Utpoia Sprawl is actually played in a speed version, but I have yet to get to the 'Tide' playstyle yet.
But Realms Uncharted puts the land into hand, and I am not a big fan of that. You'll be spending more time than you have.
I also tested Realms Uncharted and the DRS/Noxious package, and I wasn't too hapy with my results. The deck ended up being slower and more reliant of DRS to make Uncharted 100% usable, and we still have to wait more turns if we play Noxious.
We came up with 12 as a good number of mana enough for us to see it most of the time in our opening 7. You can play more lands, but be cauthious that you may find yourself in crappy situations where you have a land in your deck and no way to fetch. This deck si not the best at refilling hands with usable cards, which is why I would like to test card draw and such.
Utpoia Sprawl is actually played in a speed version, but I have yet to get to the 'Tide' playstyle yet.
But Realms Uncharted puts the land into hand, and I am not a big fan of that. You'll be spending more time than you have.
I also tested Realms Uncharted and the DRS/Noxious package, and I wasn't too hapy with my results. The deck ended up being slower and more reliant of DRS to make Uncharted 100% usable, and we still have to wait more turns if we play Noxious.
We came up with 12 as a good number of mana enough for us to see it most of the time in our opening 7. You can play more lands, but be cauthious that you may find yourself in crappy situations where you have a land in your deck and no way to fetch. This deck si not the best at refilling hands with usable cards, which is why I would like to test card draw and such.
Thanks, this all seems pretty reasonable. The one thing I still don't get is mana elves vs. Utopia Sprawl in the non-speedy versions. Do elves have any benefit beside the hand I describe in Edit 2 (I hope you didn't respond before I edited), and are those hands usually kept when the 1 cmc ramp is an elf?
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No really, chumping is not a bad tradeoff. If you cast a spell using them and not a land, then you basically got your 1 mana investment out of it already and chumping is not as bad as it seems.
And yes, Utopia Sprawl is a nonbo with Chancellor + no land hands.
Speed tends to have more 1-drop ways of getting mana, so that's why they play Sprawl. On turn 2, you can have a potential of 3 mana (after a Chancellor reveal, forest, mana dork, 1 mana fetch T1) and just play forest, Utopia Sprawl the other land, Caravan Vigil, Lay of the Land, mana dork, pass.
Of course, Magical Christmas Land, but it happens, and so speed prefers the 1 drop mana solutions more.
No, this deck is actually pretty resilient. Against control, hand disruption doesn't stop a bunch of land fetches in a row and setting up 4 Charbelchers to the top of your library. Removal is pretty weak against us, and countermagic is still bad against 4 Belchers in a row. Especially after siding in Defense Grid)
Turn 4-6 is actually not that bad of a speed for a combo deck. Sure, there are faster combos, but that's why this deck is in Deck Creation.
Blood Moon is nothing. Sowing Salts is blank. Hand disruption only does so much (most of the time).
The only problem we have are aggro decks. Especially Naya Zoo, that's a beating with essentially 8 Bolts and a bunch of trample. Which is why we have the sideboard Elixers and Melira's (Infect)
EDIT: We don't go into your Kill Mill primer to say 'Doesn't this fold to Eldrazi?' If you are going to say unproductive posts like that, at least tell us why you think so. Don't go being Ikumo.
I think the deck actually doesn't have a lot of bad match ups. One of them is mill, and without Noxious Revival, that becomes a very hard match up. But it's an uncommon deck. Mono red straight burn also hurts is. Combo decks like Hive Mind and Bant Gifts are slower than this deck.
Some aggro decks can be a problem, but we should be able to outpace most of them, especially with Healing Leaves, although Merfolk could be rough.
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No, this deck is actually pretty resilient. Against control, hand disruption doesn't stop a bunch of land fetches in a row and setting up 4 Charbelchers to the top of your library. Removal is pretty weak against us, and countermagic is still bad against 4 Belchers in a row. Especially after siding in Defense Grid)
Turn 4-6 is actually not that bad of a speed for a combo deck. Sure, there are faster combos, but that's why this deck is in Deck Creation.
