Field of ruin seems like a pretty good utility land. It fixes our own mana! I may think about replacing the gavony township... hard to say. Township is so much late game power, but being able to take out opposing townships, tron lands, and colonnades while actually fixing our mana seems really powerful. I feel I have lost to opposing townships more often than I have won with my own.
I cut township long ago. I've found games just don't get grindy enough to get to the point of needing it. Worship, although kind of a cheese card, helps in much more matchups from the sidebaord and stalls out the board in the same fashion that a Township would int he matchups that are looking at it. Cutting it and having a slightly better manabase has worked well for me.
On a sidenote I played a Modern FNM last night and 4-0'd again. 2-0 vs 8 Rack/Monoblack Control. 2-1 vs 7 Land Belcher (Kept a 2 lander game 1 and never got a third). 2-0 vs Grishoalbrand. The finals were technically a split but we played it out and I 2-1's KCI Eggs. This deck is outdated in the overall meta for sure but still very powerful for sure. It's not hard to take down local events against any kind of deck.
Won modern last night. First time playing in a while and it was a weird night. Round 1 was vs UW Enchantment Prison which the deck literally can't beat. I lost a very long game 1 by 1 turn (He won with Aetherling) then sniped him with several well timed EE's on 3 game 2 to take it and force the draw. I knew I couldn't win the match so I played to force a draw once I know I was going to lose game 1 since it was better than losing.
Round 2 was against some RW Humans aggro brew. He got me down to 8 life game 1 rally fast and I misplayed and let him shoot me twice with Pia and Kirin Nalaar instead of blinking the tokens and just chumping some other attacks, putting me to 4. He seemed to have no follow up though and I got the Displacer/Drowner engine online and won. Game 2 [card]Reality Smasher[/cards] did what they do best and smashed. If we learned anything already it's that the Eldrazi beat the Humans so if anything this was a very flavorful match.
Round 3 was against Lantern Control, which the guy seemed like he didn't know how to play. He was reading all my cards which was weird because if you're playing Lantern I really hope you know how every deck functions. I quickly got the Displacer/TKS lock on him after he didn't have the fastest start and began controlling his draws. It took him about 20 minutes to concede that game after he realized he was never going to draw a useful card and I had near infinite blinks from extra (Drowner) Scion tokens. Game 2 we didn't have a ton of time so I was going to play it out no matter what and win the match. Lucky for me he mulled to 4 cards, but played a Pithing Needle on T1 naming Displacer (of which I had 2 in hand and 1 on top of my library). I got the T2 Stony Silence and then got him down to 7 life before he topdecked a Bridge to stop me. We drew back and forth for a while before I got a card]Noble Hierarch[/card] and began hitting him down to 5 life. He drew and had to cast a Thoughtseize putting him to 3, but also played a Inventors' Fair and we were suddenly at a stalemate. The game eventually ended when he drew Blood Moon and had to play it to keep Bridge from letting my Scions attack. I won two turns later.
The last round was against UW Geist-Flash and I just had great draws constantly dropping TKS's and Smasher's game 1 with removal at all the right times. Game 2 I had some more fast draws backed up by Cavern of Souls and Stubborn Denials. I took all his big threats and countered his Path to Exiles to run him out of cards. I played out a Drowner hoping to go for the win if he didn't have a wrath.. which he did. Next turn I played another one for it to be wrathed again. Luckily I just kept drawing gas and eventually won pretty handily.
I was playing a pretty old more 'stock' list and honestly I wouldn't change anything. This deck has always been like a better Jund for me going 50/50 against everything and if you know how to pilot it really well you can outplay your opponents. I have tried some small tech cards like EWit and such and never done as well playing them.
