So, could be a silly question, but how do you guys decide between Shaman and Non-Shaman builds? I see Liam's deck is on the non-shaman, GW route rather than GB. Do you guys think one version is specifically better than the other, or is it a meta call?
I think it comes down to a meta call. It's perfectly viable running an Abzan version too. I run black only for the Shaman and white for Path to Exile and Kataki. Black is better against combo because you have access to Thoughtseize and Stain the Mind and Abrupt Decay. White on the other hand is geared more towards bullets that help you protect your board state such as Burrenton Forge-Tender, Selfless Spirit and various enchantments like Rest in Peace, Stony Silence, Mark of Aslyum etc. It also offers you Mirror Entity as another mana sink along with a couple of tricks like using it's ability for X=0 in response to Living End to send your team to the graveyard (only works with a maximum of one +1/+1 effect on your side) only to be brought back once Living End resolves.
Shaman is also great at providing another win condition. It doesn't use the combat phase and can get over stalled boardstates. And via CoCo or Chord can be done at instant speed in response to your opponents actions.
The deck I'm running currently is Abzan with most of the stuff you've suggested. I haven't tried out Mirror Entity but maybe I'll give him a shot in the board. I've just been noticing that most lists that place in big tournaments are usually just the GW versions that don't run shamans, so I was curious if it was worth switching over.
I keep meaning to pick up some Caverns, but honestly, it almost never comes up in games recently so I may put it off. Okina's also just "eh" so far. The white is in there for the sideboard, which is in a constant state of "I really don't know" at the moment. xD.
It's GP side-event season, so I'm back for some elf testing.
Last year, I ran a blue splash (3 maindeck coiling oracles as visionaries 5-7, and a set of Negate out of the sideboard) summoner's pact/craterhoof and was very successful with it.
Is there a consensus current best list? I liked the explosiveness of the blue splash list, but i do appreciate the grindy potential of the black splash and shaman. Is white there only for white sideboard options? If so, I see the draw. I particularly like kataki, eidolon of rhetoric, ghostly prison and selfless spirit.
Cheers guys. Glad to be back
I'm in GBw lead myself, but some things of note:
SotP is plenty splashable if you run something like elves of deep shadow with the 4 caverns. Shaman is just so hard for a lot of decks because it gives us a clock and a outta left field win sometimes. I love this card and good my long isn't what we want to do.
I've been musing over a blue splash and I recall reading your lists last season. Welcome back to the fray! Some of my thoughts so far were:
1. The UG fastland adds a ton of consistency to the UGx mana base
2. Not sure coiling oracle is where I want to be, the draw is nice but eh. I'm okay with visonary and those slots probably should be interaction since that's why I'm in blue anyway.
3. ceremonious rejection is amazing vs TRON and eldrazi which are weak matchups for us if they can dig to sweeps. Combine that with eternal witness and it's just dirty. Furthermore, engineered explosives is becoming a popular catch all answer to strats like ours, ceremonious rejection is a clean answer and is a light tempo loss. Once EE hits the field we can't deal with it. Because they can pop it in response to a reclaimation sage ETB. That card on 1 is just rough.
4. Black offers a lot of combo disruption in thoughtsieze or stain the mind but you could just go reactive with negate, dispel, or invassive surgery .... but then I'd rather just run some amalgamation of swan song and ceremonious rejection. This gives us strong interaction against combo decks still but let's the deck take them by surprise. I don't care about the bird token generally in a deck like ours as we are going to drain or trample over anyway for our win.
5. westvale abbey has been a huge bump for my tournaments as a plan C. Just be mindful of path to exile, vapor snag, or skullcrack when you math against burn. Jund has zero outs to this once you flip it and they can't make you discard it if you are refilling with leads.
6. selfless spirit is better than the forge tender as a chord target in an open meta. With jund, fae, RWx decks all running sweepers outside of just anger, it's a really good card to have.
I haven't done a bunch of playtesting yet but I think the U splash has merit. However, 4 color elves on an 18-19 land mana base sounds equally miserable lol. I feel like black brings a clock to the table and white helps shore up matches like affinity (hello ceremonious rejection). Kataki is quite punishing but it's really just a few cards that give us a rough time.