Blood Moon is nothing. Sowing Salts is blank. Hand disruption only does so much (most of the time).
The only problem we have are aggro decks. Especially Naya Zoo, that's a beating with essentially 8 Bolts and a bunch of trample. Which is why we have the sideboard Elixers and Melira's (Infect)
EDIT: We don't go into your Kill Mill primer to say 'Doesn't this fold to Eldrazi?' If you are going to say unproductive posts like that, at least tell us why you think so. Don't go being Ikumo.
Okay, I am sorry. You do have a point about this. It just seems like this deck has no plan against faster combo decks (Splinter Twin, Griselbrand Reanimator, Melira Pod, Restore Balance). I guess that it is resilient enough against discard and countermagic, but it seems like this deck has problems with decks that win without disruption. (Also, my Kill Mill deck doesn't just fold to Eldrazi. That is what regular mill does. I only need to mill 10 cards or so for my deck to work.)
Okay, I am sorry. You do have a point about this. It just seems like this deck has no plan against faster combo decks (Splinter Twin, Griselbrand Reanimator, Melira Pod, Restore Balance). I guess that it is resilient enough against discard and countermagic, but it seems like this deck has problems with decks that win without disruption. (Also, my Kill Mill deck doesn't just fold to Eldrazi. That is what regular mill does. I only need to mill 10 cards or so for my deck to work.)
There is a speed version of this deck going around, but it's still a little fragil in it's draws. And besides, its Charbelcher, give it a break. To me it's like another jank deck I can play to surprise people at my LGS.
Since we run so many fetches and tutors (like 30 land fethces and 6 [some run 5] tutors for Belcher, with Ancient Stirrings backup doing double duty), it's hard for most decks with disruption to even know what to counter or what to take away from your hand. But faster decks like Goryo's Breach (Grisel Reanimator) and Twin are a bit rough. That's why I also tested Fog effects, but it sometimes does nothing against certain decks.
Also, that comment I made was an example of what those kinds of comments do. That's what most people think about mill type decks in general. It's like "slow decks without lifegain are bad against burn" (which is somewhat true, but not completely), and 'janky silly fragile combo decks fold to removal, counters, and hand disruption" (also not completely true, Modern Cherri0s is doing miracles with Noxious Revival)
So I put this together for like 5 tix and ran it through some matches in the tournament practice room. I'm currently 9-4 in games vs. real decks, and I don't have a sideboard. Utopia Sprawl has been sweet, especially off of chancellor mana t1. Getting to 8 usually hasn't been a problem, so I see why Realms Uncharted would be unappealing. Abundance seems at its best vs. blue based control, which I haven't face yet. Discard taking cultivates have been worse than taking charbelcher, because it makes counting to 8 much harder, so I think Realms+forest might come in vs. discard at the cost of a shock, shock, 3 basic, 3 snow basic manabase maindeck.
Also, Soul Sisters is a pretty great matchup. You guys know the belcher doesn't sac right? You just activate it twice to deal ~80 damage.
Edit: Pod is rough, you just can't interact at all.
Good feedback, could you maybe talk a little more about the games you've won? What are the strong match ups, the easy ones. Aside from Pod what did you have trouble with? Running Utopia Sprawl over a mana dork forces us to mulligan more aggressively. Realms Uncharted seems really bad, it puts two lands in the graveyard, which means without dorks, it's impossible to cast and crack Goblin Charbelcher in the same turn.
On Thursday night, I'll be taking my deck to my local card shop, I expect to play numerous games so I'll come back with some analysis.
Hey guys just stumbled on this thread earlier and brainstormed up a list. It's designed to be more explosive so you can play and activate Belcher in the same turn. Not really sure if its better or worse than whats already going on but there are a few ideas I haven't seen mentioned that could be worth looking at.
