For a grand prix I suggest you include hate for
Company decks
Affinity
Blood moon(people will play it perhaps in a prison deck)
Infect may be one to consider I saw people saying infect is hard but zealous persecution is nuts against them
You will probably see tron unfortunately this matchup is super hard it may be worth not having a side for them. If you have stony that is good
Jund/junk is already a good matchup we don't need much here
Control will show up as well
Valakut decks
If you fear valkut and tron over fair decks with big creatures perhaps cut vault and swap some lands to make room for ghost quarters?
It's not budget but has anyone tried chalice? Good verse infect, storm, livingend, other combo decks
I have been thinking about this card and I prefer a land hate deck.
Boom/bust, darkdwellers, restoangel, avalanch riders, the fliker eldrazi, bolt, and somr low end cards
Sorry for spelling and nit linking cards I am on my phone so it's to hard to do so.
Hamlin- I feel that many players are under the impression you must play blue to be interactive. That is some logic I have seen which I don't agree with. Another reason people think b/g isn't interactive is because it's proactive not reactive.
I feel that b/g is a proactive interactive deck but others want Interactive reactive decks
I wonder if Wizards inherently dislikes the idea of blue being good in modern. Historically the color has been so strong in legacy and vintage, perhaps wizards really just wants to diversify Modern and Legacy archetypes? Could that be the reason for the ban on DIG?
the largest concern about the bans is that the ROCK style decks (BGx) will dominate the format again
The pod ban does not feel like an emergency "it's to strong" ban but rather a preemptive ban.
The reason that I say this is because wizards has been continuing their trend of stronger creatures and weaker spells for quite a while now, and I feel that they are scared that pod will become to dominant as more sets come out. I guess they just do not want to deal with pod dominating in the near future and would rather get it gone now.
In the current meta very little (siege rhino is pretty sweet). I saw the blue splash for glen alendra archmage and master biomancer. I am not sold on it myself. The deck may have been WGBU though I can not remember
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Company decks
Affinity
Blood moon(people will play it perhaps in a prison deck)
Infect may be one to consider I saw people saying infect is hard but zealous persecution is nuts against them
You will probably see tron unfortunately this matchup is super hard it may be worth not having a side for them. If you have stony that is good
Jund/junk is already a good matchup we don't need much here
Control will show up as well
Valakut decks
If you fear valkut and tron over fair decks with big creatures perhaps cut vault and swap some lands to make room for ghost quarters?
It's not budget but has anyone tried chalice? Good verse infect, storm, livingend, other combo decks
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Boom/bust, darkdwellers, restoangel, avalanch riders, the fliker eldrazi, bolt, and somr low end cards
Sorry for spelling and nit linking cards I am on my phone so it's to hard to do so.
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I feel that b/g is a proactive interactive deck but others want Interactive reactive decks
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I don't see Tezzeret's Gambit doing much in this deck
I agree with much of what was said by the person above
Also you could try a blue/white control deck
key cards
others
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the largest concern about the bans is that the ROCK style decks (BGx) will dominate the format again
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The reason that I say this is because wizards has been continuing their trend of stronger creatures and weaker spells for quite a while now, and I feel that they are scared that pod will become to dominant as more sets come out. I guess they just do not want to deal with pod dominating in the near future and would rather get it gone now.
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Here is an esper mill deck from a GP last year. Its pretty good
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Took me a bit. THe main cost of the deck is from the side brimaz and the lands
http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=1219046