>Whats your favorite 2 drop card? are you fucking kidding me
Robert King
Ban Lightning Bolt
Jackson Nguyen
Are you being ironic or just stupid?
Adrian Stewart
Anybody here have experience with taking turns? I'm trying to stick to the mono-blue version but the linear aggro decks are pretty impossible to beat.
I've seen some sideboard cards like sun droplet to deal with these matchups but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas for the mainboard. I'm so desperate I'm looking at this thing.
My cards for the matchup are two gigadrowse, four exhaustion, two cryptics to tap them down, and one spell snare and two remands to keep their board clear. Sideboard has two grafdiggers for dredge, two recall for affinity, two sun droplets, and another pair of gigadrowse and remands.
Eli Russell
turnsfag here, if there's hyperaggroshit try mainboarding a snapback if it's burn, mainboard fountains, if it's infect consider dismember or something like it. if it's BTE zoo stuff, a sb whiplash trap can be sweet
Jonathan Thompson
Hmm, snapback would be good against zoo and anything else without haste/equipment. Good idea, user.
I actually think sun droplet is enough against burn but what do I know.
Joshua Wood
>favorite 2 drop card
Grim Flayer
Absolutely love the fucker in Junk.
>trigger allows me to dump rhinos and other fun stuff against Living End >allows to find silver-bullets in most matchups if he connects >easy as fuck to have him be a 4/4 >trample
Ryder Hughes
For a non-B deck's sideboard, what are some huge cards that Thoughtseize hits that Inquisition doesn't, that you absolutely need to be hitting turn 1 or early on?
I can buy two foil Inquisition for the price of two Thoughtseize, and most of the shit I'm trying to hit with Thoughtseize will just cost me 2 life and still be hit by Inquisition.
Anthony Jackson
Anything with delve, which coincidentally are usually creatures you can't push.
Any tron win-con.
It's also a better top-deck than inquisition because if they have anything relevant in hand and can't cast it in response to your discard spell, then thoughtseize can grab it.
Eli Perez
W-w-whatever, I didn't want to bling my sideboard out anyway, b-baka!
Joshua Myers
It's okay, user, my shitty fairies deck has to run just inquisition and it's sometimes enough.
Lucas Edwards
How're those Blitterblossoms treating you
Thomas Barnes
>bitter bosoms
Camden Mitchell
Awful, desu, I'm going more for a control build and its simply inadequate. I'm constantly digging for answers to what the other guy is doing and hoping it all works out. If I win, it's either from a lili ultimate or manlands, not the fairies.
I picked it up hoping the matchup against DS would make it competitively viable (it's my first real modern deck) but the other matchups are so horrible I can't recommend it. I'm probs gonna go back to the drawing board and make a tempo deck more for fun than competition.
Grayson Murphy
Favorite 2-drop is hard.
I love Scooze. I don't play Affinity but fucking love Ravenger for what it does. Love Bloodghast. Love Silvergill Adept.
Jonathan Long
Is Jeff Hoogland's new Saheeli deck good or is it just another one of his memes?
Michael Flores
>is winning on turn 4 a meme idk ask yourself
Hunter Thompson
How resilient is it to disruption? Or tron?
Brandon Miller
GW Saheeli decks can win turn 3
Jaxon Parker
Goldfish numbers don't mean shit, niggers. When's the last time you saw Affinity or Storm ACTUALLY close the game out on turns 3-4.
Carson Wilson
>playing Amulet >hating Only drawing bouncelands >brewing Thinking of trying the Amulet/Breach deck >Favorite 2-drop Explore I guess? Amulet doesn't really run other 2-drops.
Caleb Murphy
Like a week ago when I last played modern I guess. If you include videos of other people playing, yesterday.
Alexander Butler
>uninteraction: the format
Chase Scott
Sorry user, you'll have to take your shitbrew back to the kitchen table, modern is a competitive format
Juan Ross
>When's the last time you saw Affinity or Storm ACTUALLY close the game out on turns 3-4. i lost to infect turn 3 twice on Saturday
Grayson Roberts
When's the last time I saw storm win on turn 4? Is that a serious question?
Elijah Watson
pretty resilient. since you're going off two different ways. One way is through beats, which builds board presence, and then you combo out of nowhere when your opponent runs out of resources.
And there's reports of people getting winning records and beating some top decks. Except tron. Tron still beats the shit out of it
Luke Peterson
Well it's got 3 land hate cards. Seven if you count evolution for some reason.
Wyatt Campbell
>he lets storm go off on turn 4 games 2-3
Play a better deck dawg.
Charles Rogers
I am having a hard time understanding storm. It doesnt seem to combo off as consistently as other combo decks ive played like ad nauseam or amulet titan. A lot of time, the combo just gets disrupted game 1 and I am more reliant on the sideboard plan to win.
What am I doing wrong? Would I be better off playing dredge instead?
