I officially finished foiling out my Affinity deck today
Congratulations! I am so close to foiling out my Affinity deck too! It has been a really long process so far, but all I need are foil Mirrodin Mox Opals and the Cranial Platings NOT in MM15. Hahaha. For the MAXIMUM amount of pimp for me. Honestly, Affinity looks just beautiful as foils.
Affinity is in a spot where it is as strong as it could be. The format is in flux as of right now. Two big unbans is huge they are finding decks where they are best in, unfortunately Jund is now the deck to beat... again. It is where it is a cycle of four decks types dominate Modern as follows:
Aggro
Strong against: Control & Combo
Weak against: Midrange
Combo
Strong against: Midrange
Weak against: Aggro & Control
Control
Strong against: Combo
Weak against: Aggro & Midrange
Midrange
Strong against: Aggro & Control
Weak against: Combo
It may be different from what I pointed out but that was my thought process. Nonetheless the less, Affinity right now is having a hard time competing with Modern synergy shaken up right now.
Affinity is in a spot where it is as strong as it could be. The format is in flux as of right now. Two big unbans is huge they are finding decks where they are best in, unfortunately Jund is now the deck to beat... again. It is where it is a cycle of four decks types dominate Modern as follows:
Aggro
Strong against: Control & Combo
Weak against: Midrange
Combo
Strong against: Midrange
Weak against: Aggro & Control
Control
Strong against: Combo
Weak against: Aggro & Midrange
Midrange
Strong against: Aggro & Control
Weak against: Combo
It may be different from what I pointed out but that was my thought process. Nonetheless the less, Affinity right now is having a hard time competing with Modern synergy shaken up right now.
What does everything think?
I'm of the mindset that it's not as bad as everyone is saying it is. Affinity is a deck that has been around since modern has been a format because it's able to stand up to almost any deck. I believe our SB will evolve to the current meta and we are still a solid deck choice going forward Just my opinion though
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I officially finished foiling out my Affinity deck today
Congratulations! I am so close to foiling out my Affinity deck too! It has been a really long process so far, but all I need are foil Mirrodin Mox Opals and the Cranial Platings NOT in MM15. Hahaha. For the MAXIMUM amount of pimp for me. Honestly, Affinity looks just beautiful as foils.
Yeah I still need to do this but the hard stuff for me is out of the way I got the masterpiece Opals and I love them I kind of want the masterpiece Ornithopters and Darksteel Blinkmoths but they are both a bit pricey right now lol
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I'm of the mindset that it's not as bad as everyone is saying it is. Affinity is a deck that has been around since modern has been a format because it's able to stand up to almost any deck. I believe our SB will evolve to the current meta and we are still a solid deck choice going forward Just my opinion though
I completely agree, the deck is by no means bad, it's been around since its inception. Heck, it has been so strong it nearly destroyed Standard back in its day. Affinity has any ways been good with changing for the current meta. As of right now, I do admit that I'm still struggling to piece together a sideboard to deal with many threats as of right now.
My largest question for you and honesty everyone else, what it the best way to deal with Stony Silence because it is usually game over for me when an opponent drops that on the board.
I'm of the mindset that it's not as bad as everyone is saying it is. Affinity is a deck that has been around since modern has been a format because it's able to stand up to almost any deck. I believe our SB will evolve to the current meta and we are still a solid deck choice going forward Just my opinion though
I completely agree, the deck is by no means bad, it's been around since its inception. Heck, it has been so strong it nearly destroyed Standard back in its day. Affinity has any ways been good with changing for the current meta. As of right now, I do admit that I'm still struggling to piece together a sideboard to deal with many threats as of right now.
My largest question for you and honesty everyone else, what it the best way to deal with Stony Silence because it is usually game over for me when an opponent drops that on the board.
I personally believe that trying to pack 2-3 answers to a card that is a potential 1-3 of in our opponent’s deck, is a really bad proposition. Logically speaking, it makes very little sense to play a color-requiring card to answer their card that shuts off all but 4 of our colored sources.
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I officially finished foiling out my Affinity deck today
Would love to see some pictures of the fully foiled deck--I'm currently trying to decide between pimping Affinity or Mono W Death and Taxes as my post-graduation "Holy crap I have a real job now" present to myself.
Yes, that is a good option, still quite slow and a toss up when it comes to getting our colored mana source, Spire of Industry. I’ll definitely put more work into using it against any matchup where Stony Silence is possible.
I personally believe that trying to pack 2-3 answers to a card that is a potential 1-3 of in our opponent’s deck, is a really bad proposition. Logically speaking, it makes very little sense to play a color-requiring card to answer their card that shuts off all but 4 of our colored sources.
You are right, it doesn’t make much sense to pack so much answers for a sideboard hate card. When my meta runs sooooooo much Affinity hate, it tends to irritate me in trying to answer it as well.
I officially finished foiling out my Affinity deck today
Would love to see some pictures of the fully foiled deck--I'm currently trying to decide between pimping Affinity or Mono W Death and Taxes as my post-graduation "Holy crap I have a real job now" present to myself.
