MTG Modern General

>>44983085
Yes

>hate blue with passion because fuck blue players.
>be happy to see twin gone
>tron, eldrazi, infect and other degenerate decks start to take over
>already miss twin

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>>44983085
TEE
RRR
OHH
NNN
THATS THE WAY WE SPELL MODERN

YOUR SHIT LOST
OUR SHIT WON
YOUR DECK GOT BANNED
ITS
UNFUN

>>44983811
Is storm okay?

>>44983085
Why not splash white for Boros Charm? And since you're there, why not splash green for Atarka's Command, aka. 6 damage for 2 mana.

>>44983804
This is what you get for being happy your bad matchup is banned. Consider metagame context instead before judging a ban.

>>44983085
Make your own. Just find a bunch of small aggressive red creatures (swift spear, goblin guide, I'm also partial to legion loyalist and figure of destiny) and red direct damage spells, add 20-24 lands and run with it

Daily reminder that storm and storm-like decks are now the only combo in the format
#freeSecondSunrise
#eatYourBreakfast

>>44984394
Well that's what you get when you play non-casual with other neckbeards.

>>44983811
>2 arms
Worst vedalken

>>44984394

Building KCI Eggs as we speak, my friend.
Preparing to go 1-3 every week til the end of days.

>>44984439
Remember to practice proper sequencing or your matches will finish 1-0-0 and everyone will hate you

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>>44984394
>>44984452
Official Breakfast Club meeting, everybody else get out

>>tfw you do the totally sick loop-da-loop

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>>44983085
Just play tech that nobody expects.

>>44984539
who keeps posting this?

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>>44984394

>Still wanting 2nd sunrise
>When you can have BASED JESKAI ASCENDANCY

Does anyone know how infect is doing in the meta, i have been out for a few months?

>>44984572
is tier 2 that proably will get tier 0, at least on an open meta

>>44984572
very very well positioned with the rise of tron an eldrazi meme decks

>>44984572
Tron is running a certain amount of pyroclasm main board, hold up mutagenic growth for it, among other answers. They're top dog and you are second biggest threat.

Are good blue decks really dead now ?
I can't think of a tier 1 blue deck since the ban

>>44984587
>>44984589
>>44984602
holy fuck, i am glad its not a meme anymore. how is it against the eldrazi deck

>>44984624
Grixis is really good if not tier 1

Is bant viable in the modern meta? I ask cause I want to curve heirarch in to geist and also play things like reflector mage/restoration angel.

Every time I look at it though I realize blinking meme rhino is just so much better. Is it worth splashing black for things like rhino, decay, and possibly lingering souls?

>>44984552
>he posts a memedeck

>>44984552
>wanting based Jeskai
>not Ad Nauseam instant-win
Oh it's your turn? You're dropping Ugin and asking for responses? Well in response, Angel's Grace, Ad Nauseam. Game two?

>>44984675
How does it beat Tron or Affinity?

>>44984675
there is knightfall

>>44984664
I wouldn't call it tier 1 since it has a lot of bad match ups

It's solid though

>>44984689
How do other decks beat tron/affinity?

>>44984651
t2 4/4 vedalken clique is a hellova pain.
It's not unbeatable, I think it's only slightly worse than Tron, which is a fairly good matchup.

>>44984698
yea, but at least it does not have any real auto losses. it looses to tron though and i don't know about the eldrazi deck. what other match ups are hard?

>>44984718
>vedalken clique
What the fuck am I talking about. Vendillion Clique.
Thought Knot Seer is a strong card turn 2, is what I'm saying. They'll also probably rip something out t1 with an inquisition or a thoughtsieze

>>44984544
Some fag desperately trying to force a meme.

>>44984726
It has a pretty bad match up against eldrazi

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>>44984710
By jamming Deceiver Exarch and Splinter Twin

>>44984748
>blue cards

NOOO ITS TOO OPPRESSIVE BANNED REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>44984732
For a lot of deck that are not infect but combo related they tend to be very redundant so it can be hard to rely on inquisition.
>>44984740
what does the deck do that hurts it so much

>>44984772
It ramps via whacky lands similar to tron and Grixis Control really doesn't have the answers to stuff like blight herder nor can they remove lands efficiently to fight back

It's kind of bad for the same reasons the Tron match up is

>>44984759
I'm pretty sure the next deck that's going to get banned is going to be either tron or eldrazi. A consistent turn 2 thought-knot is just to difficult for a lot of decks to beat.

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>>44984539
It don't even understand why this is supposed to be funny.
Did some pro player say some stupid about this card or tech cards in general?

>>44984624
Merfolk has been at the border between tier 1 and 2 for a long time. I don't know how Twin ban affected it though.

>>44984789
Too many resilient threats for too cheap is why it's bad for grixis, which tends towards 1for1's until it can stabilize with an angler with remand or something backup.

>>44984789
Grixis control just gets fucked by the new OGW Eldrazi
Inquisition whiffs all the time, Bolt doesn't kill anything, K Command doesn't do anything to stop the opponent and by the time you can cast Cryptic Command you already have 3 fatties staring you down from the other side of the board

>>44984810
Just ignore it and hopefully it will stop.

>>44984664
Grixis is unplayable now.

It lost its best matchup (Twin) and is choked by Tron and Eldrazi. Its fate is like BGx's, but even worse.

>>44984855
b-but w-wizards told me that twin was holding other blue and red decks back

>>44984855
Time to sell out and buy into Legacy Delver.

>>44984863
Twin was forcing a lot of stuff out of the meta but the problem here is wizards decided to ban it right as a bunch of new stuff that is going to affect the format was coming in. This only justifies that article about the modern protour really.

>>44984863
Good Modern players study the format on a regular basis. Wizards doesn't. The closest thing to a viable blue deck is Jeskai Flash, which is actually nicely positionned in the meta: Lightning Bolt spam on creatures is half the meta, and the Kiki combo and your sideboard can destroy the dreaded Ulamog decks.

>>44984912
You know what else forces a lot of stuff out of the meta? Affinity, Tron, Burn, Jund and Infect.

The point of tier 1 decks is they force out shitty meme decks. So yeah Twin is holding back blue and red decks but by that logic Affinity holds back other shitty robot strategies and so on.

>>44983085
Just wait. Eventually they will reprint chain lightning and mono red will be viable.

Hell even just PoP would be great.

>>44984956
what does Infect hold back besides bad combo decks?

