The old primer was pretty outdated being from 2011 and the OP of the last primer agreed it was time for an update.
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UUU Merfolk UUU "Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
UUU Merfolk UUU "Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Been testing some matchups lately, mostly affinity and UWR Control. I have not lost a game against affinity yet (5-0) and I'm tied against UWR (2-2-1).
I will be writing some more in the matchups section tomorrow after I gather more data.
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UUU Merfolk UUU "Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Been testing some matchups lately, mostly affinity and UWR Control. I have not lost a game against affinity yet (5-0) and I'm tied against UWR (2-2-1).
I will be writing some more in the matchups section tomorrow after I gather more data.
Also what list are you running?
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On mtgsalvation people don't want to discuss ideas, so I give people something else to discuss: my controversial opinions.
I want to share my deck list that I use yesterday on a local tournament.
4 rounds, only lost against affinity...
1- Affinity 1-2
2- UWR control 2-0
3- BW Humans 2-1
4- JUND 2-0
I hope you like it and any comments please feel free to post it!
not enough people use reflecting pool. I'd use them in Esper if not for the need to run a ton of ghost quarter to beat decks like infect and jund.
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Yes, I am a local area mod. WELP. GOOD LIFE CHANGES ALL HAPPEN AT ONCE AND SOME ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE
Primary Decks:
Modern: Esper Draw-Go
Legacy: RUG Lands
EDH: Sidisi turn-3 storm
Sure, I'm gonna try to make my best remembering (I'm relatively new, so it's a double effort to analyze my matches and play...LOL)
1- AFFINITY:
1st game, ULTIMATUM wins: This was a complex opening, I don't know my opponents deck so I try to keep with a versatile hand. He tried to win by poison, but Kolaghan's Command make a so much good work. Special thanks to bolt and snapy mage that keep the Inkmoth Nexus away after a 9 poison match. The win condition? Batterskull attached to snapy.
2nd game, for AFFINITY: In this match I remember that Vandalblast wasn't on my SB, so I just insert staticaster, rakdos charm and anger removing one ultimatum, one cryptic and rise/fall.
Not much to say, bad opening hand (no kolaghan's, no electro) 3 lands and a mulligan to 5 give my opponent card advantage, the Master of Etherium was my nightmare.
3rd game, AFFINITY beats me: better initial hand for ultimatum, but a turn 1 Ensoul Artifact to a Darksteel Citadel start the 4 turn countdown... so GG
2:UWR CONTROL
1st game: My opponent start, both players mull to 6, he was a "aggro guy" trying to learn control, so the match goes pretty "easy" for me. He play a lot of "face damage" EOT, that give me the big picture of his technique, after 5 turns my card advantage forced me to discard and he with a 3 cards hand (no counter) can't fight against a Rise // Fall played on my next turn and boom! Batterskull again make my day.
2nd game: Basically the same "mistakes" of my opponent, but this time dispel and negate give me the change to play the cruel ultimatum on 8th turn and GG.
3:BW HUMANS
This was a really hard match, the technique of my opponent consist on playing lot of humans and with Athreos, God of Passage keep them always on his hand, besides his Cartel Aristocrat and Bloodsoaked Champion, make my removal technique less effective. So after a long 1st match, ultimatum beats him and 2nd match it's a time draw.
4: My favorite victory of the night JUND.
This match was against a JUND-guy. He really know his deck, he know the modern archetype and he know how to play against control.
1st game: Nice opening hand against him: 1 bolt, 2 terminate, 3 lands, 1 cryptic. Well I start to kill every thing that comes into play, and everyone of my draws was pure gold, so I try to make my best on controlling the table and don't let Liliana of the Veil comes into play. Nice smooth victory for the ultimatum.
2nd game: SB the Wurmcoil Engine, 1 Spellskite and Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver. Well this game basically make a 180 degrees turn around the turn 5, when my opponent only with a Liliana of the Veil on board and 2 Raging Ravine decides to give a -2 to lili to kill my Batterskull germ, at that point on my hand was a bolt that kills the attacking ravine, after that was a just a matter of time to the batter to kill lili and give me the life advantage, finally ultimatum resolves and GG
Visions being unbanned makes me want to take a second look at various Grixis builds.
GDD into visions seems super strong as well.
I am very excited for Ancestral Vision. Control finally getting the love it deserves. I am also glad that they banned Eye of Ugin. It will make our Tron match-up a lot more reasonable as they will no longer have the better late game option.
I will certainly be brewing some more Cruel with these changes. My only concern is how to fit it in. Do we still want Serum Visions or can we get away with not running it?
I'm going to try a 3-3 split and comment again about my impressions.
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UUU Merfolk UUU "Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Yeah, let me do some primer maintenance and brainstorm a list.
