I know that the the World Magic Cup is a long ways away but this Unified Modern where you can only play Non Basics in one of the three decks has me a little intrigued.
Assuming no bans (I'm looking at you Eye of Ugin) an Eldrazi deck has to be your Non Basic deck at this point right? Mono Red seems like a good choice with all Mountains.
So what would you do for the third deck? Would you play a 2 color deck with only Basics? 3 color? Or what would you pick instead of my first two choices?
Can someone explain the Unified Modern format? What is it? What is this non-basic limitation?
The other two decks are just going to be tribal aggro or burn. My pick is Elves: Merfolk is a better deck but everyone will think Merfolk will be a problem and pack Choke in their sideboards. The second deck will be burn: probably mono-red but I would test Boros.
U/R Eldrazi
Elves
Burn
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The initial announcement of the format was bungled badly, there's no way they'd actually expect you to build two decks with no nonbasic lands.
The difference between this Modified Unified Modern and regular Unified Modern is that each card can only appear in one deck. Normally you could split your Hallowed Fountains and Flooded Strands between two decks in order to play two U/W decks, in this format, you can only play them in one deck.
I know that the the World Magic Cup is a long ways away but this Unified Modern where you can only play Non Basics in one of the three decks has me a little intrigued.
Assuming no bans (I'm looking at you Eye of Ugin) an Eldrazi deck has to be your Non Basic deck at this point right? Mono Red seems like a good choice with all Mountains.
So what would you do for the third deck? Would you play a 2 color deck with only Basics? 3 color? Or what would you pick instead of my first two choices?
Wasn't that a mishap in the working and it's no more than one deck can have the same nonbasic, not if one deck runs nonbasics then no others can. There was a link to the page with the fixed wording floating around somewhere. I'm on mobile so I can find it later.
I'll explain. A Unified format (Standard, Modern, etc) uses the same construction rules as it's individual format. Matches a played 3v3 as three separate matches where the winning team wins two of those three matches (which are each played 2 of 3 games like normal 1v1). The kicker is that you can't have more than four of a single non-basic card across all three decks. Rich Hagon like to explain it that if you stacked all three decks one on top of another you would still have a legal deck.
For the World Magic Cup they are playing Unified Modern. Also for the WMC specifically they are adding a special rule. Only one deck per team can use non-basic lands. So if the guy in Seat A has Eldrazi Temple in his deck (even just one) then no one else on his team can use any non-basic lands.
I would say UR Eldrazi, Affinity, and Merfolk or Bogles.
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Legacy - Sneak Show, BR Reanimator, Miracles, UW Stoneblade
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
UR Eldrazi
Affinity
RW control with Ensnaring Bridge & stuff
The third guy is basically going to be fed to the dogs, but he might be able to steal a few wins.
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Assuming no bans (I'm looking at you Eye of Ugin) an Eldrazi deck has to be your Non Basic deck at this point right? Mono Red seems like a good choice with all Mountains.
So what would you do for the third deck? Would you play a 2 color deck with only Basics? 3 color? Or what would you pick instead of my first two choices?
The other two decks are just going to be tribal aggro or burn. My pick is Elves: Merfolk is a better deck but everyone will think Merfolk will be a problem and pack Choke in their sideboards. The second deck will be burn: probably mono-red but I would test Boros.
U/R Eldrazi
Elves
Burn
MTG finance guy- follow me on Twitter@RichArschmann or RichardArschmann on Reddit
The difference between this Modified Unified Modern and regular Unified Modern is that each card can only appear in one deck. Normally you could split your Hallowed Fountains and Flooded Strands between two decks in order to play two U/W decks, in this format, you can only play them in one deck.
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For the World Magic Cup they are playing Unified Modern. Also for the WMC specifically they are adding a special rule. Only one deck per team can use non-basic lands. So if the guy in Seat A has Eldrazi Temple in his deck (even just one) then no one else on his team can use any non-basic lands.
https://youtu.be/1oZC7DijhSU?t=11m30s
The article does confirm what you are saying but it seems weird that they would bungle it this hard.
Well that makes this conversation no fun at this point. Thanks for your help
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)Affinity
RW control with Ensnaring Bridge & stuff
The third guy is basically going to be fed to the dogs, but he might be able to steal a few wins.
MTG finance guy- follow me on Twitter@RichArschmann or RichardArschmann on Reddit
Third guy should be playing a BUG Death's Shadow Delver brew with mainboard Disrupting Shoals.