Tireless tracker might be worth testing but I think in almost every case I'd rather be casting a Courser.
Abrupt decay is in my sideboard for matchups that Maelstrom Pulse is just too slow but I think there are enough 4+ mana problem permanents that aren't cleanly dealt with through Kcommand and Lightning Bolt to justify Maelstrom Pulse. Almost every threat in Tron, Nahiri, Thought-knot seer, Reality Smasher, Primeval Titan. Plus it can be recast with Goblin Dark-Dwellers, in which case Maelstrom Pulse is strictly better.
I have a couple Thrun in the sideboard for control matchups. Hasn't been relevant so far but he will be at some point
Domri Rade's +1 does miss somewhat often if he's alone but with Courser, Chandra, Duskwatch Recruiter, and shuffle effects I can pretty reliably manipulate the top of the deck to get value from it. And even if I can't, the ult is pretty threatening and demands an answer before he gets there. I've won quite a few games by ulting him and following up with a trample, double strike, hexproof, haste Goblin Dark-Dwellers. That's not to say that something else wouldn't be better but he's certainly been pulling his weight.
glad to see the list still gets some love its late tonight so tomorrow ill post your deck lists into the primer..
on a side note ive been busy testing prison rock and ran into a brew that rocked my world tonight. but again thanks for the support and ill cite your contributions.
Tireless tracker might be worth testing but I think in almost every case I'd rather be casting a Courser.
Abrupt decay is in my sideboard for matchups that Maelstrom Pulse is just too slow but I think there are enough 4+ mana problem permanents that aren't cleanly dealt with through Kcommand and Lightning Bolt to justify Maelstrom Pulse. Almost every threat in Tron, Nahiri, Thought-knot seer, Reality Smasher, Primeval Titan. Plus it can be recast with Goblin Dark-Dwellers, in which case Maelstrom Pulse is strictly better.
I have a couple Thrun in the sideboard for control matchups. Hasn't been relevant so far but he will be at some point
Domri Rade's +1 does miss somewhat often if he's alone but with Courser, Chandra, Duskwatch Recruiter, and shuffle effects I can pretty reliably manipulate the top of the deck to get value from it. And even if I can't, the ult is pretty threatening and demands an answer before he gets there. I've won quite a few games by ulting him and following up with a trample, double strike, hexproof, haste Goblin Dark-Dwellers. That's not to say that something else wouldn't be better but he's certainly been pulling his weight.
are you playing paper or online? what do you find the deck struggles against?
Hi, love the idea behind the deck. My list is so far incomplete though.
4x Birds of Paradise
2x Elvish Mystic
(to ensure turn two domri or courser)
4x Abbot of Keral Keep (not only card advantage, but also useful prowess with all those one mans spells below)
4x Scavenging Ooze (or goyf;best would be Grim Flayer if RG. However, Ooze works nicely with looting your mana dorks and other oozes later.)
4x Courser of Kruphix
4x Lightning Bolt
4x Flame Slash
4x Oath of Nissa (if on top of the library is non-creature or non-land)
4x Faithless Looting (same as oath, also rids late game mana dorks or redundant walkers and oozes for spells)
3x Domri Rade
2x Arlinn Kord (not sure about her)
21 lands (with 6 mana dorks and 4 oaths should be enough)
Any comments are greatly appreciated as I am really not sure about it.
Been playing online, don't have the cards in paper to test there yet. Honestly, I can't think of anything that was particularly problematic but that probably just means it needs more testing. Maybe combo kills like scapeshift would be rough depending on how much life I can get from the coursers. I'll try to get more games with my version to figure out what it doesn't do so well against.
Yeah magma jet is great for setting up you next draw I was just thinking about my build with the hefty 6 mana inferno titatn but you highest is only 4 cmc so yeah magma jet is better..
Running both seems okay you may just have to test it. In my own build I had the issue of too many high drops making abbot hard to use.
You may just have to test and brew until you feel happy with it. I'm certainly no expert so I don't have all the answers.
Played a version of the deck last night at weekly modern ended up 2-2 but all very close matches and a very fun deck to play. First I will go over my list and my reasoning behind the choices and then I will go over my matchups and what felt good and what felt bad.
Main deck:
4 Birds of Paradise Ramping / Turn 1 Play
3 Duskwatch Recruiter Card advantage / Draws removal to help me land later threats
4 Courser of Kruphix Card adavantage / Big butt blocker
2 Eternal Witness Recursion
3 Huntmaster of the Fells Stabilization / Can close out games on its own
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar Red lingering souls, Over performed for me. In my initial list it was a Thrun but the shop didnt have one. I would recommend this card highly
3 Goblin Dark-Dwellers Recursion engine
2 Inferno Titan Big fatty that usually enters and gets one or two creatures out of the way / Win con
4 Lightning Bolt Duh
2 Atarka's command I used the card mostly to bolt then pump my team in combat, Feeling underwhelmed by the card so far
4 Searing Blaze Removal / Burn, This cards is gas. I was never unhappy to see it and it can help close a game with killing a block and bolting an opponents face
3 Domri Rade Fight night / Draw spell Also my favorite planeswalker of all time. Very happy to be playing it in modern
1 Beast Within Similar story as the Pia This was suppose to be a Arlinn Kord but the shop was out. Not thrilled about this card main deck.
