MTG Salvation

My Choice is 1.
In Pioneer the Leyline along with the Devotion mechanic was a Tier 0 Deck and getting the first ban. It's worth to tested it in Modern as well and this time not only with Mana Dorks but as example with reanimated Lands like Nissa, Who Shakes the World. As a "free" cast we can build the whole Deck around it.

2) is nice, but maybe a bit "old fashion" . Pro tip: If you play this, use "Old Spice"
3) Genesis Wave is mostly a meme deck. if its work its great , if not - awful
4) hmmm...
If you had a good idea just do it. Its fun on its own how good/bad your ideas are working.

speaking off the wall and rogue , my last rogue devotion concept for modern:

should we use the spoiler tag for Pioneer? It's still a modern forum here.

Same question: Whisperwood Combo ?
From Channelball article in the past Standardformat about Whisperwood (!) .

Quote from "From Channelball artcile about the past Standard" »

Mono-Green Devotion seems like the most natural shell for this guy as he can come down as early as turn three, and with Nykthos you can unmorph almost anything you were to manifest. It’s also worth noting his sacrifice ability is highly relevant against the soon-to-be popular Crux of Fate.

The only real combo i had found: Whisperwood Elemental, Torrential Gearhulk, Nexus of Fate combo
https://twitter.com/andrewcuneo/status/1078008200677474304?lang=de


For all that had a question mark about the Wakeroot Elemental combo
Wakeroot Elemental + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx + 8 Devotion (the Elemental counts, too) = infinite Mana, and/or all Lands are 5/5 => instant win
Thinking about winning on the spot in Pioneer:
Craterhoof's brothers: End-Raze Forerunners , Decimator of the Provinces

Ok, Pioneer is revealed and Devotion is a young Modern Archetype that give us a lot of our KeyCards even in this new eternal Format.

Wow, again a big great posting.
I really want give you (hopefully) helpful critique and a reponse to your new ideas.

I'm gladly to hear that Goose is maybe the better choice as a 1 Drop as the Birds. 0/2 is really nice against the 1 Damage Pings from W6
Thanks for the analyze about Kiora's Follower. Never think that much about it. Now its very clear .

About the Jund Matchup, i'm often out valued(!) his stuff. Card-Drawing and the better End-Game doing it often to my favor.
Escape to the Wilds: imho its much stronger as Harmonize . And i knew that card drawing is one of the best abilitys in Magic. In the last days i think about EttW and T&N .
The nature about T&N Deck is: "Ramping , no matter what is going on"
EttW is doing exactly that and digging the deck in the same time to cast the name sake card. That is huge deal for 1 mana more as harmonize.
A Devotion Player should use his Primal Command as his Swiss knife (and/or finish move), an T&N Player is more like: "I bet i had more ramp cards as you removals".
Causa Time Warp: Not my fetisch and i had invert already my opinion.

Llanowar Tribe is a Overgrowth on feets. With 18-21 Ramp cards there is maybe enough room for improvements/changes to unleash the Power for untapping these guys in a consistence way. Its just time to brew my first T&N Deck


@CurdBro
https://www.amazon.com/Gathering-Bodysuit-Parents-Please-Release/dp/B07NDQGPB7

@epiknoob
No, because: "...nontoken creature enters the battlefield...", sadly you didn't get benefits from this.
Search in these Thread Ghalta, Primal Hunger. With Henge you got 8 Payoff Cards to build around Power creatures.

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Edit:
Just durdle around with Goldfishing and watched some Videos. Escape to the Wilds is a hell of a card.
Until the end of your NEXT turn IN a heavy RAMP Deck - think about that! Most of the time it feels like 5 extra cards. The Out of Gas Situation doesn't come and is one of the greatest weakness of T&N. On the other Hand its only slightly better as Urban Evolution , i'm really confused

Okay,that List is cool. Some thoughts from me, even i'm not an T&N Player.