Played in a small 16 person GPT Las Vegas yesterday coming second. I was on camera for 6 of the 7 rounds so there is a hefty amount of video if anyone wants to watch it. It has been quite some time since I have played paper magic so there were misplays and judgecalls galore... but I still seemed to make it through each round. Games went as:
R1: 2-1 vs Grixis Deaths Shadow
R2: 2-1 vs Living End
R3: 2-0-1 vs RW Burn (we tied game 1)
R4: 1-2 vs UWR Nihiri Control
R5: ID with Deaths Shadow Jund (I was up a game and had a good board position in game 2, buy we heard it was safe to draw into the top 4 so we did)
~~CUT TO TOP 4~~
Semifinals: 2-1 vs UWR Nihiri Control (who I lost to earlier)
Finals: 0-2 vs Deaths Shadow Jund (who I drew with earlier)
I was playing a very old list, I hadn't touched it since the WMCQ back in November 2016. I played it Tuesday and Wednesday going 3-1 both times. Decent records overall given that it had "missed" 2 set rotations in paper. I can post the vods whenever they're up if anyone really cares to watch like 5 hours of me making misplays.
Here is the link to the VOD. Watch it at your own risk discretion. The list I was playing was:
In the last few rounds it got real sloppy as we were all tired it seems. The finals I kept hands with the intent of "Well I have 5 lands, looks like I'll just draw into something good" which never ends well... Remember to always get sleep before long magic days!
Played in a small 16 person GPT Las Vegas yesterday coming second. I was on camera for 6 of the 7 rounds so there is a hefty amount of video if anyone wants to watch it. It has been quite some time since I have played paper magic so there were misplays and judgecalls galore... but I still seemed to make it through each round. Games went as:
R1: 2-1 vs Grixis Deaths Shadow
R2: 2-1 vs Living End
R3: 2-0-1 vs RW Burn (we tied game 1)
R4: 1-2 vs UWR Nihiri Control
R5: ID with Deaths Shadow Jund (I was up a game and had a good board position in game 2, buy we heard it was safe to draw into the top 4 so we did)
~~CUT TO TOP 4~~
Semifinals: 2-1 vs UWR Nihiri Control (who I lost to earlier)
Finals: 0-2 vs Deaths Shadow Jund (who I drew with earlier)
I was playing a very old list, I hadn't touched it since the WMCQ back in November 2016. I played it Tuesday and Wednesday going 3-1 both times. Decent records overall given that it had "missed" 2 set rotations in paper. I can post the vods whenever they're up if anyone really cares to watch like 5 hours of me making misplays.
2-1 vs RG Tron
2-0 vs Jeskai Nihiri
2-0 vs Jund
2-0 vs GW Hatebears
Video of it can be found here. The first game of Jeskai Nihiri starts at the link, and then the round vs Jund starts at 1:26:00. There were four 3-0 people so I wasn't on camera for the last round but another Bant Eldrazi player was so you can watch 3 rounds of the deck.
On a sidenote I played a Modern FNM last night and 4-0'd again. 2-0 vs 8 Rack/Monoblack Control. 2-1 vs 7 Land Belcher (Kept a 2 lander game 1 and never got a third). 2-0 vs Grishoalbrand. The finals were technically a split but we played it out and I 2-1's KCI Eggs. This deck is outdated in the overall meta for sure but still very powerful for sure. It's not hard to take down local events against any kind of deck.
MTGO/MTGA: Tyclone
My Primers ~ GWx Vizier Company ~ Knightfall ~ RG Eldrazi ~ Green's Sun's Zenith
More Brews ~ Modern Four Horsemen ~ Gitrog Dredge
Round 2 was against some RW Humans aggro brew. He got me down to 8 life game 1 rally fast and I misplayed and let him shoot me twice with Pia and Kirin Nalaar instead of blinking the tokens and just chumping some other attacks, putting me to 4. He seemed to have no follow up though and I got the Displacer/Drowner engine online and won. Game 2 [card]Reality Smasher[/cards] did what they do best and smashed. If we learned anything already it's that the Eldrazi beat the Humans so if anything this was a very flavorful match.
