Magic: The Gathering Modern General
(competitive discussion)
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SCG Indianapolis weekend
Do you like the current Modern Metagame?
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Modern Metagame
>>47257981
Link to the stream for SCG Indianapolis
>www twitch tv/scglive
About 20 hours of anime per week
>>47258056
Fun facts are always hilarious because none of them are serious.
>20 hours of anime per week
>profesionnal teddy bear namer
>bagel enthusiast
Loving how two days ago almost everyone was shitting on Nahiri.
Where are you guys now?
Threadly reminder that deck thinning is a myth:
http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/print.asp?ID=3096
>... The overall impact of fetch lands upon the number of extra spells, (as opposed to the true lands the fetch lands removed from the deck,) drawn is not nearly as high as the number life sacrificed for the effect. While the dead draws over the first 16 turns are not surprisingly negligible, over the first 16 turns we cannot realize, on average, a single extra card from our fetch lands. Even if we propagate this data further, the first card we see in the 4/16 case is not realized until around the 36th turn, and at an average cost of 2.8 life. The first card for 8/12 is realized on the 25th turn, but at a cost of 4.3 life.
Pls help me modern general I want to be a fucking snowflake but I have no brew skills.
My favorite card ever is mulldrifter and I want to force a deck featuring it. I have a play set of KTK fetches, and willing to spend ~$1200-1300 to make it work since it would be my only modern deck.
Any ideas?
>>47258310
>Mulldrifter
Play mono-U delver in Pauper.
>>47258196
>He doesn't pull every land out of his deck with KotR and Coralhelm
>>47258196
The article doesn't account for cards like evolving wilds. Nice try though.
>>47258321
I was actually thinking about building sea stompy for legacy but I already have a legacy deck and the legacy scene at my shop isn't very impressive. I figured I should try breaking into modern since modern continues to grow at the store every week
>>47258196
I don't think "myth" is the right word to use here. Is there any single word that represents a cost-greater-than-benefit scenario?
>>47258354
The best thing I can recommend is for you to go to a site like MTG Salvation, MTGtop8, or MTGGoldfish, and take a look at the modern decks they have on there. Find one that suits you or is close to what you want, and make adjustments as the local meta requires.
Save brewing for when you have a strong understanding of the meta, and what makes good decks good and bad decks bad.
>>47258374
i think myth is the perfect word to use here
many myths take the form of a failed cost-benefit analysis
>>47258324
Fun story time about the bank knightfall deck - I went to the LGS with my affinity deck, turn 3 I swing in with a vault an inkmoth nexus wearing plating for 6 poison, try it again - path. Fair enough. Turn 4 opponent drops worship. What I had a vault skirge, and he didn't deal with my Steel overseers or cranial plating.
>he has 3 11//11 knight of the reliquary's
>I have like 3 6/8 ornithopters, vault skirge with plating gaining me like 12 life per turn - I'm at 51 life
>2 Ravagers with 5 or 6 counters each
>Opal and Glimmevoid to move plating at instant speed
>turn 16 or so i get inkmoth nexus - he has no removal left because he kept trying to stop me from gaining life with vault skirge
>he swings in for like 40 damage - I just take it - kill him with inkmoth next turn
Game 1 lasted about 45 minutes. We didn't get to go to game 2.
>>47258338
>grasping for straws this desperately
>not understanding the point of the article
>clearly not even reading the article
1/10, try again.
>>47258140
I have 4 of her and still don't get the hype.
Trying to sell them to my friends right now since I know they won't stay $30 for long.
>>47258338
Are you actually this dumb? The point of the article is that using fetches and fetch effects for "thinning out the deck" is of negligible benefit. Even if you're not paying life for it, you will not see a return on average until some time between turns 25 and 36, depending on the amount of effects in the deck. Cramming fetches of any sort into a mono colored deck is effectively pointless. Please read and comprehend the things you attempt to criticize in the future anon.
