See, I'm having the opposite issue. The games that I lose, more often than not, are games where I get a lock started with RB, and then sort of fumble trying to find a way to close out the game before my opponent can get out of the lock and rebuild.
Thus, the need for more digging pieces. And Supreme Will digs 4 cards deep. It is also a reason I run 4 of Cast Out, because not only it is removal, but it has cycling to smooth our draws.
Any suggestions on cuts? I think I'd want to start by running 2 copies of SW. I could cut Keranos, but I'd still need to cut one more card. My list is posted a few comments back.
I'd try cutting one of those Bant Charms, or cut both and retain Keranos, God of Storms in the main. The list is so tight that I really don't have a concrete idea what to cut.
I'd be ok trying to cut one Bant Charm, maybe. But I just couldn't see myself dropping them both. Having something in the MB to deal with Chalice on 0 is too important (other than BW). I'll give -1 Bant Charm, -1 Keranos, +2 Supreme Will a try.
I actually used the "counter target instant" mode for the first time this past weekend. I was playing against affinity and threatening an ult with Nahiri. The opponent top deck'd Galvanic Blast, aimed it at Nahiri, and I countered with Bant Charm. The tuck a creature mode I use quite a bit, though.
I can think of maybe once where the color intensity prevented me from using the Charm when I needed it, but it's probably happened a few times. That's the card's biggest down side.
I'm a bit of a data nerd and so have been recording all of my games since I picked up the deck. I'm currently sitting at a 46% win rate after 113 games (52-60-1) which I'm somewhat happy with considering it's a fringe deck and I'm a mediocre player. It's not the best data, since it's a collection of MTGO friendly and competitive leagues, FNMs at my LGS, and a few SCG events. Would people be interested in seeing my data with a bit of analysis?
I'm a bit of a data nerd and so have been recording all of my games since I picked up the deck. I'm currently sitting at a 46% win rate after 113 games (52-60-1) which I'm somewhat happy with considering it's a fringe deck and I'm a mediocre player. It's not the best data, since it's a collection of MTGO friendly and competitive leagues, FNMs at my LGS, and a few SCG events. Would people be interested in seeing my data with a bit of analysis?
I tend to be a bit busy, so i don’t know if I’ll get the time to, but I’d love to try! How much detail is in your data? One thing I really want to see is how your mainboard Leylines and Blood Moons affect your results.
I'm a bit of a data nerd and so have been recording all of my games since I picked up the deck. I'm currently sitting at a 46% win rate after 113 games (52-60-1) which I'm somewhat happy with considering it's a fringe deck and I'm a mediocre player. It's not the best data, since it's a collection of MTGO friendly and competitive leagues, FNMs at my LGS, and a few SCG events. Would people be interested in seeing my data with a bit of analysis?
I tend to be a bit busy, so i don’t know if I’ll get the time to, but I’d love to try! How much detail is in your data? One thing I really want to see is how your mainboard Leylines and Blood Moons affect your results.
Unfortunately not a ton of detail, at least not as far as when changes in my list go. I just haven't found a good way to track it. The big issue is that I'm often making a lot of small changes to the list, so it's hard to know what changes are actually affecting the numbers. Also, Blood Moon has been a staple in my mainboard since day 1 (though I did move 1 to the SB at some point).
If I had all the time in the world, I could try to be more scientific and run a set number of games with and without a certain change. Unfortunately, I don't think I have that kind of time on my hands haha. If I do manage to try something like that, would mainboard vs sideboard Leylines be the test you're most interested in seeing?
I'm a bit of a data nerd and so have been recording all of my games since I picked up the deck. I'm currently sitting at a 46% win rate after 113 games (52-60-1) which I'm somewhat happy with considering it's a fringe deck and I'm a mediocre player. It's not the best data, since it's a collection of MTGO friendly and competitive leagues, FNMs at my LGS, and a few SCG events. Would people be interested in seeing my data with a bit of analysis?
I tend to be a bit busy, so i don’t know if I’ll get the time to, but I’d love to try! How much detail is in your data? One thing I really want to see is how your mainboard Leylines and Blood Moons affect your results.
Unfortunately not a ton of detail, at least not as far as when changes in my list go. I just haven't found a good way to track it. The big issue is that I'm often making a lot of small changes to the list, so it's hard to know what changes are actually affecting the numbers. Also, Blood Moon has been a staple in my mainboard since day 1 (though I did move 1 to the SB at some point).