What should I drop to add in counterspells? And what counterspells to put in?

http://www.mtgvault.com/2psychoman1/decks/venser-phyrexian-tainted-2/

>>44984990
Ad Nauseam and control decks

>>44984996
Everything. If you're going to be playing urzatron you should just be playing wurmcoils and ugins and karns and...

>>44984956
I disagree with you about Affinity and Infect, most decks can pack something that shuts them out post sideboard pretty easily.
>Tron, Burn, Jund
I get what you mean. Burn sets the clock, Tron makes the clock irrelevant, and Jund ensures a minimum level of value. In another world perhaps something else would hold that place.
>>44984996

>>44985015
He said BESIDES bad combo decks

>>44985015
Ad Nauseam would not be good without infect and midrange control decks life Grixis and Junk do well against infect.

Modern could really use Retribution of the Meek

>>44985059
>Retribution of the Meek
how?

>>44983085
>Mono-red
You just want to lose to a Leyline?

>>44983804
But Tron isn't taking over, Tron was favored overall against Twin (you literally couldn't lose with a combination 5-8 Rending Volleys + Nature's Claims g2/3) and all the braindead aggro+infect that Twin kept in check somewhat steamroll over Tron like fucking nothing.

>>44985047
Infect beats Nauseam, unless that's what you were referring to.

>>44984996
>http://www.mtgvault.com/2psychoman1/decks/venser-phyrexian-tainted-2/

Jesus mate, what's wrong? Is this a cry for help?
This is all over the place. I'm astounded by the decisions here. It's marvelous in its profundity.
Perhaps I should quit magic.
>3x urzatron
Why? Why are you running them at all instead of basic plains?
>no expedition map
Do you want urzatron or not? If you do, then you should probably run the map. If not, why are you running Urza's?
>Cmc starts at 3
What are you planning to do against affinity? Or burn? Or Infect? Or Bogles? Against DnT? Merfolk? Any and every aggressive deck that plans to land a threat turns one and two are going to steamroll you, even through your value creatures.
Looks like a fun casual deck but not appropriate for a Modern format thread.

>>44985146
4 mainboard Darkness with the new "count to 20 before t4" meta says otherwise.

>>44984990
What good decks was twin holding back?

I never get an answer for this

>muh temur
>muh control

>>44985164
Tron I guess?

>>44984921
Wizards has a few 10s of people at most to focus on modern, while also keeping in mind other formats, while the player base is potentially in the 10,000s or even 100,000s for modern alone

>>44985135
>tron favored against twin

Nope

>>44985164
not much really, it was holding back tron

>>44985164
It also seems like Twin was preventing cards from being unbanned perhaps?

>>44984539
You know what confuses me about pumaposting? It's not actually in Modern. I mean, in Legacy General/EDH General, sure, pumaposting makes sense. But it's not actually in this format to start with. Why even bother?

>>44985245
like what?

>>44985208
It was Tron 40-60 Twin pre-board, 50-50 post-board. Pretty hard to sneak in a combo post-board because of Volley and Boil.

>>44985255
Ponder/Preordain?
JTMS?

>>44985255
ancestral

>>44985255
dread return

>>44985245
BGx decks are preventing cards like Deathrite from coming back

Jund decks are preventing cards like Bloodbraid Elf from coming back

Storm decks are preventing cards like Rite of Flame from coming back

What the fuck is your point?

>>44985270
>50-50
More like 70-30 given that the only way to play around Rending Volley is to play two Exarchmites in a single turn and keep tron off red and Clique + bolts aren't a sufficient clock vs a t4/5 Ulamog which ends the game on the spot.

>>44985272
Ponder/Preordain are because of storm and wizards hate of it. JTMS is a combination are it being from a standard they are scared of and because wizards just dont think that people could beat it in modern.
>>44985281
fair enough, i could see that because it would give Twin a lot of juice.
>>44985298
how in the hell is that relevant to twin.

>>44985066
If Wizards would just reprint PoP that would help the problem immenesly.

>Legacy Burn
>Opponent turn 1 Leyline
>Play GGs and MS
>Then just go to town with 6 damage multiple PoPs

>>44985272
no, that's delver, and to a lesser extent miracles

>>44985313
I'm a Twinfag and I never felt like it was 70-30 for them. You gotta force the Rending Volley on a flashed-in creature (they have to use most of their mana early, after all) and then sneak in a second one for the Twin.

This discussion is pointless because Twin is dead.

>>44985340
Price of Progress in Legacy is fine because your mana base doesn't deal you 4-6 damage every game. There is no need for PoP in Modern.

>"Stoneforge Mystic is the old boogeyman of Standard's past. During the Caw-Blade era, people were forced to play one of two or three decks in order to remain competitive. During this format, Standard was quite unpopular and had record low PTQs and local tournaments, which resulted in the banning of the Kor Artificer at the tail end of her legality.

In Modern she would not be nearly as powerful as she was in Standard and Legacy. Most competitive players agree that Stoneforge Mystic strategies in Legacy are for fools, but I hope that I and others who support the equipment have proved the naysayers wrong. Unlike in Legacy, Stoneforge Mystic in Modern faces a large population of artifact hate that isn't popular in the older formats, four Lightning Bolts in almost every deck, hand disruption that has every black player salivating as we tutor up our Batterskull, aggressive decks that kill with Infect or have a ton of spot removal to remove the Squire before the game-ending equipment lands, early turn kills that prevent us from setting up our win condition early on, and the list goes on and on.

>Legacy is a more streamlined format, and with the power of Force of Will, we can tap out on turn 2 confidently most of the time. WotC fears the cards that tormented Standard, so it removed them preemptively, but it fails to realize that the game is much different. Stoneforge Mystic decks would come out of the woodwork everywhere and finally create a powerful control archetype, but they wouldn't dominate like they did in Standard."

Why can't Wizards see this?

>>44985374
>and then sneak in a second one for the Twin.
But that's my point, by the time twin has 6 mana for casting two in the same end step, Tron has already won most of the time due to a resolved Karn that starts stripping your hand and threatens a restart or a Newlamog. Even if you're sure Tron's not holding a Rending Volley (after a Clique/peek, they might topdeck one from the former?) they might still have a Claim for which you need to hold up counter mana or an O-stone.

>>44985408
Wizards are incompetent

I have no idea what they are fearing when hardcore control decks literally don't even exist at the moment

>>44985398
Would it really be so bad that people who are dumb enough to do.


>Fetch into shock for 3 damage
>Fetch into shock for 3 damage
>Fetch into shock for 3 damage
Will just get rekt by 6 damage for 2 mana?