>>47258703
why is everyone going on about fetches jesus you all crammed the last thread up too.
if people want to run fetches let them run in, if it doesn't do them any good, let them run it, if they feel better using fetches, let them run it
>>47258780
>Why is everyone discussing modern deck building in the modern thread?!
Commit suicide immediately.
>>47258196
The main reason for fetching, though, is typically to fix your colours. The small amount of life paid is usually not that bad a price to pay.
>Andrew Elenbogen
Holy shit can't he contain his autism?
How would Mardu Pox do? I think it could work because of Asylum Visitor
Bloodghast + lingering souls + Nahiri.
>>47258140
Literally nothing but hype.
May as well try winning with a felidar sovereign
>>47259136
>Literally nothing but hype.
I guess you didn't watch SCG today....
>>47258196
>deck thinning is a myth
>well, not really but its almost negligible
So it's not a myth?
>>47259181
Given the sheer number of players paying uwr nahiri some will get to day 2, and even do fairly well. It's a huge chunk of the meta at this tourney.
>>47258902
Indeed, the article mostly deals with the idea of people running fetch effects in mono-color decks, or having the mentality of "this is thinning the deck" instead of "this is fixing my colors".
>>47259210
Do you games last longer than 16 turns? If not, then yes, it's a myth.
>>47258087
>Bagel enthusiast
>>47259354
A myth is something that isn't true
Negligible results are still results
>>47260245
>durr I'm autistic
FTFY
>>47260245
They're called negligible because they're of no use. They may as well not exist. It's a myth in the sense that people think it's helpful, which it's not.
>>47260294
>>47260294
>being so mad about someone mentioning deck thinning that you shit up two threads in a row
I think you should check a mirror buckaroo
>>47260349
Okay so if you're saying that deck thinning has significant results is a myth then sure
But it does have results
>>47258196
>you wouldn't reduce your deck to 59 cards if you could
>>47260454
Tell me, whats the difference between 19/50 and 18/49?
>>47258310
UB Heartless summoning
>>47260373
Did you forget the fact that we're in a thread for the format that regularly ends games in around five turns? Just look at the graphs, the numbers don't even start to diverge until about 14 turns in, making the life you lost a pointless disadvantage. Deck thinning is completely negligible in Modern.
You should only use sac lands in a mono colored deck if it focuses on either lifegain or having cards in the graveyard.
>>47261245
1.7%
quite a lot, actually
>>47260454
>you would reduce your life to 19 if you could
>>47258140
i've been shilling that card non-stop since spoilers
i mean i sold my modo jeskai deck once it became a meme but i still have all four nahee-hees for standard. i also still have my mardu darkdwellers list, which mite b cool with nahiri.
you know whats super good? playing megamorph guys and pitching deathmist raptors to her +2.
42nd for jeskai control is bad.
Also training ground + eldrazi displacer is pretty annoying.
Are Nahiri shills worse than cancer?
I bought the deck builder kit, a few of the new packs and built my water/grass deck. Now what do I do ?
>>47262240
>water/grass deck
WEW
Heyo friends, what's the best way to ease into moden? I mostly play limited but I still don't have a good collection. I want a deck I can upgrade over time, and eventually have it be very good. Elves looks like a pretty fun deck I could run without breaking the bank, but I've noticed that almost all of the sideboard cards are white, meaning that I'd need to invest in the land base, something I can't currently afford.
>>47262605
Going from mono red burn to the R/G, R/W, and finally R/G/W versions could be an option.
>>47262739
I actually have a really shitty shell of a burn deck, no guides but skullcracks, bolts, rift bolt, shard volley etc
Should I splurge and grab a set of guides? Or is a sideboard a higher priority?
>>47262605
>Heyo friends, what's the best way to ease into modern?
play mono-red burn. you can convert it to legacy burn for not-that-much. it's like two decks for the price of one.
>>47262759
goblin guide and eidolon of the great revel are mandatory 4-ofs. sideboard cards are very low priority.
>>47262759
Run elementals if you just want to do a budget mono red aggro build.