1 Mountain
5 Forest
6
4 Chancellor of the Tangle
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Satyr Hedonist
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Simian Spirit Guide
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4 Safewright Quest
4 Caravan Vigil
4 Lay of the Land
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Goblin Charbelcher
4 Pentad Prism
2 Recross the Paths
2 Wanderer's Twig/Traveler's Amulet
30
Only 6 lands means you get to lethal Belcher faster. This might make the deck too inconsistent (but hey, its Modern Belcher you aren't playing it for consistency right? =P). The single Mountain helps with Prism and Hedonist but would be a terrible land to have solo in the opener. It could be a Stomping Ground, but that is much harder to fetch out.
Satyr Hedonist, Pentad Prism and Simian Spirit Guide are the key ingredients in playing and activating Belcher in the same turn. Prism and Twig help your Ancient Stirrings hit more reliably. Twig Helps your Spirit Guides fetch green mana in a Pinch. Birds and Noble are the mana dorks of choice to power up Pentad Prism.
Goblin Charbelcher requires 4 to cast and 3 to activate in a single turn (7 total).
You need a minimum of 7 forests and 1 mountain/stomping grounds to make it work for a double damage activation. You have to fall back on ye olde might not have mana dorks at the time plan.
I gotta admit Pentad Prism might be viable in this deck, but being mostly G it might not be worth it.
Yeah, I know how much Belcher costs. My version has lots of non-land mana sources, which I explained. Hedonist, Prism and Spirit Guide in addition to the Birds/Nobles.
I've goldfished a few hands and it seems to work OK. I've actually cast a few turn 3 Chancellors >.<
Also, I noticed that my list was 2 short so I'm playing 3 Recross and 3 Amulets.
I've been considering some Spririt Guides myself, and I might take a look at Pentad Prism as well. That being said, I don't think you quite understand the deck as is. Playing and activating Belcher on the same turn is pretty common.
Also, abundance is really easy to see coming, so I've been thinking about adding some probes.
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I was referring to Solar Ex. His first post said "so you can play and activate belcher in the same turn" as a reason to go more explosive, so it seemed like he thought the current version doesn't do that, but it does.
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Sorry I haven't posted in a bit, super busy this week. I'll be updating the main post this weekend so keep these ideas coming. And please feel free to nominate an alternative deck list as "Main deck" I'd like this deck to be a community achievement.
I view Stirrings solely as a last-ditch option to grab Belcher. Cast it only when there's absolutely nothing else you can do, i.e. you've taken all the lands out of your library, or you have no other 1-drops to play.
That might be a very good argument against having Ancient Stirrings in the deck. In my experience the last card you want to play is a good candidate for the first card to leave the deck.
Edit 2: Ah, doesn't work with the chancellor+1cmc ramp+no forest+no lay variant hands. How common are those? Are they keepable in the dark anyway? Such a hand folds to bolt and seems to get off the ground very slowly.
Personally I think that hand is way too dangerous and slow. It's the entire reason I tested Treefolk Harbinger and why I am still drawn back to it a little. The advantage of Utopia Sprawl is definitely speed Mana Dorks live somewhere in the middle while Treefolk Harbinger offers more security. I suppose it's a meta/playstyle call.
Since we run so many fetches and tutors (like 30 land fethces and 6 [some run 5] tutors for Belcher, with Ancient Stirrings backup doing double duty), it's hard for most decks with disruption to even know what to counter or what to take away from your hand.
One of my favorite things about this deck is making control players say "I don't know what to do with this."
Of course one thing they all know what to do with is Goblin Charbelcher which makes Noxious Revival look mighty fine. I wont have time to test until the weekend, but I'll be testing that as well.
Ensnaring Bridge might be a good option vs aggro, it does have the same trouble as Infernal Tutor we sometimes have a hand full of cards that don't do anything anymore, and it doesn't feel good to cast them for nothing (especially Harrow) Silent Arbiter might be a worthwhile inclusion.