I'll have to upload some pics soon. I bet Death & Taxes looks sweet foiled out
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I personally believe that trying to pack 2-3 answers to a card that is a potential 1-3 of in our opponent’s deck, is a really bad proposition. Logically speaking, it makes very little sense to play a color-requiring card to answer their card that shuts off all but 4 of our colored sources.
You are right, it doesn’t make much sense to pack so much answers for a sideboard hate card. When my meta runs sooooooo much Affinity hate, it tends to irritate me in trying to answer it as well.
This is why I rarely play Affinity at my LGS anymore. People can hate us out very easily, so I just play durdle decks at FNM/TNM. Like tron or storm... the kind of decks I want people to prepare for at bigger events
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This is why I rarely play Affinity at my LGS anymore. People can hate us out very easily, so I just play durdle decks at FNM/TNM. Like tron or storm... the kind of decks I want people to prepare for at bigger events
I played at the Modern IQ in one of the LGS where I am. Had 80 players, 7 rounds. Needless to say, I did pretty badly. I went 5-2, really only winning 1 match and the another “win” was the bye.
Here is how it went...
Round 1 - W/B Tokens
Game 1 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 1 x Blood Moon, 1 x Etched Champion, 2 x Ghirapur Æther Grid, 2 x Wear // Tear, 1 x Whipflare
===taken out: 3 x Galvanic Blast, 2 x Signal Pest, 1 x Steel Overseer, 1 x Vault Skirge
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - N/A
Round 2 - Naya Burn
Game 1 - Win
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 1 x Etched Champion, 2 x Ghirapur Æther Grix, 1 x Rule of Law, 2 x Wear // Tear
===taken out: 4 x Steel Overseer, 2 x Vault Skirge
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - Loss
Round 3 - Infect
Game 1 - Win
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 1 x Ancient Grudge, 1 x Etched Champion, 2 x Ghirapur Æther Grid, 1 x Rule of Law, 1 x Whipflare
===taken out: 1 x Master of Etherium, 2 x Memnite, 1 x Signal Pest, 2 x Steel Overseer
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - Loss
Round 4 - Hollow One
Game 1 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 2 x Blood Moon, 1 x Etched Champion, 1 x Grafdigger’s Cage, 2 x Rest in Peace, 1 x Rule of Law
===taken out: 1 x Master of Etherium, 1 x Signal Pest, 4 x Steel Overseer, 1 x Vault Skirge
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - N/A
Round 5 - U/R Aggro
Game 1 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 1 x Etched Champion, 1 x Rule of Law, 2 x Thoughtseize
===taken out: 4 x Steel Overseer
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - N/A
Round 6 - BYE
Game 1 - N/A
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 2 - N/A
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - N/A
Round 7 - Jund
Game 1 - Win
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 2 x Blood Moon, 1 x Etched Champion, 2 x Rest in Peace
===taken out: 1 x Master of Etherium, 4 x Steel Overseer
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - Win
Tournament Standings - 59th out of 78
Honestly, I should dropped after the third round, I payed to play, I wanted to play and see my deck in more of a competitive light.
Anyways that’s all I have to report. What do you all think?
I don’t recommend removing overseer vs tokens, he makes your entire deck beat theirs. Also if they play Lingering souls, signal Pest to 0 copies is my first cut — they get picked off too easily.
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Hollow one has been a win for me every time, haven’t ever lost to the deck in a match. Their god draws are great, but avg vs avg we should win. Their flyers can’t pull blocker duty very well, and they usually don’t play push MB, which means we can go all-in on an Inkmoth and end the game pretty easily. Or just make a 4/4 or greater vault skirge. Or race with any creature + plating.
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I don’t recommend removing overseer vs tokens, he makes your entire deck beat theirs. Also if they play Lingering souls, signal Pest to 0 copies is my first cut — they get picked off too easily.
I’ve never played against W/B Tokens before, didn’t really expect how to go about it. Not thinking about it, I definitely messed up and should have kept all the Steel Overseers in. Signal Pest should have been cut. Oh well, Loss and learn, that’s how I look at it.
W/B Tokens is a surprisingly miserable matchup from my pairings, Burn, UR Aggro, and Infect are toss ups. Through your round 4 match did you find the UR to be on a more burn route? I advocate for bringing them in against most midrange/combo matchups, yet perhaps Thoughtseize is too aggressive here. Would also like to hear more about the Hollow One matchup as I've been told it's heavily in our favor. Bad records happen to all of us as variance can be a *****...
Hollow One deck just drawing the nut hand both games. I couldn’t do anything about it. I haven’t played against it and sidebaording too aggressively, I should have thought more about it. At that point I knew I wasn’t going to get anywhere in the tournament and wanted to see how the deck plays against Affinity since it was the first time I played against that deck type.
Wise decision. Vs hollow one, you don’t board much — I bring the 3rd champion and a mountain out for 2 spellskite personally, but that’s just my hatred for ancient grudge
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Wise decision. Vs hollow one, you don’t board much — I bring the 3rd champion and a mountain out for 2 spellskite personally, but that’s just my hatred for ancient grudge
I've often thought about including Spellskite in the sideboard. You do make a really good point. Nonetheless, after this IQ, I have seen a lot of decks and played against some I have never seen in action and thus will know what to do in the future.
