I like Esper Control as a nomination. However im also completely for another month of Green's Sun's Zenith!
Seconded haha... but with this, if the thread isn't stickied then are you allowed to nominate/feature it a second time? I'd assume that since it has been featured once you'd want to give other threads the spotlight.
In almost any format that they have been legal in, people have attempted to abuse the power of the hive,b but with little success. The raw aggressive power that these little creatures are capable is something that few players scoff at and live to tell about. Although they are nearly untouched in modern with only a single tournament appearance to their name, I know that the potential aggressive power of the slivers is there and simply need more minds to meld together as one to streamline the deck to maximum consistency.
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Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Legacy
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
Ever since it was introduced as a mechanic, players have been making use of the Dredge mechanic to effectively expand their hand, and to do things that are in one way or another kind of overpowered. However, due to the current banlist in Modern, a deck centered around dredging has never really been popular in the format. Junk Haakon Loam is a deck centered around Dredging that is viable in Modern, and has an unique playstyle compared to Vintage, Legacy or Extended Dredge; where in those formats, Dredge is a high speed combo deck that aims to win very quickly, Junk Haakon Loam is a slow, control based deck that uses Haakon, Stromgald Scourge to recur powerful creatures and useful removal spells. The deck has shown to be viable in the current meta, reaching Day Two in GP Boston/Worchester.
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Well, I can saw a woman in two, but you won't wanna look in the box when I'm through.
I like Esper Control as a nomination. However im also completely for another month of Green's Sun's Zenith!
Seconded haha... but with this, if the thread isn't stickied then are you allowed to nominate/feature it a second time? I'd assume that since it has been featured once you'd want to give other threads the spotlight.
It is technically allowed, but I can only see it happening if no other decks that haven't been nominated before have been nominated. Otherwise I'd be nominating WUR Delver for another month.
Let's give this another shot
Rerererereapplication.
Application for Featured Thread-Living End Reanimator
(it would need a name change if it was featured because it is mostly used for talking about the Breaking Bad version now)
Have you ever wished that Modern had a consistent reanimator deck? Well here it is. This combo deck gets cards into the graveyard using discard and Breaking // Entering abuses the cascade mechanic to either cascade into the Entering side of Breaking // Entering and reanimate a large creature with haste or in some cases cascade into Living End and reanimate your whole graveyard. This deck is fast, consistently reanimates on turns 3-4, and crushes a large portion of the top decks of the format (namely Affinity, Pod, and Burn, all of which are at least 70/30 matchups). Breaking Bad merely needs players who are willing to try it out and then it can dominate the format!
This deck has a lot of cool synergies and ideas that the Modern world needs to know about. Haakon recursion. Dredge. Knight of the goddamn Reliquary. Life from the Loam. These are powerful cards and effects that Modern players have wanted to use for a long time. But with the demise of DRS, the times are much more welcoming to a deck like this. So if you want a new take on the BGx Midrange strategies that we see week in and week out at events, Junk Haakon Loam is the thread for you.
Thanks all for your applications. Submissions for October are now open. Remember that the forum reorganization will happen around the 9/22 Ban Announcement (probably within the next 5 days of that), so some threads won't get Feature Status by virtue of being stickied (Time Walk) or moved up to Established (UWR Delver).
"Caw Blade" was a monster during the deck's stint in Standard and absolutely crushed the tournament scene. It could even be argued that it was the strongest standard deck of all time. The deck quickly became a tier 1 deck in Legacy under the alias "Stoneblade" and "Deathblade" but what about Modern? With the reprinting of Onslaught fetchlands, an esper caw-blade esque deck can finally be explored. Powerful cards like Lingering Souls, Liliana of the Veil, Thoughtseize, Path to Exile and Snapcaster Mage in conjunction with the infamous swords of Mirridon and Steelshaper's Gift clear the way for a new tier 1 deck to be born. We now have the tools. It's time for Esper to dethrone BGx and URx!
I'm nominating Ascendancy Storm for the feature status. It's a breakout deck that is getting a lot of attention, and it definitely deserve the highlight for a month.
