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Stonecloaker is my only grave hate, I tried others but they were just too useless. I try to make the graveyard play too slow so that you can run over graveyard decks with aggro but if aggro fails then the graveyard decks set up some kind of recursion lock.

Goblin Cratermaker and Abrade and thrashing brontodon for artifact hate. Plus the generic white removal

I end up modifying my reanimator suite for ETB value over size (because there is so much point and click removal) especially in UB just repeatedly reanimate Mulldrifters and shriekmaws and dinrova horror

Kaalia, Zenith Seeker is also an option for demon commander you get access to a lot more demons and colours

It looks to me the best way to use her is reanimator with a lot of red self discard and black and white reanimation cards... doesn't have to be the expensive $ ones you can get plenty of 4-5 mana reanimation cards.

My Guild slots are super tight there are a number of good options for flexible hate there but the casting restrictions makes them not as flexible as I'd like. I did at some point have Raging Swordtooth in my cube for example and the classic trigon predator

I did a gatherer search and I found some good options
Savage Alliance
Dagger Caster
Firespout
put Smoldering werewolf back in


Artifacts and enchantments
Thrashing Brontodon well this is facepalming obvious (I still had Qasali Pridemage when this was first printed)
Wickerbough Elder
Sprouting Renewal
Whispmare

Does anyone have experience getting the right amount of hate and getting players to actually pick it when there are so many great cards going around?

I actually didn't know Marsh flitter existed until it came up when discussing the Sling-gang. Fallen angel's 5 mana 3/3 base is just too small for my liking.

The issue isn't really spot removal that's really strong in peasant, but in a way I have weakened spot removal a lot with token makers. Lots of small creatures.

Well, I am "printed in a modern legal set" peasant so a few of those cards I can't use. I actually recently weakened a lot of of my red token removal for more creatures. Rolling thunder and Smoldering Werewolf.

Well I played swiss pairings since I haven't seen all the decks, but I asked everyone what their first pick was.

First picks: seating order going left
Me (GW): Lightning bolt
Almost Mono red: rakdos Cackler
UW flyers: Mulldrifter
GB: Dread return
BW: Crystal Shard
GR: Mowu, loyal companion
UR: Crainial plating
UB: Fatal Push

The GR player complained they had no enchantment removal for my intangible virture even though there is some in green but those cards were sucked up by the GB and BW players. I mean he still managed to punch through me with a Ghor-clan rampager for 10 but it was already too late for him. The one red wrath pyroclasm was hate drafted by the mono-red player. Basically, whenever a "hate card" is in my draft it just tends to float around until late and end up in the "wrong" hands.

I am thinking of adding Mask of Immolation for more mortarpods and I guess Flame sweep although red doesn't have a lot of flyers.

I need more ways to wrath or interact positively with tokens without destroying your own board in the process since all the decks are super creature/token based themselves and have those cards feel pickable when there are just so many good cards about.

So I managed to get a full 8 for my Modern Peasant 360 cube tonight, first since the triple whammy of War of the Spark, Modern Horizons and M20 hit to shake up my cube.

all in all it seemed to go really well.

I kind of easily 3-0 with a White Tokens/counters deck, I didn't lose a game which I guess is a little concerning kind of, but then again it is my cube.
BW controlling, UW flyers and Almost Mono red 2-1ed. (UB controlling, UR spells, RG aggro and GB grind were the other decks). So a good balance of colours there.

I noticed that my players valued equipment a lot higher than I would, finding that I have so many good creatures that I struggle to find room for it, which is good since its good equipment but I rarely use it. The BW player in particular with his life linking deathtouch team managed to use them to punch through people with them.

My cube has a lot of tokens and I mean a lot... and I ended up with most of them (I didn't even play the lingering souls I had). Intangible viture battle screech triplicate spirits I just overran people without even needing to run removal in my deck.

So am getting a little concerned about the mass removal options in my cube to deal with the go wide strategy. White has none (Baird, Steward of Argive?). Blue has aetherize, Black drown in sorrow and crypt rats and red pyroclasm and BW Zealous Persecution (the MVP of the BW deck).
The problem is with modern peasant being so creature-based these cards don't get picked early and feel like sideboard cards. (also true of artifact and enchantment hate) It ended up that a lot of these cards ended up late picks that no one was interested in. do I need to increase how many I play so that even if player prefers to pick other cards they'll get some eventually?