I think that's a great idea. This deck needs a good sideboard. I still feel that Defense Grid is the best answer to counters game 2, because it can be cast in advance leaving us open with all 7 manna to play and pop Charbelcher and it shuts down the scariest counters DissipateCryptic CommandSyncopate and so on.
If we get hit with a Mana Leak we can just pay the three we were saving to activate with and Remand costs us a turn, but it costs them a turn too.
I strongly disagree about Ancient Stirrings not being very good. The reason it's so solid is it's a card you can always play. For the same reason I really like Healing Leaves over Fog. It can find Forests or Goblin Charbelcher and that's what this deck NEEDS to do in order to win.
I have no idea what a board would look like. It's really hard because all the cards we are running are essential for the combo, I guess the first thing I would cut when I'd board would probably be dorks. The board might have Defense Grid, Surgical Extraction, maybe Fog. I feel Noxious Revival is a must in the sideboard if it isn't in the maindeck. If your Goblin Charbelcher gets countered, at the end of your opponent's turn, you can use Noxious Revival to ensure you draw it again next turn.
There's one card I didn't test, but it actually maybe could work, Blunt The Assault. Thoughts on that anyone?
But Realms Uncharted puts the land into hand, and I am not a big fan of that. You'll be spending more time than you have.
I also tested Realms Uncharted and the DRS/Noxious package, and I wasn't too hapy with my results. The deck ended up being slower and more reliant of DRS to make Uncharted 100% usable, and we still have to wait more turns if we play Noxious.
We came up with 12 as a good number of mana enough for us to see it most of the time in our opening 7. You can play more lands, but be cauthious that you may find yourself in crappy situations where you have a land in your deck and no way to fetch. This deck si not the best at refilling hands with usable cards, which is why I would like to test card draw and such.
Modern: Top Control -- UWx Titan -- Loam Pox -- Footsteps Hulk
Legacy: Doomsday -- Death and Taxes -- UR Stasis -- Sylvan Plug
Pauper: UB Teachings -- UR Nivix Control
Thanks, this all seems pretty reasonable. The one thing I still don't get is mana elves vs. Utopia Sprawl in the non-speedy versions. Do elves have any benefit beside the hand I describe in Edit 2 (I hope you didn't respond before I edited), and are those hands usually kept when the 1 cmc ramp is an elf?
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No really, chumping is not a bad tradeoff. If you cast a spell using them and not a land, then you basically got your 1 mana investment out of it already and chumping is not as bad as it seems.
And yes, Utopia Sprawl is a nonbo with Chancellor + no land hands.
Speed tends to have more 1-drop ways of getting mana, so that's why they play Sprawl. On turn 2, you can have a potential of 3 mana (after a Chancellor reveal, forest, mana dork, 1 mana fetch T1) and just play forest, Utopia Sprawl the other land, Caravan Vigil, Lay of the Land, mana dork, pass.
Of course, Magical Christmas Land, but it happens, and so speed prefers the 1 drop mana solutions more.
Modern: Top Control -- UWx Titan -- Loam Pox -- Footsteps Hulk
Legacy: Doomsday -- Death and Taxes -- UR Stasis -- Sylvan Plug
Pauper: UB Teachings -- UR Nivix Control
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
No, this deck is actually pretty resilient. Against control, hand disruption doesn't stop a bunch of land fetches in a row and setting up 4 Charbelchers to the top of your library. Removal is pretty weak against us, and countermagic is still bad against 4 Belchers in a row. Especially after siding in Defense Grid)
Turn 4-6 is actually not that bad of a speed for a combo deck. Sure, there are faster combos, but that's why this deck is in Deck Creation.
Blood Moon is nothing. Sowing Salts is blank. Hand disruption only does so much (most of the time).
The only problem we have are aggro decks. Especially Naya Zoo, that's a beating with essentially 8 Bolts and a bunch of trample. Which is why we have the sideboard Elixers and Melira's (Infect)
EDIT: We don't go into your Kill Mill primer to say 'Doesn't this fold to Eldrazi?' If you are going to say unproductive posts like that, at least tell us why you think so. Don't go being Ikumo.