I'm nominating Ascendancy Storm for the feature status. It's a breakout deck that is getting a lot of attention, and it definitely deserve the highlight for a month.
Since you judge which decks become featured, doesn't this guarrantee that Ascendancy Dtorm will get featured?
I'm nominating Ascendancy Storm for the feature status. It's a breakout deck that is getting a lot of attention, and it definitely deserve the highlight for a month.
Since you judge which decks become featured, doesn't this guarrantee that Ascendancy Dtorm will get featured?
It's a pretty good bet. From a forum perspective, that deck is getting a ton of attention, and we have some degree of responsibility to the broader MTG community to keep it prominent. Heck, at one time today, it had 25 people looking at it concurrently! I'd love to sticky it and get that to 50.
I'm nominating Ascendancy Storm for the feature status. It's a breakout deck that is getting a lot of attention, and it definitely deserve the highlight for a month.
Since you judge which decks become featured, doesn't this guarrantee that Ascendancy Dtorm will get featured?
It's a pretty good bet. From a forum perspective, that deck is getting a ton of attention, and we have some degree of responsibility to the broader MTG community to keep it prominent. Heck, at one time today, it had 25 people looking at it concurrently! I'd love to sticky it and get that to 50.
I'm nominating Ascendancy Storm for the feature status. It's a breakout deck that is getting a lot of attention, and it definitely deserve the highlight for a month.
Since you judge which decks become featured, doesn't this guarrantee that Ascendancy Dtorm will get featured?
It's a pretty good bet. From a forum perspective, that deck is getting a ton of attention, and we have some degree of responsibility to the broader MTG community to keep it prominent. Heck, at one time today, it had 25 people looking at it concurrently! I'd love to sticky it and get that to 50.
Good point. The only other deck that has done that was Forest Belcher when it got 20 pages in a week. I just think that the judge submitting nominations corrupts the process.
Ascendancy Storm looks like the deck that KTK is going to produce. It is currenly one of the hottest threads in the Modern forum, so I will nominate Ascendancy Storm as well.
Thank you. I am perfectly fine with it winning but the people choosing which deck gets featured should not be able to nominate decks. If they can, then it removes the community from the process.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who follows the format, with the new deck making a huge splash this weekend and promising big things to come in the future. The thread already has a ton of traffic and awesome development going on, and we think that Feature status will really push that to the next level.
Feel free to submit (or resubmit) any feature thread ideas for November!
"Caw Blade" was a monster during the deck's stint in Standard and absolutely crushed the tournament scene. It could even be argued that it was the strongest standard deck of all time. The deck quickly became a tier 1 deck in Legacy under the alias "Stoneblade" and "Deathblade" but what about Modern? With the reprinting of Onslaught fetchlands, an esper caw-blade esque deck can finally be explored. Powerful cards like Lingering Souls, Liliana of the Veil, Thoughtseize, Path to Exile and Snapcaster Mage in conjunction with the infamous swords of Mirridon and Steelshaper's Gift clear the way for a new tier 1 deck to be born. We now have the tools. It's time for Esper to dethrone BGx and URx!
"Some blades seek their own wielders"
Quoting my previous post to nominate the deck for November.
Don't forget to nominate decks for Feature status! I see a bunch of interesting brews on the first page alone, many with a lot of traffic. If you want your deck to get the November sticky, definitely nominate it here.
This deck makes Thoughtseize a Shock for the caster, because the cards are just as good in the graveyard as they are in the hand! Vengevine is a four-power beater that can return from the graveyard when you cast two creature spells in the same turn, like two Gravecrawlers, which can be cast from either the hand or the graveyard. Cards like those, and enablers like Lotleth Troll and even Magus of the Bazaar, you have a deck.
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I spend most of my MTG time online over at [url=http://tappedout.net]tappedout.net[/url] or on [url=http://xmage.info]XMage[/card].
With the million and 1 Treasure Cruise decks in the format, it's nice to see a good old fashioned aggro/ramp deck. This thread hasn't gotten a lot of discussion since KTK started dominating the scenes, but with all sorts of new innovation going on to adapt to the metagame, maybe this list has what it takes to be a Modern contender. The deck is fun, interesting, and was nominated by two different users in two months, so we want to give it the credit it deserves.