Finally thoughts on Icy Manipulator?, The UB player was saying it just slows down a game without actually helping them win that its kind of just an ******** card that any deck can play

Cubelist: http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/51100

Today was the last standard tournament at my LGS as it is closing down next week :(, that along with this site also closing down as left me considering retiring from MTG. I wont be updating the list since I am just not playing standard atm and might not do so for awhile.

I top8ed in a tournament of 25 people, 3-1-1 then a loss in the top 8. I lost to mono-red (due to mana problems) and then Bant midrange in the top 8 Nissa + huge Krasis = dead.

I have wanted Iona banned for a long long time.

I think the role of the ban list is to stop people from "accidentally" making a bad gameplay experience, doing it deliberately is pretty much impossible to stop.

If you are playing with Iona in your deck even in a silly angels deck you can just accidentally lock a player out of the game and it sucks for that one player. I think to break Painter you have to work for it, it has a lot more upside for doing fun things so I think it is a net positive... hopefully.

Paradox engine was laughably easy to combo within pretty much any deck with a few mana rocks, it really was having a Prophet of Kruphix effect it wasn't the worst card in commander for degeneracy just that you could shove it into anything and it would become degenerate.

Personally, I still want Cyclonic Rift banned its just such a catch-all groaner that's hard to stop form having a big impact, I am just super sick of it.

Tomebound lich was pretty great at prerelease I am certain that it's better than shadowmage infiltrator now in it goes.

I even pulled off the Blood for bones reanimation combo (with a Vilis, Broker of Blood) a couple of times

I think this is the right choice, I think banning "weird" cards is a good idea just because they can just break at any time.

I will expect we will see how the format goes at the next Pro tour or whatever they are called now then decide if anything else needs to be banned (or unbanned... free stoneforge)

Cloudkin Seer - Jhessian Thief
Omenspeaker - azure mage
Spectral Sailor - Rise from the tides

I wanted to replace rise with Mystic Retrieval but both are super slow while all decks are kind of fast in my cube.

Blood for bones - whisper, blood liturgist
Bloodthirsty Aerialist - warteye witch
Gorging Vulture - Stinkweed Imp
unearth - darkblast
Moan of the unhallowed - unburial rites

I thought about it and I think I'll remove dredge from my cube, I find annoying mechanics should just be replaced with non-mechanic less reanimator more re-re-reanimate. I think I might want a stitches supplier or something to help with self mill

Howling Giant - brood monitor
Woodland Champion - Merkfolk branchwalker

Silverback shaman seems good as well but I think the only good cut is Nemesis of mortals but I want to test that to see how strong that is with less dredge.

Corpse Knight - Angel of despair
Empyrean Eagle - Thunderclap Wyvern
Skyknight Vanguard - Boros Challenger

Tomebound Lich is great but I have Shadowmage infiltrator and I'm only going to play one of them
I think I'll stick with Trostani's summoner for now.

Sweet, there are plenty of times where I just want to pick off a commander or three thats good enough for me, I like having less all in options, I can burn this dragon without leaving myself without a wrath just to kill some key targets.

The treasure dragon is also not bad, a dragon that ramps

I normally suggest Lazav, dimir mastermind but Gonti, lord of luxury is similar in that thier power scales with your opponent's power.

I mean doing something with unusual limitations also can help power you down... Like one card from every set ever or Chair or Beard Tribal decks that are a lot of fun to build.

I think all those three obscure tribal decks you suggested will work, I'd suggest snakes just because it has green it in and wont be so expensive to make

Yeah, it looks okay but I worry it will always be a late pick because it runs into a spirit token and dies.

I might do a strange flip around where I put in Audacious Thief for Jhessian Thief and put the Cloudkin Seer in that slot.

Tomebound Lich vs Shadowmage infiltrator Hmmm there can only be one....

Blood for Bones seems really strong despite the sac a creature cost, its kind of really good for the value reanimator deck rather than cheating things into play.

Black is getting so many great cards this set I am going to have do a reexamination of my black section I think.

Yeah the woodland champion makes the cut... I am trying to avoid making too many changes just because I haven't even obtained let alone tested the MH stuff.

I am just going to be looking for stuff with easy replacements for underwhelming cards I have a kind of mental note of cards that I wish I had something better in that slot.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist same stats as nighthawk but I do not have a life gain theme in my cube (just random lifelinkers) so I am not sure its worth it.
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