If UG is being considered, shouldn't Beck // Call be one of the top reasons to go for it? It's not quite Glimpse of Nature, but that's also why it isn't banned.
If UG is being considered, shouldn't Beck // Call be one of the top reasons to go for it? It's not quite Glimpse of Nature, but that's also why it isn't banned.
Tried it. Wasn't particularly impressed.
Couple of reasons;
1) requires you to have elves in hand after casting, so it doesn't do as much as collected company, and requires more things to align correctly to get value.
2) you're much weaker to removal as uou tend to want to hold guys back to save them for after beck is cast.
3) it's a bad topdeck.
There's more but that's the general gist.
To summarise, I'm playing blue to speed the deck up in game 1. Having 7 "visionaries" is a powerful engine when combined with summoner's pact and heritage druid. It's very reasonable to get turn 3 wins and as I have posted on this thread before, I have some turn 2 wins on record at FNMs and tournaments (rare but occasionally happens)
All your elves drawing cards means your collected companies work a little bit like beck//call or glimpse anyway. It just draws you into more gas. Generally this works and Oracle is the only blue card I run maindeck.
Sideboard, I found a playset of Negate to be nearly all the help I needed (but other options like hurkyl's recall and dispel are great as well). My reasoning (and also my findings) is that the deck is quick enough to race almost anything, so the only real issues are board wipes and combo decks that play difficult to deal with permanents. Negate, for example, makes the tron matchup a breeze. It hurts tron, burn, infect, storm, ad nauseam, living end, even fringe decks like turns. Most of all it's a great card to bring in against anger of the gods or other sweepers that opponents will try to rush out.
Anyway that was my take on it. Spell pierce and dispel are also great options, because we are so fast. I've liked this ability to protect our boars as well as deal with a threatening ugin or something. It's worked for me. That doesn't mean it's "correct" but it's competitive at least.
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These are all pretty fair points, thanks for taking the time. It seems that the combo element boost that it provides isn't particularly necessary given the staggering amount of card draw that the deck is capable of, especially given that Coiling Oracle boosts it further. I guess it's similar to Shaman of the Pack, but instead of providing an alternate win condition, it gives your value plan a bit more muscle. Is that worth running over WG or BG, though?
Hey guys! Looking for SB and landbase tips. Got a good mix of fast and grindy decks in my LGS. I main SotP, LtS and Sylvan Messengers since control and Midrange are more rampant. (URx, BGx, Infect, Affinity, Burn, Dredge)
Thinking of something like this:
These are all pretty fair points, thanks for taking the time. It seems that the combo element boost that it provides isn't particularly necessary given the staggering amount of card draw that the deck is capable of, especially given that Coiling Oracle boosts it further. I guess it's similar to Shaman of the Pack, but instead of providing an alternate win condition, it gives your value plan a bit more muscle. Is that worth running over WG or BG, though?
Good question. When I started playing the deck, yes it was. I recorded better win percentages than any of my other local elf players and higher placings at tourneys. It was also better in the mirror.
But that was a year ago, and I haven't played the deck in earnest in about six months. I'd like to do some direct comparisons as I have the cards (even got my foil shaman if the packs early on, because it looked good straight away).
One slight issue though, I traded away my three horizon canopies! Maybe it's time to start shuffling some of my collection around to get the important cards back again and finish foiling elves out (currently about 70% complete)
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I figured I would post this little local Tournament report where I went undefeated.
Round 1 VS Burn
G1 I could not stop the burn in time
G2 Sideboard did work
G3 Sideboard did work
Round 2 VS Jund 1-0
G1 I had to mulligan, but it did not help. I had no way to pump over goyf.
G2 I got the cards I needed and came through, though it was a bit of a grind
G3 My opp had too much land, and I was able to get over his Goyfs.
Round 3 VS Tooth and Nail (I think, it had Xenagos and Emrakul) 2-0
G1 I had no idea what I was playing against, not that it mattered because I drew no land and I lost my only dork early on.
G2 Now knowing what I was playing I sided appropriately.
