>Thread question Do you play any offbeat cards that aren't often run in the stock version of your deck? If you do, what are you running and why? Alternatively, do you run drastically alternate versions of decks, like a Bant spin on Bogles, or a Mardu version of Burn?
consider a couple of fight spells and a couple more rhonas
Caleb Wood
Seems pretty standard desu. I'm not really sold on Ghalta though, seems really win-more to me. Though I guess it's really just replacing tuskers or something, which have never really been that great. Fog seems bad, I'd rather have more Finks or even straight up lifegain like Life Goes On in the sideboard. Might want to find some room for some Graveyard hate as well. Overall I think your list is fine though.
Landon Cooper
>Do you play any offbeat cards that aren't often run in the stock version of your deck? If you do, what are you running and why?
I'm considering Loam in 8Rack, it gives me a better control/grind matchup and green gives me Golgari Charm.
Jonathan Howard
>Playing U-Tron >Hating Any green tron >Brewing BW aristocrats featuring Rally the Ancestors. While the deck can win out of nowhere with double zulaport/blood artist into Rally the Ancestors, it feels so clunky without the combo like some sort of bad tokens deck. I dont want to splash green Im autisticand want it to remain BW. I already added Smuggler's Copter
>Thread question I run MD Batterskull in U-Tron because I need an earlier Wurmcoil as life buffer against aggro. It's quite ok when it comes out, else I just depend on Warping Wail. Intuition is also a good digging spell.
Luis Torres
adding green for coco is good stuff my man
Jayden Ross
Consider Savage Punch/Setessian Tactics. Also Rhonas is alright, you can also try Obstinate Baloth and Feed the Pack in the SB. The former shits on BGx and burn, the latter cripples burn especially if you have a board and theyre trying to sneak in the last 2 burn spells
Elijah Clark
>No Unravel the Aether/Deglamer Enjoy your wurmcoils
Henry Fisher
Is U tron actually any good? I despise tron but the call of getting to play wurmcoils, sundering titans and most importantly Thirst and Condescend gets me rock hard
Jacob Cox
Wouldn't that just be a loam rock deck? But go for it, let us know how it works out.
Kayden Ramirez
U Tron is in the fringe between meme and viable. It pops up in top 32s every now and then and absolutely shits on Jund/Junk but folds hard to aggro. As opposed to normal tron or eldrazi tron, U Tron is more of a durdly toolbox control deck than an actual ramp deck. It doesnt assemble the lands fast but it will dig for it while simultaneously denying your play. It's biggest strength is that its highly flexible in the artifacts it uses. Its unconventional wincon in Platinum Angel surprise and Mindslaver lock is also inevitable
Ethan Edwards
I know people who have tried it with varying success. I'll try it on XMage after work and share my results.
Hudson Peterson
>Durdly toolbox Sounds like my jam, i've been playing my shitty tezz brew so toolbox artifacts that fold to aggro are nothing new.
Zachary Russell
It's okay. Definitely not as competitively viable as the ruthlessly efficient green variant but that's just the nature of trying to play a control deck in Modern. If you know your stuff the deck is completely serviceable, and if you like playing counterspells and then slamming a wincon you'll have fun with it.
Evan Morales
I was considering fight spells, not sure what I would replace.
>Ghalta though, seems really win-more to me I don't feel like she's win-more because you can get her out even with mediocre board states that you probably weren't going to win and go over the top of blockers you wouldn't be able to with a pumped baloth. She's also immune to ugin because her cmc is so fat, doesn't mind if the rest of your board dies like rhonas does, all your pump spells are mana reducers for her, can't be bolted or fatal pushed, just countered, exiled and sac'd.
>Fog seems bad I feel like it's effective in damage races when you are trading swings, or when you know your opponent is just looking for one big 20 damage swing like merfolk with island walk. They spreading seas and swing, you fog then swing back. What would you suggest I sideboard instead?
>I'd rather have more Finks or even straight up lifegain like Life Goes On in the sideboard I've got 2x pulse of murasa, they're great but 3 cmc, Life Goes On is 1 cmc, think I might switch them out.
>room for some Graveyard hate as well You don't think that maybe 4x dryad militants and 2x scavenging ooze are sufficient grave hate on their own? They're even mainboarded.
U Tron is best against a field of combo/control decks. Against a field of aggro it tends to have an extremely rough time. Spatial Distortion and Warping Wail gave it some decent cheap colourless mana removal spells to handle aggro matchups a little bit better now. What said about it being a durdly toolbox control deck is correct. This is a deck that plays the super long game because it has the best wincon that can generally win through any board state(Mindslaver lock).