>>47262605
Don't do it, Modern is a bastardized version of Standard that rotates (under the name of bans for "competitive diversity") just about as often while costing twice as much. Get into Legacy if you want to play something else besides Limited.
>>47262605
Collected Company Elves has a mono-green variant.
>>47262240
Is this the hot new meme ever since the pokemon thread went up?
>http://www.starcitygames.com/events/coverage/monowhite_humans_with_dan_muss.html
Weenie is back and it's here for blood. Do you think guys this deck is legit? I'm quite afraid it might be a just one-event-rogue-deck.I play modern and standard and I bought into people deck when it was like 60$, if this deck is any legit I can transform it into a modern deck for pennies considering cards I already own
I want to make a Kamigawa modern deck. I love the Kamigawa cards -- yeah, I know, it's a block most people love to hate. With good reason too, but still, I like the art on some, and the weird abilities on others.
The only problem is I only have ninja cards from Kamigawa. A lot of the fun rares (like gifts ungiven) are extremely expensive for my budget.
I've never bought sets online before. I don't think it works out. But for $9 bux, I could try gambling at CoolStuffInc - they're selling Kamigawa block rares x20 for $9. It smells like a trap, like I'll just get x20 $0.25 cards, but has anyone ever lucked out with trying this methodology?
Any other ideas for getting most of the cards from this set efficiently?
Making a bogle deck, what should I sideboard to deal with Spellskite? G/W deck
>>47265365
nature's claim?
>>47265352
buying singles is always better than buying random cards.
>>47265389
Bah. But it still sucks. Maybe I should just try buying a booster box. It just feels bad spending thirty bux to get a single copy of a single card.
>>47265485
buy
singles
you
dumbass
I want to build a Boros Burn using Skynight Legionarie and no Goblin Guide. Any tips?
>>47265604
don't run a 2/2 for 3
do run a 2/2 for 1
>>47265613
I know it's slow, but it also has haste and flying. So I'm planning it to be more like a finisher and leave turn 1 to Swiftspear..
How about an elemental deck like this:
Land (23)
2x Arid Mesa
3x Cavern of Souls
2x Flooded Strand
2x Hallowed Fountain
1x Island
1x Mountain
1x Plains
3x Primal Beyond
2x Sacred Foundry
3x Scalding Tarn
3x Steam Vents
Creature (18)
3x Incandescent Soulstoke
4x Inner-Flame Acolyte
4x Mulldrifter
2x Nova Chaser
3x Restoration Angel
2x Reveillark
Instant (19)
4x Cloudshift
4x Essence Flux
3x Mana Leak
4x Path to Exile
4x Remand
Do you think that could work?
SCG stream in 6 minutes.
As for day 2 metagame, my money is on a lot of Nahiri Jeskai, RG Valakut and Sanctum Tron.
>>47265650
>it's slow
you're BURN
The very first card to add while splashing white is Boros Charm, and then like lightning helix or something
>>47265365
Oppresive rays/gelid shackles if you play open the armory build
>>47265485
Good idea. Better to spend $300 to get a $30 card. At least then you get $100 in other cards that you don't need to go with your $30 card.
SMRT
>>47257998
where is this from?
>>47265691
Yeah, that's the plan. Lot's of Helix, Boros Charm, 2x Paths and Deflecting Palm on the side.
I like Skynight for the evasion and can't into Guide because of the price.
Any way to make it better?