G3 He drew no lands after going down to 5 on the mulligan.
3-0, not bad for my first Magic tournament. I was playing Black/Green, The deck is similar to Mike's, and so is the sideboard (-Thoughtknot seer which I do not believe in.)
I'm looking for some sideboard advice for a local upcoming monthly tournament. I'm expecting some significant amount of Bant Eldrazi and I don't know what I can do against them. I thought about Wren's Run Packmaster but this feels slow against Displacer and Drowner of Hope. Phyrexian Revoker naming Displacer is an additional line to take.
I would appreciate some advice how to sideboard against them correctly and some input what cards might be usefull.
I don't think bant eldrazi is that tough of a match up. They have limited interaction and we are faster than them. But if you want to tune your deck to take care of them, I would run Chord main as it will give you the speed to race them. I'd also try to fit in a couple dismember in the board to tag a reality smasher or thought knot seer. I think Stain the Mind is a good place to start cutting to fit them in. I'd also cut one of your Westvale Abbeys for a Pendelhaven too. Colorless mana can be a problem for the deck so you don't want to see too much of it.
As a go-wide deck, you should actually be able to handle Bant Eldrazi just fine. Just try to go off as fast as possible, and you'll usually beat them to the spot. The only cards that beat you are Engineered Explosives and maybe a well-placed Path to Exile, and you have the tools to come back from either.
Its cool to see purklefluff still here. My LGS exploded so I kind of put my modern away for a while because the next closest LGS is a 3 hour drive. Its cool to see that lead the stampede and just beat the fair decks might be a thing for elves. Before they knee capped combo with the last big list of bans it was tough with how much combo there was in the meta.
I might dust off my elves and see if I can do a little playtesting again just to see where the meta is these days.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
thanks man. i never actually get rid of any modern decks (just "acquire" new ones) so i was always ready to come back... just needed a time away from the deck to realise how much I loved it, haha. it's like a slushy romance film or something.
also, your LGS exploded? wow!
my current build (as in - physically in the box) is some kind of sub-optimal splashing-black-for-shaman build, although i'm not completely sold on it. i'm going to start where I left off previously, with a splashing-blue-for-oracle build and go from there. I'll test it against the field, get some matchup analyses and see how we go.
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thanks man. i never actually get rid of any modern decks (just "acquire" new ones) so i was always ready to come back... just needed a time away from the deck to realise how much I loved it, haha. it's like a slushy romance film or something.
also, your LGS exploded? wow!
my current build (as in - physically in the box) is some kind of sub-optimal splashing-black-for-shaman build, although i'm not completely sold on it. i'm going to start where I left off previously, with a splashing-blue-for-oracle build and go from there. I'll test it against the field, get some matchup analyses and see how we go.
Well... in the sense that it went under and there is no money to be made in the town we are in because in part of the smaller size. It was cool though because most of us were adults and we often placed in top 8 in PTQs and such because we had a close nit group who would playtest against each other and such.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
I don't really know how to start implementing Heritage Druid, Nettle Sentinel, Collected Company, and Chord of Calling which are the cards which I'm probably going to start upgrading first.
The budget list has an entirely different aim (using Elf Lords) than the non budget versions.
Ok, I have seen too many top placements with the straight GW version, so I am officially making the switch for now. Here is my dilemma - I don't have Horizon Canopies, and I won't be able to get them for the foreseeable future. My question is this: if you were going to replace the horizon canopies with fetches and Temple Garden, would you run a 3/1 fetch/shock split or a 2/2 split?
Here is hoping that Horizon Canopy gets reprinted soon
I don't really know how to start implementing Heritage Druid, Nettle Sentinel, Collected Company, and Chord of Calling which are the cards which I'm probably going to start upgrading first.
The budget list has an entirely different aim (using Elf Lords) than the non budget versions.
I would focus on Collected Company, as it is just about to rotate out of standard so is relatively inexpensive now, and heritage druid as it was recently reprinted. Replace Nylea's Presence with CoCo and Arbor Elf with Heritage and you have the basis of the deck. Once you have your playset of Heritage, replace Elvish Champion and Imperious with Nettle (they need heritage to combo). Save Chord for last as some still favor Lead instead for its explosive play.