U Tron was better positioned when Jund and Twin were super popular decks, it was a good choice against those decks.
David Garcia
i think a source of haste can be enough to win a game for him in the right deck.
Connor Young
>tfw half-built and then abandoned a UTron deck about a year ago >even flipped some of the pieces (not even sure which aside from one of my two Chalices) Should I bother trying to remake it? I lost the decklist that I was using anyways, but trying to rebuild and remake it sounds sort of neat.
xmage a couple of games and decide if it's worth the effort to make it in paper
Jordan Foster
Fair points on Ghalta, I'll give her a shot next time I play the deck. >You don't think that maybe 4x dryad militants and 2x scavenging ooze are sufficient grave hate on their own? They're even mainboarded. Absolutely not. Dryad Militant doesn't stop Dredge or Living End and Scooze is too mana-hungry for serious graveyard hate unless you grind out to the midgame. I run the exact same split and I still run a pair of Tormod's Crypt in the side (which should probably be Grafdigger's Cage's to hose CoCo decks as well, I'm just cheap/lazy). Dismember is instant speed and doesn't require you to have a fat creature down, it's a lot more reliable than fight spells.
Matthew Hall
Personally I keep atleast 1 modern deck that represents a particular type of gameplay. You can try to simulate the deck, but UTron is unique in what it does in Modern. There's really no comparable feeling to fetching Mindslaver with Treasure Mage, cracking it and then saying "Upkeep, activate Academy Ruins targetting Mindslaver" and then playing and cracking it again.
Jaxson Phillips
that's p spicy I like it think I'll run it on EnT against removal heavy decks
Cameron Young
>should I bother trying to remake an awful trash deck that loses to most other decks
Luis Morales
Everything is viable on the FNM tables.
Benjamin Price
>Thread question I'm not sure if it's too out-there but people do sometimes question it: I run a one-of Polukranos in Green Devotion to help my matchup versus all of those token decks I play against all of the time and definitely not because he's a pet card.
Kevin Young
I made a joke I thought was pretty creative in the last thread, and it didn't even get acknowledged. Not only that, but it was so dependent on context that it might not come up again. I'm honestly a bit crestfallen. Thanks for reading my blog, please remember to like and subscribe.
I think I saw it and thought about replying but didn't.
Evan Gutierrez
Wizards will reprint it but only at the Premium Mythic Rare Foil Masterpiece Series Modern: Please Buy Standard Packs rarity.
Ayden Wright
Why don't they just reprint modern staples as rares in regular blocks.
Jackson Diaz
Could you imagine how much Death's Shadow or Chromatic Sphere would impact Standard? Please think of the players user.
Leo Bell
I probably saw it but I'm not a +1'ing faggot. Then they should print more powerful stuff in Standard, easy peasy. For the past few years Standard has been more Kamigawa than Mirrodin or Ravnica.
Gavin Edwards
Man I have to go back to MTG. Gotta use that Golemancer deck a bit. I have cards from New Phyrexia, are those still Modern?
Alexander Kelly
Get out while you can.
Dylan Robinson
Yes. A lot of cards in NPH are busted as well
Landon Edwards
They really have no excuse for not reprinting the Modern staples that don't wreck Standard.
Modern is nonrotating and includes everything from Mirrodin block onwards (except banned shit and supplemental sets that were never Standard legal like Conspiracy).
Joseph Moore
What the retards here won't tell you is the 99.9% of your entire collection is not playable in Modern because they simply aren't good enough cards.
William Kelly
Best acronym but also worst acronym. 99.9% of one's collection isn't playable in Standard
This is bait, right? >Deaths Shadow Mediocre without fetches, shocks, thoughtseize and street wraith >Chromatic Sphere 1 mana to draw a card and fix mana isn't gonna get jammed in every deck, it's a niche card for decks that wanna play a bunch of powerful colorless lands and still dig with colored spells.
Michael Barnes
Are you actually retarded?
Eli Sanders
A mana dork at 1 is too powerful user! We couldn't stop Richard "PhD" Garfield I have no idea how to create a catchy nickname at 3am from putting it in Dominaria, but we're damn sure never gonna have it happen again! THINK OF THE NON RAMP PLAYERS!!!!
Levi Bailey
Mmmmm... I don't usually play tournaments anyway.
John Reed
Elves are back in Dominaria, apparently.
Colton Morgan
I know, read the middle of the post again. Unless you didn't know.
Jack Kelly
I blame being tired for my illiteracy
Chase Lewis
Then why care about format?
Liam Fisher
It happens.
Jaxon Jackson
Odds of MTG Arena going open beta or relatively open when the NDA lfits on thursday?