If I had all the time in the world, I could try to be more scientific and run a set number of games with and without a certain change. Unfortunately, I don't think I have that kind of time on my hands haha. If I do manage to try something like that, would mainboard vs sideboard Leylines be the test you're most interested in seeing?
Any data is good data (yes, even stale data or fake data because those provide unique data points unto themselves). How much detail is the data? I assume matchup and game outcome as the key factors. Did the list remain the same 75?
Leyline is the one I’m most interested in learning how wel it fits in the main. Blood moon is my secondary, but I’m more considering running the leylines in my main and want to do some analysis on their worth. Unfortunately for me, my time has been flooded since August (really, it was flooded in August, too, but I made time at FNM so I could win those Fatal Push promos) so I haven’t been able to play modern since then.
The data show matchup and game out come, yes but that's about it. And no, I haven't made any distinction in the data when my 75 changed, so the data cover many versions of my list. I think if I were to do comparative data sets, I'd compare the list as it is now (3 Leylines MB) vs moving the Leylines to the side, and bringing the 3 Moon and probably the 2 Anger of the Gods back into the main.
Ive been pulling in some consistant results recently I went 4-1 two weeks in a row Like not alot of praise reports come in when it comes to Restore Balance.
The deck is getting better. My assessment on the deck is Supreme Will should be a 3 of if you are running blue in your build like Id argue its the best card in the deck!
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Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Modern:
Restore Balance
Gifts Ungiven
EDH:
Doran Tempo
Alesha Combo
5 color treasure Combo
4 color Astral Slide
I know it's been a few days but I would personally love to see the data. Though the deck list we may have may vary I don't have enough extra cash to build into MTGO so I would love to see how the deck plays out not only in the hands of others but also against people who don't know how to play against Restore Balance. For I play at two FMNs and both now know almost all of my deck for I have top 4ed or top 8ed regularly. So they have learned some tricks to play better against me that a normal opponent would never dream of.( Like sloping land drops to hedge agasint a balance.) Finally I've played against most of the meta but not all so I am interested in what your data says.
Edit I just remembered that Drift of Phantasms is a card. Since I am a blue and white focused deck I want to play this over Idyllic Tutor. Any thoughts thoughts?? I am now looking into other Transmute cards but I like it's ability to evade counters.
Here is the spreadsheet. Maybe when I have some more time, I will write more of an analysis of the data. But for now, here it is without comment.
Side note: I've been thinking about the conversation with epoa about having comparative data sets. I agree that that could be interesting to see, so I think I'm going to give it a try. Here is the mainboard Leyline list that I will use:
For the latter, I'm running Sweltering Suns in the mainboard instead of Anger of the Gods (which is in the SB of the first deck) because I've found it's just a much better mainboard card than Anger. My goal is to get 50 matches with each deck, which isn't a huge data set, but it should be a start. I'll also be running these in friendly leagues on MTGO, just because I think they will be a little bit more efficient financially and I'm not made of money, haha. Also, no promises on how long this will take.
Immediately looking at the data, it appears your board is underperforming. How do you optimize your board? Are there cards you're struggling with dealing with? Are there cards in the board that don't hold much value? The Ghostly Prisons feel weak in the board and I was never a big fan of Culling Scales except against enchantment decks and rack decks, of which you only have two matches against enchantress in the list and those aren't very telling. Honestly, I'd up wear//tear to a 3 of because it deals with so many problematic cards it is my most used sideboard tech.
I went ahead and sorted the list by color (note: bogles is green when it should be red). There are a lot of decks that you've only played one match against, so I'm going to ignore that data except in cases I want to point out (although, I am curious as to how boggles beat you. Bad luck post board?).
So, looking at our red zone, Dredge, Burn, Grixis Shadow, and Eldrazi Tron seem to be the most played against and most difficult matchups.
Dredge I can understand, it's why we board in the graveyard hate. You seem better equipped in the preboard more than postboard for this matchup. Bow of Nylea does well in this matchup because it offers a recursion that staves off them winning through creatures.
Burn, not so much. Are the mainboard Leylines just not working against burn decks? I find I have a good matchup against burn even thought I don't have any leylines for facing them (or, well, any anti-burn cards in my sideboard yet because I still need to pick them up). Ever since they became more creature oriented, those matchups have lightened up in favor of us. If you do board in Oketra's, you really have to be careful casting it, especially if they're also on green.
