Gruul.
Sebastian Hughes
>Shrine sees play in burn No it doesn't
>EDF Hard to work witth in Modern since it's a little too slow
>Smuggler's Copter Sees some amount of play
>Shrine of Burning Rage >Fevered Visions These are way too slow for modern
>Dispatch Affinity sometimes runs this in the side and there was a popular build that used it for a hot second.
>Madcap Experiment Sees play in meme decks and blue moon.
>Blessed Alliance Sees play in some white midrange decks either in MB or SB especially bant ones.
Zachary Davis
Madcap is able to gain you a fuckload of life if you play it alongside Intervention pact. It is giving me a really great (bad) idea for a deck
Luis Price
With 5 color Humans goodstuff,
Jose James
Smuggler is the most important card of my Blue Steel. It's fantastic until you get Stony Silence'd
Oliver Barnes
Arena will be the death knell of non Standard formats, Wizards will only ever throw the peasants a Masters TM with a ton of bulk and a few money mythics and rares that drop the price $10 or so. Legacy and Modern will be outmoded, a new format based around the new border will be created to avoid all those "mistake" interactive cards like Lightning Bolt, Serum Visions, Preordain, Logic Knot and Heros Downfall. And then you can play creatures and attack and you dont have to worry about good removal, just attack and attack and occasionally block.
Brandon Lewis
Do not reply to tripfags.
Leo Kelly
Okay BOSS
don't reply to BOSS okay
Mason Carter
I'm going to be an arena player now! It's frontier!!!
Lincoln Reyes
Don't use those shits. Counterspell is the only thing to worry about. Play sets of cavern of souls and prowling serpopard.
You don't need that pussy gaea's revenge shit or shitty instant spells. Don't run anything that costs more than six or that isn't a hydra.
Blue removal that's not counter sucks ass but if you're worried about other colored removal run 2x Thrun and 4x Shaper's sanctuary.
Juan Nguyen
I didn't knew about the existence of prowling serpopards.
Adam Howard
Eldritch Evolution
Henry Baker
Sidisi's Faithful mvp unsummon variant
Landon Jackson
>tfw you opponent counters your Eldritch Evolution Never before in my life have I wanted to run Boseiju in a deck as much as I did after getting hosed that badly.
Noah White
>Playing? infect/elves I like creature combo decks. >Hating? Chalice. Of. The. Void. >Meta? Bunch of tron and fairies. >Building? 8-rack as it is a skill intensive deck that doesn't require top decking :^)
Anthony Lewis
why does he trip? does he really want to tie his shitty trash decks to his shitty trash personality on Veeky Forums for everyone to ridicule?
Cameron Martin
I feel the same everytime Cathartic Reunion is countered
Michael Gray
This humans deck and the scg open makes me really happy
Nicholas Hall
Commentary is awful but decks are great.
Henry Hall
Not memeing here, but what are the chances this card sees an unban. I think with push and the lack of cantrips it could happen.
Christopher Edwards
I'm still flabbergasted at how this deck won to begin with. Discard a random do nothing 10 cost red card that is otherwise a complete dead draw if I don't have this specific card, a red card, combat, no blockers, then I get in for 10 infect? That is like 7 steps.
Dylan Robinson
In all fairness the format had preordian and ponder and got probe to help with the draw, but now I agree. I think with how poor infect is doing and all the reasons previously stated there is a decent chance.
The only problem is that theres a stigma with turn 2 combo decks.
Matthew Richardson
I play infect and turn 2 is still very real. There is just too many decks that play fatal push or hand hate or a 1 mana creature that can just block a 10/10 infector. But if your tapping out to play hand sculpting or playing any other combo deck our advantage is super good.
Hunter Smith
>no blockers Blighted agent and inkmoth to an extent since most decks don't have flyers. The deck had probe, Preordain and Ponder as well as tutor stuff like Tolaria west and muddle mixture to protect and find pieces.
Just unban probe
Christopher Nelson
They discussed DRS as well as this general does.
Thomas Evans
What's your meta like?
I don't think that's the answer. Probe would push shadow decks so much.
Landon Thomas
>Just unban probe >[laughs in Death's Shadow]
Levi Peterson
Ban Aether Vial.
Caleb Lee
Its a mixed bag. But there is always at least one tron player.
Jason Ross
interesting. Do you play with Jace Vryn in the mb? If so what's the purpose?
Andrew Wilson
I'm a Jund and Grixis shadow player and I promise I won't play it, it's just for infect. Please unban now.
Carter Gutierrez
I don't. I've seen it previously and I don't like it. The idea is to loot into things that are good several times, if he flips, great, flash back pump spells/protection. I've played every color infect but red and white so far.
Parker Wood
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Logan Hughes
I think Bant Eldrazi benefits from 2-3 Eldritch Evolution and Sigarda in main. And then maybe more in the SB with 3cmc hate creatures instead of an assortment of hate like RIP. With EE plus hate creatures you have much better odds of turn 2 access to things like Anafenza and is much more consistent in odds than actually getting to see 1 or 2 copies of RIP.
Ethan Miller
>Just unban probe I want this so I can play RUG Delver again, but I don't know if it would make Storm and GDS too good. My guess is that GDS actually doesn't care about it too much, because they have discard to look at people's hands, and can shock themselves plenty already, but I could be wrong.
Gabriel Davis
>instant concede Does Gifts Storm not run bolt in main anymore?