But at first one more sucess for Temur Tooth and Nail from Uejgo ( Modern League 2019-10-11, (5-0) )
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2368627#paper , nearly the same as the other Temur List only with more Devotion Allstars

Voyaging Satyr vs. Kiora's Follower is the far more important question. The Satyr is easier to cast, but the Follower had +1 Power and can untap even any permanent. If you play both: Overgrowth and Llanowar Tribe , i would play Kiora's Follower so , whatever i got on the board i can untap it. With the same reason Kiora, Master of the Depths is it a must have.

Gilded Goose is reasonable. Only to sacrifice a Token feels like a "One Shot". Was that ever a problem for you?

i really like Panglacial Wurm as a hidden card "in hand". And i hate it if i'm drawing it.

My problem with Escape to the Wilds that if I'm playing it, the next round should be my finsih strike, but the round if i'm played this it don't nothing impressive. For the same mana i can play Primal Command as a well known green swiss knife and i can freely search a creature and not only 5 cards deep. Escape is a good Standard card, but not strong enough for modern imho.
Uejgo is playing Time Warp even for that is at worst +1card + 1 land and at best +1 combat phase and can be for your opponent an unforseen lethal damage.

Hydroid Krasis and Voracious Hydra are great. High scaling cards that doing relevant jobs. CardDraw and Lifegaining or CreatureRemoval and on top they left a big body with evasion.

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Edit:
Here a sucessful build from Germany

https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=23328&d=360700&f=MO
A Green Devotion List with Karn and Once Upon a Time

The new Garruk is indeed interesting.
Maybe we can all combine it to a Planeswalker + Wolf Devotion Deck.

My quick thoughts about this:
Garruk Relentless make Wolf Tokens.
Arlinn, Voice of the Pack and Arlinn Kord produce Wolfes , too.
The Wolf Lord Nightpack Ambusher is viable imho, and Huntmaster of the Fells is a well known value maschine. (There is is another Lord Mayor of Avabruck not sure if viable, more spicy is Wren's Run Packmaster, deathtouch is nice, and a great ManaSink, but need an Elf to cast) )
Wolfbriar Elemental is a decent choice in a Devotion Deck and even better with Wolf synergies.

Here is a promising prototype from me that is suprisingly explosive.

It's like Simic Devotion Elementals Combo and a very strange one, too. Risen Reef into Master of Waves get you Lands direct on the battlefield or nonlands in the hand , that you can re-invest with a bit luck in a copy of Master of Waves in the same turn. 10 damage isn't unusal with Omnath, Locus of the Roil at this moment, and after this you can copy Omnath for the next 10 damage.

You can copy Risen Reef that is at minimum 2 cards that is nice in the early game, that is still value itself.

With the devotion Wistful Selkie is the glue of this deck, and make the devotion part working.
The best of all, even you can't combo of, multiple Master of Waves kills your opponent, too.

My goldfishing test lead to a turn 4 win very often. Not bad at all and nearly every card replacing itself, so most of the time you don't run out of gas.
Beware if you have mutiple Risen Reefs out und you play Master of Waves - for example: 4 Reefs (copys count, too) into Master of Waves that make 5 blue elementals are 20(!)cards.



Before you play this deck just get a feeling for this deck and make a goldfish test. for example here: ( http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/elementals-devotion/ press "playtesting" , have fun )

about the Sideboard, some humble thoughts:
Veil of Summer: is set to protect your combo and again draw a card
Repudiate / Replicate : just a sort of counter for example to disabled the bounce effect of Thing in the Ice or that from a Planeswalker
Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer: Not sure. She can doing a big 4/4 flying Elemental.
Incandescent Soulstoke: It's a Lord, that let survive Elementals from the Wave. did thoughts about Creeping Trailblazer but thats too much i think and push only the attack. Maybe Murkfiend Liege or Leyline of Vitality.