Don't forget to submit your December feature nominations!
Well since no one has asked for any nominations maybe I can pipe up and nominate Green's Sun's Zenith for another round?
Since the last time it was featured new cards have come out that have completely changed how the deck works. It is still very early in the development of the deck, but some strong contenders have came out in the form of a Bant list that plays out exactly like Ascendancy Storm but with an infinite combo that uses the sidebord in game 1 in order to win. Dig Through Time has pushed the consistency of the deck, and changed it into something that shovels cantrips and other cards into the yard in order to delve as early as turn 3 and grab the combo off before most decks are expecting it. Even with all of this it seems that the last crucial card is missing from the deck, but with more people working on it maybe there can be a breakthrough that ups the resilience of the deck and sparks some interest on MTGO (which is where I can't play it myself). I even met a lot of people at the GP last week and a fair majority of them knew about the primer, so work has definitely been around and I'd hope that another month of feature status could give it a good boost.
U Tron
GW Bogles
RG Loam
UR Blue Breach
RBU Grixis Goryo
BRU Grixis Delver
GBR Jund
GBW Junk
Active Legacy Decks
BR Reanimator
MTGO/MTGA: Tyclone
My Primers ~ GWx Vizier Company ~ Knightfall ~ RG Eldrazi ~ Green's Sun's Zenith
More Brews ~ Modern Four Horsemen ~ Gitrog Dredge
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/modern-deck-creation/477676-modern-slivers#c1
In almost any format that they have been legal in, people have attempted to abuse the power of the hive,b but with little success. The raw aggressive power that these little creatures are capable is something that few players scoff at and live to tell about. Although they are nearly untouched in modern with only a single tournament appearance to their name, I know that the potential aggressive power of the slivers is there and simply need more minds to meld together as one to streamline the deck to maximum consistency.
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/modern-deck-creation/552303-junk-haakon-loam
Ever since it was introduced as a mechanic, players have been making use of the Dredge mechanic to effectively expand their hand, and to do things that are in one way or another kind of overpowered. However, due to the current banlist in Modern, a deck centered around dredging has never really been popular in the format. Junk Haakon Loam is a deck centered around Dredging that is viable in Modern, and has an unique playstyle compared to Vintage, Legacy or Extended Dredge; where in those formats, Dredge is a high speed combo deck that aims to win very quickly, Junk Haakon Loam is a slow, control based deck that uses Haakon, Stromgald Scourge to recur powerful creatures and useful removal spells. The deck has shown to be viable in the current meta, reaching Day Two in GP Boston/Worchester.
It is technically allowed, but I can only see it happening if no other decks that haven't been nominated before have been nominated. Otherwise I'd be nominating WUR Delver for another month.
Let's give this another shot
Rerererereapplication.
Application for Featured Thread-Living End Reanimator
(it would need a name change if it was featured because it is mostly used for talking about the Breaking Bad version now)
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/modern-deck-creation/221414-living-end-reanimator#c1
Have you ever wished that Modern had a consistent reanimator deck? Well here it is. This combo deck gets cards into the graveyard using discard and Breaking // Entering abuses the cascade mechanic to either cascade into the Entering side of Breaking // Entering and reanimate a large creature with haste or in some cases cascade into Living End and reanimate your whole graveyard. This deck is fast, consistently reanimates on turns 3-4, and crushes a large portion of the top decks of the format (namely Affinity, Pod, and Burn, all of which are at least 70/30 matchups). Breaking Bad merely needs players who are willing to try it out and then it can dominate the format!
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Junk Haakon Loam!
This deck has a lot of cool synergies and ideas that the Modern world needs to know about. Haakon recursion. Dredge. Knight of the goddamn Reliquary. Life from the Loam. These are powerful cards and effects that Modern players have wanted to use for a long time. But with the demise of DRS, the times are much more welcoming to a deck like this. So if you want a new take on the BGx Midrange strategies that we see week in and week out at events, Junk Haakon Loam is the thread for you.
