This thread is meant to help new players who have decided to build a Modern deck after opening some MM 2017 packs, by telling them what decks they can work towards building with the cards they've opened. The experienced players either already have the cards they need, or know what decks they can build.
Please keep the following in mind:
- You will have to buy cards from other sets to complete your deck.
- Tiers exist. If you care about winning, do your own research to find out if the decks are competitive enough for you. I put the more competitive decks in the main spoiler and the lower-tier/unconventional ones under "Honorable Mentions".
- Any card listed as "staple" or "SB card" is played in a wide variety of decks. I'm not going to list out all decks that use those cards, for the sake of brevity. You don't have to build a deck just because you opened a staple; you can sell/trade it for other cards that you want and work with those instead. Since it's a staple, finding a counterparty should not be too hard.
- The cards don't appear with equal frequency in the decks that they're played in. SB cards and high-CMC cards usually don't appear as 4-ofs. Ranger of Eos, for example, is only a 1-of in Death's Shadow Jund.
- Don't fixate on one deck just because you opened one card that it plays. This is the equivalent of getting "married to your first pick", to use the Limited expression. If you open a Tarmogoyf, you might be thinking "hah, I'm on my way to a full Jund deck now". The truth is you're still 3 Goyfs, 4 Bobs, 4 Lilianas, and Lord knows how many lands away from Jund. To make matters worse, Jund is not a deck that easily accepts budget substitutes - "I'll just play Glint-Sleeve Siphoner until I get my Bobs" doesn't work. Not to put you off playing Jund, but just know what you're getting into if you decide to build it.
- Don't let commons/uncommons dictate what you build. Most of the value in any given deck lies in the rares and mythics. To continue the Jund example, if you open a bunch of Terminates and Inquisition of Kozilek, you're still a long way off building it.
For new players, if they are in white they should play 4 path to exile. It will help them awnser most threats.
If they are in black, they should play 4 inquesition of Kozilek.
If they are in blue they should play 4 serum visions.
One of the cheapest decks you can build is gifts storm. The only card not reprinted is manamorphose. Pick up 4 balars from standar. For the manabase, storm can really survive on most nudget cards. Shivan reef comes to mind. (Gift Storm is an established deck, you should google it. It is fun to play, but boring to play against. Byer beware.)
Signets are good for aceleration and manafix if you as a new player. Especially if you have a big mana curve, as most new players decks do.
If your deck can run and support 4 blood moon, you will get a lot of 'free winn' from opponents who get mana screwed, while you are prepeared for it. Particularly with signets.
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Please keep the following in mind:
- You will have to buy cards from other sets to complete your deck.
- Tiers exist. If you care about winning, do your own research to find out if the decks are competitive enough for you. I put the more competitive decks in the main spoiler and the lower-tier/unconventional ones under "Honorable Mentions".
- Any card listed as "staple" or "SB card" is played in a wide variety of decks. I'm not going to list out all decks that use those cards, for the sake of brevity. You don't have to build a deck just because you opened a staple; you can sell/trade it for other cards that you want and work with those instead. Since it's a staple, finding a counterparty should not be too hard.
- The cards don't appear with equal frequency in the decks that they're played in. SB cards and high-CMC cards usually don't appear as 4-ofs. Ranger of Eos, for example, is only a 1-of in Death's Shadow Jund.
- Don't fixate on one deck just because you opened one card that it plays. This is the equivalent of getting "married to your first pick", to use the Limited expression. If you open a Tarmogoyf, you might be thinking "hah, I'm on my way to a full Jund deck now". The truth is you're still 3 Goyfs, 4 Bobs, 4 Lilianas, and Lord knows how many lands away from Jund. To make matters worse, Jund is not a deck that easily accepts budget substitutes - "I'll just play Glint-Sleeve Siphoner until I get my Bobs" doesn't work. Not to put you off playing Jund, but just know what you're getting into if you decide to build it.
- Don't let commons/uncommons dictate what you build. Most of the value in any given deck lies in the rares and mythics. To continue the Jund example, if you open a bunch of Terminates and Inquisition of Kozilek, you're still a long way off building it.
Flickerwisp: Death and Taxes
Intangible Virtue: BW Tokens
Lingering Souls: staple
Path to Exile: staple
Ranger of Eos: Death's Shadow Jund, Martyr Proc
Restoration Angel: Kiki Chord, Death and Taxes, Jeskai/UW midrange/control
Stony Silence: SB card against Affinity
Phantasmal Image: Merfolk, Bant Spirits
Gifts Ungiven: Storm
Serum Visions: staple
Snapcaster Mage: staple
Spell Pierce: staple
Temporal Mastery: Taking Turns
Damnation: SB card, also Bring to Light Scapeshift
Death's Shadow: Death's Shadow Jund
Griselbrand: Grishoalbrand, Grixis Reanimator
Inquisition of Kozilek: staple
Liliana of the Veil: staple
Ancient Grudge: SB card
Blood Moon: SB card
Goblin Guide: Burn, Bushwhacker Zoo
Past in Flames: Storm
Pyroclasm: SB card. Maindeck in RG Tron
Scourge Devil: Dredge
Explore: Titanshift
Might of Old Krosa: Infect
Scavenging Ooze: staple
Seal of Primordium: SB card
Tarmogoyf: staple
Thragtusk: SB card
Abrupt Decay: staple. SB card for Dredge and Abzan Company
Ghor-Clan Rampager: Death's Shadow Jund, Bushwhacker Zoo
Goblin Electromancer: Storm
Izzet Charm: Grixis Reanimator, Scapeshift
Sin Collector: SB card for Abzan Company, Eldrazi and Taxes
Sphinx's Revelation: UWx control
Terminate: staple
Unflinching Courage: Bogles
Voice of Resurgence: Abzan Company, Knightfall, Naya Company, Kiki Chord
Burning-Tree Emissary: Bushwhacker Zoo, Genesis Wave
Basilisk Collar: Eldrazi Tron
Grafdigger's Cage: SB card
Fetchlands: staple
Cavern of Souls: Bant Eldrazi, Merfolk, Elves, Amulet
Linvala, Keeper of Silence: SB card for some Chord/Company decks
Lone Missionary: Kiki Chord, UW Emeria
Soul Warden: Soul Sisters, Norin Sisters
Cyclonic Rift: Mono-U Tron
Mystical Teachings: some Ad Nauseam builds
Unburial Rites: some Gifts control decks
Bonfire of the Damned: RG Ponza
Magma Jet: Skred Red
Molten Rain: SB card, mostly for Skred Red
Craterhoof Behemoth: Genesis Wave
Harmonize: Tooth and Nail
Primal Command: RG Ponza, Genesis Wave, Tooth and Nail
Summoning Trap: some RG valakut decks
Domri Rade: some Zoo decks
Olivia Voldaren: SB card for Jund
Boros Reckoner: some Skred Red builds
Sundering Growth: SB card for BW Tokens, Martyr Proc
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If they are in black, they should play 4 inquesition of Kozilek.
If they are in blue they should play 4 serum visions.
One of the cheapest decks you can build is gifts storm. The only card not reprinted is manamorphose. Pick up 4 balars from standar. For the manabase, storm can really survive on most nudget cards. Shivan reef comes to mind. (Gift Storm is an established deck, you should google it. It is fun to play, but boring to play against. Byer beware.)
Signets are good for aceleration and manafix if you as a new player. Especially if you have a big mana curve, as most new players decks do.
If your deck can run and support 4 blood moon, you will get a lot of 'free winn' from opponents who get mana screwed, while you are prepeared for it. Particularly with signets.