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Magic The Gathering Thread XXIII: Modern is Dead, Long Live Modern
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Well, hello, hello, hello and good day to you here at Giant in the Playground! This is the 23rd official Magic: the Gathering thread on Giantitp forums!
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Mirrinus' "Norg'SpoilerCreatures:
4 Cloud Sprite
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Pestermite
3 Thieving Sprite
3 Latchkey Faerie
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
2 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
Instants:
4 Mana Leak
4 Agony Warp
3 Rend Flesh
2 Condescend
Lands:
4 Terramorphic Expanse
7 Swamp
12 Island
Sideboard:
2 Mistblade Shinobi
3 Echoing Truth
3 Negate
3 Remove Soul
4 Peppersmoke
The basic strategy is to play evasive creatures with nice CIP abilities, then bounce them with ninja to replay them again, gaining tons of card advantage. Save the instant counters for things you can't handle, like high cost spells that Spellstutter Sprite can't hit, or board-wiping spells. The deck has lots of disruption and can usually play pretty aggressively. Nearly every spell can potentially 2-for-1 the opponent, giving me control of the game thanks to my strong card advantage. It's a very cheap deck to build due to being made entirely of commons, yet I find that it's still a solid deck to play in other casual formats as well. Its biggest weaknesses appear to be board-sweeping spells and pingers, so my sideboard is built to accomidate either of those threats. Peppersmoke handles most pingers and can decimate casual aggro decks. Remove Soul is also good against aggro, while Negate is for control decks that have been popular lately. Echoing Truth is to stop pauper storm decks based on Empty the Warrens, and the Mistblade Shinobi is for keeping midrange creature decks off balance.
Mirrinus' Pauper Mono White ControlSpoilerDeck: Sarutabaruta (or just call it Pauper Mono-W Control)
Format: MTGO Pauper Classic
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4 Order of Leitbur
3 Shade of Trokair
4 Noble Templar
Instants
4 Judge Unworthy
3 Dawn Charm
3 Holy Light
4 Fire at Will
4 Unmake
Sorceries
1 Cenn's Enlistment
Enchantments
4 Oblivion Ring
2 Faith's Fetters
Lands
20 Plains
4 Secluded Steppe
Sideboard
4 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Circle of Protection: Black
4 Kami of Ancient Law
1 Holy Light
1 Cenn's Enlistment
4 Relic of Progenitus
(Note: the circles of protection were common when printed in 7th edition, so they're legal for pauper.)
Anyway, I realized that most decks for pauper are creature-heavy, due to the lack of mass removal. So I built a deck designed to crush aggro strategies. I run a wealth of removal spells, some of which can earn card advantage. My creatures are few, but are versatile and are great both early and late game, oftentimes utilizing my excess mana to the fullest. The Kami of Ancient Law in the sideboard is mostly to switch in against creature-light decks as an early beater, or to replace Holy Light against white decks. I figure that if a deck is playing white, it's likely to be playing white enchantment-based removal like Oblivion Ring or Temporal Isolation, so the Kami would be great at keeping my other creatures clear of these answers.
What I'm still considering, though, is the removal suite. I like Fire at Will for its potential for card advantage, particularly against weenie swarms like Slivers. Unmake is also great simply for the lack of the attack/blocker clause. The Dawn Charms are there mostly for versatility, as I can usually think of a good use for it. I'm not sure if I should be maindecking the Holy Lights, though. So far, they've only been useful against pinger decks, Empty the Warrens, and certain elf builds. However, given that Storm may be one of the best pauper builds, Holy Light affords me with my best chance of trumping Empty the Warrens. But most of all, I'm debating Judge Unworthy. On one hand, having 8 removal spells that require attacking/blocking is kind of restrictive; on the other hand, it's my cheapest removal spell, and my only removal option for turn 2. The Scry is oftentimes a toss-up; getting rid of excess land is great, but I've had instances where I needed to draw another land, but can't put a land on top of my deck with Scry if I want to kill a creature. I guess Temporal Isolation is a possible substitute, but it's pretty lousy in the Silvers matchup, which is perhaps the most common deck played in the pauper casual room as of late.
I'm still debating whether Relic of Progenitus should be in the sideboard; perhaps I could use more aggro options to switch in against creature-light decks, even though those tend to be fewer in number for this format.