Sideboard:
3 Nature's Claim Fight against all the bogles and affinity players at my LGS,
3 Relic of Progenitus Graveyard hate / Cantrip
2 Crumble to dust Scapeshift hate for local meta
2 Beast Within Helps in matchups with non-creature based wincons
3 Anger of the Gods Sided out a number of birds and duskwatch to bring these in against Elves and Zoo
2 Dragon's claw Burn mirror
9-1-2016 Weekly modern
Round 1: Bogles WIN 2-1
Very close games post board. Beast within and Nature's claim over performed. Searing blaze was easy to cut, and Trimmed a Domri Rade. Felt like a winnable matchup but in the Bogles favor.
Round 2: LOST 4 Color Delver 0-2
Weird brew by a friend, his Remand on my turn 3 and 4 plays won him a game. After board his Goyfs got there and I had no fight against his deck.
Round 3: WIN Burn 2-0
Game one was very close and interactive game, I ended the game at one life. Courser of Kruphix was a life savor in the matchup. Game two he was mana screwed
Round 4: LOST Abzan Evolution 1-2 Sigarda, Host of Herons is why I lost this matchup. If this card wasn't in the deck I would of won 2-0
I'm glad the deck has received love and grateful for the post sorry I n havnt been around too edit the deck lists a bit.on the issuemadcap experiment I think there are prolly many diffrent variants of this deck we could build similar to how there were many splinter twin builds
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Abrupt decay is in my sideboard for matchups that Maelstrom Pulse is just too slow but I think there are enough 4+ mana problem permanents that aren't cleanly dealt with through Kcommand and Lightning Bolt to justify Maelstrom Pulse. Almost every threat in Tron, Nahiri, Thought-knot seer, Reality Smasher, Primeval Titan. Plus it can be recast with Goblin Dark-Dwellers, in which case Maelstrom Pulse is strictly better.
I have a couple Thrun in the sideboard for control matchups. Hasn't been relevant so far but he will be at some point
Domri Rade's +1 does miss somewhat often if he's alone but with Courser, Chandra, Duskwatch Recruiter, and shuffle effects I can pretty reliably manipulate the top of the deck to get value from it. And even if I can't, the ult is pretty threatening and demands an answer before he gets there. I've won quite a few games by ulting him and following up with a trample, double strike, hexproof, haste Goblin Dark-Dwellers. That's not to say that something else wouldn't be better but he's certainly been pulling his weight.
on a side note ive been busy testing prison rock and ran into a brew that rocked my world tonight. but again thanks for the support and ill cite your contributions.
are you playing paper or online? what do you find the deck struggles against?
I've loved Arlin in my build!
Duskwatch Recruiter is really good I honestly recommend him over Abbot.
Oath of Nissa seems good helps a lot with synergy.
from what ive seen Grim Flayer seems amazing if splashing black.
does anyone think Decimator of the Provinces is a playable card?
ALSO atarka's command
Running both seems okay you may just have to test it. In my own build I had the issue of too many high drops making abbot hard to use.
You may just have to test and brew until you feel happy with it. I'm certainly no expert so I don't have all the answers.
Main deck:
4 Birds of Paradise Ramping / Turn 1 Play
3 Duskwatch Recruiter Card advantage / Draws removal to help me land later threats
4 Courser of Kruphix Card adavantage / Big butt blocker
2 Eternal Witness Recursion
3 Huntmaster of the Fells Stabilization / Can close out games on its own
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar Red lingering souls, Over performed for me. In my initial list it was a Thrun but the shop didnt have one. I would recommend this card highly
3 Goblin Dark-Dwellers Recursion engine
2 Inferno Titan Big fatty that usually enters and gets one or two creatures out of the way / Win con
4 Lightning Bolt Duh
2 Atarka's command I used the card mostly to bolt then pump my team in combat, Feeling underwhelmed by the card so far
4 Searing Blaze Removal / Burn, This cards is gas. I was never unhappy to see it and it can help close a game with killing a block and bolting an opponents face
3 Domri Rade Fight night / Draw spell Also my favorite planeswalker of all time. Very happy to be playing it in modern
1 Beast Within Similar story as the Pia This was suppose to be a Arlinn Kord but the shop was out. Not thrilled about this card main deck.
3 Cinder Blade Thought this would be helpful to the mana base as a turn one fetch if I didnt have a bird or bolt, Really unhappy with the land
5 Forest
4 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard:
3 Nature's Claim Fight against all the bogles and affinity players at my LGS,
3 Relic of Progenitus Graveyard hate / Cantrip
2 Crumble to dust Scapeshift hate for local meta
2 Beast Within Helps in matchups with non-creature based wincons
3 Anger of the Gods Sided out a number of birds and duskwatch to bring these in against Elves and Zoo
2 Dragon's claw Burn mirror
9-1-2016 Weekly modern
Round 1: Bogles WIN 2-1
Very close games post board. Beast within and Nature's claim over performed. Searing blaze was easy to cut, and Trimmed a Domri Rade. Felt like a winnable matchup but in the Bogles favor.
Round 2: LOST 4 Color Delver 0-2
Weird brew by a friend, his Remand on my turn 3 and 4 plays won him a game. After board his Goyfs got there and I had no fight against his deck.
Round 3: WIN Burn 2-0
Game one was very close and interactive game, I ended the game at one life. Courser of Kruphix was a life savor in the matchup. Game two he was mana screwed
Round 4: LOST Abzan Evolution 1-2
Sigarda, Host of Herons is why I lost this matchup. If this card wasn't in the deck I would of won 2-0
Either as an early 8/8 trampler or distribute the counters to Thrun, BoP or GDD.
Nissa, Vital Force is a very powerful PW for this deck.