This is the deck I plan on running at a Modern PTQ next weekend. I'm fine with the mainboard, but I would like some help with the sideboard. I put the fourth Hero there so I have another threat since I like to take Lingering Souls out if I board in RIP. I was thinking about just doing 2 Stony Silence and putting 2 Sundering Growth in. In addition to an instant speed destruction I can also get use from the populate. Duress is there for more discard against control/combo decks. Rule of Law is there for Storm and other decks that like to cast a lot of spells. Ghost Quarter is there for Tron and other decks that have some utility lands, such as Affinity.
But a few of the choices are more for my FNM metagame and not one as something as high up as a PTQ. I tried to get it close to Craig Wescoe's list but some of the cards he uses in the sideboard I can't easily obtain. Any inputs/ideas would be appreciated.
Something my friends are doing is that after we get done playing, we're going to watch each other's matches. Mainly to watch and see if there is some shady things going on, such as card manipulations, slow play or any other questionable things. At a somewhat recent event my opponent was slow playing but I didn't know because he was shuffling cards back and forth, but because my friend had come and watched he noticed my opponent had nothing but lands in hand and went and grabbed a judge to watch him and make sure he didn't stall for too long.
Since there are several Detention Sphere and Nightveil Spectre type cards running around, I would make sure before you and your opponent leave that you have your 75 cards.
Black isn't known for it's land interactions. You can always put in green as that is the color known for land interaction. Cards such as Life from the Loam and tons of other help out with getting lands back to your hand, as well as some cards that let you play multiple lands per turn (ie Oracle of Mul Daya, Explore etc).
Maybe you could post your reasoning as for why you want to return lands to the battlefield. Maybe some of the more knowledgeable players can help you out with an interaction.
So we were talking during FNM and I had this thought. With Theros having so many interactions with enchantments, I was thinking Rancor might have a place. It has synergy with the Heroic mechanic, as well as being able to trigger Constellation. Even being able to trigger them multiple times if the creature it was enchanting would die/exile.
I got an Ajani in my seeded booster. Where does it say they had limitations on what could be found in them?
On the Wizards website. The only mythics would be the gods that had their color first in the CMC of the card, such as Atheros for the white packs, Keranos for the blue pack, etc. The only way to get any other mythics is from the JOU boosters.
I haven't played him except at the prerelease, but this one guy (lets call him Lou) does a lot of unsportsmanlike things. He has this Standard U/W control deck that runs Trading Post, Codex Shredder, and lots of counters. What he does is stall game one long enough so he can sideboard in a bunch of fast cards to get an early win game two. And what he does to stall includes taking enough time to look at both the graveyards as well as asking how many lands/cards his opponent has. A good friend I made at the LGS, lets call him Kurt, gets annoyed about his playstyle and goes out of his way to beat him. Including boarding in a card that is only advantageous against his deck.
At the prerelease though what really got on everyone nerves was that Lou starts complaining to the TO as well as the HJ about Kurt's pulls from the sealed box. Saying about how he put outside cards into the sealed deck, which included a foil Brimaz. So the entire time he is talking about how he would have won too if he played with his own cards. And while he is talking the HJ is talking with me and my friends about his pulls, as there were three of us sitting next to him as he opened his packs and built his deck.
It seems that you are quite lucky when it comes to playing your friend. Top decking the right card to turn the game around and you have answers to most things he plays.
This seems like a good idea if you want to get actual cards. Maybe get a few of each type, or just get a lot of one color that you know he plays. Either way it will be something he can use or even trade with if needed.
A group of mine usually hold a monthly Chaos Draft and one of the guys keeps talking about each of us going in about $60 to buy a box of MM just so we can draft it. I would much rather do that than just buy it to open and hope to pull something good.
Ah, should have figured that. But that's just how it worked out. Someone asked MaRo about it and I believe he pretty much said the same thing. And better for them to not get some mythic than to get one that is like the black or red one from BNG.
Something that popped up in my Commander game is when I have both Future Sight and Prophet of Kruphix out. Letting me flash in creatures from the top of my deck is great. Along with other cards that let you manipulate the top of your deck, such as the combo that Courser of Kruphix[/x] and Domri Rade provide, you can get great card advantage going on.
You can also swtich the colossus with either Polukranos or Deadbridge Goliath. With cards that beat control sideboard such as Mistcutter Hydra and Garruk, Caller of Beasts. I like the Pit Fights for removal, but you can just take them out and put in the Aspect of Hydra if you like. If you have both Nylea and her bow out, the trample and deathtouch will just knock anything out of the way. Just have to be wary of instant speed removal.
4 Mirran Crusader
3 Hero of Bladehold
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Path to Exile
4 Thoughtseize
2 Doom Blade
4 Honor the Pure
4 Zealous Persecution
4 Lingering Souls
4 Spectral Procession
4 Arid Mesa
4 Godless Shrine
3 Isolated Chapel
4 Marsh Flats
6 Plains
2 Windbrisk Heights
2 Ghost Quarter
4 Duress
2 Rest in Peace
4 Stony Silence
1 Rule of Law
1 Hero of Bladehold
This is the deck I plan on running at a Modern PTQ next weekend. I'm fine with the mainboard, but I would like some help with the sideboard. I put the fourth Hero there so I have another threat since I like to take Lingering Souls out if I board in RIP. I was thinking about just doing 2 Stony Silence and putting 2 Sundering Growth in. In addition to an instant speed destruction I can also get use from the populate. Duress is there for more discard against control/combo decks. Rule of Law is there for Storm and other decks that like to cast a lot of spells. Ghost Quarter is there for Tron and other decks that have some utility lands, such as Affinity.
But a few of the choices are more for my FNM metagame and not one as something as high up as a PTQ. I tried to get it close to Craig Wescoe's list but some of the cards he uses in the sideboard I can't easily obtain. Any inputs/ideas would be appreciated.
Since there are several Detention Sphere and Nightveil Spectre type cards running around, I would make sure before you and your opponent leave that you have your 75 cards.
Maybe you could post your reasoning as for why you want to return lands to the battlefield. Maybe some of the more knowledgeable players can help you out with an interaction.
On the Wizards website. The only mythics would be the gods that had their color first in the CMC of the card, such as Atheros for the white packs, Keranos for the blue pack, etc. The only way to get any other mythics is from the JOU boosters.
At the prerelease though what really got on everyone nerves was that Lou starts complaining to the TO as well as the HJ about Kurt's pulls from the sealed box. Saying about how he put outside cards into the sealed deck, which included a foil Brimaz. So the entire time he is talking about how he would have won too if he played with his own cards. And while he is talking the HJ is talking with me and my friends about his pulls, as there were three of us sitting next to him as he opened his packs and built his deck.
This seems like a good idea if you want to get actual cards. Maybe get a few of each type, or just get a lot of one color that you know he plays. Either way it will be something he can use or even trade with if needed.
Blue and Green got Kiora, does that count?
I would try something like this.
4 Experiment One
4 Kalonian Tusker
4 Swordwise Centaur
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Witchstalker
4 Boon Satyr
2 Nylea, God of the Hunt
2 Arbor Colossus
4 Pit Fights
24 Forest
You can also swtich the colossus with either Polukranos or Deadbridge Goliath. With cards that beat control sideboard such as Mistcutter Hydra and Garruk, Caller of Beasts. I like the Pit Fights for removal, but you can just take them out and put in the Aspect of Hydra if you like. If you have both Nylea and her bow out, the trample and deathtouch will just knock anything out of the way. Just have to be wary of instant speed removal.