Mirrinus' CountersliverSpoiler
Deck: Pauper UW Countersliver
Format: Extended Pauper
Creatures:
4 Azorius First-wing
4 Bant Sureblade
4 Deft Duelist
4 Ethercaste Knight
4 Esper Stormblade
Artifacts:
4 Fieldmist Borderpost
Enchantments:
4 Temporal Isolation
Instants:
4 Mana Tithe
4 Mana Leak
3 Remove Soul
3 Hindering Light
Lands:
4 Terramorphic Expanse
7 Island
7 Plains
Countersliver is a classic and effective Magic deck archetype that seeks to win by playing a few cheap, efficient threats to take the early game lead, then using permission and light removal elements to prevent the late-game from coming as you press your advantage. The archetype is named after the original version, which played Crystalline Sliver as its flagship creature.
Countersliver is a good example of an effective aggro-control deck. Your creatures are weaker than your opponent's best aggro creatures, and your removal and card advantage suite isn't nearly as strong as a dedicated control player's. What you do have, though, is tempo. You have superior early-game creatures to all but the best aggro decks, and you'll be shaving pieces off your opponent's life very quickly while trying to maintain your board advantage. Countersliver especially likes to prey on slower decks. Compare a Countersliver deck to a normal permission control deck. Against a mid-range deck, both are able to stall for several turns with their counterspells. However, while the permission deck is just buying time to play a big finisher, Countersliver will have a guy in play by turn 2, and attacking the opponent relentlessly while stalling for time. In other words, it has a tangible clock in play, which will likely win before the late-game hits.
Countersliver is normally weak against fast aggro decks with superior creatures. However, my personal build contains a few elements that help that matchup. First is the high number of first-striking creatures. Bant Sureblade and Deft Duelist make formidable blockers, easily dispatching lots of popular aggro creatures with high power but low toughness. Deft Duelist is also impossible to burn out of the way, making it a particularly impressive defender. Of course, both are also rather nasty on offense as well. Another nice card in the aggro matchup is Ethercaste Knight. 3 toughness means it can handle many early-game opposing creatures with ease, and it can lend power to my offense without ever having to tap. My favorite starting plays with this deck involve Esper Stormblade on turn 2, followed by Ethercaste Knight on turn 3 with one land up for Mana Tithe. I get to swing for 4 points of flying starting on turn 3, which can lead to a turn 7 win. With Ethercaste Knight blocking on the ground and a slew of countermagic and removal, I'm likely to win a damage race with just those two creatures.
The key to playing this deck is to not overextend with your creatures, and to keep mana open for counters available as often as possible, even if you aren't actually holding a counter. Exalted lets you finish games quickly without having to play many additional creatures. I prefer my fliers for attacking while keeping the first strikers back for defense to win the damage race against aggro. Of course, if you have a clear creature advantage, by all means attack en masse! Just be sure to have countermagic on hand in case they drop a big creature or removal spell. The good thing about this deck is that practically every single spell costs just 2 mana or less (I don't count the borderposts, as I usually pay their alternate cost), which means by turn 4 you can feasibly drop another threat and still have Mana Leak or Remove Soul ready. The deck desperately wants to hit UW by turn 2 (an opening hand that can't do this should be mulliganed), but with 4 Terramorphic Expanses and 4 Borderposts, that shouldn't be too hard to do, at least in my testing thus far.
If you want a sideboard, I would recommend trying out Steel of the Godhead. Against decks light on removal but heavy on aggro, this card is a total beating that almost ensures victory in the damage race. Just keep in mind that you can't enchant your Azorius First-wings or Deft Duelists. In such a matchups where I'd want Steel of the Godhead, such as against aggressive red decks, I'd probably swap out the griffins for Vedalken Outlander.
