In my opinion, Bloom Titan is probably the most powerful of those decks. It has a good matchup vs. a fair amount of the field, though it is very vulnerable to Blood Moon and some forms of countermagic. It is also pretty difficult to learn, so you might stumble around a lot when you first start playing.
Wilted Abzan would be the next most powerful, imo. It's fast and has game vs. basically everything that doesn't have a combo finish.
I think Chris VanMeter's list from SCG's "In Full Bloom" is a pretty good list. I know that he's not really the most known person who play Bloom Titan, but his list is strong and similar to those who are known.
Legacy - Sneak Show, BR Reanimator, Miracles, UW Stoneblade
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
Soul Sisters is $120-200 or so, depending on if you do anything with nonbasic lands. Burn has a terrible time against it, plus it looks like a ton of fun to play with lots of triggers and interactions. I think infect is probably not a great matchup, but it's certainly playable.
There are also various budget Zoo lists available in the budget Zoo primer, going as low as $50.
Thanks for the reply. Mono W lifegain used to be my favorite archetype back in the day, and it was actually what I was considering. I'm afraid of the infect matchup, though. Would maybe sideboarding in something like Felidar Sovereign help against it? I don't wanna spend the money on the deck and have it useless in the local meta, haha.
Soul Sisters is $120-200 or so, depending on if you do anything with nonbasic lands. Burn has a terrible time against it, plus it looks like a ton of fun to play with lots of triggers and interactions. I think infect is probably not a great matchup, but it's certainly playable.
There are also various budget Zoo lists available in the budget Zoo primer, going as low as $50.
Thanks for the reply. Mono W lifegain used to be my favorite archetype back in the day, and it was actually what I was considering. I'm afraid of the infect matchup, though. Would maybe sideboarding in something like Felidar Sovereign help against it? I don't wanna spend the money on the deck and have it useless in the local meta, haha.
Felidar is going to be way too slow of a card. Infect is a deck that can win on turn 3 or 4 quite easily. Playing a 6-drop is going to be a non-factor, the game should be at a point where Infect already won or Infect can't win anyways.
For Infect answers you can look to cards like Spellskite, Condemn, Chalice of the Void and Engineered Explosives. I don't know how good/bad the matchup is, but Spellskite is a very good card in Modern because it simultaneously answers Twin while being good against Burn (though I suspect you have a good Burn matchup lol). But yeah, you can board 4 Spellskites perhaps and see how that goes. There are certainly options for the sideboard that can make it much better.
I don't know how the matchup is to say whether it puts it to a point where you can't play Soul Sisters. You can maybe proxy it to find out. I don't think it's going to be great for you though, and you may be forced to rely on sideboard cards.
My other two ideas were throwing together something from the Shaman primer, or maybe doing B/R vampires. I used to play vampires a few years ago and had some fun with that.
I like decks that have way to lock opponent out of the game with cards like Blood Moon, Ensnaring Bridge, Iona, Shield of Emeria, etc. My budget is 400-500$. Can you advise me something?
Thanks for help,
Pillow Fort Prison, Top Control, or 8Rack, in that order, would be the threads I'd look at in order. The first two are in Deck Creation and 8Rack is in Developing Competitive.
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You could try U Tron or UW tron. It's a bit less of a complete lockout but both are fairly competitive. Modern unfortunately doesn't have decks that lockdown hard and are highly competitive.
I like decks that have way to lock opponent out of the game with cards like Blood Moon, Ensnaring Bridge, Iona, Shield of Emeria, etc. My budget is 400-500$. Can you advise me something?
Thanks for help,
UW Tron! We play Iona and Elesh Norn to soft lock our opponent out of the game. We also play either Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, which is near impossible to deal with or Mindslaver, and take all our opponents turns.
It's becoming more and more popular of a deck, and has been performing well on MTGO. I think you might like it, and it should be in your price range, especially since Remand, Emrakul, Iona, Elesh Norn, and some other cards are getting reprinted in Modern Masters 2. Come check out the primer for more info, you can find a link in my signature below.
I started my magic career as a control player but have been going to being more aggressive.
