Going through some potential SB cards, has anyone tried using Wrap in Vigor to help against board wipes? It covers all the red wipes we are worried about, but also protects against O-stone and Supreme Verdict.
What i found most difficult last night was the Grixis Control matchup: the counters he kept throwing at me really hurt my gameplan, often denying me the turn 2 Leonin Arbiter + Ghost Quarter or a Restoration Angel played to avoid removal on my creatures.
I'm actually struggling: should i put the AEther Vials back and move the Dromoka's Commands to the sideboard?
I was also thinking about adding 2 copies of Voice of Resurgence, but they get effective only if i can manage to play them without receiving a counter from the other side of the table.
A thing i can surely do is bump the Loxodon Smiters up to 4, since i found 2 Dromoka's Commands more than enough.
What would you guys suggest?
In my experience against Delver it's the one matchup that I genuinely can't find a solution for us winning against, it's more controlling of the board, has a faster clock, and generally goes bigger than us. It's a lot more susceptible to other decks than we are, but you'll find that controlling decks are this variants worst matchup. I suppose vials would be a solution to that but honestly I don't think there's any sideboard space for them and you need to get them on turn 1 for them to be relevant. It's a matchup that I personally am for the most part willing to concede that it is just bad.
What about a couple of Grand Abolisher in the board to go along with another copy of Choke? Voices seem good as well, and can probably take the place of the 2 Birds in the main.
I think the simplest solution is to allow for any cards printed in decks like Commander, Duel Decks, Plancechase, etc be usable in Modern as well. This allows for them to reprint things that would be too powerful in Standard, and still make them legal. There haven't been that many new cards that are seeing a ton of play in Legacy that were printed in those sets to warp the format, and the reprints haven't been crazy out of line either.
In my games, Coat of Arms gets hated right along with Rooftop Storm. Drawbacks of playing tribal Zombies, sure, but as soon as either of those two come down, I become public enemy #1.
What about a couple of Grand Abolisher in the board to go along with another copy of Choke? Voices seem good as well, and can probably take the place of the 2 Birds in the main.
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