Shas'aia Toriia's Orzhov ControlSpoiler
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4x Divinity of Pride
4x Graveborn Muse
2x Shimian Specter
3x Oriss, Samite Guardian
Artifacts (1)
1x Sword of Light and Shadow
Instants (4)
4x Mortify
Planeswalkers (2)
2x Liliana Vess
Sorceries (16)
4x Demonic Tutor
4x Vindicate (substituting in a couple Oblivion Rings until I can afford a playset)
4x Gerrard's Verdict
2x Wrath of God
2x Damnation
Land (24)
4x Godless Shrine
4x Fetid Heath
4x Caves of Koilos
1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1x Eiganjo Castle
2x Orzhova, Church of Deals
3x Flagstones of Trokair
2x Forbidding Watchtower
2x Swamp
1x Plains
To start off with this deck, you want to either strip their hand away with Gerrard's Veridct or search for something good with Demonic Tutor. Once you have Graveborn muse in play, just start accumalating card advantage. If they try to attack, prevent the damage with Oriss, or block with Forbidding Watchtower. Finish off the game with Liliana Vess or Divinity of Pride. Above all, though, don't be afraid to Wrath often. With 4 wrath effects and 6 tutors, you can always get more.
Lastly, there is a soft lock in this deck. See if you can find what it is.
MountainKing's UBR Elemental Shenanigans:Spoiler
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Supreme Exemplar x2
Mulldrifter x3
Mournwhelk x3
Shriekmaw x3
Spitebellows x3
Inner-Flame Acolyte x3
Stingscourger x3
Artifacts:
Proteus Staff x3
Cauldron of Souls x3
Cloudstone Curio x3
Armillary Sphere x3
Sorceries:
Heat Shimmer x2
Instants:
Peel from Reality x2
Turn to Mist x4
Lands:
Basic Swamp x6
Basic Mountain x7
Basic Island x7
Sideboard (aka the Experiment Pile):
Thrumming Stone
Coalition Relic
Cruel Ultimatum x3
River Kelpie x2
Heat Shimmer
Mana Echoes x2
Dawn of the Dead
Tar Fiend x2
Footbottom Feast x3
The basic premise of the deck is to use the triggered come into play or leaves play effects on creatures, repeatedly, in order to bring about an effective soft lock on the game through denial. This is achieved through taking two keywords abilities (Evoke and Persist)... and breaking them soundly over your knee.
The core of the deck is the interaction between Cauldron of Souls (the only card in the deck that gives creatures Persist) and Elemental creatures with Evoke alternative casting costs. In response to the Evoke's triggered effect, you tap Cauldron of Souls to give the Evoked creature Persist. It leaves play, then returns to play, causing its triggered come into play ability to go on the stack a second time, for no additional mana cost.
Example: If I evoke a Mulldrifter for 2U, when it comes into play, I draw two cards. Since I paid the Evoke cost, the triggered effect goes on the stack. I give it Persist via Cauldron of Souls, and when it comes into play a second time, I draw two more cards.
Example 2: The interaction between Spitebellows and Cauldron of Souls is fundamentally the same, except that the creature's ability triggers when it leaves play, rather than comes into play. However, when Persist brings Spitebellows back into play, it has a zero toughness courtesy of its -1/-1 counter from Persist, sending it cheerfully back to the graveyard a second time, allowing for either 12 damage to be done to one creature, or 6 damage to be done to two separate creatures.
The typical play of the deck leaves it feeling like its ramping a little slowly. Turns 1-5, you'll probably only have played an Armillary Sphere, Cloudstone Curio, Cauldron of Souls, and land. ***NOTE*** This deck likes its mana, and digging up lands with the Armillary Sphere is crucial.
Once turn 6 hits, however, you'll be causing some serious hurt, having surprisingly rapid, effective tools at your disposal during your turn. Mournwhelk empties your opponent's hand, Shriekmaw and Spitebellows tear down your opponent's creatures, while Stingscourger stalls out their creatures. Supreme Exemplar is the only huge beater in the deck, though clearing the opposing board, casting a Spitebellows (not Evoking), and then giving it +2/+0 and Haste via Inner-Flame Acolyte (if not +4/+0) can give you a suitable beater as well. Otherwise, your damage comes from lightweight, evasive creatures like Shriekmaw and Mulldrifter.
This deck isn't especially meant to play against terribly competitive players, but it *can* perform against moderately fast decks. The difference is that it moves slightly slower, and loses out on creatures, because instead of holding on to your Evoke creatures, you'll be playing them in to deal with threats on board. I've got a list of cards that I personally intend to use to tinker with the deck even further, but I'll leave the deck *as is* for the purpose of posting it. I want people to be able to tinker with it, and the deck *does* work well in its current form.
The deck also has a number of specific weaknesses, none of which should be terribly worried about. It's meant to be a fun deck... for you. It won't be fun for them.
Maho-Tsukai's The Black Plague, a deck for multiplayerSpoilerDeck:
Lands:
3x Cabal Coffers
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
20x Swamp
Creatures:
2x Pestilence Demon
4x Stuffy Doll
4x Cemetary Gate
4x Reassembling Skeleton
Enchantments:
4x Pestilence
4x Circle of Affliction
Sorceries/Instants:
2x Consume Spirit
4x Diabolic Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
2x Bubbling Muck
4x Dark Ritual
1x Culling the Weak
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This is one deck that will make you absolutely hated in multiplayer. It's a mono-black deck that focuses on using the combination of Pestilence + Circle of Affliction (set to Black) to lock down the game by wiping the board every turn and kill your opponent(s) all at the same time.
This deck acts very similar to the old school W/B decks that pared Pestilence with Circle of Protection: Black and Pro Black creatures like White Knight. However, due to the printing of cards like Reassembling Skeleton, Stuffy Doll and Circle of Affliction white this deck no longer needs white to run properly. Mono Black now has enough cards to emulate the white cards that this kind of deck used to rely on and by using only black you have more mana to pour into your main win condition, pestilence
As for how the deck should be played, it's really a combination of combo and control, leaning heavily towards combo. As stated before, pestilence is your main wincon, as it can burn all players for damage continually. However, to prevent your own death, circle of affliction(set to black) is used in tandem with pestilence, the one life gained offsetting the burn from pestilence, while burning your opponent more in the process. As a result you goal should be to assemble this combo as soon as possible, using your defensively-minded creatures and removal from pestilence itself and twin consume spirits to stall out while you use your various tutors to assemble all the cards you need.
The real beauty of this deck, though, is that pestilence also hits all creatures, meaning that each time you burn your opponent your also wiping his board clean of threats, essentially locking down any deck that tries to win with creatures. However, pestilence dies when you have no creatures, so you have to play creatures that can survive the enchantment. Cemetery Gate has protection from black. Reassembling Skeleton can revive himself after pestilence wipes him off the board. Stuffy Doll is indestructible....and as mentioned before all of them are strong defensive walls that can stall for time if you don't have a pestilence in play.
As for the rest of the cards, most of them are devoted to gaining tons of black mana that can be poured into pestilence. One thing this deck tries to do is maximizing Pestilence by providing lots of ways to gain extra mana to pour into it. Dark Ritual is an old standby that's great for this kind of deck while bubbling muck essentially doubles your mana for a turn. This deck features the infamous all-star of black mana gain, Cabal Coffers which can make ridiculous amounts of mana, and Urborg makes this even more ridiculous. Culling the Weak is like a stronger dark ritual with a drawback....that happens to play well with Reassembling Skeleton.
Consume Spirit provides a "finisher" as well as a way to pad your life from the times you may have had to use pestilence to wipe the board without a circle of affliction to prevent it's self-burn. It can also double as removal in a pinch, too. Also, if you find that you just need something really big and scary to beat face with, Pestilence demon comes ready to serve you, and can double as pestilence #5-6 too.
The main thing you should remember in this deck is that while the combo is nice, you should not be a slave to it. If you have a pestilence in play but no circle you should not be afraid to wipe the board and eat some damage yourself. Losing a bit of life to end the thread of a creature hoard coming your way is a worthwhile trade, and one that could save your life in the long run.
Please include lots of info on how to play the deck so that others can partake in the fun that is whatever deck you have destroyed the Multiverse with or help suggest other cards to increase the awesomeness contained in your 60 (or more) cards.
This list has been maintained by Squark, tgva, Johnny Blade, Shas, and Duos in the past.
Also, if anyone wants to drop/update any of these decks, let me know.
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Continuing from last thread, Eldrazi Titans are easy to answer if you have instant speed removal or other ways to get around indestructible/shuffle grave.
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To continue from the last thread...
This isn’t really related to your overall point, but I’ve managed to mill people in Commander. And I had someone win by taking control of my deck and almost completely milling themselves. Nekusar EDH: it might not be good, but it’s fun.
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Anyway, as to the overall discussion, I think that the Titans are powerful, and certainly very strong in some formats, but especially in Commander if they’re causing problems it might really just be that your deck needs to be more prepared to deal with threats like them.
