Thanks for the hints guys. He is actually pretty hard to cast for two white mana on turn two. So maybe timely reinforcements would be a good card. It might also help against the mono green stompy deck.
I like blessed alliance too, it would have been good against burn and death shadow deck. And it almost always has a good mode.
So maybe one blessed mainboard? what would you take out?
I'll also try taking out two kor firewalkers for 2 timely reinforcements.
I also have 1 ajani vengeant in my collection, should I move one to the sideboard as well? Is he worth it mainboard, 4 mana sorcery speed is pretty rough.
What about the new gideon of trials?
I lost round one to mono green stompy. After beating him first match, second and third match with anger of the gods and supreme verdict, he had a very explosive hand. Lost 2-1
I won round two agains Grixis death's shadow.
Pathed his death shadow's, did some nice tricks with snapcasters and counters. Fairly easy, I was expecting this to be a hard matchup.
Beat him 2-0.
I won against jund. First match was easy, two mana leak prevented him from playing goyf and bob.
Game two we were in top deck mode, but I managed to draw a land and activate celestial colonnade for the win. Won 2-0
Fourth and final round, if I won this round I'd get some boosters.
Matchup was naya burn. I've played against this oponnent a couple of times and I can never manage to beat his skullcrack's.
I won the first game fairly easily. Second game was just to fast. He killed my kor firewalker with the goblin guide + skullcrack trick. I didn't draw any counters and lost 2-1 and was out of the booster places (once again).
Any hints for the upcomming FNM's?
I really feel like I need more early game interaction.
Thanks for all the tips guys.
Hopefully next time I face a storm deck, I'll do a bit better.
My meta is:
1x Storm, 1x lantern, 1x jund, 1x grixis, 1x elves company, 1/2x vizier company, 1x grixis delver, sometimes 1x tron, 1x mono black devotion.
Apart from the standard bolts, helixes, counters, how would you tune your deck for these matchups?
That's the hard part for me.
I don't run any Electrolyze, maybe this one would be good against those company decks.
I think one negate mainboard would be good. I also run two ghost quarters mainboard.
Any other obvious auto include that I should have in my deck?
I'm also working to get a Vendillion clique. He improves tron and storm matchups right? And company decks as well, placing collected company on the bottom seems good.
Not at the moment, I had never seen a storm player in my store. I think this is the only guy playing that deck, but I might include one in the sideboard.
I have 4 geists mainboard. In fact, the first game I lost because I tapped out turn three because I didn't figure out he was playing storm. I thought it would be a jeskai control matchup.
I don't have the complete decklist right now but I run 4 snaps, 4x geists, 2x restoration angel and 1 spell queller. Bolts, helixs, paths.
As for the counters I have 2 cryptic, 2 mana leak and 2 remand.
Should I up the counter package?
Also, what's you guys's opinion on restoration angel? She seems kinda weak right now with spell queller being better.
Ok thanks guys! I'm pretty new to modern and this matchup looked hard. But yeah their win con's are sorcery speed so that's good.
What is the stuff I should counter? Their past in flames and their mana ramps right? Should I counter gifts ungiven or just wait and once again counter their mana ramps?
Okay so after an FNM I went 2-2. Lost to lantern control and storm. How do we beat those matchups? I felt pretty hopeless, specially in lantern matchup.
Thats right! Thanks! I added two to my sideboard.
Anyone have a general sideboard guide? I have some of the sideboard cards commonly used but because I'm pretty new to modern, I don't always know what to bring and what to take out against what.
Just for the most common matchups like affinity, grixis control and shadow and jund would be good.
thanks!
If you guys want to know anything specific about the matches, let me know, I just have to be up early and don't want to spend the time tonight to write up a whole report for the night. Also, I know these are just FNM reports, but I figure any content on the deck is better than nothing
Nice deck! But isn't archangel avacyn a nonbo with some of your creatures? When it transforms.
I like blessed alliance too, it would have been good against burn and death shadow deck. And it almost always has a good mode.
So maybe one blessed mainboard? what would you take out?
I'll also try taking out two kor firewalkers for 2 timely reinforcements.