>>47265764
post list
>>47265485
kek
>>47265787
Creatures:
Monastery Shiftspear x4
Eidolon of the Great Revel x3
Thalia's Liutenant x4
Skyknight Legionare x3
Seeker of the Way x3
Spells:
Lightning Bolt x4
Searing Blaze x4
Lightning Helix x4
Boros Charm x4
Skullcrack x2
Rift Bolt x3
Path to Exile x2
Lands:
Arid Mesa x4
Sacred Foundry X4
Mountains x5
Plains x3
>people referring to dredgevine as just 'dredge'
>do you even archetype
>>47265858
>Thalia's Liutenant x4
>Skyknight Legionare x3
>Seeker of the Way x3
>>47265858
horrible
>>47265858
>asking /tg/ for help
>>47265911
>>47265917
just go to tappedout for help
>>47265858
take out all of your white creatures and path
add one more eidon, some lavamancers, you have no lava spikes, one more rift bolt, and if you want to run some fresh tech add sin prodder
or splash green and get nacatl, revelry, atarkas command
>>47265948
>just go to tappedout for help
>>47265948
>tappedout
hey ur deck is cool i like it +1 but hav u checkd out my edh human tribal (link) upboats appreciated!
>>47265365
Green has enough artifact hate.
Literally pick one
>>47265949
Can I keep at least Skyknight? I really like it and it won me 2 games on Xmage this morning.
There is nothing I can do to make it playable?
>>47265658
No, build a good version of reveillark control.
>>47266280
run craw wurm instead
it has won me a lot of games
This general is slow today
Has there been any new U Tron tech lately? Does U Tron have a good position in the current meta?
>>47266674
>U Tron
>Relevant
>Ever
>>47266737
salty jund player detected
>>47266674
Uw tron is in a better position than its monocoloured counterpart.
>>47266753
just splashing white or adding the gifts suite?
>>47257998
>Ad nauseam is the second best combo deck at the moment>implying infect is a combo deck
Does this mean that Ad Nauseam is finally no longer a meme deck?
>>47266765
What would you splash white for if not Gifts stuff? Just Path? That sounds pretty retarded.
>>47266280
It can always win you x games. That doesnt mean its good. Ideal scenarios =/= consistency
>>47266783
that's why I asked jackass
>viewership on SCG Modern streams are sharply down
>attendance is about 500 at several SCG events
>after reasonably fun cards have finally been unbanned
Is Modern dying, bros? Have a critical mass of people given up on this shitty format after the Eldrazi Winter?
>>47266809
No I mean, no fucking shit that UW tron plays Gifts stuff, you don't even need to ask.
>>47266814
I think people are just mad about modern prices and don't really want to pay a fortune for a few hours of entertainment anymore. Financially the gap between legacy and modern gets smaller every year. Duals are the only thing keeping legacy ahead at this point.
>>47266838
this is the reason people don't like the modern general
saying UW is better than U doesn't necessarily mean gift tron and then you get all offensive when the honest question was asked if there was some new development or if it was the gifts version
chill the fuck out dude
>>47266784
Most blockers made to deal with burn don't think about flying. It usually able to deal 6 damage each match it's actually able to land.
I removed all creatures white creatures besides Skyknight and added Ash Zealot, more Eidolons and more Rift Bolts and Skullcracks.
>>47266943
LAVA SPIKE
>>47266968
Ok I'll add them, should I send some Skullcracks to the sideboard? Or should I send the Paths? Maybe the Searing Blaze?
>>47267013
you know what I'm going to say
>>47267016
I know, call me a scrub or whatever. I like the Skyknight, and I'll play it.
>>47258932
Nahiri would be too expensive. Pox decks rarely get to 4 mana without life from the loam.
>>47267039
>Anonymous
He's trying to get you to understand what a burn deck is, and what makes a creature playable. You don't want to play skynight because it costs 3 mana and dies to bolt and even kolaghan's kommand. You can't even rely on it dealing two damage if they just hold 1 red up. Every card in the burn deck has to deal at least 2 damage, cost 1 mana, or prevent life gain. Usually some combination of the three. You're skynight will occasionally do some work, but its so bad compared to the other options you have. If it gets bolted your opponent gets to trade 1 for 1 with a creature that did no damage and blank your turn 3. You should lose the game at that point.
>>47267112
whoops that was a weird quote.
>>47258310
Flicker stuff with Seance etc?
>>47266879
It pretty ridiculous how much ego some people bring to a discussion of a card game on an anonymous forum.
