I feel like building U/R Storm. If you ditch the fetches and just play Sulfur Falls and Steam vents you barely lose anything. You can also run Gifts in it now that Deathrite isn't everywhere. I don't know why Grapeshot is still a legal card.
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So I've decided I want to put together a deck that simply makes the opponent deck themselves. It's just for playing against friends so really anything is legal.
I've already figured blue/black, based around Traumatize, Mind Sculpt, and Haunting Echoes. Anyone know any more off the top of their head? That plus some light removal/bounce/discard and I should be ok.
I feel like building U/R Storm. If you ditch the fetches and just play Sulfur Falls and Steam vents you barely lose anything. You can also run Gifts in it now that Deathrite isn't everywhere. I don't know why Grapeshot is still a legal card.
I can attest that this deck is super fun for you and really boring for your opponent (and who cares about that jerk?)
Get yourself 3 spindown life counters though, one each for red mana, blue mana,and storm count. Makes the bookkeeping way easier
I feel like building U/R Storm. If you ditch the fetches and just play Sulfur Falls and Steam vents you barely lose anything. You can also run Gifts in it now that Deathrite isn't everywhere. I don't know why Grapeshot is still a legal card.
I feel like building U/R Storm. If you ditch the fetches and just play Sulfur Falls and Steam vents you barely lose anything. You can also run Gifts in it now that Deathrite isn't everywhere. I don't know why Grapeshot is still a legal card.
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Why wouldn't it be?
Because it's a pretty dumb card that basically says to R&D "You can't give Red any halfway decent ritual effects or you will break Modern in half." Rite of Flame, Seething Song, and Chrome Mox are all cards that cold be considered for unbanning (Mox is a stretch, I admit) if Grapeshot wasn't a card. At least you can sweep Goblin tokens before they run you over.
I just want a Red Dark Ritual, basically.
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THing about fetches is that there are only five and they are all broad enough that their interchangable and its also not hard to find people at my shop that will trade fetch for fetch.
So if you get 8 you're kinda done.
You know, except for like, Zoo.
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terramorphic expanse is pretty easy to get, isn't it? and evolving wilds
Starcity is personally responsible for Wasteland being a $70 card instead of a $30 card. I'm wondering how big Magic has to get for there to be antitrust lawsuits against people ruining parts of the secondary market.
you mean by single-handedly creating a massive environment for competitive Legacy play?
No, there's a great deal of evidence to suggest that they spent months buying as many wastelands as they could from every vendor and eBay auction under the sun. It was literally without any news breaking or anything significant happening that they just jacked up the price of wasteland from $25 to $50 one night, and when people realized they couldn't get them anywhere else, the price of wasteland just became $50.
I think for about a week beforehand they were even buying wastelands at like $20, which is about what the card was "worth" so they got even more. There was a thread on the official MTG forums when the whole fiasco went down.
And as silence said, they (probably [almost certainly]) did a fairly similar thing with dual lands, stifle, entomb, Bob and a few choice others.
So my son and I were playing Modern the other night. I was playing Melira Pod, he was playing GR Tron. I got my life combo off, but he nuked the board before I could get Redcap in, then he got out Karn, stole my lands, ended up restarting the game, and winning.
Well, creature cards can use abilities too, just not abilities with the tap symbol (although to make things more confusing, they can be tapped for abilities where the cost is something like, "Tap a creature you control: X").
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4x Judge's Familiar
4x Sage of Epityr
4x Omenspeaker
2x Voidmage Prodigy
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4x Grand Architect
3x Thassa, God of the Sea
4x Master of Waves
3x Phyrexian Metamorph
1x Molten-tail Masticore
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3x Slate of Ancestry
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1x Academy Ruins
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Sideboard
1x Kira, Great Glass Spinner
1x Swan Song
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1x Mindslaver
1x Relic of Progenitus
2x Pithing Needle
2x Wurmcoil Engine
3x Hurkyl's Recall
2x Spellskite
you have the option of akroma's memorial or (my preference) eldrazi monument but the slate/masticore engine is easier to cast without an architect
but yeah hes my favorite card in the game for sure
Architect/Master of Waves seems gross. I'm not sold on some of your choices (I think you have better filtering options available if your goal is to find a one-off Masticore?) but the deck is super cool in its own right.
you dont necessarily need the masticore to win because metamorph is really stupid in a variety of ways
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I was gonna say Architect doesn't actually do anything for Master of Waves except add 2 devotion, but the Master of Waves elementals do let you have a bunch of extra mana for artifact shit so that's something
its a 2nd lord for the elementals so they dont go away if master dies (pumps blue dudes for whatever reason) and even if your board is clear cept architect you have 10 artifact mana
this makes metamorphs effectively free and slate of ancestry useable in the same turn to pretty much draw 5+ cards to find more metamorphs/masters/architects
Maybe run some fetchlands so you don't lock yourself with Sage? You don't have to worry about enabling opponent's deathrite shamans anymore. Islands are a lot cheaper obviously, and the upside probably isn't that high.