Right now I am playing mono-u tron but I feel games are slow and I want to be more active.
I like to have answers, counters or removal.
I don't like combos but love synergy.
I am kind "hipster" so I like new brews.
I like decision heavy decks.
I think I'm looking for something more competitive, but thanks for cool ideas
Yeah, I'm all about the fringe decks. Obviously what's competitive or not depends on your local meta. Each of those decks has good game against various Tier 1 & 2 decks, so if you find that your locals are playing lots of combo decks, 8Rack or Pillow Fort could be a total hoser.
I started my magic career as a control player but have been going to being more aggressive.
Right now I am playing mono-u tron but I feel games are slow and I want to be more active.
I like to have answers, counters or removal.
I don't like combos but love synergy.
I am kind "hipster" so I like new brews.
I like decision heavy decks.
Hope we can find something.
New brew with synergy and tons and tons of decisions to make, plus one that can put the pressure on when necessary: Loam Pox. No counters, but lots of removal, headlined by Smallpox and backed up by a small suite of traditional removal cards, plus Vengeful Pharaoh in the graveyard, plus Flame Jab recursion for x/1s. Once the game gets beyond turn two or three, you're asking yourself 'dredge or draw' every turn, trying to figure out how to get maximum value out of the land cards your hand is filled with. Plus you get to run Squee, Goblin Nabob, and sometimes he'll win the game for you. Super fun deck that can be built for about $250.
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MikePemulis: I have looked into loam before but felt it being to slow and having issues with the junk match-up (siege rhinos). But I will give it another look.
Look up Raphael Levy's twitch channel and buckle up for 4 hours while he 4-0s a daily with it.
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I started my magic career as a control player but have been going to being more aggressive.
Right now I am playing mono-u tron but I feel games are slow and I want to be more active.
I like to have answers, counters or removal.
I don't like combos but love synergy.
I am kind "hipster" so I like new brews.
I like decision heavy decks.
Hope we can find something.
It probably isn't "hipster" enough for you, but WUR Midrange seems like it is your kind of deck.
Hey guys,
I currently just got a deck, so I'm not all that interesting in a new one. But just out of curiosity, what would the best deck for my local meta be? It (more or less) looks like this:
2 Abzan Liege (one leaning more towards the collected company side of things)
2 Grixis Delver (one run by me)
1 Burn
1 B/W Control (pretty similar to the classic BG Rock lists, running Oblitarators, Lingering Souls, etc)
1 Merfolk
1 Zoo (without goyfs)
Why not run Bogles? Or did you get tired of it? I don't know how well it does vs. Junk Company and it's probably 50/50 vs. Liege, but it does well vs. Grixis Delver, Burn, and most of the other decks are not too tough either.
Crazily enough as much as I hate the deck myself, Soul Sisters could probably do decently in that meta too. Another suggestion is Bloom Titan, but some may not agree with me. When Twin is out of the meta, it really can open up your options, in my opinion.
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Legacy - Sneak Show, BR Reanimator, Miracles, UW Stoneblade
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
Probably Burn, but I don't understand why there are $80 worth of fetches just to thin the deck. That's a playset of Goblin Guide.
Can I suggest that it might be better to find a deck that fits your style of play and preferences over and against the 'most competitive' deck? Any of these decks are capable of winning FNM. Storm doesn't seem to be well-positioned right now, and perhaps not Elves, either, but the other three are all fine decks. I would pick based on which one seems most fun to you.
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I'd recommend Burn or Merfolk. They're both very good decks, though Burn is probably still better. It's a tier 1 deck and very highly positioned in the meta. There's also a lot of cards from Standard that see play in it like Atarka's Command and any of the red fetches, plus shock lands if you've been playing in the last couple of years. Don't get me wrong, Merfolk is a good deck, but Burn is just very good right now. Burn is also a deck where the cards apply better outside of it because you pick up fetches, which are generally good to have. Merfolk cards don't really do much outside of Merfolk for obvious reasons, so you're spending $200 on a deck that won't help you build any other decks later.
