MTG Salvation

Here's a link to the lists that everyone is talking about:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/competitive-modern-constructed-league-2018-02-16

That's not a bad idea. Sometimes Lili is dead regardless and this way uses her to your benefit. Good play!

When playing 8-rack how do you folks turn on Revolt for Fatal Push? I see these 4 ways, which still feels too few:

• Urborg Legend rule
• Fetching using the lone Marsh Flats or Bloodstained Mire
• One of your Mutavaults dieing in combat
• Smallpox destroying one of your lands

Am I missing other ways to trigger Revolt?

For a mono-white list are there any solid sideboard cards out there against 5c Humans? Sunlance only hits a couple of creatures in their deck, and otherwise I think they have enough to run us over. Is Settle The Wreckage the only popular option lately?

Oh wow I'm retarded, thanks guys. I focused so much on the CC I forgot about the Indestructible part.

Quote from M4Bear »

It's a land and a finishing spell all in one. Love the card, especially with push being the "removal card of choice" rather than Path these days.

I have a quick question here - can't someone cast Fatal Push on the Ormendal creature since his CC is 0? I haven't played with DFC much which is why I'm confused. See here:
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/shadows-over-innistrad-mechanics

I just finished building this deck on MTGO this week and I'm having a blast so far, even if I'm losing more than I'd like. Are there any streamers that run Elves often, or is there a list of VODs that have gameplay and commentary? I'm looking for any resource to learn.

I'm coming back after a 3 year break from Modern. Can someone give me some guidance as to what matchups you would side in Collective Brutality, or what meta conditions have you place some copies in your maindeck? Having not played with or against it it looks a little bit slow to me, although the discard can obviously be key in a deck like this.

Sadly Fog of Dusk in Columbus, OH has closed.

Quote from Darkbrew »

Chalice isn't that good vs burn... Lots of burn lists run a ton of 2 drops and they will blow all of their 1 drops if you chalice on 1. Maybe you get a 2 for 1 that costs you 2 mana and them 0. Otherwise it does nothing vs them.

My testing shows otherwise, both with Treasure Burn lists and Burn lists without Treasure Cruise. It stops the following cards:
Goblin Guide
Monastery Swiftspear
Vexing Devil (falling out of flavor due to MS)
Grim Lavamancer
Lightning Bolt
Lava Spike
Bump in the Night
Shard Volley (my lists ran no more than 2)

Sure they have 2 drop spells, but are 2 drop burn spells enough to beat Affinity? Especially when a Burn player will typically be forced to spend a spell on a Vault Skirge, testing showed that them being unable to cast 1 CC spells will allow Affinity to win most of the time.

I've been testing Affinity with 4 Chalice of the Void maindeck (in lieu of Signal Pests) in this Burn/UR Delver meta. Depending on your expected meta Chalice may be a boon or a liability, but against these surging decks it is a house. By turn 2 you should be able to drop Chalice (if not on turn 1) and in game 1 they will be shut out of the game. After sideboard Burn does have some artifact kill, but the top UR Delver list at the last SCG Premier IQ had 0 artifact kill spells in the board, just a lot more burn and counters.

The problem maindecking Chalice against these decks is it doesn't affect the entire field. Here are some decks where Chalice maindeck would hurt you:

Scapeshift
Living End
Mono-U Tron
Merfolk
Pod (all varieties)
Affinity mirror (unless you knew it was the mirror and dropped your 0 cost artifacts first, then dropped a chalice on 0)

In these matches Chalice is just OK maindeck:
UWR Control / midrange
BG / Junk / Jund
Zoo
RG Tron
Twin

In these matches Chalice is nearly game over:
Burn
UR Delver
Infect
Bogles
UR Storm
Jeskai Ascendancy (they will need to Wish into a bounce/kill spell first... and as affinity you should be running them over by that point).

So again, I'm not sure if it is maindeckable, but if the Treasure Cruise trend of decks packed with 1 CC spells continues, it may be.

Edit: Forgot Twin initially (put it in the OK category). Probably forgetting a few other decks too.

Quote from siregar0511 »

Well I don't know if this makes any difference but apparently the winner who's playing Jeskai Aggro was cheating. He's stacking his opponent's deck with cards from the bottom of the library when he's shuffling it so he knows exactly what his opponent's opening hand will be.

I'm linking to the Reddit thread which links several very condemning videos:

http://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/2jsuue/suspect_shuffling_at_worchester_scg_standard/

Not specific to Modern cards, but there's a juicy witchhunt going on on Reddit today. A guy high in the SCG Standard and who also won the Modern IQ has some pretty shady shuffling practices caught on camera:

http://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/2jsuue/suspect_shuffling_at_worchester_scg_standard/

Quote from LeviatanCL »

Quote from wilier »

Crusader really shines agains Bgx for sure but the worst it can be is against Jund. Wich I expect to rise in popularity instead of junk. But both of them will see less play I believe...

with jeskai combo around, i expect a lot of BGx, Pod and Burn, affinity on the other hand may be dying...

In Modern it is foolish to think that Affinity will ever die

Quote from RDSRedemption »

Snapcaster is hardly ban worthy.

I completely agree. It's a great card, but it isn't warping the format in any negative way.