Modern: Top Control -- UWx Titan -- Loam Pox -- Footsteps Hulk
Legacy: Doomsday -- Death and Taxes -- UR Stasis -- Sylvan Plug
Pauper: UB Teachings -- UR Nivix Control
Some aggro decks can be a problem, but we should be able to outpace most of them, especially with Healing Leaves, although Merfolk could be rough.
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GRhonas the IndomitableG - Indomitable Four Drops
WUBOloro, Ageless AsceticWUB - Loot & Renanimate
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We need more team players.
My Modern decks:
B/R/G Living End G/R/B
G/R Tron R/G
U/W/G/R Gargageddon R/G/W/U
R/W/G Naya Burn G/W/R
Okay, I am sorry. You do have a point about this. It just seems like this deck has no plan against faster combo decks (Splinter Twin, Griselbrand Reanimator, Melira Pod, Restore Balance). I guess that it is resilient enough against discard and countermagic, but it seems like this deck has problems with decks that win without disruption. (Also, my Kill Mill deck doesn't just fold to Eldrazi. That is what regular mill does. I only need to mill 10 cards or so for my deck to work.)
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
My Modern decks:
B/R/G Living End G/R/B
G/R Tron R/G
U/W/G/R Gargageddon R/G/W/U
R/W/G Naya Burn G/W/R
There is a speed version of this deck going around, but it's still a little fragil in it's draws. And besides, its Charbelcher, give it a break. To me it's like another jank deck I can play to surprise people at my LGS.
Since we run so many fetches and tutors (like 30 land fethces and 6 [some run 5] tutors for Belcher, with Ancient Stirrings backup doing double duty), it's hard for most decks with disruption to even know what to counter or what to take away from your hand. But faster decks like Goryo's Breach (Grisel Reanimator) and Twin are a bit rough. That's why I also tested Fog effects, but it sometimes does nothing against certain decks.
Also, that comment I made was an example of what those kinds of comments do. That's what most people think about mill type decks in general. It's like "slow decks without lifegain are bad against burn" (which is somewhat true, but not completely), and 'janky silly fragile combo decks fold to removal, counters, and hand disruption" (also not completely true, Modern Cherri0s is doing miracles with Noxious Revival)
Modern: Top Control -- UWx Titan -- Loam Pox -- Footsteps Hulk
Legacy: Doomsday -- Death and Taxes -- UR Stasis -- Sylvan Plug
Pauper: UB Teachings -- UR Nivix Control
Also, Soul Sisters is a pretty great matchup. You guys know the belcher doesn't sac right? You just activate it twice to deal ~80 damage.
Edit: Pod is rough, you just can't interact at all.
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GRhonas the IndomitableG - Indomitable Four Drops
WUBOloro, Ageless AsceticWUB - Loot & Renanimate
Maybe even Ensnaring Bridge to defend against weenies.
My Modern decks:
B/R/G Living End G/R/B
G/R Tron R/G
U/W/G/R Gargageddon R/G/W/U
R/W/G Naya Burn G/W/R
1 Mountain
5 Forest
6
4 Chancellor of the Tangle
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Satyr Hedonist
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Simian Spirit Guide
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4 Safewright Quest
4 Caravan Vigil
4 Lay of the Land
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Goblin Charbelcher
4 Pentad Prism
2 Recross the Paths
2 Wanderer's Twig/Traveler's Amulet
30
Only 6 lands means you get to lethal Belcher faster. This might make the deck too inconsistent (but hey, its Modern Belcher you aren't playing it for consistency right? =P). The single Mountain helps with Prism and Hedonist but would be a terrible land to have solo in the opener. It could be a Stomping Ground, but that is much harder to fetch out.