If you do end up picking up either deck, make sure you figure out exactly what set of cards you want. I noticed the Merfolk deck was playing a Cosi's Trickster, which basically never sees play. I think almost everyone would agree that Cursecatcher is simply better.
yep, I like merfolk but two problems with it for me:
My version is castrated of a sort to fit my budget (see cosi's trickster instead of cursecatcher)
and the other is that it doesn't carry over many staples. What about Living End? It is fun and seems to have a lot of staples, burn just seems awful boring, particularly this build, I would prefer a deck that is almost as good (living end maybe?) but not as boring
Living End has no staples outside of the lands and is awful against decks packing countermagic. I would say that Merfolk is much better than Living End and Burn is better than Merfolk.
I'm looking to get into modern this summer and I started testing out a couple of lists already. The ones that I've tested so far are Grixis Delver and Esper Mentor. I'm enjoying both of these quite a bit as I find they are similar in play style. However, before I narrow down to these 2 archetypes, I would like to know if there are any other competitive decks that any of you think I might enjoy. I like playing a thought intensive game and am looking for a list that is proactive as well as reactive with more of an emphasis on spells than creatures. I should also mention that I really like blue so naturally I'll favour lists that have this colour over the ones that don't.
I'm looking to get into modern this summer and I started testing out a couple of lists already. The ones that I've tested so far are Grixis Delver and Esper Mentor. I'm enjoying both of these quite a bit as I find they are similar in play style. However, before I narrow down to these 2 archetypes, I would like to know if there are any other competitive decks that any of you think I might enjoy. I like playing a thought intensive game and am looking for a list that is proactive as well as reactive with more of an emphasis on spells than creatures. I should also mention that I really like blue so naturally I'll favour lists that have this colour over the ones that don't.
Thanks in advance!
Try Twin, it sounds right up your alley and is one of the best decks in the format (and has been for a long time).
I'm looking to get into modern this summer and I started testing out a couple of lists already. The ones that I've tested so far are Grixis Delver and Esper Mentor. I'm enjoying both of these quite a bit as I find they are similar in play style. However, before I narrow down to these 2 archetypes, I would like to know if there are any other competitive decks that any of you think I might enjoy. I like playing a thought intensive game and am looking for a list that is proactive as well as reactive with more of an emphasis on spells than creatures. I should also mention that I really like blue so naturally I'll favour lists that have this colour over the ones that don't.
Thanks in advance!
Try Twin, it sounds right up your alley and is one of the best decks in the format (and has been for a long time).
Thanks for the quick reply. I was thinking about Twin the other day and I would definitely love to start pulling off that combo. How resistant is it if you don't have the cards to combo off? Can you win without it?
You can. Twin is known to play a tempo game with Pestermites, Bolts and Snapcasters to slowly whittle down their opponent's life total if comboing isn't an option. I've done it many times.
If you're willing to splash, you also get more tempo options to kill your opponent. Plus, if they devote resources to taking down your threat (Goyf in Temur or Tasigur in Grixis), it can give you an opening to combo.
I'm looking to get into modern this summer and I started testing out a couple of lists already. The ones that I've tested so far are Grixis Delver and Esper Mentor. I'm enjoying both of these quite a bit as I find they are similar in play style. However, before I narrow down to these 2 archetypes, I would like to know if there are any other competitive decks that any of you think I might enjoy. I like playing a thought intensive game and am looking for a list that is proactive as well as reactive with more of an emphasis on spells than creatures. I should also mention that I really like blue so naturally I'll favour lists that have this colour over the ones that don't.
Thanks in advance!
Try Twin, it sounds right up your alley and is one of the best decks in the format (and has been for a long time).
Thanks for the quick reply. I was thinking about Twin the other day and I would definitely love to start pulling off that combo. How resistant is it if you don't have the cards to combo off? Can you win without it?
Twin tends to not win with the combo as much as you'd think. Your deck has a lot of value cards like Snapcaster and Electrolyze. You'd also be surprised how efficient Pestermite can be at attacking since it's 2 damage with evasion and with counters and removal to back it up, you can deal a surprising amount.