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UUU Merfolk UUU "Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Thank you so much for making the new primer. Cruel Control was my very first modern deck and I'm glad to see it finally get a new update after a year or two. Great timing too, I actually just revived my Cruel Control deck around the time that this new primer was uploaded. I sold an expedition I got during the OGW prerelease and bought cards I needed to get the deck back to being Modern playable. Went through with running it last week and I ended up going 3/1 for 4th place out of 20 at my FNM.
Here's my decklist, I'll do a match rundown below it:
Both games were won with an Ob Nixilis ultimate. Second game, I got stuck in the lock with no way to draw cards or remove the artifacts. Third game got really scary once the Pithing Needles started dropping. Jace and Tasigur got needled and Bolas was milled, so I had to get Ob up to 8 loyalty as fast as possible before he got needled. Ended up getting there right before he was going to draw into another needle and I won within a few turns. Won 2-1
Round 2: vs. Jund
It was a massacre for Jund. I drew into every kill and counterspell I needed, picked his hand apart with Blightnings and Thoughtseizes, and won both games after dropping an Ultimatum or dropping Bolas and picking off his lands before ulting. Won 2-0
Round 3: vs. Abzan Company
Both games were pretty rough. Game one, I died to the Melira/Finks combo with no removal in hand for either of them. Second game, I countered four Collected Companies and Chord of Callings total before my opponent dropped an Eternal Witness and returned Chord to grab the combo and win. Lost 0-2
Round 4: vs. Mirror
Won both games, but it was a major, major grind. Got into a lot of counter wars trying to prevent a snapcaster or LotV from resolving or trying to get my own Walkers and creatures to resolve. Ended up ulting Jace in game one to get Bolas and one of his Tasigurs, game two I won after swinging for lethal with Gurmag Angler and my own Tasigur. Won 2-0
Cruel Control
Niv-Mizzet EDH
Cruel Tezz
Level 2 in progress...
UUU Merfolk UUU
"Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Level 2 in progress...
UUU Merfolk UUU
"Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Been testing some matchups lately, mostly affinity and UWR Control. I have not lost a game against affinity yet (5-0) and I'm tied against UWR (2-2-1).
I will be writing some more in the matchups section tomorrow after I gather more data.
Level 2 in progress...
UUU Merfolk UUU
"Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Creatures: you don't mention Tasigur in the creatures to run
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Also what list are you running?
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
4 rounds, only lost against affinity...
1- Affinity 1-2
2- UWR control 2-0
3- BW Humans 2-1
4- JUND 2-0
I hope you like it and any comments please feel free to post it!
1 Mountain
2 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
3 Island
2 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Steam Vents
1 Blood Crypt
1 Wandering Fumarole
1 Bloodstained Mire
2 Reflecting Pool
3 Terminate
4 Cryptic Command
2 Electrolyze
3 Lightning Bolt
1 Rise // Fall
2 Kolaghan's Command
2 Damnation
4 Rune Snag
2 Anticipate
1 Far // Away
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
1 Batterskull
1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Keranos, God of Storms
SB: 1 Slaughter Games
SB: 1 Izzet Staticaster
SB: 2 Crumble to Dust
SB: 2 Dispel
SB: 2 Spellskite
SB: 1 Rakdos Charm
SB: 1 Negate
SB: 1 Anger of the Gods
SB: 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
SB: 1 Jace, Architect of Thought
SB: 1 Wurmcoil Engine
SB: 1 Vandalblast
Yes, I am a local area mod.WELP. GOOD LIFE CHANGES ALL HAPPEN AT ONCE AND SOME ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVEPrimary Decks:
Modern: Esper Draw-Go
Legacy: RUG Lands
EDH: Sidisi turn-3 storm
Modern - Cheeri0s (building), Belcher (building), Lantern (building), UW Control (building)
RIP Magic Duels. Wizards will regret what they did to you.
1- AFFINITY:
1st game, ULTIMATUM wins: This was a complex opening, I don't know my opponents deck so I try to keep with a versatile hand. He tried to win by poison, but Kolaghan's Command make a so much good work. Special thanks to bolt and snapy mage that keep the Inkmoth Nexus away after a 9 poison match. The win condition? Batterskull attached to snapy.
2nd game, for AFFINITY: In this match I remember that Vandalblast wasn't on my SB, so I just insert staticaster, rakdos charm and anger removing one ultimatum, one cryptic and rise/fall.
Not much to say, bad opening hand (no kolaghan's, no electro) 3 lands and a mulligan to 5 give my opponent card advantage, the Master of Etherium was my nightmare.
3rd game, AFFINITY beats me: better initial hand for ultimatum, but a turn 1 Ensoul Artifact to a Darksteel Citadel start the 4 turn countdown... so GG
2:UWR CONTROL
1st game: My opponent start, both players mull to 6, he was a "aggro guy" trying to learn control, so the match goes pretty "easy" for me. He play a lot of "face damage" EOT, that give me the big picture of his technique, after 5 turns my card advantage forced me to discard and he with a 3 cards hand (no counter) can't fight against a Rise // Fall played on my next turn and boom! Batterskull again make my day.