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Strong against: Control & Combo
Weak against: Midrange
Combo
Strong against: Midrange
Weak against: Aggro & Control
Control
Strong against: Combo
Weak against: Aggro & Midrange
Midrange
Strong against: Aggro & Control
Weak against: Combo
It may be different from what I pointed out but that was my thought process. Nonetheless the less, Affinity right now is having a hard time competing with Modern synergy shaken up right now.
What does everything think?
I'm of the mindset that it's not as bad as everyone is saying it is. Affinity is a deck that has been around since modern has been a format because it's able to stand up to almost any deck. I believe our SB will evolve to the current meta and we are still a solid deck choice going forward
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StaffI completely agree, the deck is by no means bad, it's been around since its inception. Heck, it has been so strong it nearly destroyed Standard back in its day. Affinity has any ways been good with changing for the current meta. As of right now, I do admit that I'm still struggling to piece together a sideboard to deal with many threats as of right now.
My largest question for you and honesty everyone else, what it the best way to deal with Stony Silence because it is usually game over for me when an opponent drops that on the board.
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StaffYes, that is a good option, still quite slow and a toss up when it comes to getting our colored mana source, Spire of Industry. I’ll definitely put more work into using it against any matchup where Stony Silence is possible.
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StaffYou are right, it doesn’t make much sense to pack so much answers for a sideboard hate card. When my meta runs sooooooo much Affinity hate, it tends to irritate me in trying to answer it as well.
I'll have to upload some pics soon. I bet Death & Taxes looks sweet foiled out
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UWBR Ad Nauseam
This is why I rarely play Affinity at my LGS anymore. People can hate us out very easily, so I just play durdle decks at FNM/TNM. Like tron or storm... the kind of decks I want people to prepare for at bigger events
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StaffI played at the Modern IQ in one of the LGS where I am. Had 80 players, 7 rounds. Needless to say, I did pretty badly. I went 5-2, really only winning 1 match and the another “win” was the bye.
Here is how it went...
Round 1 - W/B Tokens
Game 1 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 1 x Blood Moon, 1 x Etched Champion, 2 x Ghirapur Æther Grid, 2 x Wear // Tear, 1 x Whipflare
===taken out: 3 x Galvanic Blast, 2 x Signal Pest, 1 x Steel Overseer, 1 x Vault Skirge
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - N/A
Round 2 - Naya Burn
Game 1 - Win
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 1 x Etched Champion, 2 x Ghirapur Æther Grix, 1 x Rule of Law, 2 x Wear // Tear
===taken out: 4 x Steel Overseer, 2 x Vault Skirge
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - Loss
Round 3 - Infect
Game 1 - Win
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 1 x Ancient Grudge, 1 x Etched Champion, 2 x Ghirapur Æther Grid, 1 x Rule of Law, 1 x Whipflare
===taken out: 1 x Master of Etherium, 2 x Memnite, 1 x Signal Pest, 2 x Steel Overseer
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - Loss
Round 4 - Hollow One
Game 1 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 2 x Blood Moon, 1 x Etched Champion, 1 x Grafdigger’s Cage, 2 x Rest in Peace, 1 x Rule of Law
===taken out: 1 x Master of Etherium, 1 x Signal Pest, 4 x Steel Overseer, 1 x Vault Skirge
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - N/A
Round 5 - U/R Aggro
Game 1 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 1 x Etched Champion, 1 x Rule of Law, 2 x Thoughtseize
===taken out: 4 x Steel Overseer
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - N/A
Round 6 - BYE
Game 1 - N/A
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 2 - N/A
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - N/A
Round 7 - Jund
Game 1 - Win
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: 2 x Blood Moon, 1 x Etched Champion, 2 x Rest in Peace
===taken out: 1 x Master of Etherium, 4 x Steel Overseer
Game 2 - Loss
===sideboard tech===
===taken in: N/A
===taken out: N/A
Game 3 - Win
Tournament Standings - 59th out of 78
Honestly, I should dropped after the third round, I payed to play, I wanted to play and see my deck in more of a competitive light.
Anyways that’s all I have to report. What do you all think?
I don’t recommend removing overseer vs tokens, he makes your entire deck beat theirs. Also if they play Lingering souls, signal Pest to 0 copies is my first cut — they get picked off too easily.
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StaffI’ve never played against W/B Tokens before, didn’t really expect how to go about it. Not thinking about it, I definitely messed up and should have kept all the Steel Overseers in. Signal Pest should have been cut. Oh well, Loss and learn, that’s how I look at it.
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StaffHollow One deck just drawing the nut hand both games. I couldn’t do anything about it. I haven’t played against it and sidebaording too aggressively, I should have thought more about it. At that point I knew I wasn’t going to get anywhere in the tournament and wanted to see how the deck plays against Affinity since it was the first time I played against that deck type.
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StaffI've often thought about including Spellskite in the sideboard. You do make a really good point. Nonetheless, after this IQ, I have seen a lot of decks and played against some I have never seen in action and thus will know what to do in the future.