1- I like the 5 cards split on Terminate/Dreadbore/Fatal Push . This is constantly changing for me (meta dependent). Since Tron and Jace are a bit popular at my local shop, I'm on a 2xterminate, 2xdreadbore, 1push (but 2 side).
2- I prefer having 2 Blood Moon main vs 1. It just gives you wins vs a lot of deck, even times when Blood Moon isn't suppose to be good (vs Burn, Affinity).
I never tried Manamorphose and I see some people who are playing 4 . This deck is hard to trim, feel that all card have a good purpose. At the same time, it looks like you are almost always happy to have Manamorphose in your hand or on a topdeck. Looking foward for some playtesting with the card + reading reports on this site!
Here is a super quick report of my last Modern tournament (3-1). I have a pretty stock list, will post it later.
Match 1 (vs Burn) 1-2
Game 1 : I manage pretty much all creature he plays, I'm at 3 for 2 turns, he never top deck the burn spell, I win.
Game 2 : Goblin Guide again on T1, hits me 2 times, and he get there with burn spells.
Game 3 : Top deck war again, I needed to dodge a burn spells on top deck mode for 2 turns, oops, GG
Thought - I would like 4 Collective Brutality in the 75(only play 3). The card is just sick for this match-up and is needed. Guess this match up is about 40-60 but Brutality is the hope
Match 2 (vs new Burn Player (with the real deck anyway)) 2-0
Game 1 : Opponent is mana screw for 2 turns, gives me enough times (and thanks brutality!)
Game 2 : Decided to keep 1 blood moon in the deck. I play it, Opponent is stuck with boros charm+helix in hands when needed a last burn spell.
Match 3 (vs GW Company Todd Stevens list)
Game 1 : 3 Voices is too much value, can't comeback.
Game 2 : I decided to keep 1 Blood Moon to stop the late game value he can get. I destroy the manadork, play BMoon on Turn 3, he never game white mana. Pyromancer+spells get me the win. He said he was surprise to see Blood Moon and didn't fetch anticipating it.
Game 3 : I 1 for 1 everything and a well timed Kolaghan's Command on a dork+EExplosives gives me the game (he was a bit mana screw.
Match 4 (vs Esper Control w/ 4 Jaces) 2-0
Game 1 : He taps out to play Jaces. He +2 to look at my top of library. ''WOW'' he says, Dreadbore ! Oops, the other one is in my hands ! I also land 1 turn later Blood Moon, and kill him with Tokens
Game 2 : Blood Moon gives him trouble again, he also land flood. GG. I guess i'ts risky to play 3 colors with Field of Ruins !
Thought - More than happy to play 2 dreadbore since our deck can't put lot of pressure on Jace.
Enough for today !
Game 2 He plays Mirran Crusader, which I wasn't expecting. Fortunately, I have Ballista and K Return!... But he has Unified Will... Game 3: Turn 3 KReturn eats his board after I ramp up to 5 mana with Tribe Scout. I titan turn 3. Turn 4 he's holding up 3 mana, but lets me attack and resolve a Trigger. I was again expecting mindcensor, so I resolved the trigger, he doesn't do anything, and at that point I suspect Queller, so I fetch a second Green pact on my 2nd main. He paths my Titan at EOT, and I Green pact in response, playing around Unified Will cause I have more dudes than him, and Queller, cause he doesn't have 3 mana. He untaps and concedes.
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I have another question!
I'm returning to 8 rack and I have issues against burn. What advice can you give to me?
1 Bontu's Last Reckoning
1 Infernal Tutor
2 Funeral Charm
4 Fatal Push
4 Liliana of the Veil
4 Smallpox
4 Wrench Mind
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Raven's Crime
1 Black Mail
2 Thoughtseize
4 Shrieking Affliction
1 Ghost Quarter
4 Mutavault
1 Polluted Delta
13 Swamp
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Leyline of the Void
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Fulminator Mage
1 Shadow of Doubt
1 Flaying Tendrils
2 Collective Brutality
1 Bontu's Last Reckoning
2 Surgical Extraction
My strategy is to try to hit an early collective brutality. I use to win with Nyxiathid but now Im still calibrating my play.
Regards!
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Academy Ruins and double E.E. looks powerfull and you are able be really control-like deck.