Satyr Hedonist, Pentad Prism and Simian Spirit Guide are the key ingredients in playing and activating Belcher in the same turn. Prism and Twig help your Ancient Stirrings hit more reliably. Twig Helps your Spirit Guides fetch green mana in a Pinch. Birds and Noble are the mana dorks of choice to power up Pentad Prism.
You need a minimum of 7 forests and 1 mountain/stomping grounds to make it work for a double damage activation. You have to fall back on ye olde might not have mana dorks at the time plan.
I gotta admit Pentad Prism might be viable in this deck, but being mostly G it might not be worth it.
My Modern decks:
B/R/G Living End G/R/B
G/R Tron R/G
U/W/G/R Gargageddon R/G/W/U
R/W/G Naya Burn G/W/R
I've goldfished a few hands and it seems to work OK. I've actually cast a few turn 3 Chancellors >.<
Also, I noticed that my list was 2 short so I'm playing 3 Recross and 3 Amulets.
My Modern decks:
B/R/G Living End G/R/B
G/R Tron R/G
U/W/G/R Gargageddon R/G/W/U
R/W/G Naya Burn G/W/R
Also, abundance is really easy to see coming, so I've been thinking about adding some probes.
Interested in Custom Card Creation.
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Pretty sure I have a firm grasp on the deck.
My Modern decks:
B/R/G Living End G/R/B
G/R Tron R/G
U/W/G/R Gargageddon R/G/W/U
R/W/G Naya Burn G/W/R
Interested in Custom Card Creation.
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That might be a very good argument against having Ancient Stirrings in the deck. In my experience the last card you want to play is a good candidate for the first card to leave the deck.
Personally I think that hand is way too dangerous and slow. It's the entire reason I tested Treefolk Harbinger and why I am still drawn back to it a little. The advantage of Utopia Sprawl is definitely speed Mana Dorks live somewhere in the middle while Treefolk Harbinger offers more security. I suppose it's a meta/playstyle call.
One of my favorite things about this deck is making control players say "I don't know what to do with this."
Of course one thing they all know what to do with is Goblin Charbelcher which makes Noxious Revival look mighty fine. I wont have time to test until the weekend, but I'll be testing that as well.
Ensnaring Bridge might be a good option vs aggro, it does have the same trouble as Infernal Tutor we sometimes have a hand full of cards that don't do anything anymore, and it doesn't feel good to cast them for nothing (especially Harrow) Silent Arbiter might be a worthwhile inclusion.
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RBlazeTron
Then there is Relic of Progenitus which takes away speed from the deck.
Can we piecemeal a sideboard?
Gutteral Response seems good.
My Modern decks:
B/R/G Living End G/R/B
G/R Tron R/G
U/W/G/R Gargageddon R/G/W/U
R/W/G Naya Burn G/W/R
I think that's a great idea. This deck needs a good sideboard. I still feel that Defense Grid is the best answer to counters game 2, because it can be cast in advance leaving us open with all 7 manna to play and pop Charbelcher and it shuts down the scariest counters Dissipate Cryptic Command Syncopate and so on.
If we get hit with a Mana Leak we can just pay the three we were saving to activate with and Remand costs us a turn, but it costs them a turn too.
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RBlazeTron
I have no idea what a board would look like. It's really hard because all the cards we are running are essential for the combo, I guess the first thing I would cut when I'd board would probably be dorks. The board might have Defense Grid, Surgical Extraction, maybe Fog. I feel Noxious Revival is a must in the sideboard if it isn't in the maindeck. If your Goblin Charbelcher gets countered, at the end of your opponent's turn, you can use Noxious Revival to ensure you draw it again next turn.
There's one card I didn't test, but it actually maybe could work, Blunt The Assault. Thoughts on that anyone?
UBRKess, Dissident MageUBR - Controlling Dissidents
GRhonas the IndomitableG - Indomitable Four Drops
WUBOloro, Ageless AsceticWUB - Loot & Renanimate
And at the cost of 4 mana? I'd rather play Fog and do business on the same turn.