2nd game: Basically the same "mistakes" of my opponent, but this time dispel and negate give me the change to play the cruel ultimatum on 8th turn and GG.
3:BW HUMANS
This was a really hard match, the technique of my opponent consist on playing lot of humans and with Athreos, God of Passage keep them always on his hand, besides his Cartel Aristocrat and Bloodsoaked Champion, make my removal technique less effective. So after a long 1st match, ultimatum beats him and 2nd match it's a time draw.
4: My favorite victory of the night JUND.
This match was against a JUND-guy. He really know his deck, he know the modern archetype and he know how to play against control.
1st game: Nice opening hand against him: 1 bolt, 2 terminate, 3 lands, 1 cryptic. Well I start to kill every thing that comes into play, and everyone of my draws was pure gold, so I try to make my best on controlling the table and don't let Liliana of the Veil comes into play. Nice smooth victory for the ultimatum.
2nd game: SB the Wurmcoil Engine, 1 Spellskite and Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver. Well this game basically make a 180 degrees turn around the turn 5, when my opponent only with a Liliana of the Veil on board and 2 Raging Ravine decides to give a -2 to lili to kill my Batterskull germ, at that point on my hand was a bolt that kills the attacking ravine, after that was a just a matter of time to the batter to kill lili and give me the life advantage, finally ultimatum resolves and GG
Hope you enjoy reading.
Regards!
GDD into visions seems super strong as well.
I am very excited for Ancestral Vision. Control finally getting the love it deserves. I am also glad that they banned Eye of Ugin. It will make our Tron match-up a lot more reasonable as they will no longer have the better late game option.
I will certainly be brewing some more Cruel with these changes. My only concern is how to fit it in. Do we still want Serum Visions or can we get away with not running it?
UBx Tezzeret: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/18-06-17-ub-tezzeret/
Level 2 in progress...
UUU Merfolk UUU
"Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Cruel Control
Niv-Mizzet EDH
Cruel Tezz
That question is going to be asked a lot, so many judges are going to be asked this question, etc.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Can I get that Fat decklist?
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Level 2 in progress...
UUU Merfolk UUU
"Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Here's my decklist, I'll do a match rundown below it:
2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
2 Gurmag Angler
Instants:
2 Cryptic Command
2 Terminate
1 Murderous Cut
4 Mana Leak
2 Think Twice
2 Remand
2 Kolaghan's Command
2 Electrolyze
1 Mystical Teachings
4 Lightning Bolt
Sorceries:
2 Blightning
1 Cruel Ultimatum
2 Thoughtseize
4 Serum Visions
1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
1 Jace, Architect of Thought
Lands:
2 Blood Crypt
4 Steam Vents
2 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Desolate Lighthouse
2 Island
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Polluted Delta
3 Watery Grave
2 Crumble to Dust
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Crux of Fate
1 Vandalblast
2 Dispel
2 Rakdos Charm
2 Dismember
2 Countersquall
2 Flashfreeze
Round 1: vs. Lantern Control
Both games were won with an Ob Nixilis ultimate. Second game, I got stuck in the lock with no way to draw cards or remove the artifacts. Third game got really scary once the Pithing Needles started dropping. Jace and Tasigur got needled and Bolas was milled, so I had to get Ob up to 8 loyalty as fast as possible before he got needled. Ended up getting there right before he was going to draw into another needle and I won within a few turns. Won 2-1
Round 2: vs. Jund
It was a massacre for Jund. I drew into every kill and counterspell I needed, picked his hand apart with Blightnings and Thoughtseizes, and won both games after dropping an Ultimatum or dropping Bolas and picking off his lands before ulting. Won 2-0
Round 3: vs. Abzan Company
Both games were pretty rough. Game one, I died to the Melira/Finks combo with no removal in hand for either of them. Second game, I countered four Collected Companies and Chord of Callings total before my opponent dropped an Eternal Witness and returned Chord to grab the combo and win. Lost 0-2
Round 4: vs. Mirror
Won both games, but it was a major, major grind. Got into a lot of counter wars trying to prevent a snapcaster or LotV from resolving or trying to get my own Walkers and creatures to resolve. Ended up ulting Jace in game one to get Bolas and one of his Tasigurs, game two I won after swinging for lethal with Gurmag Angler and my own Tasigur. Won 2-0
UUBBBRR Cruel Control
BRG BRgBurn
BR URStorm
-Commander-
B Chainer, Dementia Master - Reanimator
U Teferi, Temporal Archmage - Calimari Tribal [Retired]
GB Ishkanah, Grafwidow - Delirium/Tokens
UBx Tezzeret: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/18-06-17-ub-tezzeret/