>>47267039
If you refuse to use Guide so adamantly, at least use Hellspark Elemental instead. Of you don't like those, get Vexing Devil. If you also don't like Vexing, then justgive up on playing burn because these 2 options are already pretty bad budget creatures and anything worse is unplayable in a serious event.
>>47261245
>Not being an engineer
>>47261857
>needing 20 life to win
What's it like being bad at magic, /tg/?
>>47267333
>needing less than 60 cards to win
What's it like being bad at magic, /tg/?
>covering slivers again
Mother fuckers.
Can anyone tell me why people are running Seal of Fire in Grixis decks? It makes sense in decks like Jund, but I cannot seem to grasp why it's included in Grixis.
Did we just get back to back matchups with the Slivers guy?
>>47267507
I take it the fucking commentators pick the matchups.
>>47267498
Just another thing to do with your mana on turn 1 I guess
Do they get paid to not talk about magic?
>>47267546
That actually makes a bunch of sense.
>>47267204
Yeah, but around turn 3, when Skyknight lands, Goblin Guide is usually a bad draw. It "filters" your opponents draws and usually is easly blocked and also dies to kommand and bolt.
If it ends up 1 for 1, it can be better than 1 for 1 and 1 draw for your opponent.
I only run 3 of them, só I usually already have what to do turn 1 and 2.
>>47267857
>>47267112
Meant to quote this instead.
>>47267204
I like Hellspark Elemental and Vexing Devil.
>>47267498
Mana effiiciency, even against something like Infect they don't always have a t1 creature to bolt.
none of these decks are interesting
>>47268281
>The feature match on the stream is Kiki Chord Vs Affinity
Holy shit this is boring.
Help me out, i am still building this deck and i don't want to fuck up
4 Galerider Sliver
4 Predatory Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
4 Manaweft Sliver
2 Sentinel Sliver
3 Diffusion Sliver
2 Blur Sliver
1 Syphon Sliver
2 Necrotic Sliver
4 Sedge Sliver
2 Spellskite
4 Collected Company
4 Aether Vial
4 Verdant catacombs
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Watery Grave
1 Godless Shrine
4 Mutavault
4 Sliver Hive
4 Cavern of Souls
Sideboard
4 Harmonic sliver
2 Necrotic sliver
3 Darkheart sliver
2 Telekinetic sliver
4 Abrupt decay
>camera on Nick's crotch
>>47258140
I played against Jeskai Control yesterday at states, I was utterly unimpressed
I was also playing Titanshift, so...yeah
>>47268481
You're right. It's like a worse jeskai twin. People have been playing it on xmage a lot, haven't lost yet.
>>47268541
Well, I mean, they tap out on turn 4 to drop Nahiri
Against Scapeshift
>>47268541
modern's meta isn't conducive to control with soft counters. like the best line is to hit all your land drops, bolt something turn 1, spellskite on 2, snap bolt on 3, nahiri on 4 and hold up two remands. it's aggressively medium due to lack of actual counterspell.
Did anyone see a decklist for the 4c Bring to Light deck that did well at the SCG open?
>>47268585
I got it, but I don't find it to be very good against much of anything really.
>>47268621
It's not decent v Infect?
>>47268606
Control isnt allowed to exist anymore, players wanting it is why it was removed from the promotional tour
Slivers has always looked pretty fun desu. I'm new to the modern scene and not really sure what to buy into right now. Would i be wasting a shit ton of money trying to play slivers? ive never seen it do this well, i know bowman has top 8'd with it in the past a few times though. Is it really a thing or does it typically just get btfo'd?
>>47268655
Tron is control and it exists
>>47268641
Yeah, probably slightly favorable there. Not a free matchup by any means though.
>>47268736
Merfolk is probably better, slivers can be pretty cool though. I'd say for a first deck you should probably look elsewhere.
Is it worth running Nacatl on burn?
>>47268967
I like it.