>>44985453
Yes because whenimbraindead.dec already wins easily enough as it is and most decks cannot function without fetching shocks up.

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>>44983085
Best mono red card

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>>44985474
>>44985453
I run 4x Boomerang and 4x Eye of Nowhere to bounce my opponents shocklands to hand at FNM

can also slow down tron long enough to drop a crumble to dust

>mfw mainboard 4x blood moon 4x spell snare

>>44985606
>can also slow down tron long enough to drop a crumble to dust
Lol good luck with that with the maindeck Ghost Quarters and a set of Warping Wail in every Tron side from here on.

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>>44985632
>boomerang their ghost quarter

hmm.

>>44985705
If you boomerang their Ghost Quarter that means they resolve/have already resolved a t4 Karn before your crumble innit?
>I draw perfectly in every game hue

Grixis Delver player here, should I audible into Grixis Control or can I still win games?

Just now saw that Twin got the axe.
I'm so sad I wasn't here to witness the salt.

>>44985734
Look m8 I'm running 8 boomerang effects.
I'm going to have one or two in my opener.
That means that turn two I'm (on the play, I always lose on the draw) hitting their first land with a boomerang. This puts me a whole turn ahead, as they have to drop their first land again. Against Tron this means that turn four, presuming no other boomerang effects and if I get four lands, then I can cast crumble to dust before Tron has even put their third land on the battlefield.
I can then manually keep them from hitting enough mana to cast something threatening with further boomerang and land denial effects.

Spell Snare hits Warping Wail.

I never said this was a good plan

>>44985746
Grixis control will get raped by Tron.

>>44985827

Blood moons main deck mein negro

>>44985841
Doesn't even help. Grixis control is Troy's bitch

Guys, is etched champion bad in this metagame? Should I just switch to Master of Etherium?

>>44985903
Why not a split? See how the format shapes.

>>44985903
yes
>kozileks return
>'clasm
>natures claim pretty bad

>>44985939
protection from all colors family

>>44985965
Kozielk return is Devoid my friend, gets around the protection. But yeah Pyroclasm and Natures claim do nothing to it.

>>44985965
Kozilek is colorless (devoid), Nature's Claim cranial and/or ravager and you're left with a 2/2 beater that Tron doesn't give two shits about.

>>44985965
>>44985980
Oh and Wurmcoil catches Champ.

>>44985979
yes i knew about koz
>>44985980
mox, drums, and citadel means you're not turning off metalcraft. have fun getting blasted by modular boosted champion

>>44986028
>modular
What do you think Oblivion Stone, Pithing Needle and Spellskite are for?

>>44985408
>create a powerful control archetype,
This is why they won't unban it, wizards hates control. Which is funny because the SFM decks in modern will be midrange decks, not any more controlling than the Grixis decks

>>44986041
>i am going to have every answer in my hand every game in a deck that does nothing until turn 3 or 4

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>>44986081
You just need any one of them, really and two of them can be cast t1.

>>44986101
Nature's Claim and Needle that is.

>>44986094
10 bands

>>44984552

> April 4, 2016
> Jeskai Ascendacy banned
> Add Nauseam Banned

> We believe these decks can hurt diversity by playing solitaire while ignoring their opponents like assholes. Thats why we decided to ban them. But dont worry, you can play Eldrazi Decks that can be bought from Star Jew Games and Jew Kingdom and it will cost you a lung or part of your liver.

God I'd give my soul to see Memeskai Combo and Puke&Nauseam get fucked by wizards.

>>44986118
sure, but natures claim means you are not getting tron until t4 at the earliest. needle doesn't hurt as much as you might think because of affinity's various angles of attack

Is boros ever going to be good

>>44986185
Ascendancy isn't a good deck tho. It doesn't win if it doesn't find the ascendancy.

>>44984810

Remember the Storm Crow meme? This is a new meme but less funny and shittier.

Building the Naya Company list that took 4th at SCG Open Cincinati, why the fuck is voice of resurgence $40+? That shit was like $12 a week ago.

>>44986223
Yes just splash green for atarka's command.

>>44986223
Boros Burn was a thing before Atarka's Command.

>>44986185
At least with ad nauseam you can shortcut and pick your entire deck up at once. it is not nearly as bad as kci or ascendancy.

that being said, i played ascendancy in treasure cruise era, and could pull off a win in around 2 minutes without making mistakes

it's just shitters that netdeck and have no idea what they are doing that ruin combo decks like that

>>44986252
BBD playing Bloom was the most cringey thing ever, he obviously never piloted the deck before.

http://www.tcgunity.net/nekroz-deck-breakdown-april-2015-ban-list/
Does /mtg/ have equivalent of Nekroz?
For comparison of impact : in last year's US and Europe world qualifier, more than 16 out of 32 top players from each continent use Nekroz deck.

>>44986332
yes bloom was absolutely the worst offender
shame since it was such a complex deck to pilot
and it was cheap :^)

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>>44984759
>>44984805
Say that again.

>>44986239
I think it goes in some kiki chord decks. And some people think kiki chord is more viable with Twin gone

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>>44986338
what does any of this mean

>>44986224

Isnt it the same with Ad Nauseam?

>>44986393
I'm asking if /mtg/ have similiar deck in term of playstyle or influence

>>44986420
Standard Affinity had a pretty big impact during it's time.

>>44986409

Ad NAuseam needs only 2 pieces of the combo while Memeskai needs 3 vulnerable combo pieces (cantrip, ascendacy and mana dork).

Thats why Memeskai is a shit deck while Ad Nauseam is a lil better.

Both are shitty decks in the end and I hope wizards ban them for ever

>>44985980
>blasting ravager while a champion with metalcraft is up

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>>44986480
>mana dork
Hah, get a load of this guy.

>>44986501
> 4cmc cost
> Needs to be discarded to work
> Fail the bolt test

Ya, keep trying

>>44986591
Fatestitcher was the only mana dork used in the Ascendancy deck pre-Cruise ban when the deck was at its height.

>>44986591
fatestitcher is good what are you on about

>>44986591
>> Fail the bolt test
Doesn't mean much in Ascendancy, as you can keep playing cantrips in response to the Bolt until you grow out of range of it.

>>44986501

I've seen 2 versions of this deck, the one with glittering Wish and the other one which only use his guy and have control tools.

Which one is the best version?

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>>44984793
They will axe the Eye. I have shown you the future.

