Quote from Vegita1998 »Went 1-2 in my local LGS modern tourny last night but had a great time seeing the looks on peoples faces as I locked them out. I have a very old list and fell away from magic while I got married and bought a place with my wife but grabbed 4 Legion Warboss and foiled out the basics with some Sunday showdown Rebbecca Guay.
G1 Infect - wasn't even close but my hands were godlike. T1 Blood mooned them both games, chalice on 1 and 2 the first game, 1 rabble t2, another t3, dead to a million damage t4 the second game. 1-0
G2 Infect (again but different guy), he got the OTK turn 5 when i was digging for a lock. I got greedy on the t1 rabble and it cost me but its worked before so i still think it was the right play at the time. G2 i had t1 blood moon and chalice on 1 t3 but topdecked EIGHT lands in a row and they drew their basics before I found a bridge or a kill condition. This one felt bad because variance is what got me. Oh well, good with the bad right? 1 - 1
G3 - UR Phoenix - Let me be clear, I hate this deck in that it is as consistent as Tron with a much quicker clock. This deck feels like what burn used to feel like 3 years ago. It is SO DAMN FAST and it counters, and it storms off, and it plays everything too fast and you have to pick which lock you're going with and hopefully it works out. blood moon t2 is what i went with (which is the wrong move as this deck functions perfectly fine without Blue mana) off a mulligan and it slows them down but thing in the ice into manamorphose into manamorphose into remand into another manamorphose into , dumping 2 phoenix and a fiery temper for like 16 damage t4 is just awful lol. I don't remember the specifics of what happened game 2 other than variance really got me (first hand, 6 lands and a Chandra. Second hand, no lands. Third hand, 2 lands, a chalice 2 rabble. I took that because going to 4 might as well be a forfeit but I was dead on t4 with -6 life so at least the beating was swift. 1 - 2
Any ideas on what to sideboard in against this? I brought in 2 Grafdigger's Cage, 1 spellskite, and 2 abrade but didn't hit a single one so they might have helped if I drew any of them.
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Chalice is excellent against this deck. I don't know what your list is but I shave 4 moons, 3 koths, and a legion warboss (I'm on 4 rabble 2 boss) for 2 Abrade, 2 Tormod's Crypt, 2 Damping Sphere, and 2 Anger (1 anger, 1 slag main to start). I haven't been having issues with this deck, as a matter of fact it's one of the reasons I've gone back to both PYro Prison AND Skred Dragons. Especially in the online metagame.
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This is true, but the midrange decks aren't exactly a large enough part of the meta to worry about trophy/pulse. Knight is problematic, but the only deck I've seen it in recently was Spirits which feels like an auto win with a single sweeper most of the time anyway. The only card that worries me is abrade, but even then most decks run 2 or 3 in the side. Bridge can be a free win game 1 against these deck and after siding they have to draw it, and even then they have to choose between bridge and chalice. A spellskite is almost a must in the side these days simply for that reason. You can make them waste an abrade for 2 life and put the chokehold on the game while you sit back and ult walkers for game.
That said, I normally play Red Prison which has a little more reach than this deck so maybe that entire paragraph only applies to that deck lol.
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The list I was thinking about trying was dropping Nahiri completely due to what you said about maybe 1 ult a match, but then I thought about just using a couple copies for the dig/control elements. I was also wanting to get more Ajani and Chandra, while also finding room for a Koth and Hazoret. I really like Heart of Kiran for that because the Walls can't stop flyers. (I'm still devastated by getting beat down by an Ornithopter utilizing Cranial Plating to get through my bridge while I was hellbent playing Mono Red against Affinity a couple of FNMs ago, although I guess this version gets Stony Silence so that particular example isn't the greatest lol.)