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I think you copied too much from the last starting post; the thread before 23 is probably not 21. Referring to the last line in the post, btw.
I've pulled off an infinite milling combo in Commander before. Well, I started it, and then people were like "Wait, that's infinite" and stopped me after a while. I didn't realize it was infinite until two or three loops in.
For reference, the combo was Training Grounds plus Hedron Crab plus Walking Atlas plus Retreat to Coralhelm plus Soratami Cloudskater (although a different Moonfolk would have been preferred; I only barely had enough cards left to be able to kill everyone).LGBTitP
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On the subject of EDH mill, I only really have a mill combo in one of my decks, and it doesn’t even mill their entire deck. Tunnel Vision + condemn/Proteus Staff.
That deck also has one of my favourite ways not to lose to mill, Parallel ThoughtsLast edited by Androgeus; 2018-02-16 at 08:36 PM.
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If you're playing any format but Standard or casual versions of other formats? Infinite combos are gonna be around in the meta. Voltron? I mean. In modern, I guess, yeah? Bogles is a deck, after all. And isn't "fast stax" a contradiction? Aren't Stax decks slow by design?
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All of this depends on your group. If you don't like those things, maybe talk to your playgroup about removing them. Communication is a powerful tool and we're all here to have fun. And if not, then yes, you should be prepared to deal with those things if you're going to play with people who use them. Magic is about adjusting to the metagame and Commander is no different. But I dunno, try talking with your playgroup about how you're not enjoying the game as much because of that one Eldrazi and maybe it'd be fun to try playing without them and see if the game is more fun?
The Eldrazi Titans were a mistake and Wizards has said such. Emrakul was not a card they ever should have made. It's just the best creature in all situations, so much so that people are jumping through hoops to cheat it into play. When mana costs become that high, people stop caring about paying them and just skip it. The other titans are better than Emrakul, but they are a problem in Commander where, most of the time, you're going to have enough mana to cast them so that downside isn't really that big. They're among the best creatures for any deck to pay a lot of mana for because they're colorless, and they do just dominate the game when played. Commander eliminates a lot of the weaknesses that the Titans had when they were playable in Standard, which makes them pretty major problems. I mean, there's a reason Aetherworks Marvel got banned in Standard, and it's because when you don't have to actually pay 10 mana to play Ulamog, the card is way too good.
That said, there's a lot of ways to respond to Eldrazi titans. Play faster decks that get on board more quickly so they can't rely on a 10-mana spell to save them every time. Steal them with creature-stealing effects, and optionally combine that with sacrificing them to your own effects. Explode their owners with some kind of spell that makes them just lose without ever having to worry about the creature itself. Use some kind of effect to eliminate them, like Sadistic Sacrament, if you're really desperate. Or alter your choices of removal to make sure you can deal with them; there's a reason Swords to Plowshares is the best removal spell in Commander and that people really like Merciless Eviction. My personal favorite answers are Bribery and Desertion (you deserve this and no one feels bad for you), but I'm sure with some creativity you can find others that will work.
Also, on the topic of mill, I have a mill deck in Commander and it actually wins quite a lot when it's on the table. If your opponents are playing Eldrazi, just make sure you have some way to exile their graveyard with the ability on the stack and you're set.
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heh. I have a friend who was 1-shot with his own Ulamog the Infinite Gyre because it was his only creature and another person at the table slapped a Corrupted Conscience on it.
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I honestly don't think they're all that strong, too big clunky and slow. There are more civilised and elegant weapons.
Fast stax describes stax as played in cEDH, the fast refers to how quickly the lockdown can be dropped. Stuff like T1 Trinisphere.Last edited by The_Admiral; 2018-02-17 at 05:02 AM.
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Ah. Shops.
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I would say that if that’s the meta of your group, you should be prepared to deal with it. Now, if your group all agrees that it’s no fun having to put up with some of those things, I think it’s reasonable to ban them from your games; I think the most important thing about Magic, and especially Commander, is having fun with your friends. However, I also don’t think it’s a stretch to ask that your deck is ready to deal with what other people are running.
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Just did an IMA draft, it was amazingly fun. Behold the pile of cards I put together, opinions?
