The defining card in the modern format is almost certainly lightning bolt, with out even mentioning our favorite blue lightning bolt instant demonic tutor creature. In building a blue tempo deck, I was curious as to the best way to prevent this card from being simply superb. So my question to all of you is: how do you get a delver of secretsto beat a bolt?
I'm snowed in down here and have been thinking of messing with some cards to proxy some modern staples for playtesting, is there a household way to "erase" the ink from the card? I saw the thing about erasers, but that seems to require both a bit of searching, money, and mobility.
I'm trying to selectively erase as well, like leave the green card frame from a centaur's herald and just pencil in the name "Noble Hierarch" and doodle a picture and write down textual approximations.
Hi guys, some card names in other languages have relevance in English, I've always found that to be really cool and look to pick up that version of the card when building my decks. What are some of your favorites!?
I'll lead off, it was mentioned on twitter the other day that German wild nacatls are "wilder nacatl," giving you an edge in the zoo mirror ;).
There is talk of using him to ensure you make your creature drop to make the new U/W God Ephara card draw trigger.
That seems like a poor plan in modern where you have to be playing two slightly clunky combo cards a la exarchkiki to be competitive. Two unplayable cards that together draw a card every turn seems bad. And it's a uw god for gods sake. Sorry, had to get all of that off my chest. Norin, I'm leaving, feel free to flicker back in after combat.
Hi all, I'm thinking about converting my paper collection, maybe worth 2000$ in liquidable cards, to mtgo tickets or cards. Inot 'm not sure if this is a reasonable move and I'm not sure how to go about it. I know mtgotraders does the cards to store credit, but I don't know if that's the best/most efficient method. Anyone have thoughts on the idea in general or the best way to go about converting paper cards into mtgo material that I could use and play with for a while without investing any no money into the system?
Thanks!
Ummmm if you go back one page nylarothep just posted about splinter twin being bought out across the web and going to $9+ a copy as a result. Card was primed to rise since it was just a 3 dollar card/relatively easy to buy out when its going for 12 a playset.
Thus, I was not sure what you all were talking about, thought I'd mention it if it wasn't covered.
I'm a huge proponent of RUg in modern and think it adds some consistency and power to the straight U/R version. Here is the list I took to Detroit last weekend:
I ended up going 5-3 and dropping. I lost to Bogles, B/W tokens(wtf?) and Rbw Burn; I won against UWR Geist, U/R Splinter Twin, Living End, RG Tron and Rb Burn. This deck was setup for all the Pod, Jund and Tron that was there but I never actually faced...
All that said. I think that Delver is just too high variance to put up serious results. Sometimes you flip a Delver and counter/kill everything they play. Other times you just lose to a 4/4. Trying to string together 15 matches while walking that tightrope is never going to get there. Legacy RUG does so well because it gets to play some of the best cards in the format. That isn't the case in Modern, especially for U/R. The metagame in Legacy is less focused creature destruction as well, and there is no replacement for Nimble Mongoose.
I like the direction Hoogland is going with the Faeries (Scion is a beast!) and see that as the future of U/R in Modern. If you want to keep flipping Delvers, Grixis or BUG are the best color combinations at this point. The access to discard, hardremoval and cardadvantage shore up most of the weaknesses this deck has.
Feel free to ignore anything I just said though and go back to talking about how Serum Visions allows you to run Cryptic Command in a deck with 7-9 blue sources and Blood Moon.
So would you advise just straight UR with scions or RUG with both Goyf and Scion, I imagine that Goyf helps out a lot in the mid range matchups though?
I think that UR tempo is very very different from URx Tempo, which would get very confused with grixis decks with confidant and deathrite and stuff.
The difference in the two decks mostly discussed here is pretty much only scion vs. delver, which should be discussed in the same place as it is one of the main questions of this deck. However, I would argue that they both are just slightly different versions of the same deck and not two different decks totally. Therefore, I think the best solution would be to create a UR tempo thread with UR delver and the UR faeries deck, as both are very very similar.
Is it just me or does it seem like wizards just took a bunch of old cards and added a colorless and a scry 1. This is a somewhat boring addition to the set IMO.
I feel like what the format needs is some colorless tron hate. The trick therefore becomes finding a card that does actually beat tron without hosing other decks.
I feel like a card like 1cmc artifact, each non mountain, non island, non forest, non plains, non swamp lands becomes a nuclear waste, wastes can't tap for non colored mana.
Or something weird like that.
So it doesn't hose glacial fortress but does hose tron.
Maybe something like "lands on the battlefield lose all land types" would be interesting too.
Edit: does the lose all land types prevent shocks and basics from taping for colored mana?
I'm trying to selectively erase as well, like leave the green card frame from a centaur's herald and just pencil in the name "Noble Hierarch" and doodle a picture and write down textual approximations.
Any ideas?
I'll lead off, it was mentioned on twitter the other day that German wild nacatls are "wilder nacatl," giving you an edge in the zoo mirror ;).
That seems like a poor plan in modern where you have to be playing two slightly clunky combo cards a la exarchkiki to be competitive. Two unplayable cards that together draw a card every turn seems bad. And it's a uw god for gods sake. Sorry, had to get all of that off my chest. Norin, I'm leaving, feel free to flicker back in after combat.
Thanks!
Thus, I was not sure what you all were talking about, thought I'd mention it if it wasn't covered.
So would you advise just straight UR with scions or RUG with both Goyf and Scion, I imagine that Goyf helps out a lot in the mid range matchups though?
The difference in the two decks mostly discussed here is pretty much only scion vs. delver, which should be discussed in the same place as it is one of the main questions of this deck. However, I would argue that they both are just slightly different versions of the same deck and not two different decks totally. Therefore, I think the best solution would be to create a UR tempo thread with UR delver and the UR faeries deck, as both are very very similar.
I feel like a card like 1cmc artifact, each non mountain, non island, non forest, non plains, non swamp lands becomes a nuclear waste, wastes can't tap for non colored mana.
Or something weird like that.
So it doesn't hose glacial fortress but does hose tron.
Maybe something like "lands on the battlefield lose all land types" would be interesting too.
Edit: does the lose all land types prevent shocks and basics from taping for colored mana?