Camden Roberts
0
Anthony Watson
If I’m playing Atarka’s Command in burn, I probably want 2 stomping grounds, right?
Matthew Diaz
You'd also need Sacred Foundries too down the line for Boros Charm, but to answer your question, yes you do need Stomping Grounds
John Anderson
Well yeah nigga. But do I want more than 1 that I see in most AC-less burn lists?
Wyatt Nguyen
Revolt zoo. I run rancor in the main with Boros charms. Lgs has a ton of anger of the gods and goyfs, which makes my cards work well.
Adam Ramirez
1 is enough. 2 if you're paranoid or something. Generally you'd encounter situations where you need to cast Atarka's Command and a Destructive Revelry for the win.
Anthony Baker
What is the most high IQ, high tier deck in modern? Something that's strong but lets me go "Hm, that really makes me think."
Oliver Nelson
Bogles
Nolan Johnson
haha anyone have a picture of gabby Spartz ass haha
Leo Thompson
>thread question I run a Turns list without all the cute utility and Snapcaster Mage shenanigans, with pure emphasis on ramming the combo in as balls deep as possible. Telling Time is an odd card compared to Cantrips, but I use Telling Time to set up Miracle triggers for Temporay Mastery. Gigadrowse is a powerhouse that can not only tap creatures, but also tap out opponent's lands the turn before I combo off. Boseiju in the sideboard wins matches against control decks. I've found that a singleton Emrakul in the sideboard is required to win against mill decks, which is the only deck I found myself consistently losing to. tappedout.net/mtg-decks/25-02-16-taking-turns/
He is right tho. Both of these cards only work because synergies. You should have picked examples of cards that are good no matter what like snapcaster or bob
Hudson Peterson
How good are elves right now ? Do I really have to go golgari or can I just play mono green with Craterhoof as wincon ? Also, does the new 5/4 elf in dominaria has a place in this deck for its stats alone ?
Anthony Stewart
Under the radar. Strong too. Mono green is fringe tier 3-tier 2. The second color is necessary for it to be syrong due to the access to sideboard cards. GW usually runs the Devoted Druid-Vizier combo, BG runs Shaman of the Packs. 2nd best tribal deck right now next to humans. Mileage may vary in tron dominated metas
Tyler Kelly
What's the wincon in GW elves ? Make infinite mana for craterhoof fetch ?
Dylan Lopez
How difficult is to play Infect in the current meta? I have an almost complete deck laying around from its glory days
Infinite mana into chord of calling for Ezuri Renegade Leader/Mirror Entity
Austin Clark
Kills a bunch of eldrazi and gurmag, which is cool. I don't know if it'll be good enough to replace Push slots, but maybe a 2/4 split of 4 pushes. Terminate is better in decks that play red of course. Seems pretty bad with Push and Brutality running around. A resolved Brutality for kill your dude take a pump spell is pretty rough.
Easton Baker
so since jund prices are high right now I was thinking of selling some of the stuff I have that jund wants.
I have 2 ravnica bobs 2 cliffs 2 collective brutality 2 tireless trackers 1 liliana of the veil (which I may hold on to for grixis shadow or maybe traverse shadow ) Also have a scarab god I want to sell Already have Jeskai control, death and taxes (with the stuff to makw it eldrazi and taxes), grixis shadow, naya bun, and merfolk .
kind of want to make affinity, lantern (already have 3 bridges) ,bant eldrazi or rg eldrazi, colorless eldrazi, or humans
for affinity I would need opals, ravagers and the lands for humans I would need 2 more caverns, meddling mages, the 5 color lands for rg and bant eldrazi I would need hierarchs and smashers for colorless I would need chalice and smasher so which should I put the value I get for my card for? is affinity still tier 1?
James Phillips
Well you're right. Rip infect I guess.
Luis Sullivan
I'm considering going into modern.
I like decks with lots of interaction (I played burn for a while but found it very boring).
Would going for mono-blue Tron or wb Tron be a nice fit in your opinions?
Burn is back in the good days when dragons of tarkir was around. Probably the last time burn meant something.
What's a really good color combination for control in modern? I'm looking for something like blue black preferably. Planeswalkers would probably be ashiok and liliana and jace. I would like some aspect of milling like traumatize or mirko vosk.
Jacob Ward
narnam renegade x4 dude + fetches, trust me
Ethan James
i got 2-0'd by this deck out of nowhere my bum still hurt really a cool brew
Gabriel Jenkins
>she it's me or each time we can't tell the gender it's automatically a female?
Ayden Reed
I just drafted A25x3 and I feel ripped off. It's a terrible draft environment based purely around goodstuff, and the iconic cards were few and far between.
When is wotc going to fix these fucking masters sets?