I'm not sure I can play Modern anymore, at least not competitively. The prices were always bound to be screwy because of Wizards' special brand of retardation regarding reprints, but the banning of Twin puts the whole format in perspective.

Wizards' argument that Twin was holding other decks back doesn't hold water. If you look at tournament results, especially recent ones, Twin was not overrepresented at all compared to other "staple" decks like Affinity. And banning Twin because it "reduced diversity" is bullshit as well, because the other interactive blue decks just aren't good in the metagame with decks that are either unfair, or fast, linear, and redundant. Splinter Twin being banned doesn't make Temur, Esper, Bant, etc. any better in the metagame, it just takes away a tool for blue to remain competitive.

The only reason it made sense to ban Twin, if you assume Wizards realized its other rationale were bullshit, was to prevent it from showing up in the PT season coverage. That means one of two things: that Wizards is using its bans to promote turnover in the T1 decks, or that they really just don't have a clue about the format. Either way it doesn't bode well for the future health of the format.

Tell me that I'm wrong. I'll wait.

>>44986784
Eldrazi can't win before turn 4, it won't be banned unless it somehow becomes most of the metagame

>>44987043
Aaron Forsythe basically admitted it on twitter, I don't know who is going to argue with you

>>44987065
>Eldrazi can't win before turn 4
Neither could Twin.

>>44987089
And Twin wasn't banned because it broke the turn 4 rule

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>>44983085
MONO RED DECK WINS (to everything but leyline)
Expensive cards are in green

4 T.Swiftspear
>4 Goblin Guide
>0-4 Vexing Devil
>1-2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Spark Elemental
4 Bolt
4 Rift Bolt
4 Lava Spike
4 Shard Volley
0-4 Searing Blaze (can be sideboarded)
>4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
1 Ball Lightning
0-2 Thunderous Wrath
0-4 Hellspark/AshZealot/KeldonMarauders
0-2 Burst Lightning
0-1 Flame Javelin
0-1 Flames of the Bloodhand
Maybe some Abbots or coin flip cards if you're feeling dangerous

SB:
2-4 Molten Rains
>Blood Moon
4 Skullcracks (can even mainboard some)
4 Smash to Smithereens/Shattering Spree
1-2 Pyrite Spellbomb or that new OGW card
1-2 Dragon's Claw
1-2 Pillar of Flame
You can choose some other goodies, Flamebreak for example is cool imo

If I left anything out my apologies, this is mono-red burn, make it according to your budget, Goblin Guides aren't needed (placed first at FNM w/o em)
It's a powerful budget deck, again dem leylines suck.

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tfw all my friends are shit at magic

>>44987084
Aaron Forsythe is a muppet, I doubt anyone took him seriously even before he apparently conceded the point.

I'm more interested to hear from people who don't think what's happened this month is a problem, not from those who refuse to acknowledge what happened at all.

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>>44986361
I MISS TWIN

>>44983882
you make the same choice twice?

>>44987672
He's talking about running the strictly worse Nacatl version of Naya burn, wherein you apparently always have 3 attacking creatures whenever you cast Atarka's Command

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>big tournament at LGS
>get to top 8
>Tron vs Junk
>manage to win
>proceed to lose to Taking Turns in top 4
God damn it there were so many meme decks
I'm buying two Chokes for this shit

>>44986776

It doesnt matter which version is the best, both are boring as hell to watch.

There are 2 cunts (brothers) on my LGS who play 2 versions (the one with glittering wish and the control one) and fuck them, just watching them playing reminds me of eggs deck. they fucking take several minutes to combo off and the basters just decided to draw the last round becase they were first and second.

I hope wizards ban Memeskai Ascendacy to see both fuckers cry.

>>44987738
tryhards like you are the reason meme decks exist

>>44987738
>Taking Turns
What

>>44987784
Because I like playing competitively I'm a try hard?

>>44987784
i just want a simian spirit guide/bloodmoon/ensnaring bridge meme deck desu and watch the tears of nonburn

>>44987799
http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=11695
This is the basic idea

>>44987738

What were you playing? Tron?

>>44987755

Get fucked in the ass Tron player

>>44987738
>Taking Turns
Fuck me I love that deck, sorry you got stomped by it though

>>44987830
I just had a stroke

>>44987839
I was on Junk

>>44987841
It's cool, was very annoying at the time though. He shouldn't have gotten to top 8 at all but he rules lawyered his way there.

How much should I regularly pay for a modern deck of 61 cards?

>>44987839
Karn resolves?

>>44987802
Yes.

>>44987896
Yo, let me see your junk list. I've got one in the wings just waiting for a slight update. Bonus points if you spread it out and snap a picture like one of your French girls.

>>44987898
Modern compettetive should go for around $600-$800. But why 61? I know it's only one card extra but why?

>>44987969
Main deck plus a head start on the sideboard I guess.

>Trinisphere is modern legal
Why doesn't it see more play?

>>44988010
There is no good stax home for it right now. The reason it is powerful in Legacy is thanks to cost increasers and other stax tools like Tangle Wire. You don't have the same set of support in Modern, so no dice.

>>44988033
Wouldn't it go perfectly in an Eldrazi deck?

>>44987969
I have a favorite card I always like to shove into every deck I own when I play, even if it goes over the 60 card standard limit since it has a history.

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>>44988010
No way to cheat it out so that it's immediately relevant. Otherwise too slow and irrelevant half the time.

Can we have some legitimate Burn discussion?
>Is RW viable and does the inclusion of mainboard lightning helixes and less painful manabase give us a meaningful edge in the mirror and vs affinity?
>Why do people insist that nacatl is viable when eldrazi can land early 4/4s and 5/5s, not to mention the scions from herder, or wasteland strangler's kill ability?
>Why do people insist that Molten Rain is a good card to have against tron/eldrazi when we almost never get to 3 mana, and it's only a temporary setback for them assuming they haven't played a fatty by the time we actually resolve one?
>What's the best sideboard configuration for the upcoming meta?
>What do you board out against different matchups?
inb4 mardu/monored memes

>>44988047
They can't cast it faster than any other deck.

>>44988088
Granted, but it doesn't fuck them over at all
Imma give it a try

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>>44987927
Ok just making sure

>>44987943
Mainboard spells, sorry for shitty photo bad camera

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>>44988058
What card is that anon?

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>>44988128
Main board lands, running bloodstaineds because i don't have all the in color fetches yet

>>44988128
Looks like my list isn't too far removed from yours in its current state. -1 Souls, Tasigur, Sorin. +1 Maelstrom Pulse, Finks, Thoughtseize.