Grixis Shadow I honestly have no clue how to talk about it. It's always been my worst matchup and for the life of me I don't know why. I tend to be strong against hand disruption, it's why I have good matchups against Junk and Jund, but I guess it's the consistency of Grixis that hammers it home. I'd board in all my blood moons and leylines for facing them and only keep hands that have leylines or turn 1-2 blood moons.
Eldrazi Tron tends to be a slightly favorable matchup for me. I try to keep them off of 11 mana, but it's never the end of the world if they make it there. The aggressive beats of Reality Smasher tends to be the ground I run short on. Your postgame is worse than your pregame on this one. I can only assume this is because Chalice. This is the primary matchup for those Wear and Tears and the reason I'm debating upping my count to 4. I also have a third Beast Within and a singleton Ingot Chewer that I board into.
I've never faced Knightfall, so I don't know too much about the matchup, but it appears we're better equipped postboard. Dealing with their enchantments only seems to be vital post board when they focus more on the disruption game. What are your thoughts on this matchup?
Death and Taxes speaks for itself. You have to race them to your first balance. If you get the opportunity to balance, go for it. This matchup will require you to board all your wear and tears and you'll probably use both sides often enough.
Jund is all about threat analysis. If they know how to play against you, they'll conserve lands they draw off Bob. Try not to let Bob live unless you intend to empty your hand on a balance. They're Goyfs will never come down lower than 4 power against you and they have plenty of reach, so conserve your life total as though you're facing burn. I prefer to cut back on the artifact game, so much as boarding out several, as they are rife with artifact removal pre and post board. You said you won 2 games, but you only list one in the preboard and none in the postboard.
I have to head out now, so Ima post this part one for now so if something happens, I don't lose all these wonderful words. I haven't even gone through to clean this up, so expect my sentences to be all over the place. I haven't even had the chance to talk about the Bant Charm and singleton Beast Within you run, as I wanna see how those tend to match up.
Wow. Thanks for taking the time to be so thorough! I'll try to address everything:
Re: Sideboard. I agree that it needs work and it's where most of my testing has been recently. I'm with you on Culling Scales feeling weak. It has felt really weak for me. Recently, I've been testing 2 Monastery Siege in its place. The reason I didn't include those in my two test lists is I'm still not sure about the card (haven't actually got a chance to use it since I started testing) and I felt Culling Scales was a more "neutral" card for the Leyline test, since more people run it. You may have a point about Wear and Tear. I could probably go up to 3. I highly disagree about Ghostly Prison. It feels very strong against a lot of match ups and I find myself bringing it in a lot.
As for boggles and incorrect color: that was a formatting screw up when I copied the data into a new sheet, oops! You're totally right about why I lost to boggles. The game actually happened just the other night. That match up feels really good, I just got some bad draws.
I agree on Dredge and I actually haven't tested Bow of Nylea before. I may have to finally give in and try it, though I'm not sure where I would fit it in my list.
I'm surprised you have a good Burn match up. I think it's just awful. Even if I drop a Leyline, they can find Destructive Revelry. Last Mercy is in the SB purely for Burn, and I've never really worried about casting it, since jumping to 20 life usually wrecks burn, even if I have to sacrifice a turn.
I'm also with you on Grixis Shadow. The match up feels like it should be good, and yet I tend to lose haha.
Eldrazi Tron is another tough match, imo. They tend to main Chalice, which is rough. They have Mind Stone and Matter Reshaper to help get around Balances. Thought Knot Seer for hand disruption. Just tough all around.
The problem with Knightfall is twofold: Voice of Resurgence helps them keep creatures after a Balance, and they tend to run counterspells in the 75. But even after 4 matches against the deck, I still don't think I have a good feel on it.
Re Bant Charm and Beast Within: I really thought I liked Bant Charm. However I went down from 2 to 1 to make room for Supreme Will (which I really like btw) and I'm finding I don't miss them at all. I think the 1/1 Charm/BW split should just be 2 BW.
Edit: Yeah, I think that Bant Charm can go in lieu of another BW.
Personally to help get awaya from the older budget list there are a couple of options for the deck. There are enchantment center builds(my list), there are artifact builds with Metalwork Colossus that people love. There are also combo builds of the deck, each person has there own way to build the list but in my opinion one thing that really helps to improve the list is First cutting down from five colors to four. I personally cut black but you can cut other colors too. For budget upgrades quite a bit of nice cards that I love to play are really cheap like Metalwork, or As Foretold has been amazing. As for what to drop I would reduce the total number of borderpost that you have and balance out the land count for Stony Silence is rampant in side boards and it really hurts. ( This is another reason, besides simplifying our mana for going four color.)
