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  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 24, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on The State of Modern Thread (Rules Update 27/10/17)
    Chalice is a good card, but people who don't actually play the card tend to overrate it. As someone who plays it, I can tell you that it's not nearly as consistently impactful as people make it out to be. I'm actually running it in the side now, and it stays there in a lot of matchups. It's also heavily dependent on being on the play because it can be pretty bad on the draw. In a lot of matchups, I kind of just see it as a card that draws Thoughtseize/IoK hate so that I can keep my threats in my hand.
    Posted in: Modern Archives
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 22, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on [[Official]] Modern Prices Discussion
    The bottom has fallen out of Bloodghast. I can remember not too long it was $20 and hard to find in stock. Kind of a bummer as I bought my playset for $80, for a casual vampire deck. Now it's $10. How low will it go?
    Posted in: Modern
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 21, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Colorless Eldrazi Tron
    It's unplayable. Go with The Promised End if you must. After testing, I'd actually run two Ulamogs if I ever run two Titans again. Ulamog is so much better than any of the other Titans it's not even funny.
    Posted in: Big Mana
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 20, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Colorless Eldrazi Tron
    Interesting card, reminds of Staff of Nin, which isn't good enough for our deck IMHO. I feel like for 6 mana it needs to do something now. Could be really good in the U/W control matchup if you can get it down. Would also be decent vs R/W Prison. Maybe if those decks had a big meta share?

    Looks like something I would test though because I like to test new things.
    Posted in: Big Mana
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 17, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Colorless Eldrazi Tron
    Quote from Ragnawar »
    Went 3-1 today playing mono-green (eldrazi) tron. Just a list I put together after watching scg VS series. I can't report it here, right?


    Sure man, go ahead, would be interested in seeing that list.
    Posted in: Big Mana
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 17, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on [[Official]] Modern Prices Discussion
    Quote from Spsiegel1987 »
    I pulled the trigger of a set of Horizon Canopy, 32 was low enough for me, especially considering the card was over 60 a piece not long ago

    Yeah, that is tempting. I'll probably pick up a couple, not a full playset though.
    Posted in: Modern
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 17, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Colorless Eldrazi Tron
    FWIW, I really hate land destruction, and I'm not just saying that because I like playing Tron decks. I've had the Crucible/GQ lock going with my deck before, and I've always felt bad when I did it. There's a certain level of sadism to people who like that kind of strategy... lol.

    I'd actually consider running something like Jund right now if it wasn't so expensive. I mean whose got $1600 for a deck, or $2400 to get it online as well. One expensive deck across both paper and MTGO is all I'm willing to do, so it's ET or bust for me. I have a tournament on Sunday, gonna go into without having played for a couple weeks. Oh well, it is what it is.
    Posted in: Big Mana
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 16, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Colorless Eldrazi Tron
    Quote from Tomshawyer »
    This is my deck

    https://deckstats.net/decks/95879/855094-eldrazi-tron?saved=1&lng=es

    What is your opinion?

    How can this deck win "Humans Knightfall"?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePJ2jVMI0M0

    Sorry my english no is very good


    Looks decent. IMHO, you should remove 2x Basilisk Collar and 1x Ratchet Bomb and put in Dismembers, Warping Wails, Spatial Contortions and/or a 3rd All Is Dust.
    Posted in: Big Mana
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 13, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Stompy
    3 Treetop Village is probably too much. The card is very slow, and I almost never find myself wanting to spend the mana on it, and drawing two in your first few turns would be quite bad. I'd probably drop from 2 to 1 if I started playing this deck a lot again.
    Posted in: Modern Archives - Established
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 12, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on The State of Modern Thread (Rules Update 27/10/17)
    I agree with the above, Past in Flames is probably the card that will get banned if they want to keep the Storm mechanic around. But it isn't entirely implausible that they would just kill the Storm mechanic itself. Of course we're getting ahead of ourselves, best just to wait a few months for PT and see what's up.
    Posted in: Modern Archives
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 8, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Help me mulligan better in Modern
    If in doubt, when they present their deck to cut, shuffle it. Also, count the cards.
    Posted in: Modern
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 8, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Colorless Eldrazi Tron
    Quote from sicsmoo »
    Yeah, not to spam the thread but I can definitely vouch for GB Tron being good right now. I've been having tons of success with it over the past few weeks.

    Just take a look at these results from the last Modern challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-10970617#online

    That's such a good meta for Tron; you can see why it came in first. Humans isn't great, but it's not bad at all if you're playing lots of MD removal. TONS of control there to prey on, and very few bad matchups there like Storm, Burn, Titan Shift, Ad Naus, etc.


    Looks like I can build it for about $150 with the pieces I already have for ET. It's probably worth it for me because I like the deck a lot anyway. Paper is another story ...

    Quote from sicsmoo »

    And there's 0 Eldrazi Tron lists in that top 32!


    Yup, to me the deck is not tier 1 at this moment in time.
    Posted in: Big Mana
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 7, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Colorless Eldrazi Tron
    Yeah, deck feels brutal. A lot more leagues with not a lot of results. I don't even really think this deck is tier 1 right now. Maybe by meta share it's hanging on, but it feels tier 2. I think I'm gonna take a break for a while. Might consider firing up a Gx Tron variant...
    Posted in: Big Mana
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 6, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on Help me mulligan better in Modern
    I find the hardest call is when you have a hand that's playable but sub-optimal. Do you risk going for a strong hand when you might end up with a worse hand? And mulliganing below 6 is even riskier.

    I think the key piece of information is knowing how good or bad the matchup is for your deck. If it's a really bad matchup, then you have no choice but to mulligan aggressively. If it's a strong matchup, then keep the playable hand.

    Another consideration is how much card draw filtering you have available. Decks with cantrips and scry effects have a much greater chance of finding answers whereas a deck that just topdecks is more reliant on mulligans to get relevant hate.
    Posted in: Modern
  • The Ceaseless Hunger's avatar
    Nov 6, 2017
    The Ceaseless Hunger posted a message on [[Official]] SCG Modern Discussions
    Quote from FoodChainGoblins »
    (in addition to E Tron when they All is Dust)


    This is a very bad matchup for ET. Hoping for an All Is Dust isn't a match-winning strategy.
    Posted in: Modern Archives
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