Hows Sorin working out for you?

Speaking of fetches:

Allied colored fetches are back up to $20 each and enemy colored fetches are back up to $50-$100.

Is this just post-ban speculation? Is it likely to go down after the Pro Tour?

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>>44988205
And finally sideboard

>>44988229
Sorin + souls is brutal. I was always happy to see him when he showed up.

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>>44988145

>>44988114
I can see it screwing affinity post Hurkyls and maybe Storm and Jeskai Ascendancy if dropped at the right moment.

>>44988246
>go down
>after Pro Tour
kek

>>44988205
No Treetops?

>>44988250
Fracturing gust? Isn't that a bit inefficient?

I'm more of a yugioh guy but I really want to get into Magic, is there a ygopro equivalent when I can test decks against the ai until I learn to play properly? I would play the official licensed games but they always seem to be out of date and grinding for cards sucks.

>>44985245
Dig through time was banned for making twin too consistant

>>44988394
Not huge on tree tops in Junk desu
And Fracturing Gust is usually an auto win against bogles and infect. Just have to hold out till I get it.

>>44988128
Hey is painful truths worth it?

>>44988429
infect and affinity i guess

>>44988429
Xmage

>>44988457
Oh, I'm not looking for deck help but thanks, looking for a simulator to fuck around in.

>>44988454
I think so. Need more play testing with it but so far I like it as a 1 of

is a good mardu deck possible or is it doomed to shit brews eternally

>>44988441
Infect? Fracturing Gust against Infect? Have they taken to running things other than Rancor?

>>44988500
Shit brews sadly. Without a solid generic removal spell like how GBx has Abrupt Decay/Pulse, it loses to awkward things.

>>44988476
Thank you very much!

>>44988502
I'm an idiot, I meant affinity @_@

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newfag who played super casually with friends around 2000 here

what's the best way to get back into magic but in a slightly more serious manner? if i were to walk into a shop with like 50 bucks today, what should i buy?

>>44988593
50 bucks can get you a decent burn deck; burn teaches you how to efficiently pilot a deck and when to do things, like "should i kill that creature if it might fuck me later on"

>>44988593
don't buy booster packs

>>44988593
the best way to get back into the game would be to buy duels of the planeswalkers on steam and then see if you still like the game

otherwise you're going to get tricked into buying some fat pack or booster box or shitty, linear memedern deck with your fifty bucks and have jack shit to show for it

t. magic player since tempest

>>44986185
Have ad nauseam and want to get ascendancy combo. Is there another deck that plays more like eggs with second sunrise?

>>44988593
with $50? You can buy one whole Karn

>>44988790
Not even

>>44988593
cheap sleeves and 3 draft admissions

>>44988624
>Decent

kek
Even the budget burn deck is more than $50

>>44988687
Just try Magic: Duels, its free to play

>>44988074
fucking nobody? seriously?

>>44988817
people just getting back into magic after a decade arent going to win tournaments, and yes, a decent deck goes for 50 dollars; he doesnt need a 300 dollar greed manabase

>>44988831
Burn isn't fun to talk about. It's also not complicated.

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thanks senpai

>>44988687
>tfw was thinking of buying a fat pack for Core 2015 or Zendikar block or something

>>44988667
but muh rares

>>44988870
yeah i just want to have fun at local friday night magic or something while also not having an auto-lose deck

>>44988593
Build a budget affinity deck, then save money to buy the expensive cards.

>>44988934
>It's also not complicated.
can this meme just die already. Just because the deck has a linear gameplan doesn't mean there can't be any depth in the deckbuilding and sideboarding aspects, the aspects with which all of my questions are concerned. You would know that if you read past the first line.

>>44988968
a cheap ish deck is mono green infect and you should be able to get most things for under 50.

anyone want to buy a UW sun titan/emeria deck?

>>44989037
can i see a list

>>44988968
you should consider the pauper general at >>44956749

most pauper decks run around 30/40 dollars, except for the burn decks, ironically

>>44989061
>>44989061
http://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=10539&d=260313&f=MO

It's this list, but I also have a playset of flickerwisps and other cards to play in the tapout version of the deck like Gideon and Phantasmal Image.

>>44988968
Better off buying a budget deck for standard then.

I think that Atarka Red may be pretty cheap overall without the fetches, atarka's Commands, ot abotts.

Alternatively: http://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/budget-magic-54-26-tix-standard-rallies

>>44987043
Twin has won ever PT.

There is no reason to play blue decks with twin around.

You are wrong. Ebin essay

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>>44988968
do you know what kind of deck you'd like to play?

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>>44989001

>>44988010

Because it doesn't hit other things but dorks and aggro.

... Wait.

>>44989150
>mfw there are mouthbreathers at my LGS who actually believe this

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>>44989062
>most pauper decks are $20-$40
>burn is $100
>mfw

this format seems interesting though, thanks

i-i'm not poor tho, $50 is just an entry point

>>44989150
>Twin has won ever PT.
Twin won the first modern PT and the last one. In between Eggs and UWR won.
>There is no reason to play blue decks with twin around.
False, there's no reason to play blue decks with Tron, Affinity, Burn, Infect, and Eldrazi in the format. The only way you could hope to beat them was by jamming Twin turn 4 and hoping it sticks.

Maybe EDH General is where you're supposed to be? You have about the same level of card quality and metagaming analysis as they do.

>>44989294
Chain lightning is in serious need of a reprint

>>44989294
Modern is not a good entry level format, even tier 2 decks will set you back hundreds of dollars.
What I would suggest is finding a janky brew that looks fun and taking it to an FNM, the level shouldn't be super high anyway unless your area is just that full of tryhards

>>44989150

>There is no reason to play blue decks with twin around.
>Theres no reason to play decks that only beat twin with twin around

>>44988074
1. RW is viable, but adding green gives you Atarka's Command and Destructive Revelry, which are two very powerful cards
2. I don't run Nacatls and I hate the idea of running them, but some people insist that its a "free" bolt. And yes they do get worse with these new Eldrazi decks running around.
3. I don't know how many lands you run, but at 20 lands I get to 3-4 mana on average within the span of a game, maybe even 5 mana.
Molten Rain is useful against the Tron matchup since it stops them from building Tron on time if they did not already have it out. It is also useful against Affinity and Infect for their manlands, and even Jund to disrupt their colors sometimes. Also it burns for 2 damage, and each point of damage is very, very important.
4. Still testing but I'll be running:
4x Destructive Revelry
3x Molten Rain
2x Path to Exile
2x Deflecting Palm
2x Kor Firewalker
1x Skullcrack
1x Searing Blaze
5. Google it, too long to type right now.