If you are looking for lists for Ideas Jenncertainty just posted a list that's been doing well, Epoa is another really good player to check out their list. My list is here if you ever wanna see it for ideas. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/restoring-modern/
Just adding to Timota's advice, I also recommend cutting black. I switched to the 4 color, no black version, and haven't looked back. I really think you only need 8 cascade cards, so you could cut Demonic Dread. Then, if you do cut all black, you also lose Nihilith and Veinfire BP (personally I think 17 BPs is too many). That gives you 8 free slots. I'm a huge fan of Blood Moon, so I'd add at least 2 of those. And echoing more of what Timota said, I'd give As Foretold and Colossus a try. The former is a way to get Restore Balance out of your hand and is just great value. I run 2. The latter is a solid budget wincon, though I don't run it, so I don't know how many people usually run.
Wanted to share an incredibly satisfying play I just had on MTGO. I was playing against some weird mono-red prison brew with Ensnaring Bridge, Blood Moon, and Hazoret. I had 3 BPs and 3 lands and a suspended Gargadon with 7 counters. They had Ensnaring Bridge on the field and overloaded Vandalblast. I responded by tapping all of my mana sources, sacc'ing them all to Gargadon, then cast Beast Within to destroy to Bridge and then cascaded into RB, getting rid of all the opponent's lands. Next turn, I got GG out and swung for the win.
Any suggestions on cuts? I think I'd want to start by running 2 copies of SW. I could cut Keranos, but I'd still need to cut one more card. My list is posted a few comments back.
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG
RGForest BelcherRG
WUBRGBring to BalanceWUBRG
Commander Decks:
WUBSharuum the HegemonWUB
WUBRGScion of the Ur-DragonWUBRG
UBDralnu, Lich LordUB
UBRNekusar, the MindrazerUBR
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG
I can think of maybe once where the color intensity prevented me from using the Charm when I needed it, but it's probably happened a few times. That's the card's biggest down side.
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG
I'm a bit of a data nerd and so have been recording all of my games since I picked up the deck. I'm currently sitting at a 46% win rate after 113 games (52-60-1) which I'm somewhat happy with considering it's a fringe deck and I'm a mediocre player. It's not the best data, since it's a collection of MTGO friendly and competitive leagues, FNMs at my LGS, and a few SCG events. Would people be interested in seeing my data with a bit of analysis?
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG
I tend to be a bit busy, so i don’t know if I’ll get the time to, but I’d love to try! How much detail is in your data? One thing I really want to see is how your mainboard Leylines and Blood Moons affect your results.
Unfortunately not a ton of detail, at least not as far as when changes in my list go. I just haven't found a good way to track it. The big issue is that I'm often making a lot of small changes to the list, so it's hard to know what changes are actually affecting the numbers. Also, Blood Moon has been a staple in my mainboard since day 1 (though I did move 1 to the SB at some point).
If I had all the time in the world, I could try to be more scientific and run a set number of games with and without a certain change. Unfortunately, I don't think I have that kind of time on my hands haha. If I do manage to try something like that, would mainboard vs sideboard Leylines be the test you're most interested in seeing?
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG
Any data is good data (yes, even stale data or fake data because those provide unique data points unto themselves). How much detail is the data? I assume matchup and game outcome as the key factors. Did the list remain the same 75?
Leyline is the one I’m most interested in learning how wel it fits in the main. Blood moon is my secondary, but I’m more considering running the leylines in my main and want to do some analysis on their worth. Unfortunately for me, my time has been flooded since August (really, it was flooded in August, too, but I made time at FNM so I could win those Fatal Push promos) so I haven’t been able to play modern since then.
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG
Ive been pulling in some consistant results recently I went 4-1 two weeks in a row Like not alot of praise reports come in when it comes to Restore Balance.
The deck is getting better. My assessment on the deck is Supreme Will should be a 3 of if you are running blue in your build like Id argue its the best card in the deck!
Restore Balance
Gifts Ungiven
EDH:
Doran Tempo
Alesha Combo
5 color treasure Combo
4 color Astral Slide
Edit I just remembered that Drift of Phantasms is a card. Since I am a blue and white focused deck I want to play this over Idyllic Tutor. Any thoughts thoughts?? I am now looking into other Transmute cards but I like it's ability to evade counters.