>>47268967
Depends on who you ask. I personally hate it and would rather play Zoo if I'm already sticking that many creatures in there but if your meta has a lot of control or decks that don't play a lot of creatures, cat can be a free bolt every turn.
>>47268967
Yes. Usually game two I sideboard some of them out.
>>47267857
3
>3
3
>3
mana
>>47268770
Seems like a great deck, but idk prices on slivers. Since most of the cards don't go in any other deck archetypes.
>>47268770
Yeah I know merfolk is probably the safer route for an "aether" deck.
>>47269079
I agree. The slivers are like 10 bucks total. the entire cost of the deck lies in the lands and aether vials, and the sideboard i suppose.
>keeping a no lander
>Then playing cards and showing information when you've obviously lost
Fucking retarded burn players jesus.
>>47269199
gotta perpetuate those stereotypes man
>>47269199
>being a pussy
typical control players
What's with the idiotic SCG cards?
Are they trying to appeal to women and children?
Why do people watc magic and not do literally anything else instead
>>47269199
Real burn players keep shitty hands and draw exactly what they need when they need it. Go back to your cantrips and let the big boys topdeck them bolts, nerd.
#playingontheedge
>>47269199
I don't know why you're judging a certain group of players based on the actions of one guy.
>>47267857
And in turns 1 and 2, the most important ones for aburn deck, a 3cmc card is completely useless. Even at turn 3 there's a good chance that it won't help you because you're not guaranteed 3 lands in a deck that tries to run as few as possible. And even if you have 3 land on turn 3, it would be much better to cast 3 other spells or, if lucky enough, 3 guides than one creature that happens to fly.
>>47265485
buy singles you fucking idiot. you might spend "thirty bux" to get a single copy of a card, but it's better than spending multiple times that amount on a ton of cards you don't want or need.
>>47267857
Hey retard, look at literally every burn list for modern. There's a reason they're built the way they are. Your deck is shit, your idea is shit, Skyknight is shit. Either accept that and build the deck in a way that isn't shit, or fuck off and be bad forever.
Does anyone have the enchantments list that anon made earlier?
>>47269258
>Being a retard
Typical (you)
>>47265485
Its gonna suck more if you spend $100 on a box and don't pull the card that you are looking for, much less if you don't pull enough value to match the box price.
>>47268967
No, burn is all about unloading your hand to their face as fast as possible and top decking your way to victory.
It's gonna suck when the Jund player drops a 4/5 Goyf and you top deck something that could have been a burn spell.
>>47270097
>>47270159
Y u mad tho?
>>47265485
>drop $30 on a good card or staple
>drop $100 on a box full of garbage
Use your head anon, you're a smart boy
>>47269990
>playing 3 guides turn 3
Well if you happen to have a hand with 3 Guides, you're droping them turn 1 and 2.
And your hand has a limited amount of cards, of course I would trade 3 Guides for a Skyknight, but that's not how it works.
I'm running 20 lands, it's normaly able to drop the third land without much trouble. And I would want a thrid landfall even w/o Skyknight, because I want to able to respond a counter with a bolt to end the game.
>Boros is a control color now
UW Burn when?
Where are the Nahiri haters now?
How is it to be completely wrong?
I missed the last game. Why did emrakul go to the GY last game? Nahiri returns to hand. What did I miss?
>>47270853
Emrakul can't go to the graveyard in any case.
>>47271101
>Emrakul can't go to the graveyard in any case.
>mono white humans
TRIGGERED
>>47271168
Oh I guess it can but then it gets shuffled right.
>>47271262
Well, I don't know anon.
Perhaps try reading the card to find out what it does?
>>47271447
Listening to commentators, does Grafdigger's Cage not affect Nahiri ultimate?
>>47271253
Did that make top 8?
>>47271940
No. Someone played it but scored like shit.
>>47271940
Nope.
>playing scapeshift
>without scapeshift
>Emrakul fucking up a deck based around a Zendikar land
FLAVOR
>"like when Miracles got Entreat the Angels"
Fucking hate these commentators.