>>44984539
Oh fuck, this actually got a laugh out of me. Goddamn forced meme posters don't make this a legitimate Storm Crow 2.0.

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So I've been playing the orzhov eldrazi list with lingering souls and lili's, just put in the thought-knots and matter reshapers and they're ridiculous, and it did very good at out modern tournament last night 4-1

I'm thinking about trying to take out graveyard play though entirely. No stranglers, no sowers, no relics....put in reality smashers in place of sowers and then more hand disruption and spot removal instead of the rest. What do you think? Make the deck weaker or stronger?

>>44988593

Pauper

>>44983804
that'll teach you for having feelings, dingus

Any format where Blue is not the best colour is garbage

>>44989446
janky brew as in a deck thrown together from intro packs and boosters and cheap singles or something? that kind of thing is right up my alley

>>44989487
Midrage Eldrazi decks that ditch the processing entirely are already a thing, people have been brewing for a while.
Check out the mtgsalvation forums

>>44988934
>Not complicated

Every retard who has never played burn

>"b-b-but you just cast spells and count to 20!"

No, just shut the fuck up you don't know what you are talking about.

>>44989561
No, that will just get you a shitty standard deck.

I mean something like this:
http://www.gatheringmagic.com/kevincrimin-video-09192014-playing-on-a-budget-modern-necro-pile/

>>44987755
get fucked, memedern player

>>44989599
>Budget
>4 Inquisitions in the board

HAHA

NO

>>44987896
>rules-lawyered his way there
fuck yourself to death, scrub

this is competitive Magic, there is no fun here

>>44989456
When I say RW, I mean RWg with the splash for revelry. My question basically amounts to, what's worth more, the slight advantage offered by command, or the earier manabase/helixes?
I run 19 lands but I feel like I should maybe be running 20. The question is what to cut for another land; I'm thinking going down to 1 lavaman, but I'm not sure. Either way, I don't like the idea of trying to disrupt tron, I feel like we should just be trying to race them since it's already a favorable matchup. All they can hope to do against us is stick a wurmcoil, and we have paths, palms, and revelries to stop that.
My current board is as follows
4x Destructive Revelry
2x Path to Exile
2x Deflecting Palm
3x Kor Firewalker
2x Smash to Smithereens
2x Volcanic Fallout

>>44989623
It was made a while ago, it's still a relatively cheap deck

>>44985204
you would think that Wizards would at least be capable of simple logic though

>>44988431
except DTT is busted even without Twin as Legacy made blindly obvious

>>44985272
>all of them still banned
Big fucking help the Twin ban was for blue's playability in the format then

>>44985328
Dread Return is a meme, you dip

>>44989608

I'll feed on your tears once your deck si banned Memeskai player :)

>>44984759
>yfw they banned a red card and blue is so anemic it literally can't survive without cards from entirely different colours keeping it on life support

Thank you based Wizards for making the game heartofthecards.gif and the matchup lottery

Player skill is for trashy nerd games like chess and go, I just want to jam Karns and Ugins they're my favourite planeswalkers :^)

Turn 4 rule is the absolute most idiotic format guideline and anyone who thinks it isn't is probably inbred.

>>44984996
>counterspells
Wrong format, mate

>>44989795
The turn 4 rule is fine, the fact that they want it to be inconsistent for combo, a balance of archetypes and no deck overshadowing others is pants on head retarded

>>44989795
It's the power level I want, where games are long enough without devolving into standard awfulness

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I know it won't win a ton of games, but I wanna play this. Low-to-the ground combo/aggro is my jam.

>>44989857
Get some Painful Truths for god's sake

>>44989629
Commands are far better than the helixes imo.
Also keep in mind that against Tron they can just use Feed the Clan or Nature's Claim once they have a Wurmcoil out. Either can set you back a turn or two.

I'm not sure what your deck is running, but here is my decklist if you want to compare:
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/17-12-15-naya-burn/

>>44989857
Look up junk aristocrats you dip

>>44985030
>most decks can pack something that shuts them out post-sideboard pretty easily
Why are modern players always so incredibly stupid?
Like, I don't think there's a single other format with so incredibly idiotic (in general terms, not Magic) players. Hell, I don't think there's any competitive game with such moronic, brainless statements regurgitated all over every shit-covered website about the game.

No, you don't fucking win against Affinity with your retardedwhitejank.dec (á la >>44984996) just because you have fucking 4 Stony Silences in the board or whatever, hell you don't even necessarily stand a reasonable chance.

Your ability to survive against Affinity is predicated on you actually drawing your fucking hate, and all of you mouthbreathers conveniently ignore the fact that the guy on the other side doesn't just fucking lose if you jam your hate. He has a sideboard too, and because Affinity is actually powerful, it has a far more versatile sideboard. Affinity gets to tune its sideboard to answer the exact threats they know everyone else is running around with against their own deck, while you have to try and answer every degenerate deck in the format.

And even if you draw your hate, and they don't draw any of their myriad responses, you still haven't actually won, you've just slowed them down. Where's YOUR clock?

The way you mongoloids talk about sideboards would be relevant if it weren't for how oppressively poor WotC's decisions with regards to blue are. If decks had better card selection, MAYBE you could make a reactive deck instead of one of the degenerate synergy decks, but "muh storm is unfun".

>>44989972
>salt; the post

>>44986501
He is fabulous.

>>44989857
>Cut
4 Blisterpod
2 Bloodthrone Vampire
4 Collected Company
3 Satyr Wayfinder
2 Eternal Witness
4 Dryad Arbor
4 Sandsteppe Citadel

>Add
4 Voice of Resurgence
4 Young Wolf
2 Saffi Eriksdotter
1 Abzan Ascendancy
2 Saffi Eriksdotter
2 Cartel Artistocrat
4 Horizon Canopy
2 Viscera Seer
2 Orzhov Charm

Your mana base in general ain't that great.

>>44986338
Caw-blade back in Zen-Scars Standard

>>44990135
Cawblade was only 50% of standard? Lel you should try some Khans block constructed. Quite literally 70% of it is Siege Rhino.

Just play rdw in legacy m8. It's cheaper than modern burn.

>>44990135
Siege rhino in the top 8 of the photos when he just came out

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>>44989972

>>44990204
Kek/10

>play against scapeshit with hatebears
>pays the arbiter tax and plays scapeshit
>I blink arbiter with restoration angel.
>he scoops up his shit.

>>44987043
An argument that does make sense is that Twin was keeping crucial Blue cards (i.e. literally just Ponder and Preordain, as in card selection that doesn't suck ass) from being unbanned.

The argument falls flat when Ministers of Netanyahu didn't unban anything, the fucking pissants.

>>44990204
His post is right, you know. Affinity runs 4 copies of Thoughtseize in the board. It's basically the main reason why the deck survives post-board, despite being the most hated deck in the format.

>REB and UEB are printed in Shadows
How great would that be?

>>44989150
>There is no reason to play blue decks with twin around.
That simply means there's no reason to play any blue deck at all.

>>44990234
I'm just having a giggle

>>44988033
not really
it's just an absence of Sol+ lands, and people playing crappy high-mana cards instead of legacy-tier powerhouses

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>Wizards refuses to allow decent card selection in memedern
>Decide to run Serum Visions like everyone else, even though it's bad
>Already feel bad about dropping so much money on bad cards
>LGS only has these in stock

Wat do /tg/? Do I wait it out, or are you able to see past the obvious bukkake scene that's playing out before your naked eyes?

>>44988593
don't buy anything
Magic sucks
if you can find anyone you can play Pauper with, do that

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In a world without Cryptic Command, what would you run instead?

>>44989294
Pauper is a hundred times more powerful and fun than Modern.

Being cheap is just an additional bonus.

>>44990374
Myself.

Into the ground.

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>>44990374
I forgot one oops.

>>44990290
Stax is like miracles in that it preys upon people playing low cost high impact spells. Trinisphere does nothing against a b/g/x deck when it comes down t3 at the earliest.

Thorn doesn't effect the most importantcard type for modern, but does cripple the most important card types in legacy.

Tax effects need to come out early to have an effect, which can't happen in modern.

Finally, modern lacks a critical mass of spheres, and smokestack itself.

>>44990374
Why would I use a bad card? None of those do anything close to what Cryptic does.

>>44990374
B/G/X

>>44989854
>implying
Legacy games last far more turns than Modern, and with far more interactivity.

Setting a win-limit before turn 4 is arbitrary. The problem with Modern is that no decks have any interactivity so it's all just goldfish vs. solitaire and in that situation turn 4 makes you and other casuals feel like you had a chance "if only you'd drawn a little more" or "just one more turn"

It doesn't matter if a deck doesn't beat the shit out of the format 90% of the time at turn 24 by putting an inescapable lock that just takes a while to finish (Lantern Control-style, though obviously Lantern Control isn't oppressive or broken) or turn 1.
You're still losing, speed shouldn't matter.

If a deck wins all the games it wins by turn 2, but only has like a fucking 10% winrate if the enemy has ANY interactivity (Belcher), it's a shit deck and the turn 4 rule banning it out is dumb.


I'm not against the Turn 4 Rule as it is implemented, necessarily, but just against the principle of using it as a guideline.

>>44990204
Do you have a userscript that links to magic cards on 4chan? What with Stony Silence being in italics?
If so I'd like its name if you don't mind, please.

>>44990507
I don't care what arguments you make, when decks like Oops All Spells exist and can kill you before you even get to have your turn
That's not the kind of Magic I want to play

>>44990534
Autocardanywhere

>>44990168
I haven't played Magic for a while, but from my understanding Siege Rhino was played in a variety of decks? In Standard, at least, Block Constructed has always been a joke.

Caw-blade was literally always 4xJace, 4xSFM, 4xSquadron Hawk, a Batterskull and Sword of Feast and Famine, and then you built from there

A dominant 4-card package vs. a 14-card-minimum-nonland package is a pretty big difference, but of course I don't know how Siege Rhino was in Standard

>>44989886
Gotcha brah.

>>44989935
I'm looking towards Next Level Abzan instead.

>>44990103
Nah Brah.

>>44990397
This desu senpai.

>>44990434
>Trinisphere does nothing against a b/g/x deck when it comes down t3 at the earliest
That's literally what I said so I'm not sure if you're just expanding on my point or what
An absence of Sol lands makes it useless in the matchups where it'd be strong because it's too slow, and there are far too many matchups where it does fuck-all

The absence of redundancy and synergistic things like Tangle Wire (and the eponymous Smokestacks) is secondary. It's unplayable first and foremost because the cards can't be cheated out, and even if they could there would be too many decks that'd take a big chili shit all over your cardboard. Even with all the other Stax tools it'd be an anime.me deck.

>>44990595
People like to say that Siege Rhino is run in lots of different decks. In reality all of those decks play the exact same way; tap out for your dumb value creatures.

>>44990596
If you ever want to win I'd recommend doing it. When Blisterpod dies, it leaves a 1/1 behind. When Young Wolf dies, it leaves a 2/2 behind. You wanted a low to the ground aggro deck right? When Saffi Eriksdotter dies, she leaves behind not just one token, but two. How great is that?

>>44990234
Most lists i've seen only play 2 TS in the side, along with 2 Spell Pierces. The point still stands however.

>>44990435
That's the point. Where does a control player go if Cryptic command was never printed. More Rune Snags and Mana leaks? Does control just cease to exist?

>>44988968
mono-green infect. stompy, and budget burn are all decent budget lists for modern. you can also check MTGGoldfish, they have a pretty decent series on budget modern/standard decks

>>44990331
>FNM promo Serum Visions almost cheaper than normal Fifth Dawn ones

fucking kek

>>44990564
This is why I'm glad modern players don't play legacy. Boo hoo.

Turn 1 combo decks are the easiest to disrupt. Spell pierce, force of Will, daze all just win you the game basically.

>>44990251
not great.

>>44990712
Go back to your legacy thread then

>>44990703
There's about as many copies of Fifth Dawn Visions out there as there are Voice of Resurgences, iirc.

>>44989294
the problem with pauper is if you buy paper you'll likely have difficulty finding people to play with, bu if you find that community, or plan on playing online, go right ahead

>>44990374
Ojutai's command is underrated.

Also, I like Logic Knot.

>>44990374
Tron

>>44990696
I'm sorry are you in the wrong thread? I'm not sure what this "control" you speak of is. Some kind of brew based on Annex or Mind Control?

>>44990204
>Needing to have sideboard cards against affinity
I play terminate, bolt, Kommand and abrupt decay maindeck, good luck

>>44990779
That makes me want to see an Eminent Domain brew for Modern

#FuckTron

>>44990728
Fifth Dawn had such small print run?