Sometimes Twin even board out Twins because they think comboing off is wrong, especially since people tend to bring in sideboard answers.
Alright I have a pretty big dilema. I have resources IE money. However I do not have time available to me. I am just now getting back into paper magic and obviously I need a deck and of course I am going to chose modern in hopes of supporting a great format, minus the lousy set that is coming out. Things that I want from this deck or two are the following.
Budget: I have a budget of $800 cash, plus I preordered a booster box of mm2015 which I will be trading for singles that I need. Effectively, I have a budget of $1,050.
Time Frame: I have play tested a couple decks like Boros burn, which I proxied and hated because there are three people in my shop playing life gain and one great player playing Ad Nauseuam and thats 4 people out of 20 for modern mondays. I do not have time to proxy every single tier 1 and 2 deck and play test them.
Competitive: I want to be highly competitive so tier 1 and 2 are possibilities, however I am not going to start with a rogue deck or something I build.
Likes: Problem #1, I love all types of decks. I love aggro, I love control, I loved my valakut ramp deck when it was standard legal. In MTGO in pauper I play all 3, I have a green stumpy deck, a Tron deck a delver control deck and a elf combo deck. I enjoy them all however Elves and green stumpy are probably my favorites because there is so much control within the deck that they are consistent.
Staples: I will play a deck about 50 matches and then start getting the itch to dish out the cash for a new deck. I love building my collection. Hopefully that I will also be taking up 100 card singleton, that will eliminate this itch. However a deck with staples would be nice, IE the best I saw was RuW control that has cards that are used in a lot of decks like the mana base, snap caster bolt, path etc.
I guess what I am looking for from you guys is some insight from you because you have played the decks. What was most fun for you, what do you think is best for my overly competitive personality. If i go with a deck like Tron which will probably drop to $600, I could even buy two decks. I could buy one tier 1 that doesn't max out my budget and something fun like menfolk for $230. I will read every post so please give me some insight. You can tell by the way I type I love to win, and I am aggressive player that doesn't mind sitting back to combo off or just hose them with an epic counter. I want to have a decision by May 28th, GP vegas when card prices drop the most. Also decks that will be effected by reprinted cards like Tron are a positive to me. Or affinity's most expensive card mox opal getting a reprint. Or maybe jump into an expensive deck that uses Liliana and snap casters because they aren't getting reprinted and I should buy in before prices sky rocket.
Anyways you guys are smart, look forward to your thoughts.
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Wilted Abzan would be the next most powerful, imo. It's fast and has game vs. basically everything that doesn't have a combo finish.
URW Control
WBG Abzan
GRW Burn
EDH
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Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)Thanks for the reply. Mono W lifegain used to be my favorite archetype back in the day, and it was actually what I was considering. I'm afraid of the infect matchup, though. Would maybe sideboarding in something like Felidar Sovereign help against it? I don't wanna spend the money on the deck and have it useless in the local meta, haha.
For Infect answers you can look to cards like Spellskite, Condemn, Chalice of the Void and Engineered Explosives. I don't know how good/bad the matchup is, but Spellskite is a very good card in Modern because it simultaneously answers Twin while being good against Burn (though I suspect you have a good Burn matchup lol). But yeah, you can board 4 Spellskites perhaps and see how that goes. There are certainly options for the sideboard that can make it much better.
I don't know how the matchup is to say whether it puts it to a point where you can't play Soul Sisters. You can maybe proxy it to find out. I don't think it's going to be great for you though, and you may be forced to rely on sideboard cards.
Grixis Death's Shadow, Jund, UW Tron, Jeskai Control, Storm, Counters Company, Eldrazi Tron, Affinity, Living End, Infect, Merfolk, Dredge, Ad Nauseam, Amulet, Bogles, Eldrazi Tron, Mono U Tron, Lantern, Mardu Pyromancer
My other two ideas were throwing together something from the Shaman primer, or maybe doing B/R vampires. I used to play vampires a few years ago and had some fun with that.
Pillow Fort Prison, Top Control, or 8Rack, in that order, would be the threads I'd look at in order. The first two are in Deck Creation and 8Rack is in Developing Competitive.