Kessing Wolf Run fight it's place with slayers' stronghold, I don't know if running both is worth. Sometimes you can't give your titan haste, and KWR can deal more damage next turn you landed your Titan. Playing both could worth, but requires some testing.
I do like 3 Dismembers although.
Regards!
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finished very poorly 1-5.
Faced Lantern control, won very quick the first game, second game was controlled by my opponent very early. At third game I kept an slow hand, that cost me the match.
2nd round, faced instant reanimator (lost 0-2) he comboed me on turn 3 both times. Should have look for the Cage more aggresively.
3rd round, stomped affinity, that was satifying. (2-0)
4th round, faced dreadge (lost 0-2). Should have look for the Cage more aggresively. Even that is is a hard matchup. I still think that mulligan more aggresively is key.
5th round, faces eldrazi tron (0-2). On this match I can argue that the deck give me 9 lands. Should have mulligan better.
In second game he was able to remove from my hand the traitorius blood that a drew from bomat off my hand. Are you kidding me??
6th round, faced eggs. Won first game, second game he comboed on his fourth turn. third game he was able to combo on his third turn.
During the tournament I realize how important is to mulligan well in a deck that is practical an aggro combo deck maybe it is more resilent than affinity. The lack of practices on big tournaments affected the game of course. I strongly think that if I would mulligan better the result should have been at least 4-2. But this deck doesn't have enough tools to interact. It is a good deck at his nature.
I'll keep playing it but I'm thinking in not bringing it to another big tourny... It is how I feel guys sorry.
Sideboard went like this:
keep the aggro going!!!
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I like to include 1 Fling no make sure he finish the job
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1st round vs UW Control (2:1)
1st game: I keep the pressure until I won.
2nd game: he controlled my game very well. With swipes etc.
3rd game: He couldnt swipe my creatures. I draw 6 cards due to Bomat, and won.
2nd round vs GB Tron (2:1)
1st game: quick win.
2nd game: sided in genesis chamber and destructive and fatal push. He started with IoK. Then collective brutality. Then tragstusk(??) couldnt recover from there.
3rd game: same side as before, but managed to win. He played one wurmcoil. I killed it when he attacked. With CB He killed a signal pest and Drainlife instead of discard my atarka. And I won on next turn with bushwacker and atarka.
3rd round vs Bant Eldrazi (2:1)
This matchup was really hard, thr guy played well and I did some clear miss plays.
1st game: I have in my hand 1 woodedfoothills, Ornithopter, kukdota, signal pest. Goblin guide. Bomat and atarka. I keep the hand and played the signal pest. This play cost me the game. Because i didnt draw a land until 3rd turn. I think I should have played the ornithopter and then the kuldotha. In order to star hitting with 5 on second turn. The he got plebty of timw to assemble and wkn this one.
2nd game: i sided in 2 destructive and 3 chamber and 2 gutshots. Started with gutshot. Then the game progressed until I won fairly quick.
3rd game: he did't draw explosives. And went really oppressive on the aggro. I casted 2 genesis chamber and bomat was very important on giving me draws. I end the game with 6 3/1 tokens plus other dudes.
In conclusion the deck is really good at surprising people with the pants down. It is super aggro. But my concern still exist regarding the concistency of the deck.
The configuration of my mainboard it's solid. 10 fetches 2 shocks 3 mountains and 3 cooperline worked fine. I got 1 arid mesa standing there hanging around. But im unsure if it is a signal to add another stomping instead of one cooperline.
Regarding the sideboard:
3 destructive revelry. This sould be 4 and I even would add one Shattering Spree. (+2)
4 gutshot. Even i didn't fight against affinity or infect. The spell worked well agains bant eldrazi.
2 coordinates assault. Never saw play because neve encountered zoo, fish, etc.
3 G.Cage: this one never saw play. I played it against UW control but wasn't able to impact the table.
3 Genesis Chamber. All stars card. Standing Ovation.
The only think I fear with this deck is the massive lifegain. Atarka helps but a kitche finks or a deck with timmely reinforcement can be tricky.
I've been think kn adding Lyline of Punishment. Maybe this would work well but should be 3 copies to bein able to draw it...
I'm trying to make this deck as competitive as possible. I'm open to discuss.
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Regarding your Narnam Problem I've been thinking of using 2 Coordinated Assault in place of Grull Charm, to win the combats in an sneaky way. I only own 1, so it is going to be 1 Coordinated Assault and 1 Atarka's Command in the sideboard.