Side note: I've been thinking about the conversation with epoa about having comparative data sets. I agree that that could be interesting to see, so I think I'm going to give it a try. Here is the mainboard Leyline list that I will use:
2 Evolving Wilds
2 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
2 Island
1 Mistveil Plains
2 Mountain
2 Plains
1 Steam Vents
1 Temple Garden
2 Wooded Foothills
Planeswalker (4)
1 Gideon of the Trials
3 Nahiri, the Harbinger
Enchantment (11)
4 Ardent Plea
2 As Foretold
2 Blood Moon
3 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Greater Gargadon
3 Simian Spirit Guide
Instant (7)
2 Beast Within
2 Supreme Will
4 Violent Outburst
Sorcery (3)
3 Restore Balance
Artifact (10)
4 Fieldmist Borderpost
4 Firewild Borderpost
2 Wildfield Borderpost
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Blood Moon
2 Culling Scales
2 Ghostly Prison
2 Oketra's Last Mercy
2 Ravenous Trap
2 Ricochet Trap
2 Wear / Tear
And here is the sideboard Leyline version I will run:
2 Evolving Wilds
2 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
2 Island
1 Mistveil Plains
2 Mountain
2 Plains
1 Steam Vents
1 Temple Garden
2 Wooded Foothills
Planeswalker (4)
1 Gideon of the Trials
3 Nahiri, the Harbinger
Enchantment (11)
4 Ardent Plea
2 As Foretold
3 Blood Moon
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Greater Gargadon
3 Simian Spirit Guide
Instant (7)
2 Beast Within
2 Supreme Will
4 Violent Outburst
Sorcery (3)
3 Restore Balance
2 Sweltering Suns
Artifact (10)
4 Fieldmist Borderpost
4 Firewild Borderpost
2 Wildfield Borderpost
2 Culling Scales
2 Ghostly Prison
3 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Oketra's Last Mercy
2 Ravenous Trap
2 Ricochet Trap
2 Wear / Tear
For the latter, I'm running Sweltering Suns in the mainboard instead of Anger of the Gods (which is in the SB of the first deck) because I've found it's just a much better mainboard card than Anger. My goal is to get 50 matches with each deck, which isn't a huge data set, but it should be a start. I'll also be running these in friendly leagues on MTGO, just because I think they will be a little bit more efficient financially and I'm not made of money, haha. Also, no promises on how long this will take.
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG
I went ahead and sorted the list by color (note: bogles is green when it should be red). There are a lot of decks that you've only played one match against, so I'm going to ignore that data except in cases I want to point out (although, I am curious as to how boggles beat you. Bad luck post board?).
So, looking at our red zone, Dredge, Burn, Grixis Shadow, and Eldrazi Tron seem to be the most played against and most difficult matchups.
Dredge I can understand, it's why we board in the graveyard hate. You seem better equipped in the preboard more than postboard for this matchup. Bow of Nylea does well in this matchup because it offers a recursion that staves off them winning through creatures.
Burn, not so much. Are the mainboard Leylines just not working against burn decks? I find I have a good matchup against burn even thought I don't have any leylines for facing them (or, well, any anti-burn cards in my sideboard yet because I still need to pick them up). Ever since they became more creature oriented, those matchups have lightened up in favor of us. If you do board in Oketra's, you really have to be careful casting it, especially if they're also on green.
Grixis Shadow I honestly have no clue how to talk about it. It's always been my worst matchup and for the life of me I don't know why. I tend to be strong against hand disruption, it's why I have good matchups against Junk and Jund, but I guess it's the consistency of Grixis that hammers it home. I'd board in all my blood moons and leylines for facing them and only keep hands that have leylines or turn 1-2 blood moons.
Eldrazi Tron tends to be a slightly favorable matchup for me. I try to keep them off of 11 mana, but it's never the end of the world if they make it there. The aggressive beats of Reality Smasher tends to be the ground I run short on. Your postgame is worse than your pregame on this one. I can only assume this is because Chalice. This is the primary matchup for those Wear and Tears and the reason I'm debating upping my count to 4. I also have a third Beast Within and a singleton Ingot Chewer that I board into.
I've never faced Knightfall, so I don't know too much about the matchup, but it appears we're better equipped postboard. Dealing with their enchantments only seems to be vital post board when they focus more on the disruption game. What are your thoughts on this matchup?