I also have 1 ajani vengeant in my collection, should I move one to the sideboard as well? Is he worth it mainboard, 4 mana sorcery speed is pretty rough.
What about the new gideon of trials?
As for vendilion clique's, I'm trying to get one or two of them. And will probably put one maindeck and take out either a geist of saint traft or a restoration angel.
Scalding tarn's are also on my wishlist, as it will improve my manabase a lot.
Should I have not blocked here?
I went 2-2. The deck felt nice, but still suffers from low interactivity in earlier turns I think.
This is the list I ran: (There are 5 cards from sideboard I'm not remembering right now, but they weren't that useful)
3x Celestial Colonnade
4x Flooded Strand
2x Hallowed Fountain
3x Island
1x Moorland Haunt
1x Mountain
1x Plains
4x Polluted Delta
1x Sacred Foundry
1x Spirebluff Canal
2x Steam Vents
Spells: (25)
2x Cryptic Command
1x Electrolyze
4x Lightning Bolt
4x Lightning Helix
2x Mana Leak
4x Path to Exile
2x Remand
2x Spell Snare
4x Serum Visions
4x Geist of Saint Traft
2x Restoration Angel
4x Snapcaster Mage
2x Spell Queller
2x Anger of the Gods
1x Dispel
2x Kor Firewalker
1x Negate
1x Relic of Progenitus
2x Stony Silence
1x Supreme Verdict
1x Wear
I lost round one to mono green stompy. After beating him first match, second and third match with anger of the gods and supreme verdict, he had a very explosive hand. Lost 2-1
I won round two agains Grixis death's shadow.
Pathed his death shadow's, did some nice tricks with snapcasters and counters. Fairly easy, I was expecting this to be a hard matchup.
Beat him 2-0.
I won against jund. First match was easy, two mana leak prevented him from playing goyf and bob.
Game two we were in top deck mode, but I managed to draw a land and activate celestial colonnade for the win. Won 2-0
Fourth and final round, if I won this round I'd get some boosters.
Matchup was naya burn. I've played against this oponnent a couple of times and I can never manage to beat his skullcrack's.
I won the first game fairly easily. Second game was just to fast. He killed my kor firewalker with the goblin guide + skullcrack trick. I didn't draw any counters and lost 2-1 and was out of the booster places (once again).
Any hints for the upcomming FNM's?
I really feel like I need more early game interaction.
Hopefully next time I face a storm deck, I'll do a bit better.
My meta is:
1x Storm, 1x lantern, 1x jund, 1x grixis, 1x elves company, 1/2x vizier company, 1x grixis delver, sometimes 1x tron, 1x mono black devotion.
Apart from the standard bolts, helixes, counters, how would you tune your deck for these matchups?
That's the hard part for me.
I don't run any Electrolyze, maybe this one would be good against those company decks.
I think one negate mainboard would be good. I also run two ghost quarters mainboard.
Any other obvious auto include that I should have in my deck?
I'm also working to get a Vendillion clique. He improves tron and storm matchups right? And company decks as well, placing collected company on the bottom seems good.
I have 4 geists mainboard. In fact, the first game I lost because I tapped out turn three because I didn't figure out he was playing storm. I thought it would be a jeskai control matchup.
I don't have the complete decklist right now but I run 4 snaps, 4x geists, 2x restoration angel and 1 spell queller. Bolts, helixs, paths.
As for the counters I have 2 cryptic, 2 mana leak and 2 remand.
Should I up the counter package?
Also, what's you guys's opinion on restoration angel? She seems kinda weak right now with spell queller being better.
What is the stuff I should counter? Their past in flames and their mana ramps right? Should I counter gifts ungiven or just wait and once again counter their mana ramps?
Anyone have a general sideboard guide? I have some of the sideboard cards commonly used but because I'm pretty new to modern, I don't always know what to bring and what to take out against what.
Just for the most common matchups like affinity, grixis control and shadow and jund would be good.
thanks!
Nice deck! But isn't archangel avacyn a nonbo with some of your creatures? When it transforms.
Also, why Aven Mindcensor mainboard?
I was going to get scalding tarn but they began to spike. They are like 60$ here in Europe. Are they any cheaper in USA?