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Quote from TEMUJIN »

A thing of beauty truth_bomb! A lot of redundancy and streamlining in your build.

***Yeah, The 2/2 split of Deprive/Foil is the way to go. I think we’re onto something really good here.

If redundant copies of Archaeomancer and Ghostly Flicker are too many, pitch the extra copies to Foil!

My take on your deck:

How about 1-2 Foil? It would synergize w/Izzet Boilerworks and Deprive.

10/11/19 Modern.
14 players, 3 rounds, 2-1 record, 7th place.

test vs UWartifacts, 2-0.
no SB
idk if UWartifacts is a thing but he def had budget choices.

round 1 vs Ad Nauseam, 1-2.
SB: +2 Damping Sphere , +2 Stony Silence. -4 Fatal Push.
game 1, i had an aggro draw:
-turn 1 Inquisition.
-turn 2 Bitterblossom.
-turn 3 Lingering Souls.
-turn 4 2x Intangible Virtue.
it got there.
games 2&3, i kept hands w/multiple Liliana's, hoping to discard his combo pieces. both games, he held onto Ad Nauseam as his last card and went off on 5 mana.

round 2 vs GbElves, 2-0.
SB: +1 Damnation, +1 Wrath of God. -2 Inquisition of Kozilek.
game 1:
his turn 1 - he dropped a land and Llanowar Elf.
my turn 1 - i Inquisitioned him. saw 4 drop Nissa, 4 drop CoCo, 3 mana Archdruid and an Inquisition. i took the Archdruid.
his turn 2 - he dropped a land, Inquisitioned me back and greedily took my Liliana over my Fatal Push.
my turn 2 - i Fatal Pushed his Llanowar Elf. this kept him off 4 mana, long enough for my topdecked Liliana to eventually discard his entire hand. when he finally reached his 3rd land, i cast Smallpox + Flagstones of Trokair AKA "Magical Christmas Land."
game 2, he emptied his hand fast but had still no Archdruids, CoCo's or anything to make his army impressive. i had a 2x Lingering Souls and 2x Intangible Virtue to both fly over and block his 2/2's and 1/1's for profit.

round 3 vs BorosBurn, 2-1.
SB: +4 Auroik Champion, -4 Smallpox.
game 1, he played 0 creatures and ran out of gas.
game 2, i started out too slow.
game 3, i played 2x Auroik Champion, Bitterblossom and Sorin. much life was gained from all my tokens and his late played/early drop creatures.

i guess i had bad tiebreaks since my 2-1 record/14 players finished me in 7th place. i discovered MonoRburn won (he defeated Ad Nauseam) and i'm confident i had the tools to beat MonoRburn. them's the breaks *shrugs*



new SB plan vs Ad Nauseam is:
+2 Collective Brutality, +2 Stony Silence. -4 Fatal Push.
wish i could cleanly swap out Path to Exile too but it's virtually painless to Path a token for mana screw.

new SB plan vs Elves is:
+2 Collective Brutality, +1 Damnation, +1 Wrath of God. -4 Inquisition of Kozilek.

new SB plan vs Burn is:
+4 Auriok Champion, +2 Collective Brutality. -4 Smallpox, -2 Inquistion of Kozilek.

Final thought - there's a reason why Lingering Souls and Intangible Virtue are banned in Innistrad-Avacyn Restored block

TC, your latest edit of UR ProwBlade is a less efficient UR Kiln Fiend now. You even fired Stoneforge Mystic (Trinket Mage!)

I would also -2 Evolving Wilds/+2 Terramorphic Expanse (may mislead opponent.) And -2 Distortion Strike (you have bounce/evasion/protection)/+2 Preordain (chain cantrips for prowess.) I support Bonesplitter over Distortion Strike b/c you will have rare games w/excess Plains, scarce Islands and no way to utilize that white mana.

Aven Riftwatcher is interesting. Seems effective on Delvers.
Aven Riftwatcher vs flipped Delvers:
-If they bolt Aven, spare 3 for you & Aven would've died anyhow.
-If they wait it out, you just bought 3 turns of stalemate.
-If they attack thru, trades!
In all these scenarios, you +2 life.

Regarding Mantle of Tides, it's a mono-blue card so it non-bo's w/Guardian of the Guildpact.

*Personal preference: I actually prefer Preordain over Ponder.
Preordain is better when you can't shuffle reliably. TC's build shuffles a lot tho.

TC took your advice and added your artifact lands. Solid post sbfinley!

Quote from WarMachinePrime »

Well nothing.

I grow more bored of Pauper every day with the same old decks and same old cards.

Brew something? It shouldn't have to be tier 1 for you to have fun...

removed Faerie Macabre from my SB b/c no one in my meta runs recur anymore.

9/13/19 Modern.
12 players, 1-1-1 matches, 5th place.

test 1 vs GbElves, 2-1.
no SB
games i won, i kept his creature count low. game i lost, he got too much board presence.

test 2 vs Fish, 2-0.
no SB
he doesn't own Aether Vial. games wern't competitive.

test 3 vs GRzoo, 2-1.
no SB
similar to the fish match up. all about controlling board presence.

round 1 vs WUB humans, 2-1.
SB +1 damnation, +1 wrath of god. -2 thoughtseize.
only game i lost was when he turn 1 Aether Vial'd.

round 2 vs Dredge, 0-2.
SB +2 surgical extraction, +1 disenchant. -3 smallpox.
surgical extraction wasn't enough. wish i had Rest in Peace.

round 3 vs RB discard, 1-1-1.
SB +4 kor firewalker, +2 spellskite. -4 smallpox, -2 thoughtseize.
games were pretty even. i was winning game 3 until time expired.

when asked why i didn't run Stoneforge Mystic, i explained, "all my other creatures were tokens. i didn't want to give spot removal ANY value." decks that run Stoneforge Mystic either have counterspells (Stoneblade) or tons of other juicy targets (D&T.)

here's what i would play now: