Curious if this would be viable in Modern. The idea is using Blood Artist, Cartel Aristocrat, and Falkenrath Aristocrat to trigger Artist, similar to SoM-Inn Standard. Since Modern has the better discard, we can add discard for a control element and use things like Tidehollow Sculler. Im not too sure how competitive this would be, but I'd like to see if someone came up with similar ideas to help me develop my first original deck idea for Modern.
The idea is to jump ahead in damage and ride Artist to victory. Aggro decks are slowed down by Artist and Bolt. Bob provides the CA and is killed when im low on life. Bloodghast and Gravecrawler have excellent synergy with both Aristocrats and that entire strategy works really well with Artist. Lavamancer shrinks Tarmogoyf while staying on color, but I have thought about using Shaman in it's place. I like having the ability to kill off Shamans as they can hinder my plans with crawlers and ghasts. I also like the idea of Needling Shaman and not being hindered myself
The blood moon hoses all of the greedy mana bases, but I haven't seen what it can do to my own deck. Needle hoses everything that's highly played these days. Darkblast is great in the deck as it can Dredge ghasts and kill off a lot of creatures.
I put disenchant in there for hate against Affinity. Im not sure what good hate to put in for them, but it also helps hose that Boggle deck, which again, I'm not sure what to put in there for. I would imagine sacrifice effects would be good, as GoST and other hexproof creatures are troublesome. I'm not sure if graveyards are heavily used in Modern, so I tossed in Tormod's Crypt.
Please, comment away!
PS-I think I may have ported my favorite deck into Modern.
2 Grim Lavamancer
2 Dark Confidant
4 Cartel Aristocrat
4 Bloodghast
4 Tidehollow Sculler
4 Blood Artist
2 Anathemancer
2 Falkenrath Aristocrat
4 Thoughtseize
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Lightning Bolt
3 Lingering Souls
3 Godless Shrine
2 Blood Crypt
4 Marsh Flats
4 Arid Mesa
2 Plains
3 Swamp
4 Blood Moon
1 Darkblast
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Pithing Needle
3 Disenchant
2 Day of Judgment
The idea is to jump ahead in damage and ride Artist to victory. Aggro decks are slowed down by Artist and Bolt. Bob provides the CA and is killed when im low on life. Bloodghast and Gravecrawler have excellent synergy with both Aristocrats and that entire strategy works really well with Artist. Lavamancer shrinks Tarmogoyf while staying on color, but I have thought about using Shaman in it's place. I like having the ability to kill off Shamans as they can hinder my plans with crawlers and ghasts. I also like the idea of Needling Shaman and not being hindered myself
The blood moon hoses all of the greedy mana bases, but I haven't seen what it can do to my own deck. Needle hoses everything that's highly played these days. Darkblast is great in the deck as it can Dredge ghasts and kill off a lot of creatures.
I put disenchant in there for hate against Affinity. Im not sure what good hate to put in for them, but it also helps hose that Boggle deck, which again, I'm not sure what to put in there for. I would imagine sacrifice effects would be good, as GoST and other hexproof creatures are troublesome. I'm not sure if graveyards are heavily used in Modern, so I tossed in Tormod's Crypt.
Please, comment away!
PS-I think I may have ported my favorite deck into Modern.
v2
3 Grim Lavamancer
4 Bloodghast
4 Cartel Aristocrat
3 Blood Artist
4 Tidehollow Sculler
2 Anathemancer
4 Faithless Looting
4 Thoughtseize
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Darkblast
1 Boros Charm
3 Lingering Souls
2 Blood Crypt
2 Godless Shrine
4 Marsh Flats
4 Arid Mesa
1 Verdant Catacombs
2 Swamp
1 Plains
3 Engineered Explosives
3 Pithing Needle
3 Disenchant
2 Rakdos Charm
1 Anathemancer
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben