Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Midrange, Combo
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): Local
Favorite Cards/Colors: All of them
Budget:Less than $400
Staples Owned: None
I have been playing T2 for about a year now and want to try something different.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Any works, except melira pod combo
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): MTGO
Favorite Cards/Colors: Favorite is Green but I like all colors
Budget: Depends on the purchase, willing to purchase staples, but not willing to spend a lot on niche-deck specific cards.
Staples Owned: Set of Goyfs, Set of Karns, all fetches, random assortment of shocklands
Currently running tron, finding the online meta very anti-tron at the moment so looking for a different deck to swap to/from tron when the hate gets too much. Was looking at either Jund or RUG tempo, but would like further input on how those 2 fair against the meta in general.
How Competitive: Mostly for a tournament held every Saturday at store that's close enough to my place.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Black is my absolute favorite but I also really like blue because of it's control cards. However, I respect the other colors and can work with them if need be.
Budget: Willing to invest in staples. Up to 500 dollars preferably, maybe 700 even.
While control is my favorite archetype, I'm thinking of going the Tempo/Midrange route instead. Not a fan of the option offered by control in Modern. I'm thinking either Delver, Jund, or Faeries. Also, what's the best delver deck in modern if I decide to play a delver deck (RUG, UWR Scepter, UB, UW)?
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Any works, except melira pod combo
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): MTGO
Favorite Cards/Colors: Favorite is Green but I like all colors
Budget: Depends on the purchase, willing to purchase staples, but not willing to spend a lot on niche-deck specific cards.
Staples Owned: Set of Goyfs, Set of Karns, all fetches, random assortment of shocklands
Currently running tron, finding the online meta very anti-tron at the moment so looking for a different deck to swap to/from tron when the hate gets too much. Was looking at either Jund or RUG tempo, but would like further input on how those 2 fair against the meta in general.
jund and RUG delver fair very well in the meta (jund a little more than delver), BW tokens is also a very strong deck to consider and pretty cheap at that.
Favorite Playstyle:
-Control: I believe i'm a bad pure control player. the reason is that i'm not able to efficiently build a plan to win. i just counter stuff and hope i did the right thing...
-Combo: i had most success with combo deck so far. the plan is easy to understand and to achieve, the only drawback is the hate you can get depending on the current meta.
-mid range: can be a good choice for long tournament, but you don't have a real good match up (and not a lot of bad one either) and i believe in a big tournament you need to have some "easy" game.
-Aggro: Too much of all in for me. can be hated easily
-tempo: tempo is cool... when it's working How Competitive: GP/PTQ: Favorite Cards/Colors: reveillark, Budget: no limit Staples Owned: all
So i'm looking for a deck that :
- is not relying on a perfect draw all the time. i felt some deck rely too much on those draw to perform well.
- has some interaction the first few turn (=some early real decision)
- Can reward good play
- must be tier 1 (1.5 max)
Favorite Playstyle:
-Control: I believe i'm a bad pure control player. the reason is that i'm not able to efficiently build a plan to win. i just counter stuff and hope i did the right thing...
-Combo: i had most success with combo deck so far. the plan is easy to understand and to achieve, the only drawback is the hate you can get depending on the current meta.
-mid range: can be a good choice for long tournament, but you don't have a real good match up (and not a lot of bad one either) and i believe in a big tournament you need to have some "easy" game.
-Aggro: Too much of all in for me. can be hated easily
-tempo: tempo is cool... when it's working How Competitive: GP/PTQ: Favorite Cards/Colors: reveillark, Budget: no limit Staples Owned: all
So i'm looking for a deck that :
- is not relying on a perfect draw all the time. i felt some deck rely too much on those draw to perform well.
- has some interaction the first few turn (=some early real decision)
- Can reward good play
- must be tier 1 (1.5 max)
Favorite Playstyle: Ramp. Much ramping.
How Competitive: Casual kitchen table.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Black/Green, leaning a hell of a lot more toward Green.
Budget: Cheaper is better.
Staples Owned: Practically nothing.
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Favorite Playstyle: Ramp. Much ramping.
How Competitive: Casual kitchen table.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Black/Green, leaning a hell of a lot more toward Green.
Budget: Cheaper is better.
Staples Owned: Practically nothing.
you will absolutely LOVE mono green tooth and nail at your kitchen table. its got creature ramp and loads of it, it uses tron lands to get lots of mana super fast and has 4 emrakuls in it! average deck price runs about 200-260 which is on the cheaper end of modern decks that can stand a chance against other competitive decks.
EDIT: you can try standard tron builds also but im assuming that since its kitchen table that you will play multiplayer a fair amount and having overgrown battlements into primeval titan into emrakul will fair much better in those games.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Combo (My legacy decks, that I love, are: High Tide, Sneak and Show, and Maverick.)
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): This would be my PTQ/GP modern deck.
Favorite Cards/Colors: I like all of the colors.
Budget: Unlimited Staples Owned: Mostly legacy dual lands, shouldn't be hard to trade for anything.
*EDIT: I would like to play something that doesn't need a god hand to win. Something that can combo or aggro out would be nice.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Combo (My legacy decks, that I love, are: High Tide, Sneak and Show, and Maverick.)
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): This would be my PTQ/GP modern deck.
Favorite Cards/Colors: I like all of the colors.
Budget: Unlimited Staples Owned: Mostly legacy dual lands, shouldn't be hard to trade for anything.
I'd say that Second Sunrise combo would be the best fit for you since it is insanely hard to use and the turns take as long as high tide, but since this is for a GP, you might want a more consistent deck. I would guess that you could try (assuming you dont want to try second sunrise at your GP) the super strong Naya Pod which will porbably see a lot of hate at your GP considering how strong it is, or perhaps Ritual Gifts, as it wont have nearly as much hate versus it.
I'd say that Second Sunrise combo would be the best fit for you since it is insanely hard to use and the turns take as long as high tide, but since this is for a GP, you might want a more consistent deck. I would guess that you could try (assuming you dont want to try second sunrise at your GP) the super strong Naya Pod which will porbably see a lot of hate at your GP considering how strong it is, or perhaps Ritual Gifts, as it wont have nearly as much hate versus it.
Though sunny-side-up is entertaining it doesn't really fit my playstyle. It's not super consistent, nor is it resistant to hate. It also lacks the ability to protect itself well (baseless assumption.) Tell me more about "ritual gifts."
*Edit: Not going to a GP or PTQ any time soon. Just wanted to make a modern deck to get into the format. Upon looking at the Naya Pod thread for the last half an hour all I have to say is that deck looks like a blast. Think I'm going to build it. Thanks for the help.
I'm interested in seeing what other people may consider more my speed for modern:
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Combo/Control, Combo/Tempo, or Combo/Aggro,
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP):Local/PTQ potential
Favorite Cards/Colors: Enchantress effects (I have played legacy Enchantress for 5+ years)
Budget: 400+ trading
Staples Owned: Most shocks/fetches/walkers, a lot of meta hate staples like Surgical, Thalia, Junkpod from Standard (BWUG), and I can usually get my hands on cards <$30 with relative ease
I'm interested in seeing what other people may consider more my speed for modern:
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Combo/Control, Combo/Tempo, or Combo/Aggro,
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP):Local/PTQ potential
Favorite Cards/Colors: Enchantress effects (I have played legacy Enchantress for 5+ years)
Budget: 400+ trading
Staples Owned: Most shocks/fetches/walkers, a lot of meta hate staples like Surgical, Thalia, Junkpod from Standard (BWUG), and I can usually get my hands on cards <$30 with relative ease
i am unable to decipher your favourite playstyle. Encantress-like decks are non-existant in modern though.
EDIT: can you give examples of legacy combo/tempo, combo/control, and combo/aggro decks? (seriously what is combo aggro?)
I used to play WU Erayo lock in old extended (Combo/Control). Nic Fit would probably be described as Combo/Aggro in it's utilizing Recurring Nightmare/Pod. Enchantress is most definitely (nowadays) Combo/Control, Forgemaster Combo more like Combo/Tempo.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Midrange and combo
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): More for fun but I enjoy playing highly competitive and skill testing decks just as much as any other.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Balance (yes really),
Budget: Kinda low end, but bare in mind, I'm just as likely to proxy up a ideal list and play that until I acquire the cards
Staples Owned: Birthing pod, noble hierarch, knight of the reliquary, melira...seemingly every decent green creature besides Goyf that I can think of.
Well, I'd definitely suggest playing some kind of Pod deck. I like the Naya version (and imo it's the best right now) but there are a couple of different ones that you could look into.
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Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Midrange and combo
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): More for fun but I enjoy playing highly competitive and skill testing decks just as much as any other.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Balance (yes really),
Budget: Kinda low end, but bare in mind, I'm just as likely to proxy up a ideal list and play that until I acquire the cards
Staples Owned: Birthing pod, noble hierarch, knight of the reliquary, melira...seemingly every decent green creature besides Goyf that I can think of.
gargageddon. its the modern version of balance decks.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Tempo, Control, or Midrange
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): Fun/Local
Favorite Cards/Colors: Gifts Ungiven and Green as color
Budget: 300-ish
Staples Owned: Not much. A playset of Snapcaster is all I can think of.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Tempo, Control, or Midrange
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): Fun/Local
Favorite Cards/Colors: Gifts Ungiven and Green as color
Budget: 300-ish
Staples Owned: Not much. A playset of Snapcaster is all I can think of.
there is a fun UB tron list that recently 4-0'ed in a daily that ive tried. the only downside is that the games tend to last a long time (you are clearly winning but the game might go another 15 minutes) it runs about 180 bucks and maindecks gifts ungiven. You can probably find the UB tron list in the tron section of modern.
An alternative to look at is UW restoration control, since you already have the snapcasters, but i think the end price will still be above your budget.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): tired of aggro (too much time playing RDW and Affin "back in the days" lol), I'm currently playing KarnTron but looking for another option. Would like as much control as possible or midrange
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): would like to go PTQ
Favorite Cards/Colors: blue: gifts; cryptic command; anything that makes me draw cards; lightning bolt; duress;
Budget: if necessary will stretch (damn shock lands)
Staples Owned: not much since I quit playing a few years ago; I do have some tradeable cards though: 4x blinkmoth nexus (1foil), 4 aether vial; 1x SOF/I (foil); servant; 3x stifle and this could aid getting enough resources to build it from scratch perhaps
would really like to avoid pure aggression; I'm leaning towards control cause I like mindgames and being able to switch strategies and do diff things. I really like adaptability and weighting all options before making a move !
thanks
I think you are out of luck going pure control as Tron is the most controlling of control decks in modern, however you can try the UW restoration aggro/control deck (not a pure tempo deck like delver) that i mentioned in the post above yours.
It has a slower clock but with restoration angels ability to blink snapcasters and cliques, its got a nice amount of the control elements you want, and its definitely GP viable.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Aggro
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): Local Tourney at best
Favorite Cards/Colors: R/G. I want to use Sahrkan Vol
Budget: nope
Staples Owned: can/will buy what i need
basically over the last few years I have fallen in love with sarhkan vol, I really want some solid advice on how to make him work in modern.
thanks
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Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Aggro, Control, Combo
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): Fun, Local Tournaments.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Blue, Black, White.
Budget: Around $100?
Staples Owned: I have mostly cards from standards (Thalia, Hero of Bladehold, Birthing Pod, Elesh Norn, Shouldred, a few titans and thats what I can think of at the moment.)
I want to get into modern but I don't know what deck would suit me and how to obtain cards (other then singles) I need for that deck. I play BG Birthing Pod in standard and I was thinking of a Melira Birthing Pod Deck.
Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Aggro, Control, Combo
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): Fun, Local Tournaments.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Blue, Black, White.
Budget: Around $100?
Staples Owned: I have mostly cards from standards (Thalia, Hero of Bladehold, Birthing Pod, Elesh Norn, Shouldred, a few titans and thats what I can think of at the moment.)
I want to get into modern but I don't know what deck would suit me and how to obtain cards (other then singles) I need for that deck. I play BG Birthing Pod in standard and I was thinking of a Melira Birthing Pod Deck.
Well for that Budget you can't make much in terms of competitive decks but seeing as it's for fun and local tournaments, i might suggest trying a homebrew UB zombie deck. most of their cards should be easier to come by as they are all from standard, and if you ever decide to put more money into it, there are certainly more options for it.
As for melira pod, you could try and make it for 100 bucks but you will probably have to settle on a basic land only version for a bit. The expensive nonland cards will probably run you up 100+ dollars, but since you have a few of the key cards it might be viable.
Summing it up: Deck from scratch = UB zombie homebrew (most cards are standard), Salvaging your standard deck for modern = Melira Pod with only basic lands.
Try Naya Pod or Exarch twin.
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): MTGO
Favorite Cards/Colors: Favorite is Green but I like all colors
Budget: Depends on the purchase, willing to purchase staples, but not willing to spend a lot on niche-deck specific cards.
Staples Owned: Set of Goyfs, Set of Karns, all fetches, random assortment of shocklands
Currently running tron, finding the online meta very anti-tron at the moment so looking for a different deck to swap to/from tron when the hate gets too much. Was looking at either Jund or RUG tempo, but would like further input on how those 2 fair against the meta in general.
How Competitive: Mostly for a tournament held every Saturday at store that's close enough to my place.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Black is my absolute favorite but I also really like blue because of it's control cards. However, I respect the other colors and can work with them if need be.
Budget: Willing to invest in staples. Up to 500 dollars preferably, maybe 700 even.
Staples Owned: Playset of Snaps, 1 Vendilion Clique, 1 Cryptic Command
While control is my favorite archetype, I'm thinking of going the Tempo/Midrange route instead. Not a fan of the option offered by control in Modern. I'm thinking either Delver, Jund, or Faeries. Also, what's the best delver deck in modern if I decide to play a delver deck (RUG, UWR Scepter, UB, UW)?
Currently Playing and/or Building:
Legacy:
BUG Shardless BUG BUG
BUG Team America BUG
UBRG Cabal ANT UBRG
jund and RUG delver fair very well in the meta (jund a little more than delver), BW tokens is also a very strong deck to consider and pretty cheap at that.
Favorite Playstyle:
-Control: I believe i'm a bad pure control player. the reason is that i'm not able to efficiently build a plan to win. i just counter stuff and hope i did the right thing...
-Combo: i had most success with combo deck so far. the plan is easy to understand and to achieve, the only drawback is the hate you can get depending on the current meta.
-mid range: can be a good choice for long tournament, but you don't have a real good match up (and not a lot of bad one either) and i believe in a big tournament you need to have some "easy" game.
-Aggro: Too much of all in for me. can be hated easily
-tempo: tempo is cool... when it's working
How Competitive: GP/PTQ:
Favorite Cards/Colors: reveillark,
Budget: no limit
Staples Owned: all
So i'm looking for a deck that :
- is not relying on a perfect draw all the time. i felt some deck rely too much on those draw to perform well.
- has some interaction the first few turn (=some early real decision)
- Can reward good play
- must be tier 1 (1.5 max)
Good luck !
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How Competitive: Casual kitchen table.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Black/Green, leaning a hell of a lot more toward Green.
Budget: Cheaper is better.
Staples Owned: Practically nothing.
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you will absolutely LOVE mono green tooth and nail at your kitchen table. its got creature ramp and loads of it, it uses tron lands to get lots of mana super fast and has 4 emrakuls in it! average deck price runs about 200-260 which is on the cheaper end of modern decks that can stand a chance against other competitive decks.
EDIT: you can try standard tron builds also but im assuming that since its kitchen table that you will play multiplayer a fair amount and having overgrown battlements into primeval titan into emrakul will fair much better in those games.
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): This would be my PTQ/GP modern deck.
Favorite Cards/Colors: I like all of the colors.
Budget: Unlimited
Staples Owned: Mostly legacy dual lands, shouldn't be hard to trade for anything.
*EDIT: I would like to play something that doesn't need a god hand to win. Something that can combo or aggro out would be nice.
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I'd say that Second Sunrise combo would be the best fit for you since it is insanely hard to use and the turns take as long as high tide, but since this is for a GP, you might want a more consistent deck. I would guess that you could try (assuming you dont want to try second sunrise at your GP) the super strong Naya Pod which will porbably see a lot of hate at your GP considering how strong it is, or perhaps Ritual Gifts, as it wont have nearly as much hate versus it.
Though sunny-side-up is entertaining it doesn't really fit my playstyle. It's not super consistent, nor is it resistant to hate. It also lacks the ability to protect itself well (baseless assumption.) Tell me more about "ritual gifts."
*Edit: Not going to a GP or PTQ any time soon. Just wanted to make a modern deck to get into the format. Upon looking at the Naya Pod thread for the last half an hour all I have to say is that deck looks like a blast. Think I'm going to build it. Thanks for the help.
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Favorite Playstyle (Aggro, Midrange, Control, Combo): Combo/Control, Combo/Tempo, or Combo/Aggro,
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP):Local/PTQ potential
Favorite Cards/Colors: Enchantress effects (I have played legacy Enchantress for 5+ years)
Budget: 400+ trading
Staples Owned: Most shocks/fetches/walkers, a lot of meta hate staples like Surgical, Thalia, Junkpod from Standard (BWUG), and I can usually get my hands on cards <$30 with relative ease
GW/R Enchantress (Legacy) R/WG
RW/G/ Norin The Champion/Norin the Artist (Modern) B//WR
GU Eternal Bouncing Command (Modern) UG
WUBRG Wish On A Stick (Modern) GRBUW
i am unable to decipher your favourite playstyle. Encantress-like decks are non-existant in modern though.
EDIT: can you give examples of legacy combo/tempo, combo/control, and combo/aggro decks? (seriously what is combo aggro?)
GW/R Enchantress (Legacy) R/WG
RW/G/ Norin The Champion/Norin the Artist (Modern) B//WR
GU Eternal Bouncing Command (Modern) UG
WUBRG Wish On A Stick (Modern) GRBUW
How Competitive: Would like to take it to PTQs
Favorite Cards/Colors: Blue/Red. Snapcaster Mage, Lightning Bolt.
Budget: IRRELIVANT
Staples Owned: Snapcaster Mages, Cryptic Commands, Vendilion Cliques
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): More for fun but I enjoy playing highly competitive and skill testing decks just as much as any other.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Balance (yes really),
Budget: Kinda low end, but bare in mind, I'm just as likely to proxy up a ideal list and play that until I acquire the cards
Staples Owned: Birthing pod, noble hierarch, knight of the reliquary, melira...seemingly every decent green creature besides Goyf that I can think of.
gargageddon. its the modern version of balance decks.
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): Fun/Local
Favorite Cards/Colors: Gifts Ungiven and Green as color
Budget: 300-ish
Staples Owned: Not much. A playset of Snapcaster is all I can think of.
there is a fun UB tron list that recently 4-0'ed in a daily that ive tried. the only downside is that the games tend to last a long time (you are clearly winning but the game might go another 15 minutes) it runs about 180 bucks and maindecks gifts ungiven. You can probably find the UB tron list in the tron section of modern.
An alternative to look at is UW restoration control, since you already have the snapcasters, but i think the end price will still be above your budget.
I think you are out of luck going pure control as Tron is the most controlling of control decks in modern, however you can try the UW restoration aggro/control deck (not a pure tempo deck like delver) that i mentioned in the post above yours.
It has a slower clock but with restoration angels ability to blink snapcasters and cliques, its got a nice amount of the control elements you want, and its definitely GP viable.
How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): Local Tourney at best
Favorite Cards/Colors: R/G. I want to use Sahrkan Vol
Budget: nope
Staples Owned: can/will buy what i need
basically over the last few years I have fallen in love with sarhkan vol, I really want some solid advice on how to make him work in modern.
thanks
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How Competitive (For Fun, Local Tournament, MTGO, PTQ/GP): Fun, Local Tournaments.
Favorite Cards/Colors: Blue, Black, White.
Budget: Around $100?
Staples Owned: I have mostly cards from standards (Thalia, Hero of Bladehold, Birthing Pod, Elesh Norn, Shouldred, a few titans and thats what I can think of at the moment.)
I want to get into modern but I don't know what deck would suit me and how to obtain cards (other then singles) I need for that deck. I play BG Birthing Pod in standard and I was thinking of a Melira Birthing Pod Deck.
Well for that Budget you can't make much in terms of competitive decks but seeing as it's for fun and local tournaments, i might suggest trying a homebrew UB zombie deck. most of their cards should be easier to come by as they are all from standard, and if you ever decide to put more money into it, there are certainly more options for it.
As for melira pod, you could try and make it for 100 bucks but you will probably have to settle on a basic land only version for a bit. The expensive nonland cards will probably run you up 100+ dollars, but since you have a few of the key cards it might be viable.
Summing it up: Deck from scratch = UB zombie homebrew (most cards are standard), Salvaging your standard deck for modern = Melira Pod with only basic lands.