Thanks all for your applications. Submissions for October are now open. Remember that the forum reorganization will happen around the 9/22 Ban Announcement (probably within the next 5 days of that), so some threads won't get Feature Status by virtue of being stickied (Time Walk) or moved up to Established (UWR Delver).
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/modern-deck-creation/570621-soul-blade
"Caw Blade" was a monster during the deck's stint in Standard and absolutely crushed the tournament scene. It could even be argued that it was the strongest standard deck of all time. The deck quickly became a tier 1 deck in Legacy under the alias "Stoneblade" and "Deathblade" but what about Modern? With the reprinting of Onslaught fetchlands, an esper caw-blade esque deck can finally be explored. Powerful cards like Lingering Souls, Liliana of the Veil, Thoughtseize, Path to Exile and Snapcaster Mage in conjunction with the infamous swords of Mirridon and Steelshaper's Gift clear the way for a new tier 1 deck to be born. We now have the tools. It's time for Esper to dethrone BGx and URx!
Since you judge which decks become featured, doesn't this guarrantee that Ascendancy Dtorm will get featured?
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
It's a pretty good bet. From a forum perspective, that deck is getting a ton of attention, and we have some degree of responsibility to the broader MTG community to keep it prominent. Heck, at one time today, it had 25 people looking at it concurrently! I'd love to sticky it and get that to 50.
It's a pretty good bet. From a forum perspective, that deck is getting a ton of attention, and we have some degree of responsibility to the broader MTG community to keep it prominent. Heck, at one time today, it had 25 people looking at it concurrently! I'd love to sticky it and get that to 50.
Good point. The only other deck that has done that was Forest Belcher when it got 20 pages in a week. I just think that the judge submitting nominations corrupts the process.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Thank you. I am perfectly fine with it winning but the people choosing which deck gets featured should not be able to nominate decks. If they can, then it removes the community from the process.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
ASCENDANCY STORM!
This should come as no surprise to anyone who follows the format, with the new deck making a huge splash this weekend and promising big things to come in the future. The thread already has a ton of traffic and awesome development going on, and we think that Feature status will really push that to the next level.
Feel free to submit (or resubmit) any feature thread ideas for November!
Quoting my previous post to nominate the deck for November.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/modern-deck-creation/220250-dredgevine
This deck makes Thoughtseize a Shock for the caster, because the cards are just as good in the graveyard as they are in the hand! Vengevine is a four-power beater that can return from the graveyard when you cast two creature spells in the same turn, like two Gravecrawlers, which can be cast from either the hand or the graveyard. Cards like those, and enablers like Lotleth Troll and even Magus of the Bazaar, you have a deck.
My decks:
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B[url=http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/developing-competitive/220250-dredgevine?page=89#c2235]Dredgevine[/url]G
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RG GENERATOR!!
With the million and 1 Treasure Cruise decks in the format, it's nice to see a good old fashioned aggro/ramp deck. This thread hasn't gotten a lot of discussion since KTK started dominating the scenes, but with all sorts of new innovation going on to adapt to the metagame, maybe this list has what it takes to be a Modern contender. The deck is fun, interesting, and was nominated by two different users in two months, so we want to give it the credit it deserves.
Don't forget to submit your December feature nominations!
Since the last time it was featured new cards have come out that have completely changed how the deck works. It is still very early in the development of the deck, but some strong contenders have came out in the form of a Bant list that plays out exactly like Ascendancy Storm but with an infinite combo that uses the sidebord in game 1 in order to win. Dig Through Time has pushed the consistency of the deck, and changed it into something that shovels cantrips and other cards into the yard in order to delve as early as turn 3 and grab the combo off before most decks are expecting it. Even with all of this it seems that the last crucial card is missing from the deck, but with more people working on it maybe there can be a breakthrough that ups the resilience of the deck and sparks some interest on MTGO (which is where I can't play it myself). I even met a lot of people at the GP last week and a fair majority of them knew about the primer, so work has definitely been around and I'd hope that another month of feature status could give it a good boost.
MTGO/MTGA: Tyclone
My Primers ~ GWx Vizier Company ~ Knightfall ~ RG Eldrazi ~ Green's Sun's Zenith
More Brews ~ Modern Four Horsemen ~ Gitrog Dredge