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Pauper: UR Delver
Modern: UGR Delver
Draft my cube: Eric's 390 Unpowered
It's becoming more and more popular of a deck, and has been performing well on MTGO. I think you might like it, and it should be in your price range, especially since Remand, Emrakul, Iona, Elesh Norn, and some other cards are getting reprinted in Modern Masters 2. Come check out the primer for more info, you can find a link in my signature below.
Grixis Death's Shadow, Jund, UW Tron, Jeskai Control, Storm, Counters Company, Eldrazi Tron, Affinity, Living End, Infect, Merfolk, Dredge, Ad Nauseam, Amulet, Bogles, Eldrazi Tron, Mono U Tron, Lantern, Mardu Pyromancer
I guess Grixis Delver which is a fairly new deck.
Yeah, I'm all about the fringe decks. Obviously what's competitive or not depends on your local meta. Each of those decks has good game against various Tier 1 & 2 decks, so if you find that your locals are playing lots of combo decks, 8Rack or Pillow Fort could be a total hoser.
New brew with synergy and tons and tons of decisions to make, plus one that can put the pressure on when necessary: Loam Pox. No counters, but lots of removal, headlined by Smallpox and backed up by a small suite of traditional removal cards, plus Vengeful Pharaoh in the graveyard, plus Flame Jab recursion for x/1s. Once the game gets beyond turn two or three, you're asking yourself 'dredge or draw' every turn, trying to figure out how to get maximum value out of the land cards your hand is filled with. Plus you get to run Squee, Goblin Nabob, and sometimes he'll win the game for you. Super fun deck that can be built for about $250.
EDH: UGEdric
Pauper: UR Delver
Modern: UGR Delver
Draft my cube: Eric's 390 Unpowered
Look up Raphael Levy's twitch channel and buckle up for 4 hours while he 4-0s a daily with it.
EDH: UGEdric
Pauper: UR Delver
Modern: UGR Delver
Draft my cube: Eric's 390 Unpowered
It probably isn't "hipster" enough for you, but WUR Midrange seems like it is your kind of deck.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
I currently just got a deck, so I'm not all that interesting in a new one. But just out of curiosity, what would the best deck for my local meta be? It (more or less) looks like this:
2 Abzan Liege (one leaning more towards the collected company side of things)
2 Grixis Delver (one run by me)
1 Burn
1 B/W Control (pretty similar to the classic BG Rock lists, running Oblitarators, Lingering Souls, etc)
1 Merfolk
1 Zoo (without goyfs)
Thanks.
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UBR Grixis Control
U Merfolk
Pauper
U Mono U Delver
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Crazily enough as much as I hate the deck myself, Soul Sisters could probably do decently in that meta too. Another suggestion is Bloom Titan, but some may not agree with me. When Twin is out of the meta, it really can open up your options, in my opinion.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/02-05-15-collected-elves/
http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/285231#paper
http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/284466#paper
http://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/modern-burn-19233#paper
Thanks in advance guys!
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Can I suggest that it might be better to find a deck that fits your style of play and preferences over and against the 'most competitive' deck? Any of these decks are capable of winning FNM. Storm doesn't seem to be well-positioned right now, and perhaps not Elves, either, but the other three are all fine decks. I would pick based on which one seems most fun to you.
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Pauper: UR Delver
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Draft my cube: Eric's 390 Unpowered
If you do end up picking up either deck, make sure you figure out exactly what set of cards you want. I noticed the Merfolk deck was playing a Cosi's Trickster, which basically never sees play. I think almost everyone would agree that Cursecatcher is simply better.