You can replace 1 for 1 and buy over time to minimize effect of proce spikes (dollar cost averaging)
I don't really know how to start implementing Heritage Druid, Nettle Sentinel, Collected Company, and Chord of Calling which are the cards which I'm probably going to start upgrading first.
The budget list has an entirely different aim (using Elf Lords) than the non budget versions.
I've linked this article to a couple other people looking at how to build/upgrade a deck and I think the advice is pretty sound.
I don't really know how to start implementing Heritage Druid, Nettle Sentinel, Collected Company, and Chord of Calling which are the cards which I'm probably going to start upgrading first.
The budget list has an entirely different aim (using Elf Lords) than the non budget versions.
I would focus on Collected Company, as it is just about to rotate out of standard so is relatively inexpensive now, and heritage druid as it was recently reprinted. Replace Nylea's Presence with CoCo and Arbor Elf with Heritage and you have the basis of the deck. Once you have your playset of Heritage, replace Elvish Champion and Imperious with Nettle (they need heritage to combo). Save Chord for last as some still favor Lead instead for its explosive play.
You can replace 1 for 1 and buy over time to minimize effect of proce spikes (dollar cost averaging)
Thanks for your help!
So the 5 cards of Elvish Champion and Imperious Prefect -> 4 of Nettle means that I should go from 2->3 of Ezuri? Or go for like Craterhoof Behemoth
Thoughts on Rashmi, Eternities Crafter? She basically gives us card draw for our first spell each turn (including opponent's) with the potential to play another spell for free.
But she dies to bolt unsupported and can't be cheated in with coco either.
Cmc is high, historically weaker support color in constructed, and fragile make it feel like win more. If I see her in any elf build it's the combo cloudstone ones personally. Just to help you fire off better later in the game.
Not saying blue isn't viable, we just haven't seen a GUx deck spike a tournament. Think GW is what is putting up results right now mostly.
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The deck I'm running currently is Abzan with most of the stuff you've suggested. I haven't tried out Mirror Entity but maybe I'll give him a shot in the board. I've just been noticing that most lists that place in big tournaments are usually just the GW versions that don't run shamans, so I was curious if it was worth switching over.
What's your landbase like?
4x Dwynen's Elite
4x Elvish Archdruid
4x Elvish Mystic
4x Elvish Visionary
2x Ezuri, Renegade Leader
4x Heritage Druid
4x Llanowar Elves
4x Nettle Sentinel
4x Shaman of the Pack
5x Forest
4x Gilt-Leaf Palace
1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
1x Overgrown Tomb
1x Pendelhaven
1x Temple Garden
4x Windswept Heath
4x Chord of Calling
4x Collected Company
I keep meaning to pick up some Caverns, but honestly, it almost never comes up in games recently so I may put it off. Okina's also just "eh" so far. The white is in there for the sideboard, which is in a constant state of "I really don't know" at the moment. xD.
I'm in GBw lead myself, but some things of note:
SotP is plenty splashable if you run something like elves of deep shadow with the 4 caverns. Shaman is just so hard for a lot of decks because it gives us a clock and a outta left field win sometimes. I love this card and good my long isn't what we want to do.
I've been musing over a blue splash and I recall reading your lists last season. Welcome back to the fray! Some of my thoughts so far were:
1. The UG fastland adds a ton of consistency to the UGx mana base
2. Not sure coiling oracle is where I want to be, the draw is nice but eh. I'm okay with visonary and those slots probably should be interaction since that's why I'm in blue anyway.
3. ceremonious rejection is amazing vs TRON and eldrazi which are weak matchups for us if they can dig to sweeps. Combine that with eternal witness and it's just dirty. Furthermore, engineered explosives is becoming a popular catch all answer to strats like ours, ceremonious rejection is a clean answer and is a light tempo loss. Once EE hits the field we can't deal with it. Because they can pop it in response to a reclaimation sage ETB. That card on 1 is just rough.