Ian Davis
>herp derp opening hands against mystery opponents are always bulletproof
Lucas Davis
>games 2-3 >mystery opponent
What do you do, scoop before your opponent even drops a land every game 1?
Juan Myers
You need to splash black for fatal push (2 main, 2 side) and have white leylines
Luke Foster
>implying this pile of shit will win turn 4
Ian Wood
With the exception of GB decks my average turn to kill with storm is ~3.7 and games 2-3 my sideboard makes jund very unhappy.
Parker Bailey
>Favorite two drop Pic related
>Playan Ad naus, as usual. Deck is still good but not great.
>Brewing Something with blood moon, maybe blue red delver. Not a control deck since blood moon out of control decks doesn't actually beat tron.
David Taylor
And yet you have zero 5-0's or GP top 8's, funny how that works.
Lucas Foster
>And yet you have zero 5-0's or GP top 8's, funny how that works. I don't pay for fake cards, and there's rarely a GP close enough it's worth going to, funny how that works. Unfortunately I have a real job so attending GPs far away is a pain.
Adrian Ortiz
good thing I am not storm, and storm does have many GP top 8s.
Austin Martinez
Gifts lets you be a lot more resilient than ad naus or titan, and the seven make creatures give you a lot of redundancy. How are people disrupting you? The deck can usually fight through 1 or 2 discard or removal spells, it's only stuff like rip or a bunch of 1 mana counters that tend to give it fits
Xavier Watson
Guy interested in mardu pyromancer back again; what kind of build would you anons suggest? It seems the basics are 4 reveler, 4 looting, 4 souls, 4 pyro, 4 bolt, 7 seize/inq, and then a bunch more removal scattered throughout a la dreadbore and terminate. How should i figure a more exact list?
jfc, i just had a look at the arena forums and not a single black deck is running duress. is this why we have so much whining about blue? are the majority of players just bad?
Carson Ward
Just cast gifts ungiven go get desperate pyretic manamorphos past in flames and if you can't figure out how to kill them from there then I dono what to tell you yuh brainlet
David Butler
Can I build a decent Modern Zombie deck out of the previous Standard block Zombie deck? What would I need to add?
Samuel Young
>Playing Ad Nauseam and B/W Tokens >Hating Infect >Brewing No idea really, I have been looking into G/R Tron and Titanshift but so far undecided >What's your favorite 2 drop card Bitterblossom
Jordan Collins
Storm has zero 5-0's? 5-0 can occur in a field of 36
Charles Fisher
>Duress when Thoughtseize and IoK exists
lmao, poorfags
Cameron Foster
You can build whatever shit pile you want annon just don't for a minute think zombie tribal will be "decent"
Juan Roberts
Can Descendant's path be a budget replacement for CoCo in WG Allies?
Eli Brooks
No
Jace Jenkins
>a deck has 5-0 and I play that deck therefore I can talk shit on Veeky Forums
Lol
Zachary Phillips
>you haven't personally 5-0'd with storm so it's not a good deck
Matthew Hernandez
>you like playing solitary, so storm is a good deck
Landon Torres
Kek, implying modern has any interactivity
Jace Harris
>what's your favorite 2 drop card Pic related Brother, you need AT LEAST 4 gigadrowse in the main board. Check out my list: tappedout.net/mtg-decks/25-02-16-taking-turns/ Aggro is generally not a problem. The sideboard deals with Infect. The hardest matchup is hand disruption. If I can't draw into a howling mine/dictate before Jund drops Liliana, I suffer. With a draw engine out, I shrug at Liliana. As a general rule of thumb, if I survive until 5 islands and a draw engine out and a timewalk on hand, I can't lose.
Nicholas Ross
I just bought another MM17 box for €220, it'll arrive in about a week cause stupid wire transfer.
I just wanna open a pack fresh Liliana, I don't care about losing money. Anything else I pull is a plus.
Daniel Morris
My wincons.
Ryan Sullivan
You could try something like 4 caverns of souls and 3 aether vial. Those are the biggest investments for any tribal deck. From there you can easily get rid of your zombies and play a real tribal deck later on if you wish.
Parker Russell
So just no then. I liked my Crypbreakers and Relentless Deads, but I guess I'll just box them. I'll just stick with my Selesnia Humans for tribal.
Gabriel Rogers
A couple friends convinced me to rebuild Esper Tezzeret, with the addition of Whir of Invention and other revisions. I'll see whether or not I like whir after I test it on modo. R8 tappedout.net/mtg-decks/02-01-18-esper-tezzerator/
Connor Butler
>playing Grixis Death's Shadow, and I make no apologies. >hating Tron honestly. It forces the format to be more uninteractive because you have to scramble to beat the 3 mana 6/6 with deathtouch and lifelink. >brewing Nothing but I wouldn't mind playing an actual good old fashioned Bolt Snap Bolt tempo deck. Problem being that El Goyfo isn't good enough anymore, and Death's Shadow makes Delver look overcosted.