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I'm boring, so all I can think of is "not enough creatures". Hammerhand doesn't look like it should be in a deck with eight creatures, one of which costs eight Mana, another is a suspend dude that doesn't work with aggro strategies and two more are walls.
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yeah went 3-0 with the deck. :D
I basically Dropped one or two creatures and then went face with unblockable. Hammerhands as a one off was very powerful on Spellfist.
Game 1 was against Janky control, guy didn't really understand how to play or build control
Game 2 was against mardu threat tribal piloted by one of the best pilots I know, I lost match 1 but won match 2 and 3 both off Rift Bolt and Keldon Halberdier going face. That was one of the most stressful games of magic I've ever played, was completely exhausted afterwards.
Game 3 was against mono black memes. It wasn't that great. Guy understood he built jank but he wanted a laugh.Last edited by The_Admiral; 2018-02-18 at 12:08 AM.
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Re: Magic The Gathering Thread XXIII: Modern is Dead, Long Live Modern
I haven't posted in these Magic threads in a while, but I have a question I'd like a few opinions on. I've been working on Standard treasures, and found that there are a lot of high CMC cards that can win/help win games. Of course, treasure (and Inspiring Statuary) help cast expensive cards, but I'm not sure if I should cut down anyway. Out of the following cards, which would you prioritize in Standard treasure?
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Re: Magic The Gathering Thread XXIII: Modern is Dead, Long Live Modern
In Standard deck based around treasure, Marionette Master is by far the most successful of those. Depending on how you are planning to make treasure, the next highest I would go is Revel in Riches, which can just win with something like Brass' Bounty. The card I would prioritize most for a treasure deck is definitely Treasure Map, though, which isn't on your list.
In terms of a treasure deck, Vraska, Relic Seeker isn't really the greatest support. She makes some treasure, but really she just generates value. Treasure decks really want to be making treasure with less expensive cards or at much greater rates. I would also probably look at other ways to use artifacts, like Improvise cards.
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I am running four Treasure Maps definitely. It's not a win-con on its own, which is why I didn't mention it. I am running inspiring statuary, metallic rebuke, and reverse engineer to hopefully get some value out of improvise, though I might cut reverse engineer for more Marionette Masters or Tezzerets.
Vraska does provide me with some artifact/enchantment destruction, though I guess I could sideboard it or add some straight artifact hate to my sideboard.
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Anyone thought about using Kiki-Jiki with Recruiter of the guard in modern? Seems like it could work in either Naya with splash birds, or Jeskai.
It can run recruiter to hit either Jiki or pestermite for the combo, grabs hatebears like Magus of the Moon, Kataki, etc. as well as the new sexy Bloodbraid Elf or aggro cards like Splicers. It can be flickered to grab more cards, and if you use flickwisp it can actually grab the flicker effect for itself.
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Probably not. It's very slow, expensive, and doesn't actually interact very much with your opponent. It's almost impossible for you to be playing a deck where forcing them to attack is actually bad for them if you're playing a Treasure deck.
It's not that Vraska is bad, I just wouldn't list her as a treasure-based win condition. She's still worth playing if you have her. "Treasure deck" makes me think "treasure is a key part of my victory" and Vraska really just wins if she's allowed to work by herself, not if you have a lot of treasure.
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Re: Magic The Gathering Thread XXIII: Modern is Dead, Long Live Modern
Define "any good". If you're looking for a deck you can take to FNM and do reasonably well with, sure. If you want to go to GPs and the like... no, most definitely not. Modern is doing much more powerful things than that. Also, Modern vampires is probably two colour, although I'm not sure if the red or the white splash would be the splash of choice.
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Any deck with 4 Thoughtseizes, 4 Inquisition of Kozilek, 4 Fatal Push, and some Collective Brutality in the 75 probably has some chance of doing well.
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Re: Magic The Gathering Thread XXIII: Modern is Dead, Long Live Modern
My Grixis Energy deck is doing pretty well, currently sitting at 6 wins 1 loss at FNM, but I've recently picked up an Angrath, the Flame-Chained and I'm wondering if it might be worth replacing something else. Glorybringer is the same CMC, but probably too good to go down to a 2-of. I've never been really thrilled with Whirler Virtuoso, but I'm not sure about replacing a 3 drop with a 5 drop. Thoughts?
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