Grixis Death's Shadow, Jund, UW Tron, Jeskai Control, Storm, Counters Company, Eldrazi Tron, Affinity, Living End, Infect, Merfolk, Dredge, Ad Nauseam, Amulet, Bogles, Eldrazi Tron, Mono U Tron, Lantern, Mardu Pyromancer
My version is castrated of a sort to fit my budget (see cosi's trickster instead of cursecatcher)
and the other is that it doesn't carry over many staples. What about Living End? It is fun and seems to have a lot of staples, burn just seems awful boring, particularly this build, I would prefer a deck that is almost as good (living end maybe?) but not as boring
URW Control
WBG Abzan
GRW Burn
EDH
GR Rosheen Meanderer
I'm looking to get into modern this summer and I started testing out a couple of lists already. The ones that I've tested so far are Grixis Delver and Esper Mentor. I'm enjoying both of these quite a bit as I find they are similar in play style. However, before I narrow down to these 2 archetypes, I would like to know if there are any other competitive decks that any of you think I might enjoy. I like playing a thought intensive game and am looking for a list that is proactive as well as reactive with more of an emphasis on spells than creatures. I should also mention that I really like blue so naturally I'll favour lists that have this colour over the ones that don't.
Thanks in advance!
Grixis Death's Shadow, Jund, UW Tron, Jeskai Control, Storm, Counters Company, Eldrazi Tron, Affinity, Living End, Infect, Merfolk, Dredge, Ad Nauseam, Amulet, Bogles, Eldrazi Tron, Mono U Tron, Lantern, Mardu Pyromancer
Thanks for the quick reply. I was thinking about Twin the other day and I would definitely love to start pulling off that combo. How resistant is it if you don't have the cards to combo off? Can you win without it?
If you're willing to splash, you also get more tempo options to kill your opponent. Plus, if they devote resources to taking down your threat (Goyf in Temur or Tasigur in Grixis), it can give you an opening to combo.
URW Control
WBG Abzan
GRW Burn
EDH
GR Rosheen Meanderer
Sometimes Twin even board out Twins because they think comboing off is wrong, especially since people tend to bring in sideboard answers.
Grixis Death's Shadow, Jund, UW Tron, Jeskai Control, Storm, Counters Company, Eldrazi Tron, Affinity, Living End, Infect, Merfolk, Dredge, Ad Nauseam, Amulet, Bogles, Eldrazi Tron, Mono U Tron, Lantern, Mardu Pyromancer
Budget: I have a budget of $800 cash, plus I preordered a booster box of mm2015 which I will be trading for singles that I need. Effectively, I have a budget of $1,050.
Time Frame: I have play tested a couple decks like Boros burn, which I proxied and hated because there are three people in my shop playing life gain and one great player playing Ad Nauseuam and thats 4 people out of 20 for modern mondays. I do not have time to proxy every single tier 1 and 2 deck and play test them.
Competitive: I want to be highly competitive so tier 1 and 2 are possibilities, however I am not going to start with a rogue deck or something I build.
Likes: Problem #1, I love all types of decks. I love aggro, I love control, I loved my valakut ramp deck when it was standard legal. In MTGO in pauper I play all 3, I have a green stumpy deck, a Tron deck a delver control deck and a elf combo deck. I enjoy them all however Elves and green stumpy are probably my favorites because there is so much control within the deck that they are consistent.
Staples: I will play a deck about 50 matches and then start getting the itch to dish out the cash for a new deck. I love building my collection. Hopefully that I will also be taking up 100 card singleton, that will eliminate this itch. However a deck with staples would be nice, IE the best I saw was RuW control that has cards that are used in a lot of decks like the mana base, snap caster bolt, path etc.
I guess what I am looking for from you guys is some insight from you because you have played the decks. What was most fun for you, what do you think is best for my overly competitive personality. If i go with a deck like Tron which will probably drop to $600, I could even buy two decks. I could buy one tier 1 that doesn't max out my budget and something fun like menfolk for $230. I will read every post so please give me some insight. You can tell by the way I type I love to win, and I am aggressive player that doesn't mind sitting back to combo off or just hose them with an epic counter. I want to have a decision by May 28th, GP vegas when card prices drop the most. Also decks that will be effected by reprinted cards like Tron are a positive to me. Or affinity's most expensive card mox opal getting a reprint. Or maybe jump into an expensive deck that uses Liliana and snap casters because they aren't getting reprinted and I should buy in before prices sky rocket.
Anyways you guys are smart, look forward to your thoughts.
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