Time for Entertainment

Mono Green Wakeroot Devotion Combo by Meryn
https://youtu.be/uFPQZCuxexo
Decklist: https://decks.tcgplayer.com/magic/freeform/meryn/wakeroot-devotion-combo/1356524?utm_source=merynmtg&utm_medium=merynmtg&utm_term=&utm_content=magic&utm_campaign=affiliate

Infinite Mana: Wakeroot Elemental + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx + " 6x G on board "

Very Nice, that all all Walls and Wiskful let you draw a card (11 cards in sum)

Magus of the Candelabra + Unbound Flourishing , there is an amazing synergy. The untap ability is going on the stack as a copy. It does mean you can untap Nykthos twice! Like the same as with the Wilderness Reclamation in the End Step.
https://youtu.be/aHqy9DLNs6o?t=994 (sadly, Seth misses multi-untapping Nykthos with Magus )

The reason i reqoute my old posting, skip the qoute

Quote from GarfieldKlon »

I'm just doing a quick take about Unbound Flourishing. It's all about X, but it isn't finished or tested.

"X-Factor Devotion V.0,5"Magic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
//Main 4 Arbor Elf 1 Craterhoof Behemoth 4 Hydroid Krasis 3 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner 4 Kiora, Master of the Depths 3 Llanowar Tribe 2 Nissa, Steward of Elements 4 Rosheen Meanderer 4 Summoner's Pact 4 Unbound Flourishing 4 Utopia Sprawl 3 Walking Ballista	//Lands 3 Breeding Pool 5 Forest 4 Misty Rainforest 4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx 1 Waterlogged Grove 3 Wooded Foothills

Why only Kiora's and not even one Garruk? Because the Kiora can untap creature's. The biggest benefit of this is Llanowar Tribe and Rosheen Meanderer. This Deck is full of X creatures. This Deck ramp very hard even without Nykthos.
Card Draws can you get about the 2 Kiora's and Hydroid Krasis. The Behemoth is maybe unnecessary.

And a hint about Polukranos, World Eater. You can't double the X effect with Polukranos, because Monstrosity works only once.

Some other cards in my Mind

DeckMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
//Maybeboard 1 Altered Ego 1 Biomass Mutation 1 Courser of Kruphix 1 Finale of Devastation 1 Finale of Revelation 1 Gelatinous Genesis 1 Kiora's Follower

I'm not sure, but i think someone picked this little stupid list, and build something more amazing on based of this.
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/against-the-odds-unbound-wealth-modern-magic-online

A green Devotion list in against the Odds, Ooook, but the comments sayed, that this Episode is one of the best in the series.
So enjoy the show!

Modern is changing from a Turn 4 Format to an a 3-3.5 Format. To Speed up our builds it is necessary to be competiv. I'm really not fan about Chancellor of the Tangle but i think we need this guy to go faster like never before. The big downside is, that the risk to fizzle increased.

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The Leyline build is very unique way to do this. My advise is to build it more explosive. Elvish Reclaimer tp search Nykthos (great with one or more Leyline on board) and Burning-Tree Emissary . Or you build it as a part to a combo like the build above this posting.
@CurdBro
Nice Combo with Elder of Laurels by the way .

I got her in my list

I'm just doing a quick take about Unbound Flourishing. It's all about X, but it isn't finished or tested.



Why only Kiora's and not even one Garruk? Because the Kiora can untap creature's. The biggest benefit of this is Llanowar Tribe and Rosheen Meanderer. This Deck is full of X creatures. This Deck ramp very hard even without Nykthos.
Card Draws can you get about the 2 Kiora's and Hydroid Krasis. The Behemoth is maybe unnecessary.

And a hint about Polukranos, World Eater. You can't double the X effect with Polukranos, because Monstrosity works only once.

Some other cards in my Mind

Quote from Thorshammer813 »

New leyline certainly needs a critical mass of one drop dorks.

Something like Tokenproducers in combination with
Cryptolith Rite and Leyline of Abundance? supportet with Song of Freyalise ? Maybe Sheanigans with Animation Module + Metallic Mimic as "Flesh" Producers or the good old SwordCopter combination. Zendikar Nissa (Plants and +1/+1 Counters) and Rishkar, Peema Renegade. And this brew idea need many manasinks
The setup is very dificult and fairly easy to disrupt, but imho this the way to break the green Leyline. Maybe there are better ideas that i posted here.

@Gruul Me Harder
Thanks
. I edited my posting. Luckily it was only sheanigans.