Hi everyone. Here is the deal. I just broke my hiatus on playing Magic - I've been out of the game for a while. My friend tells me that the modern meta at our LGS is mostly:
Burn, Infect, Jund, Fish, GR Tron, UWR, Living End, Borderpost Balance, Storm, Twin
I get that this isn't super specific, but it covers pretty much everyone.
So here are my biases right now, and I am hoping you can help me make something good that sates my cravings:
-I would really like to be playing Vedalken Shackles
-I would really like to be playing Trinket Mage with a nice piece of hate for all of the decks mentioned above
-I'd like to be playing a copy of Crucible of Worlds
-I'd like to be playing a copy of Trading Post
-I'd like to keep it as close to mono blue as possible
-I don't want to buy Tarmogoyfs or Vendilion Cliques
Overall, here is a list of cards I think I could start building the deck around:
I'll post a sample decklist and some justifications or ideas about the card choices once I have thought about this a little more. Thanks in advance for the help!
Burn, Infect, Jund, Fish, GR Tron, UWR, Living End, Borderpost Balance, Storm, Twin
I get that this isn't super specific, but it covers pretty much everyone.
So here are my biases right now, and I am hoping you can help me make something good that sates my cravings:
-I would really like to be playing Vedalken Shackles
-I would really like to be playing Trinket Mage with a nice piece of hate for all of the decks mentioned above
-I'd like to be playing a copy of Crucible of Worlds
-I'd like to be playing a copy of Trading Post
-I'd like to keep it as close to mono blue as possible
-I don't want to buy Tarmogoyfs or Vendilion Cliques
Overall, here is a list of cards I think I could start building the deck around:
Land:
Island
Darksteel Citadel
Academy Ruins
Ghost Quarter
Miren, the Moaning Well
A fetch land
Phyrexia's Core
Radiant Fountain
Tolaria West
Trinket Mage Targets:
Elixir of Immortality
Engineered Explosives
Chalice of the Void
Relic of Progenitus
Grafdigger's Cage
Pithing Needle
Expedition Map
Orochi Hatchery
Everflowing Chalice
Larger artifacts:
Vedalken Shackles
Crucible of Worlds
Trading Post
Creatures:
Spellskite
Trinket Mage
Solemn Simulacrum
Wurmcoil Engine
Snapcaster Mage
Other Spells:
Thirst for Knowledge
Counterspells (Remand, Mana Leak, Cryptic Command, Spell Snare, Rune Snag, etc)
Other blue control spells
I'll post a sample decklist and some justifications or ideas about the card choices once I have thought about this a little more. Thanks in advance for the help!
U Tron
U Faeries
Trinket Mage/Shackles
EDH:
Teferi
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/developing-competitive-modern/558912-ub-tezzeret-agent-of-bolas-control
Here are two establish decks that are exactly what you described you wanted to play, I suggest you read up on these two forums. I played the mono blue tezz version for a long time it was super fun, but I felt it fell out of favor when pod got banned just because gbx and splintertwin where a hard match for my version of the deck. I feel that anything I say will not be as useful as that is in here so read these, but I will say that you need ensnaring bridge