4. Black offers a lot of combo disruption in thoughtsieze or stain the mind but you could just go reactive with negate, dispel, or invassive surgery .... but then I'd rather just run some amalgamation of swan song and ceremonious rejection. This gives us strong interaction against combo decks still but let's the deck take them by surprise. I don't care about the bird token generally in a deck like ours as we are going to drain or trample over anyway for our win.
5. westvale abbey has been a huge bump for my tournaments as a plan C. Just be mindful of path to exile, vapor snag, or skullcrack when you math against burn. Jund has zero outs to this once you flip it and they can't make you discard it if you are refilling with leads.
6. selfless spirit is better than the forge tender as a chord target in an open meta. With jund, fae, RWx decks all running sweepers outside of just anger, it's a really good card to have.
I haven't done a bunch of playtesting yet but I think the U splash has merit. However, 4 color elves on an 18-19 land mana base sounds equally miserable lol. I feel like black brings a clock to the table and white helps shore up matches like affinity (hello ceremonious rejection). Kataki is quite punishing but it's really just a few cards that give us a rough time.
UW Ephara Hatebears [Primer], GB Gitrog Lands, BRU Inalla Combo-Control, URG Maelstrom Wanderer Landfall
Legacy: Merfolk U; Shadow UB; Eldrazi Stompy C
Pauper: Delver U
Vintage: Merfolk U
Primers:
Tried it. Wasn't particularly impressed.
Couple of reasons;
1) requires you to have elves in hand after casting, so it doesn't do as much as collected company, and requires more things to align correctly to get value.
2) you're much weaker to removal as uou tend to want to hold guys back to save them for after beck is cast.
3) it's a bad topdeck.
There's more but that's the general gist.
To summarise, I'm playing blue to speed the deck up in game 1. Having 7 "visionaries" is a powerful engine when combined with summoner's pact and heritage druid. It's very reasonable to get turn 3 wins and as I have posted on this thread before, I have some turn 2 wins on record at FNMs and tournaments (rare but occasionally happens)
All your elves drawing cards means your collected companies work a little bit like beck//call or glimpse anyway. It just draws you into more gas. Generally this works and Oracle is the only blue card I run maindeck.
Sideboard, I found a playset of Negate to be nearly all the help I needed (but other options like hurkyl's recall and dispel are great as well). My reasoning (and also my findings) is that the deck is quick enough to race almost anything, so the only real issues are board wipes and combo decks that play difficult to deal with permanents. Negate, for example, makes the tron matchup a breeze. It hurts tron, burn, infect, storm, ad nauseam, living end, even fringe decks like turns. Most of all it's a great card to bring in against anger of the gods or other sweepers that opponents will try to rush out.
Anyway that was my take on it. Spell pierce and dispel are also great options, because we are so fast. I've liked this ability to protect our boars as well as deal with a threatening ugin or something. It's worked for me. That doesn't mean it's "correct" but it's competitive at least.
Legacy: Merfolk U; Shadow UB; Eldrazi Stompy C
Pauper: Delver U
Vintage: Merfolk U
Primers:
Thinking of something like this:
Hey guys!
I'm thinking of running Abzan colors for my SB:
2 Thoughtseize
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Thrun/Chameleon Colossus
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Dismember
1 Selfless Spirit
2 Path to Exile
1 Elvish Champion
2 Reclamation Sage
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Phyrexian Revoker
Lands:
3 Cavern of Souls
4 Windswept Heath
1 Temple Garden
1 Overgrown Tomb
4 Gilt-Leaf Palace
4 Razorverge Thicket
2 Forest
Good question. When I started playing the deck, yes it was. I recorded better win percentages than any of my other local elf players and higher placings at tourneys. It was also better in the mirror.
But that was a year ago, and I haven't played the deck in earnest in about six months. I'd like to do some direct comparisons as I have the cards (even got my foil shaman if the packs early on, because it looked good straight away).
One slight issue though, I traded away my three horizon canopies! Maybe it's time to start shuffling some of my collection around to get the important cards back again and finish foiling elves out (currently about 70% complete)
Round 1 VS Burn
G1 I could not stop the burn in time
G2 Sideboard did work
G3 Sideboard did work
Round 2 VS Jund 1-0
G1 I had to mulligan, but it did not help. I had no way to pump over goyf.
