So, yesterday I stumbled upon a video in youtube doing deck tech on modern Bant Blade. It's 2 years ago, but, I think, "hey this is interesting, I wonder why modern doesn't have some sort of blade variant decks nowadays?"
So, I decided to google it, but found the most recent blade deck modern discussion is 2 years ago.
Given I'm not active on modern scene for a couple of years now (last time I played was 2 years ago), anyone can tell me why blade variant deck non-existent in modern?
I would like to know if any of you have some success piloting blade variant deck in your LGS.
Cheers!
PS: Shouldn't be tagged as an Idea I think, but it can't be edited away, so if any mod come across this, please feel free to remove the tag. Thanks.
You played JESUS?!?! I heard none of his guys stay in the graveyard, and once you think you have him beat he ALWAYS comes back to win within three turns. I like...WORSHIP him.
You played JESUS?!?! I heard none of his guys stay in the graveyard, and once you think you have him beat he ALWAYS comes back to win within three turns. I like...WORSHIP him.
I played "Caw Blade" at the beginning of Modern. It was actually pretty solid at that point. It worked fine for me. I ran a 1 of Steelshaper's Gift and 2 Sword of Feast and Famine main. It was solid, as the meta was more "fair" at the time. The decks I mainly had to contend with were Affinity, Jund, and Twin. Jund was 50/50 for me. Affinity was terrible and Twin was good. I actually tried the deck again just 2 years ago, finishing 3-1 at a Tuesday Night Magic. I felt it was a bit underpowered.
Nowadays, the meta just has too many decks for it to be a contender. You can't successfully build the deck to beat or even hang with half of the top decks. There's just no way you can hang with 11 decks that have a 3-5% share and you can run into any number of them at any time. That being said, I think if Stoneforge Mystic and Jace, the Mind Sculptor become unbanned, this deck can at least have some legs. I don't think it will be quite Tier 1, but possibly a strong Tier 2.
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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)
So if we look at a pretty standard legacy X-blade list, there is a lot of stuff that doesn't exist in modern. First, Stoneforge is banned in the format,so you can't tutor up your equipment and then deploy it at instant speed. This also plays very nice with your counterspells, free or otherwise, and you can afford to wait for your opponent to lose their cool and tap out.
Second, Jittle is also banned in modern, for good reason. Jitte lets your evasive creature act as a control piece, and can speed up the clock by quite a bit. Swords and Batterskull are nice as well, but Jitte is really the core of the deck.
Third, Brainstorm/Ponder/preordain are all not in modern, and a control deck needs strong card selection to be able to deal with powerful threats. Serum Visions is alright, but it's not nearly as strong.
True name also isn't in modern, but I think that evasive creatures like Clique could fill the same slot. Fatal push also seems like it would do horrible things to the deck, decay is bad enough as is.
There are some other factors too, like swords to plowshares being better than path, and modern just being a format that isn't as low to the ground as legacy.
But really, its the combination of lack of selection, counterspells, and the nature of modern as a format where proactive decks are just better than reactive ones.
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Death and Taxes Pauper
UB Teachings
Tortured Existence
Murasa Tron Modern
Pod (RIP)
Bloom(RIP)
Merfolk
So, I decided to google it, but found the most recent blade deck modern discussion is 2 years ago.
Given I'm not active on modern scene for a couple of years now (last time I played was 2 years ago), anyone can tell me why blade variant deck non-existent in modern?
I would like to know if any of you have some success piloting blade variant deck in your LGS.
Cheers!
PS: Shouldn't be tagged as an Idea I think, but it can't be edited away, so if any mod come across this, please feel free to remove the tag. Thanks.
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UR ....... WUBR ........... WB ............. RGW ........ UBR ....... WUB .... BGU
Spells / Blink & Combo / Token Grind / Dino Tribal / Draw Cards / Zombies / Reanimate
Well, on SFM, modern doesn't always have the best variant, but it works as well I guess (Like Serum Visions)
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Nowadays, the meta just has too many decks for it to be a contender. You can't successfully build the deck to beat or even hang with half of the top decks. There's just no way you can hang with 11 decks that have a 3-5% share and you can run into any number of them at any time. That being said, I think if Stoneforge Mystic and Jace, the Mind Sculptor become unbanned, this deck can at least have some legs. I don't think it will be quite Tier 1, but possibly a strong Tier 2.
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)Second, Jittle is also banned in modern, for good reason. Jitte lets your evasive creature act as a control piece, and can speed up the clock by quite a bit. Swords and Batterskull are nice as well, but Jitte is really the core of the deck.
Third, Brainstorm/Ponder/preordain are all not in modern, and a control deck needs strong card selection to be able to deal with powerful threats. Serum Visions is alright, but it's not nearly as strong.
True name also isn't in modern, but I think that evasive creatures like Clique could fill the same slot. Fatal push also seems like it would do horrible things to the deck, decay is bad enough as is.
There are some other factors too, like swords to plowshares being better than path, and modern just being a format that isn't as low to the ground as legacy.
But really, its the combination of lack of selection, counterspells, and the nature of modern as a format where proactive decks are just better than reactive ones.
Death and Taxes
Pauper
UB Teachings
Tortured Existence
Murasa Tron
Modern
Pod (RIP)
Bloom(RIP)
Merfolk