>>47271918
Grafdigger's Cage does not affect Nahiri ultimatedepending on which judge you paid off
>>47272124
Is there a story to go with that, or are you just being generally salty?
>>47272296
A joke son, he's making a joke son, I say a joke.
>>47270722
Red always was a control color.
Why did he hit Glistener Elf on Infect player's turn? Why not on his turn?
>Infect
>people think tapping out for a 4 mana do nothing walker is great now
Infect just proved why the strategy sucks
>>47257998
Daily reminder of that fucking tard who said burn was neither good nor viable.
>not negating probe
>>47272738
WHAT IF THE PROBE IS BAIT
>>47272751
What else could he possibly have in his hand that he wouldn't have played last turn?
Not negating probe is just objectively wrong
I just got shitstomped by U/R/g control at the LGS as affinity. Why is nobody playing that deck?
>Traverse the Ulvenwald - find kiki - flash in bounding krasis
>traverse the Ulenwald - snapcaster- cryptic, tap all your creatures - swing with my value dudes.
>Removal and counterspells for fucking DAYS
> 1-of thragtusk for the late game
>>47272768
Do you have the decklist?
>>47272751
There's only 4 Might of Old Krosa and 1 Distortion Strike. There's 12 instant pump spells.
>>47272466
what stream are you guys watching?
>>47272797
twitch scglive
>>47272523
I didn't say it wasn't good or viable. I just said that it's prevalence in the meta (your holy "percentages") don't indicate the strength of the deck. Burn really isn't a very good deck. It's easy to hate out and rarely top 8s large events because knowledgeable players know how to beat it. You retarded nigger.
>>47272809
>I didn't say it wasn't good or viable
>Burn really isn't a very good deck
>retarded nigger
kek'd
>>47272780
No, but I can tell you what he was playing for the most part. 1x kiki - 1x thragtusk - 4x bounding krasis, 4x Snap 2?x Glen Alendra Archmage
Spells included Bolt (duh) - negate - spell snare - cryptic - traverse the ulvenwald 1x engineered explosives (for delerium. X=0 fucked me up as affinity too) flame slash - magma spray - roast. Obviously Ancient grudge in the board.
>Infect player with three Inkmoth out
>>47272828
I said it's not very good. But it's just as good as any other tier 2 or tier 3 deck. Good. But not very good.
Man that Jeskai player played like shit
>>47272931
Correct.
Well, it's over.
Reminder that control has everything it needs. If you lose, you're just shit and need to stop blaming Wizards for your losses.
>>47272849
>I don't think Burn is good
Let's all point and laugh at the /pol/tard.
>>47272931
So did the infect player.
>>47273024
What plays did the infect player make that were bad?
>>47273009
Dude. Burn sucks. I'm undefeated against my little brother's Burn deck.
>>47273029
Why didn't he ever attack with more than one Inkmoth? I think he was too passive.
Nahiri x4 wins the open.
enjoy it being $35 while it lasts
>tune into stream
>it's just ending
>>47273078
how does it work? does it actually fire off the ultimate regularly?
>>47273099
Yep. One she comes down all you try to do is protect. Someone played it at fnm yesterday. He go to ult 3 times. In three rounds.
>>47273053
exalted trigger?
>>47273078
Glad I tested it a week ago.
Got a playset for $82 shipped.
>>47273078
That deck won't stay around
>>47265658
If you want to play elementals in modern, play the Ceaseless Searblade combo with the B/R and U/R manlands. You can activate their abilities for 0 an arbitrarily large number of times to trigger the Searblade.
>tfw traded my nahiri on pre release for a playset of lightining helix
>now shes triple the price
>>47273247
Git rekt faglord
>>47273078
>nahirishit sees play on RW shells
>barely any RW Ajani on any list
why
>>47273326
Longer to ult him, +1 means he's easier to beat down than nahiri, his -2 hits fewer things
He's not bad but nahiri is just better in the 4cmc planeswalker/win condition slot
Nahiri is bad.