>>44990712
> in response of your combo, i cast FoW
> I FoW your FoW, and then win
Shit kind of game ever

>>44990374
Closest to utility is probably Ojutai's Command, but you would probably have to build a deck around it.

Otherwise you put your Nope on the best alternative if yo want a cantrip.

>>44990721
Nah, spelunking in the dank caves of memedern is my favourite pastime.

It's like watching videos of Russian slums with people falling apart from krokodil and such, while they're worrying mostly about which color syringe they should jab into their eyeballs

>>44990826
Its really unfortunate that we got Contradict instead of Dismiss.

>>44990824
>the belcher deck somehow has 4 Lotus Petals, a Charbelcher, Force of Will, a random blue card and also in some strange way a Black Lotus to go off before your first land drop

nice meme, kid

>>44983085
So is eldrazi no longer just a meme deck? is it here to stay?

I have eldrazi parts and I dunno whether to sell them now or keeps

>>44990871
>Dismiss isn't Modern legal

Well Shit.

Mana leak exists then

>>44990564
Why are you playing Modern then? Game is decided as soon as the players are done shuffling. Decisionmaking is nonexistent.

Combo is 2 of the top 18 decks in Legacy.

>>44990824
You've never played legacy, or even looked at a decklist, have you? Enjoy your turbogoldfish tournament

>>44990824
Losing on the first turn in Legacy is quite rare. it happens, but it's really not a big deal.

>>44990588
Danke, senpai

>>44990941
I told someone I play legacy, they look at me weird. "Legacy? Isn't that just a bunch of grindy control mirrors?" they say. I knee-jerk react "No that's actually really- wait yeah, that's pretty much spot on."

>>44990938
I play miracles. And if y mull to 5 and don't have FoW i lose. Or i have FoW and then they have it too. Legacy has too much difference in posee if you are on the draw or on the play

>>44990999
That pretty much is exactly what Legacy is if you play a tier 1 deck, and it's great

If you don't like Blue (what the fuck is wrong with you), you can play Enchantress or Elves or I dunno I guess people like Burn? Get out of my fucking face you miscolored pleb

>>44990374
Familiar's Ruse looks like the most fun, even if it's hot garbage.
I want to cast it returning a snapcaster, and then next turn cast snappy, snap it back and return snappy.

But honestly, probably none of those.

>>44990999
That sounds better than a bunch of counting to X mirrors.

Fact: every top deck in modern is just a counting things deck.

Tron counts to 3, then 8, then Karn.
Affinity, Burn, etc, all try to count backwards from 20.
Infect counts to 10.
Twin didn't count things as much. It was a nice, non counting things deck. And it got banned.

>>44991007
>I play Miracles on Cockatrice
fixed that for you

>>44991007
There isn't a single turn 1 combo deck that runs FoW. Yes, a sneak and show nut draw is going to beat you. That's going to happen once in a great while. You Seriously don't play miracles, that deck has an amazing matchup against all the turn1 decks.

>>44991066
top kek

Sorry if this question comes up a lot.

I'm fucking sick of Hearhstone and decided to pick up a much better game. What format should I look into, and if possible, what colors would I want my deck to be built around for something like control warrior (which builds up a huge shield and can recover from board wipes by stalling with minions that give temporary HP)?

>>44991068
Xmage, i like it automathized

>>44991007
you're probably the kind of guy who thinks FoW is a good card

I'm not sure if you're mulling to 5 to look for FoW (in which case you're retarded) or just complaining that a mull to 5 sets you back in a control deck (in which case ????)

>>44991181
Seriously, in modern if you mull to 5 you just lose. I'm ok with that game being over in one turn rather than 5

>>44991135
>I'm fucking sick of Hearhstone and decided to pick up a much better game
So what are you doing in this thread?

>>44991135
>hearthstone
jej, going to that after magic was like going from csgo to doom 1

sounds like maybe white+green would be the colour for you but you'd have to look around and get familiar, game's pretty deep

http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=11378&f=MO

First MTGO event after the Twin ban, and oh look, half of the top 6 is Affinity.

>>44991285
>Allies deck

Wut

>>44991285
To be fair, it probably would have been before the twin ban too.

>>44991181
I don't like FoW but the options are: don't mulligan and loose to belcher/oops all spells or mulligan and get behind in card advantage. the thing is worst if you don't know the deck your oponent plays. A format that is glued by FoW, the only police card, that's legacy.

>>44991135
Pauper if you care about dumb shit like not supporting Israel or owning property, or being able to eat things better than canned beans because you didn't waste $2000 on magic cardboard

Legacy if you have an active hatred of money and good fiscal sense, and additionally get an enormous rageboner when your method of winning is preventing your opponent from even playing. Alternatively, if you're 50 years old.

Standard if you're 12 and like hippos and rhinos and I dunno, squids. It also helps if you have Down's.

Vintage if you just robbed a bank, won the lottery, or were born with the curse of perpetually shitting molten gold

Modern if you really want to play Hearthstone, but are afraid of being called a nerd for playing with pixel cards instead of real bona-fide magic cardboard dollar bills, and don't mind playing something somehow even dumber than Hearthstone. Also more expensive than Hearthstone despite not having any randomness in acquiring good cards.

All cost concerns can be brushed aside if you're Chinese, though.
:^)

>>44991335
You're complaining about the least consistent decks in the format. I play ANT, not a FoW deck. I play against belcher every week, and it loses to itself more often then it loses to force.

>>44991335
>ever caring about Belcher
here's how a Legacy tournament goes

>R1 G1, matched against Belcher
>keep solid hand without FoW because you're not retarded and try to play around a deck that makes up .005% of the metagame and is garbage
>lose
>G2, G3
>win in 10 minutes because Belcher is a garbage deck that loses if you so much as cough in its direction, spend rest of the time jerking off in the bathroom
>Every Round After 1st
>stop caring about Belcher rest of tournament because it will go 0-X and you will never get paired against it

>>44991285
>Junk
>CoCo
>Allies
>Scapeshift
what
why are people playing shit decks

>>44991427
Alternately, they drop 8 goblins turn 1-2. You miracle a terminus and they can never recover.

>>44991478
or you Flusterstorm their Warrens
or Mindbreak Trap if you're not blue/don't have any lands in play
or any of the other thousands of answers that can just lie on the board instead of having to be in your hand, even if you're not Miracles, the deck that cannot ever lose to something as dumb as a turn 1/turn 2 deck in a format that has actual interactivity instead of trash like Remand

I seriously don't get how