Ayden Thomas
I built UW control and a friend of mine runs elves. I have a hard time playing him and I know its mostly because im bad, but i can play well against the junk/jund players, deaths shadow, hatebears, and even eldrazi tron. What do i do?
Julian Cruz
How many Verdicts are you running?
Carson Wood
Is the current modern meta too diverse?
Matthew Torres
I run 4 verdicts. He sideboards in 4 chokes though which fucks me up big time.
Grayson Campbell
>He sideboards in 4 chokes though which fucks me up big time. If he does that there's not much you can do except board in removal for his Chokes.
Owen Long
Humans out of nowhere here fucking destroying the big boogeyman
Jordan Lee
There's actually something to be said for this. I've been finding that there's such a wide range of threat types to deal with that I simply don't have the sideboard space to deal with all the decks.
Though, that might be a sign of my main deck being too shit.
John Ross
No deck should have all the perfect answers for every relevant matchup You have to sacrifice some of those perfect answers for specific for wider answers that work on more matchups Which is not negative
Lincoln Edwards
>Hunted creatures I tried to make them work awhile ago but it never really panned out.
Noah Gonzalez
Little sister wants to start coming to FNM. I need to build her a deck. Need something relatively easy that may give her a few shots at winning.
Priorities: Fun, monster centeric, easy, doesn't require too much card knowledge. .ie What to pick with throughtsize without knowing the meta.
Ryan Baker
Green stompy. If she's younger make it something Selesnya. Has the most pleasant, least intimidating artwork.
Xavier Baker
I find that in the current Meta whoever goes first just fucking wins unless the deck they are playing has a massive disadvantage or they need to mulligan more than once. I dunno about you but that sounds really shitty to me.
Angel Wilson
I would say Soul Sisters (Girls love that deck, it is a fact) but if she is new such a trigger happy deck isn't a very good idea. How good of an Onii-chan are you senpai? You taught her to remember her triggers right?
Justin Clark
bogles is the easiest deck i can think of. don't know if i'd call it fun though really though every deck requires meta knowledge. imo it's better to have her pick a deck that she's really into and jam games from there. a good way to gain format knowledge is to just jam a bunch of matches and that's way easier to do with a deck you're genuinely interested in playing/learning. that's just my perspective as someone who really enjoys the metagaming aspect of magic. baseline, make sure she knows about meta decks and what to expect from gameplay, environment, procedure, etc.
i find that whoever sideboards best against their opponent's sideboard plan has a huge advantage
consider playing proactive elements to race the decks you can't answer
i recently played against a deck that just used the ones that give 1/1s and illness in the ranks. that seems a bit better just because of the curve and how enchantments are a bit harder to kill than torpor orb, although orb hates out more things incidentally. i guess you also get more duplicates in virulent plague and like night of soul's betrayal... pic unrelated
Hunter Gutierrez
>pic unrelated Incidentally Night of Soul's Betrayal completely fucking hoses Affinity.
Robert Turner
This looks pretty fantastic desu. Cut blue. Add red/bloodmoon. Don't even need to use noble hierarchs. Ichorclaw myr. Black mamba.
Ian Ward
>night of soul's betrayal Hoses infect too. Mono-White Martyr is pretty basic. Naturally beats unfair decks through life gain. Beats burn through life gain. Beats zoo. etc.
Eli Parker
I find it pretty funny that Grixis Death's Shadow runs like, three red spells, and Temur Battle Rage is one of them, because it lets you slam kills one turn after DS.
Charles Gomez
>Naturally beats unfair decks through life gain Define "unfair" because Tron doesn't give a fuck about your life total.
Alexander Campbell
Martyr Proc gets shit on by unfair decks >hurr durr aggro decks are unfair
Julian Reyes
Nad naus. Valacute.
Anthony Martinez
Not that user, But Through the breach decks and combo like Storm and Grishoalbrand all can't do shit against Martyr pre-board
Jonathan Jenkins
have you ever played the deck, martyr auto loses game 1 against those decks. Grishoal can still fizzle to itself, not your deck in particular though.
David Butler
Lavaclaw Reaches, my BR could really use a manland, but god damn it, 3 mana to activate, for a bear with firebreathing? What the fuck wizards
Chase Parker
>martyr auto loses to storm In what fucking universe? You start the game with an extra 15 life and they can't use Empty the warrens because you just gain more life.
Isaac Allen
>saffronolives fucking shit meme decks are everywhere at the lgs >literally have to watch the shit deck videos to sideboard against these shit decks kill me already
Eli Hill
Ok first of all I'm talking about Martyr Proc, not soul sisters. Don't use retarded names like 'mono-white martyr' when that doesn't actually describe your deck at all. Secondly, storm doesn't give a shit about 15 extra life. If they're going off they can get those extra 15 casts effortlessly.
Lucas Hernandez
You cannot defeat the memes. You can only join them.
Jaxson Martin
15 extra life is 15 extra spells needed to get cast. Typically from the GY. and by that time you have the storm player dead or you found hate. JUND GREAT JUND NEVER LOSE JUND BEST DECK
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Brandon Russell
like which ones?
William Roberts
what strange build of martyr proc are we talking about? i play grishoal and the local martyr proc player agrees with me that it's almost a bye for me
how can one man generate such a huge volume of clicks and views
i suppose if you live to turn 4 and have kept their ravagers, thopters, and champion off the table