William Mitchell
>No Pentad Prism Nibba please you can make two mana then tap it when casting Whir. >No Lotus Bloom NIBBA PLEASE WHIR LITERALLY FETCHES A BLACK LOTUS
Adrian Bailey
>Tron forces the format to be more uninteractive because of a 3 mana 6/6 with deathtouch and lifelink >versus a 1 mana 13/13
Carter Garcia
A 1 mana 12/12 You mean
Jonathan Martin
>Burn vs. death's shadow
Nolan Roberts
Other X get +1/+1 uncommon lords got spoiled for both Vampires and Merfolk in Rivals of Ixalan Both 2 CMC
Also red 2/2 again
Good?
Aiden Price
>Daring Buccaneer? Pirates is a legit tribe in Standard and it will be a strong 1-drop in Standard. The last time I checked, pirates was nowhere close to becoming a legit tribe in Modern, and this one card won't be enough to change that.
Charles Turner
Silvergill Scryer
Brayden Morgan
Killing creatures before I can combo or in g2/g3 having answers to the goblin plan. There are also the games where I cant seem to draw the combo.
Thats not the problem. I know how the deck is supposed to combo.
Jeremiah Butler
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Benjamin Williams
>Whats your favorite 2 drop card? Glint-nest Crane. It's one of the better tutors in my dumb Whir-crane-mage deck.
3 mana make 3 mana, sure is good. ill try it for powering other whirs or casting tezz while having removal up we thought about it, im testing on modo now, will try it at some point
Alexander Martinez
Why is second sunrise banned?
Connor Kelly
Maybe splash white for boardwipes?
Ayden Rivera
Why no whir or AoB tezzie? also i personally think esper Tezzerator could be a legitimate deck if Stoneforge mystic was unbanned
Sebastian Ramirez
How do you guys think this guy looks for modern? Seems like a good 1 of in midrange
Alexander Ortiz
>Why no whir It has 4 whirs. You might have missed them. >Why no Agent I agree his +1 would be amazing in this deck, which is why Glint-nest is in the list, but i feel the rest of his abilities are just not good in this list. His -1 is really only good with Darksteel, as it makes my Thopter Foundries vulnerable to creature removal such as Push and turns off the Sword's ability to equip to things. His ult wouldn't constantly close out games either in this list. He'd only ever kill my opponent once I have the combo online, but I feel Time Sieve fulfills that purpose a lot better. Tez requires me to +1 him and keep him from getting hit for a turn, while TS is tutorable, hit by my dig effects, and costs less mana to get on the board.
>Esper Tez with stoneforge I think that would be very interesting but I'd say it would suffer some of the issues I mentioned above. I do think SFM would make this deck a lot better, or any Thopter/sword list for that matter. I'd want them to reprint her before they make her legal again though.
He is extremely fair for his mana cost, thus making him unplayable in modern due to fair 5 mana plays being too slow. Maybe if he doesn't die he'll get printed again as some pushed 3 mana or 4 mana walker. Maybe shows up in some weird RB skred list.
Matthew Edwards
Should I start playing storm or dredge?
Sebastian Harris
Storm will always be strong, so now that Past in Flames and Gifts were reprinted it's a nice time to pick up pieces. Dredge is a lot more meta dependent, so unless you really love that game play I wouldn't build it right away. Now's a good time for it at least, sense W decks are weak and relics are seeing less play.
William Wilson
How much of a degenerate do you want to be? Do you want to >mill yourself wile building a massive board-presence or >play a bunch of spells then play one spell that garuntees that Your opponet would be ded
Does arena allow side bordering? Are matches just 1 ofs or nah.
Jayden Davis
Do you wanna win more often? Play storm. I personally think Dredge is funner.
Julian Howard
But tell me user, aside from budget; Why would you run Duress over Thoughtseize or Iok?
Joshua Collins
Arena is only Ixalan block constructed right now dumbass
Isaac Russell
One may want to play Duress over Thoughtseize in Modern if Burn is heavily featured in one's local meta. That's the only one I can think of.
Eli Cox
Did tropical fish fail testing? With the new two drop lord and double explore lady will that change?
Liam Flores
What are you going to cut? The mono-blue lords? Master of Waves? And is the change good enough to warrant fetching for UG lands, with the life loss involved?
Eli Stewart
I plan to play him in a deck running Greater gargadon, so I can sac their big creatures off the -3, get at least a little unfairness
Jackson Cook
You cut phantasmal image, master of waves and any mainboard removal.
Some versions played fastlands, Caverns and Unclaimed Territory. Not sure how worth it would be since you basically lose out on any noncreature green card to run. Only really a sideboard problem.
Brody Peterson
>Arena talk >In a Modern thread
Sebastian Nguyen
Isn't this card very good for Pauper or am I retarded?
Alexander Roberts
My LGS has no Mox opals for a week now and I wanna build affinity dammit!
Speaking of which, what is the superior version? Red or Blue? I'm leaning towards red because of personal preference.
Levi Ward
Card disadvantage. Try telling that to a delver player.