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I've already figured blue/black, based around Traumatize, Mind Sculpt, and Haunting Echoes. Anyone know any more off the top of their head? That plus some light removal/bounce/discard and I should be ok.
breaking//entering (just the breaking part)
mind grind
mirko vosk
consuming aberration
jace memory adept (that +0)
tome scour
psychic strike
pilfered plans
ashiok
stuff like those
edit and duskmantle guildmage if you want to turn that stuff in to direct damage
and phenax and a bunch of fat creatures
I can attest that this deck is super fun for you and really boring for your opponent (and who cares about that jerk?)
Get yourself 3 spindown life counters though, one each for red mana, blue mana,and storm count. Makes the bookkeeping way easier
Why wouldn't it be?
Because it's a pretty dumb card that basically says to R&D "You can't give Red any halfway decent ritual effects or you will break Modern in half." Rite of Flame, Seething Song, and Chrome Mox are all cards that cold be considered for unbanning (Mox is a stretch, I admit) if Grapeshot wasn't a card. At least you can sweep Goblin tokens before they run you over.
I just want a Red Dark Ritual, basically.
Those paid for your packs and then some, Scry lands are going for $5 a piece
STEAM!
i love figuring out ways to play modern without fetches. i have shaman aggro and soul sisters built.
but it's p much always better to to have them.
So if you get 8 you're kinda done.
You know, except for like, Zoo.
Yeah but the basics come into play tapped which is a massive disadvantage.
and people don't care about life loss, right
this is why i will never be a good magic player
the only point of life that matters is the last one
No, there's a great deal of evidence to suggest that they spent months buying as many wastelands as they could from every vendor and eBay auction under the sun. It was literally without any news breaking or anything significant happening that they just jacked up the price of wasteland from $25 to $50 one night, and when people realized they couldn't get them anywhere else, the price of wasteland just became $50.
I think for about a week beforehand they were even buying wastelands at like $20, which is about what the card was "worth" so they got even more. There was a thread on the official MTG forums when the whole fiasco went down.
And as silence said, they (probably [almost certainly]) did a fairly similar thing with dual lands, stifle, entomb, Bob and a few choice others.
Well, that plus the amount of Lighting Bolts the opponent might have.
Aaaaaaaaaaactually,
Anti allow me to play matchmaker and introduce you to the Soul Sisters.
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Yes.
theres a newer soul sisters build thats w/r and grinds you out on the usual suspects + norin the wary and purphoros
its amazing and I wanna build it
But it loses Soul Sister's main attraction: being mono-color and thus cheap.
but I cant pass up a chance to play norin the wary in an actual deck and the fact that purphoros is one of my fav cards
Here's a similar deck in action, if you're curious.
I'm so proud....
The only cards that cant use an ability on their first turn are creature cards without haste.
It took me a bit to realize Planeswalkers are not creatures, meaning they die to stuff like Negate
STEAM!
confused as to why I'm tapping dudes willy nilly
Grand Architect is so rad. One of my favorite cards ever printed. Do you have a decklist?
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4x Judge's Familiar
4x Sage of Epityr
4x Omenspeaker
2x Voidmage Prodigy
2x Kami of the Crescent Moon
4x Grand Architect
3x Thassa, God of the Sea
4x Master of Waves
3x Phyrexian Metamorph
1x Molten-tail Masticore
Artifacts (6)
3x Aether Vial
3x Slate of Ancestry
Other (4)
4x Snapback
Lands (19)
3x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1x Academy Ruins
15x Island
Sideboard
1x Kira, Great Glass Spinner
1x Swan Song
2x Spell Pierce
1x Mindslaver
1x Relic of Progenitus
2x Pithing Needle
2x Wurmcoil Engine
3x Hurkyl's Recall
2x Spellskite
you have the option of akroma's memorial or (my preference) eldrazi monument but the slate/masticore engine is easier to cast without an architect
but yeah hes my favorite card in the game for sure
Needs more Master of Etherium!
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this makes metamorphs effectively free and slate of ancestry useable in the same turn to pretty much draw 5+ cards to find more metamorphs/masters/architects
what a stupid card
because sometimes you could just turn 3 wurmcoil and people were like "oh..."
I love weird blue creatures