G2 I got the cards I needed and came through, though it was a bit of a grind
G3 My opp had too much land, and I was able to get over his Goyfs.
Round 3 VS Tooth and Nail (I think, it had Xenagos and Emrakul) 2-0
G1 I had no idea what I was playing against, not that it mattered because I drew no land and I lost my only dork early on.
G2 Now knowing what I was playing I sided appropriately.
G3 He drew no lands after going down to 5 on the mulligan.
3-0, not bad for my first Magic tournament. I was playing Black/Green, The deck is similar to Mike's, and so is the sideboard (-Thoughtknot seer which I do not believe in.)
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/trading-post/details/1005-wtb-and-maybe-trade-for-my-wants-i-need-dredgevine
I'm looking for some sideboard advice for a local upcoming monthly tournament. I'm expecting some significant amount of Bant Eldrazi and I don't know what I can do against them. I thought about Wren's Run Packmaster but this feels slow against Displacer and Drowner of Hope. Phyrexian Revoker naming Displacer is an additional line to take.
I would appreciate some advice how to sideboard against them correctly and some input what cards might be usefull.
My deck for reference:
4 Gilt-Leaf Palace
3 Windswept Heath
2 Wooded Foothills
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Temple Garden
6 Forest
2 Westvale Abbey
Creatures:
4 Heritage Druid
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Dwynen's Elite
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Shaman of the Pack
2 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
Spells:
4 Collected Company
3 Lead the Stampede
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Selfless Spirit
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Reclamation Sage
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Wren's Run Packmaster
3 Chord of Calling
1 Fracturing Gust
1 Stain the Mind
Thank you very much,
Shandoral
I hope my opinion helps!
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Legacy: Merfolk U; Shadow UB; Eldrazi Stompy C
Pauper: Delver U
Vintage: Merfolk U
Primers:
I might dust off my elves and see if I can do a little playtesting again just to see where the meta is these days.
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thanks man. i never actually get rid of any modern decks (just "acquire" new ones) so i was always ready to come back... just needed a time away from the deck to realise how much I loved it, haha. it's like a slushy romance film or something.
also, your LGS exploded? wow!
my current build (as in - physically in the box) is some kind of sub-optimal splashing-black-for-shaman build, although i'm not completely sold on it. i'm going to start where I left off previously, with a splashing-blue-for-oracle build and go from there. I'll test it against the field, get some matchup analyses and see how we go.
Well... in the sense that it went under and there is no money to be made in the town we are in because in part of the smaller size. It was cool though because most of us were adults and we often placed in top 8 in PTQs and such because we had a close nit group who would playtest against each other and such.
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http://www.mtgstocks.com/decks/121539
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/budget-magic-85-45-tix-modern-beatdown-elves
I don't really know how to start implementing Heritage Druid, Nettle Sentinel, Collected Company, and Chord of Calling which are the cards which I'm probably going to start upgrading first.
The budget list has an entirely different aim (using Elf Lords) than the non budget versions.
Here is hoping that Horizon Canopy gets reprinted soon
I would focus on Collected Company, as it is just about to rotate out of standard so is relatively inexpensive now, and heritage druid as it was recently reprinted. Replace Nylea's Presence with CoCo and Arbor Elf with Heritage and you have the basis of the deck. Once you have your playset of Heritage, replace Elvish Champion and Imperious with Nettle (they need heritage to combo). Save Chord for last as some still favor Lead instead for its explosive play.
You can replace 1 for 1 and buy over time to minimize effect of proce spikes (dollar cost averaging)
I've linked this article to a couple other people looking at how to build/upgrade a deck and I think the advice is pretty sound.
http://modernnexus.com/guide-acquiring-modern-decks/
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Thanks for your help!
So the 5 cards of Elvish Champion and Imperious Prefect -> 4 of Nettle means that I should go from 2->3 of Ezuri? Or go for like Craterhoof Behemoth
But she dies to bolt unsupported and can't be cheated in with coco either.
Not saying blue isn't viable, we just haven't seen a GUx deck spike a tournament. Think GW is what is putting up results right now mostly.