Round 3 was against Lantern Control, which the guy seemed like he didn't know how to play. He was reading all my cards which was weird because if you're playing Lantern I really hope you know how every deck functions. I quickly got the Displacer/TKS lock on him after he didn't have the fastest start and began controlling his draws. It took him about 20 minutes to concede that game after he realized he was never going to draw a useful card and I had near infinite blinks from extra (Drowner) Scion tokens. Game 2 we didn't have a ton of time so I was going to play it out no matter what and win the match. Lucky for me he mulled to 4 cards, but played a Pithing Needle on T1 naming Displacer (of which I had 2 in hand and 1 on top of my library). I got the T2 Stony Silence and then got him down to 7 life before he topdecked a Bridge to stop me. We drew back and forth for a while before I got a card]Noble Hierarch[/card] and began hitting him down to 5 life. He drew and had to cast a Thoughtseize putting him to 3, but also played a Inventors' Fair and we were suddenly at a stalemate. The game eventually ended when he drew Blood Moon and had to play it to keep Bridge from letting my Scions attack. I won two turns later.
The last round was against UW Geist-Flash and I just had great draws constantly dropping TKS's and Smasher's game 1 with removal at all the right times. Game 2 I had some more fast draws backed up by Cavern of Souls and Stubborn Denials. I took all his big threats and countered his Path to Exiles to run him out of cards. I played out a Drowner hoping to go for the win if he didn't have a wrath.. which he did. Next turn I played another one for it to be wrathed again. Luckily I just kept drawing gas and eventually won pretty handily.
I was playing a pretty old more 'stock' list and honestly I wouldn't change anything. This deck has always been like a better Jund for me going 50/50 against everything and if you know how to pilot it really well you can outplay your opponents. I have tried some small tech cards like EWit and such and never done as well playing them.
MTGO/MTGA: Tyclone
My Primers ~ GWx Vizier Company ~ Knightfall ~ RG Eldrazi ~ Green's Sun's Zenith
More Brews ~ Modern Four Horsemen ~ Gitrog Dredge
Here is the link to the VOD. Watch it at your own
riskdiscretion. The list I was playing was:4 Noble Hierarch
2 Spellskite
4 Eldrazi Displacer
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Thought-Knot Seer
4 Reality Smasher
4 Drowner of Hope
Noncreature Spells
4 Path to Exile
4 Ancient Stirrings
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Windswept Heath
1 Temple Garden
1 Breeding Pool
1 Hallowed Fountain
3 Brushland
2 Yavimaya Coast
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Eldrazi Temple
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Pithing Needle
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Rest in Peace
2 Stony Silence
2 Stubborn Denial
2 Disdainful Stroke
1 Worship
1 Eternal Witness
2 Dismember
MTGO/MTGA: Tyclone
My Primers ~ GWx Vizier Company ~ Knightfall ~ RG Eldrazi ~ Green's Sun's Zenith
More Brews ~ Modern Four Horsemen ~ Gitrog Dredge
R1: 2-1 vs Grixis Deaths Shadow
R2: 2-1 vs Living End
R3: 2-0-1 vs RW Burn (we tied game 1)
R4: 1-2 vs UWR Nihiri Control
R5: ID with Deaths Shadow Jund (I was up a game and had a good board position in game 2, buy we heard it was safe to draw into the top 4 so we did)
~~CUT TO TOP 4~~
Semifinals: 2-1 vs UWR Nihiri Control (who I lost to earlier)
Finals: 0-2 vs Deaths Shadow Jund (who I drew with earlier)
I was playing a very old list, I hadn't touched it since the WMCQ back in November 2016. I played it Tuesday and Wednesday going 3-1 both times. Decent records overall given that it had "missed" 2 set rotations in paper. I can post the vods whenever they're up if anyone really cares to watch like 5 hours of me making misplays.
MTGO/MTGA: Tyclone
My Primers ~ GWx Vizier Company ~ Knightfall ~ RG Eldrazi ~ Green's Sun's Zenith
More Brews ~ Modern Four Horsemen ~ Gitrog Dredge
2-1 vs RG Tron
2-0 vs Jeskai Nihiri
2-0 vs Jund
2-0 vs GW Hatebears
Video of it can be found here. The first game of Jeskai Nihiri starts at the link, and then the round vs Jund starts at 1:26:00. There were four 3-0 people so I wasn't on camera for the last round but another Bant Eldrazi player was so you can watch 3 rounds of the deck.
MTGO/MTGA: Tyclone
My Primers ~ GWx Vizier Company ~ Knightfall ~ RG Eldrazi ~ Green's Sun's Zenith
More Brews ~ Modern Four Horsemen ~ Gitrog Dredge