Quote from -spooky- »Commune With the Gods is pretty sweet tech. How does the deck play for you?
It's surprisingly good against slower midrange decks, I had a game where I was able to loop 2 eternal winesses against Jund to hold off a tarmgoyf until I drew into the white source for congregation. Commune is a solid dig spell to replace the sunstrike legionaries.
Depends on the rest of the set. If there are enough strong artifact creatures, or artifacts and enchantments that sac for value like Seals, she probably should be rare for limited purposes.
There's always Spell Pierce to replace Denial if you want to try Pyromancer builds.
I like that deck, but there are a couple card choices I'm not sure about. Faithless Looting versus Thought Scour and Lingering Souls versus Snapcaster Mage are tough to decide between.
UWX has always been unfavorable, but at least in the short term we'll see a lot more UWX decks being played. I'm considering moving some of my SB options against them to the main.
It's not just bolt, there's a more fundamental problem with BUG. If you want to play a grindy deck in Modern you have two main options for beating combo decks, which you need to be able to do:
- Play blue and run Cryptic Command.
- Play black and run Thoughtseize.
These two types of decks don't mix. Running both in the same deck is a bad idea, because they want your deck to be built wildly different. Crpytic decks are control decks, and Thoughtseize decks are midrange decks. Green doesn't offer anything good for control in Modern, so BUG has to be a Thoughseize deck. However, the cards blue and green offer to a Thoughtseize deck don't work well together. Tarmogoyf and the the delve creatures (which need blue cantrips to be at their best) compete for the same resource and thus aren't worth playing together.
I doubt BUG will be a thing in Modern even with Jace. It's far more likely Grixis or Jeskai become the dominant fair deck than BUG being playable if JTMS is unbanned. I've lost count of how many times people have declared that "card X will finally make BUG good in Modern," but it never happens.
Of course, but now that Fatal Push exists there's less space for black removal. There's only so much space, and if they print tons of cards for modern they'll quickly run out and we'll stop getting anything.