Today I'll be playing at my LGS, so I'll report later. Also I'm going to use 10 red fetches, 3 mountains, 3 cooperline, 2 stomping ground.
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4 Legion Loyalist
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Reckless Bushwhacker
4 Goblin Bushwhacker
4 Bomat Courier
4 Signal Pest
3 Ornithopter
4 Memnite
4 Atarka's Command
4 Kuldotha Rebirth
5 Mountain
2 Copperline Gorge
2 Stomping Ground
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Destructive Revelry
3 Genesis Chamber
2 Impact Tremors
2 Act of Aggression
First Round against Isotronic UB Control. (2-0) Won on turn 3 both games, I didn't touch the MB.
Second Round, against GW Tron (2-1). First game was easy. Second game I Sided out 2 BTE and added 2 Act of Aggression. He draw 2 timmely reinforcements reaching 22 life on turn 5. Then he casted a Wurmcoil Engine and in the following turn a Ugin. He was unable to gain life with wurmcoil because I had 2 atarka's command, I was keeping an Act of aggression in my hand to end the thing, but He was too high on life (9 life). I scooped but fought bravely !!
Third game I start with an amazing hand and finished the game on turn 4.
Third Round against Grixis Control. (1-2)I Won first game. Second Game I draw 2 genesis chamber, and he draw 2 kolaghans Command. I took also an Anger of the Gods, and wasn't able to recover. Third Game I sided in an Act of Aggression but it never shown. He beat me when I had him at 3 life with Dragon's Claw.
Fourth Game against Death's Shadow deck (2-1). I keept a one lander on the play, and loose because of it, never draw the second land. Second game, (Sided out 1 Kuldota and 1 BTE, Sided in 2 Act of aggression) I plain attacked him, he stopped decreasing his life at 2 and cleared my board with kolaghand's and attacked. Leaving me at 3 life. Next turn I draw a Goblin Bushwacker 4 the win. Third game He used 1 TS and 2 Inquisitions. I had quite an army on the field, a reckless bushwacker on my hand and two lands on play. He attacked me and I was on 3, he stopped lowering his life at 8, because with my current army I was unable to beat him. I draw a cooperline gorge casted the reckless (only haste) and win. After the match he argue me that I was lucky and I didn't take the best decisions, He was right (and a bit pissed). I played blindly, but top decks are topdecks B-).
Regards! (sorry for my english)
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4x Avatar of the Resolute
4x Dryad Militant
4x Experiment One
2x Kessig Prowler
4x Leatherback Baloth
2x Scavenging Ooze
4x Strangleroot Geist
2x Witchstalker
3x Dismember
4x Vines of Vastwood
18x Forest
2x Treetop Village
4x Rancor
2x Deglamer
1x Feed the Clan
2x Gut Shot
2x Natural State
3x Pithing Needle
2x Prey Upon
1x Pulse of Murasa
2x Relic of Progenitus
I faced 1 round grixis control. Strangleroot Geist and Witchstalker carried the victory. won the first. sided in 2 relic and 1 pulse of murasa (this card allowed me to play Witchstalker again after it was killed by EE. In the second game grixis deck worked perfectly and couldn't do much. The last match a combination of defensive Vines and Rancor won with Leatherback Baloth.
Second game was against Merfork and was wierd because First game I got mana screwed (greedy hands are greedy keept a mulligan to 6 1 lander). 0-1. Sided out 3 Aspects and 1 Dismember and sided in 2 Natural State and 2 Prey Upon. Second game he wasn't able to have a land on their hand until mulligan 4 and I steamroll his fishy creatures. and the third one I draw a hand kind of nasty with 1 Natural State 2 vines 1 experiment one 3 lands and 1 root.
Third Game was against Grixis Control. Won the first game due to the root, and second game I got Anger of God's twice, I hold my root until he played anger, then I played the root, and he angered again. Then he played the delve guy (dont remember the name) on my turn (having 4 lands) I played Leatherback Baloth with a Vines and dismember on my hand. passed turn. he passed turn too. on my turn i played dismember with 3 mana open in case of manaleak, it resolved (he anwered with his hability and draw the goblin cmc5, then I played kicked vines and won.
Overall I'm not sure if eternal withness would be better than pulse of murasa, but the effect of that sideboard card was very nice.
I copy the sideboard from the forum and Im happy with it. (thanks to Khanth).