would you recommend running either bonds of faith or spirit mantle in this deck...? both are 2 mana and one can shut down ur opponent whilst another effectively makes ur creature unblockable
Neither. You don't really need either in this deck, as it generally can steamroll your opponent by the time you'd need to play either. If you're concerned about creatures, O-Ring, Dismember, and Beast Within gets there fine.
@notlupus: Congratulations! Care to post your list? Regarding Elite Inquisitor, I would personnaly run Grand Abolisher on the 2 slot instead of him as GA is far more versatile main boarded. If what worries you are Stormkirk Noble and Reckless Waif , Fiend Hunter, O-ring, Dismember can deal with them aside from being versatile as well.
Sorry, I fell asleep before I could reply. Here's my list as best as I can remember it. My friend currently has it with him, because most of the cards are his. I'm not posting the sideboard, because it wasn't exactly constructed. I just threw in 15 cards to make it legal. Also, we didn't have more Razorverge Thickets to play. I kind of traded all my Standard cards for Legacy ones.
I went 6/1/1 tonight with G/W Humans. I think the deck is pretty solid, but I'd like to tweak it a bit. In G/W, would you do Elite Inquisitor, or not? It helped a few times, but not as much as I'd liked.
Ok I guess if you really go *all in* with Simian Spirit Guide, Chancellor of the Tangle, and a handful of other spells, you could conceivably draw a God-hand of 5 mana sources, TTB, and your big guy (Emrakul, etc). But how often does that ever happen?
Simian Spirit Guide -> 2x Rite of Flame -> Seething Song -> Through the Breach -> Blightsteel Colossus -> GG
I'd rather not see MM unbanned. The combo decks could run that as well.
Yeah, that was just my first reaction. I think Bitterblossom should come off the banned listed now, though, after seeing this PT. That or we need to seriously start brewing a control deck to hate out the meta. I'm on the fence with MM. Really, I wish we had FoW to stop turn one Through the Breach.
Sadly Star City and the players that look at this GAME as an investment will start whining about reprints in this format also, although it obviously is the reason for Modern - an eternal format that isn't stifled by the restrictions of the reserved list. Thus in a few years Modern will fall into the same problems that Legacy / Vintage has, where only a certain number of people play because they have / can afford the $100 staples. It'll be a format for the occasional big tournament and a few niche stores in better-off areas with 8 players that can afford the cards.
That being said - you can't just ban a card because of price. However, WotC could take a look at a fast price jump to a ridiculous level and look at WHY the card jumped like that and make decisions from there.
Nope. Most people that play Legacy want cards to be reprinted to increase the player pool and popularity of the format. To play Vintage seriously you have to buy the Power 9, which are not $100 staples.
Also, WotC doesn't really care about the secondary market, and if they do, they have a weird way of showing it.
No, they banned every viable non-combo deck. Every deck that I see seems to have some combo built in that you can't deal with. Melira + Finks? Storm? Emrakul + Eye? Hopefully we get some powerful reprints, and soon.
Zoo isn't a combo deck, and neither is 5CC. Both seem pretty viable right now. I don't think 5CC will really compete till the format has solidified, because you can tailor it to the meta.
Im having a hard time deciding if I'm playing Bob and Putrid leech or not. Its too much lifeloss between shocks, fetches and Darkie. Plus the CMC on jund is too high for Bob alone.
¿Nobody tried Phyrexian Arena?
I guess it depends on what you're going for. I'd play Bob over Putrid Leech and Phyrexian Arena, personally, but I could be wrong.
Even though a good portion of the "broken" cards from the Mirrodin block were banned, let's not forget what got through. Darksteel Citadel, as well as Arcbound Ravager and Disciple of the Vault were let in. Plus, who'd of thought Aether Vial would get to see Modern play. I look forward to a new breed of Modern Affinity.
I totally agree with the new banned list, even if it seems a little over protective to start. They wanted to breed a completely new and healthy format, and I love how they're going about it.
I don't like that Faeries and Scapeshift were banned basically on a hunch. At least they banned JTMS and Stoneforge based on results. I don't look forward to a format that's going to be dominated by Zoo and Affinity. I hope Cruel Control is a viable deck, and I don't even play it. I just don't want to see a format dominated by aggro. I wanted this to be Legacy 2.0.
Doesn't the suffusive joy of a swarm of players competing at the LGS outweigh the satisfaction of getting to run some pet card that you are attached to? Most of those cards on the banlist - of which JTMS is the most egregious offender - are far too repulsive to a good portion of the Magic-playing world. Modern can be as big as it can possibly be with the banlist precisely as it is.
A six-player tournament can be a miserable thing. With the banlist as friendly as it can be to the player faced with the daunting task of entering the Eternal world the chances of abysmal turn-outs at LGSs the world over are reduced to their minimum. Of course ... none of this is much consolation to the MTGO player ...
My LGS doesn't really support Eternal formats, because the owner doesn't like them. So it makes no difference to me. This format will mostly be played between myself and a few friends.
Neither. You don't really need either in this deck, as it generally can steamroll your opponent by the time you'd need to play either. If you're concerned about creatures, O-Ring, Dismember, and Beast Within gets there fine.
Sorry, I fell asleep before I could reply. Here's my list as best as I can remember it. My friend currently has it with him, because most of the cards are his. I'm not posting the sideboard, because it wasn't exactly constructed. I just threw in 15 cards to make it legal. Also, we didn't have more Razorverge Thickets to play. I kind of traded all my Standard cards for Legacy ones.
4x Mayor of Avabruck
4x Hamlet Captain
4x Avacyn's Pilgrim
1x Skinshifter
4x Mentor of the Meek
4x Elite Vanguard
4x Champion of the Parish
1x Elite Inquisitor
2x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
2x Lead the Stampede
2x Creeping Renaissance
3x Oblivion Ring
4x Caravan Vigil
Land: 18
4x Gavony Township
4x Sunpetal Grove
1x Razorverge Thicket
3x Forest
5x Plains
Simian Spirit Guide -> 2x Rite of Flame -> Seething Song -> Through the Breach -> Blightsteel Colossus -> GG
Yeah, that was just my first reaction. I think Bitterblossom should come off the banned listed now, though, after seeing this PT. That or we need to seriously start brewing a control deck to hate out the meta. I'm on the fence with MM. Really, I wish we had FoW to stop turn one Through the Breach.
Nope. Most people that play Legacy want cards to be reprinted to increase the player pool and popularity of the format. To play Vintage seriously you have to buy the Power 9, which are not $100 staples.
Also, WotC doesn't really care about the secondary market, and if they do, they have a weird way of showing it.
Zoo isn't a combo deck, and neither is 5CC. Both seem pretty viable right now. I don't think 5CC will really compete till the format has solidified, because you can tailor it to the meta.
I guess it depends on what you're going for. I'd play Bob over Putrid Leech and Phyrexian Arena, personally, but I could be wrong.
I don't like that Faeries and Scapeshift were banned basically on a hunch. At least they banned JTMS and Stoneforge based on results. I don't look forward to a format that's going to be dominated by Zoo and Affinity. I hope Cruel Control is a viable deck, and I don't even play it. I just don't want to see a format dominated by aggro. I wanted this to be Legacy 2.0.
My LGS doesn't really support Eternal formats, because the owner doesn't like them. So it makes no difference to me. This format will mostly be played between myself and a few friends.
Not, really. I understand the impact. I think if they really wanted to deal with it, they should've banned Disciple, but they didn't. So here we are.