Death and Taxes speaks for itself. You have to race them to your first balance. If you get the opportunity to balance, go for it. This matchup will require you to board all your wear and tears and you'll probably use both sides often enough.
Jund is all about threat analysis. If they know how to play against you, they'll conserve lands they draw off Bob. Try not to let Bob live unless you intend to empty your hand on a balance. They're Goyfs will never come down lower than 4 power against you and they have plenty of reach, so conserve your life total as though you're facing burn. I prefer to cut back on the artifact game, so much as boarding out several, as they are rife with artifact removal pre and post board. You said you won 2 games, but you only list one in the preboard and none in the postboard.
I have to head out now, so Ima post this part one for now so if something happens, I don't lose all these wonderful words. I haven't even gone through to clean this up, so expect my sentences to be all over the place. I haven't even had the chance to talk about the Bant Charm and singleton Beast Within you run, as I wanna see how those tend to match up.
Re: Sideboard. I agree that it needs work and it's where most of my testing has been recently. I'm with you on Culling Scales feeling weak. It has felt really weak for me. Recently, I've been testing 2 Monastery Siege in its place. The reason I didn't include those in my two test lists is I'm still not sure about the card (haven't actually got a chance to use it since I started testing) and I felt Culling Scales was a more "neutral" card for the Leyline test, since more people run it. You may have a point about Wear and Tear. I could probably go up to 3. I highly disagree about Ghostly Prison. It feels very strong against a lot of match ups and I find myself bringing it in a lot.
As for boggles and incorrect color: that was a formatting screw up when I copied the data into a new sheet, oops! You're totally right about why I lost to boggles. The game actually happened just the other night. That match up feels really good, I just got some bad draws.
I agree on Dredge and I actually haven't tested Bow of Nylea before. I may have to finally give in and try it, though I'm not sure where I would fit it in my list.
I'm surprised you have a good Burn match up. I think it's just awful. Even if I drop a Leyline, they can find Destructive Revelry. Last Mercy is in the SB purely for Burn, and I've never really worried about casting it, since jumping to 20 life usually wrecks burn, even if I have to sacrifice a turn.
I'm also with you on Grixis Shadow. The match up feels like it should be good, and yet I tend to lose haha.
Eldrazi Tron is another tough match, imo. They tend to main Chalice, which is rough. They have Mind Stone and Matter Reshaper to help get around Balances. Thought Knot Seer for hand disruption. Just tough all around.
The problem with Knightfall is twofold: Voice of Resurgence helps them keep creatures after a Balance, and they tend to run counterspells in the 75. But even after 4 matches against the deck, I still don't think I have a good feel on it.
Re Bant Charm and Beast Within: I really thought I liked Bant Charm. However I went down from 2 to 1 to make room for Supreme Will (which I really like btw) and I'm finding I don't miss them at all. I think the 1/1 Charm/BW split should just be 2 BW.
Edit: Yeah, I think that Bant Charm can go in lieu of another BW.
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG
I need your help/suggestions, cause I am a little bit on Budget
I would like to play Restore balance, like this site on the budget: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/budget-magic-45-7-tix-modern-restore-balance
2 Demonic Dread
3 Fieldmist Borderpost
4 Firewild Borderpost
3 Lingering Souls
3 March of the Machines
3 Mistvein Borderpost
1 Oblivion Ring
4 Restore Balance
4 Veinfire Borderpost
3 Wildfield Borderpost
4 Violent Outburst
2 Nihilith
4 Greater Gargadon
4 Simian Spirit Guide
2 Evolving Wilds
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Mistveil Plains
1 Mountain
1 Plains
1 Swamp
4 Terramorphic Expanse
But I would like to add the 2 Blood Moon and 3 Dismember, so whatcha think, what should I drop out from the "normal" Budget version?
Greetings
If you are looking for lists for Ideas Jenncertainty just posted a list that's been doing well, Epoa is another really good player to check out their list. My list is here if you ever wanna see it for ideas. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/restoring-modern/
Is there really out an Metalwork Colossus artefact Deck out there?
Do you maybe have a link for me?
Greetings
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG
This is why I play this deck lol
[Primer] Dralnu Control/Reanimator BU
[Primer] Jolrael, Empress of Beasts GG
Nath Stax BG | Borborygmos Enraged RG | Ladies of Magic UGW | Aminatou Control UWB | Enduring Ideal Zedruu UWR | Momir Vig Combo UG
Modern
Restore Balance RWUG
Kiki Chord RWG