>>47273395
>won 674-man event
>nahiri bad
Keep saying that to comfort yourself.
>>47273247
And so my LGS will practice Revisionist History and everyone will start saying how they ALWAYS knew she was a top tier card and not that they spent the last month and a half saying it was a garbage Mythic.
...What deck made use of her, anyway?
>>47273611
>Dude at my store kept going on and on about Nahiri was just straight garbage
>Now just talks about how good she is
>mfw I just sit there and try to ignore him
I think my judgment was I didn't think she was fantastic but probably more playable than people were saying.
>>47273444
She's good if your opponent does almost nothing for the first 5 turns. And winning one event means almost nothing, hell lantern control has more wins under it's belt.
>>47273611
I'll admit, last Monday people at my LGS asked me what I thought and I said I wasn't impressed. Then I saw a Nahiri build on mtgtop8 and thought why not test it? Tested it, liked it, bought a playset for cheap.
I gotta hand to wizards... cards aren't as easy to evaluate as they used to be.
>>47273655
You'll lose to it. Just wait and see.
smugnahairi.png
>>47273679
Hasn't happened yet :^):^):^):^)
>>47273655
Yeah. Infect usually doesn't do anything until turn 5.
>taps out for turn 4 nahiri
>vs scapeshift/primeval titan
????
>Nahiri haters still grasping on straws
This is too funny to watch
Just accept that you were wrong and move on
>>47273824
They are probably the same people that said thoughtnazi and eldrazi in general were bad and wouldn't see play in modern. Never trust /tg/ on new cards.
Anybody have any tips on making money through buying and selling on Ebay? How do I snipe?
>>47273714
Yeah, Nahiri decks don't have bolts, paths or helix.
>>47274019
So what you're saying is that the decks are actually good and not just "good if your opponent does almost nothing for the first 5 turns"? Glad we're all in agreement, thanks.
>>47273799
Why would they tap out?
>>47258140
>tfw I opened one at prerelease and sold it for $15
>>47274019
What are you trying to argue?
>>47273078
>Impliying value of cards goes down in memedern
>>47274446
>implying you play memedern
>>47274328
You know, that's a crappy way of looking at things. You sold it because at the time, you knew you didn't need it, and it had no place in any of your current decks. With the information at hand, you deemed it a good decision. Plus losing out on $20 isn't a big fucking deal. I bought a $5 scratch off ticket and lost, and my friend bought the next one in the ticket roll and won $500. Shit happens.
>>47274328
Thats hardly the end of the world.
I'm sure that people who sold their black lotus for $5 back then must be pissed as fuck now.
>>47274820
I know a guy who threw 2 of them and probably some other expensive cards in a lake
He was a kid, but still dumb
>>47274902
Is his name Weevil?
>>47274902
Even if you perceived them to be literally worthless, why would anybody throw a box of shit into a lake? Unless you're making some big, dramatic "FUCK MTG FOREVER" kind of exit. That's still retarded though.
>tfw you get a playmat for crushing children and scrubs
I'm never going to the LGS at sunday again. At least I got a sweet playmat.
Just got playset of NM og promo paths for $45, feels good man.
>>47277358
Enjoy your counterfeits
>>47277425
They're foils man
>>47257981
>mfw somebody brought the nahiri jeskai deck to modern tonight.
>He goes 0-2 drop and storms out.
Why does Andrew Jessup always looks so miserable?
>>47277682
will you fuck off
Been curious about something. Wouldnt Liliana, Heretical Healer trigger her self if someone tried to kill her with anything that would send her to the graveyard? Her text says any non-token creature and she is a non-token creature.
>>47278348
I recommend that you get glasses ASAP.
Got 2 for my Kiki Chord (traded a Thing in the Ice), and I'm 2 away from the winning Jeskai list
Do I bite the bullet?
>>47258703
>>47258196
But... but.... I WANT the game to go to turn 20+. I feel like 3-5 life for an extra card value on turn 25 is worth. Also, fetches are just strong color fixing.
