Game 1: RW Feather 2-0
Gates Ablaze won me the game both games.
Game 2: Grixis Control 2-0
The same deck I faced last week. His pre-board deck was pretty bad against me with a lot of hate against aggro, so it wasn't a hard game. Game 2 he mana screwed.
Game 3: Mono U Tempo 2-0
The same deck I lost against last time. This time I drew enough Gates Ablazed and got to resolve two Archway Angels in G2 with 10 Gates in play, lol.
I really like this deck. And it's cheap AF, the only expensive cards are T3feri and the two shocklands in my deck.
Grixis had Nicol Bolases (Dragon-God and flippy boi) but that was it. I lost G2 against Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God but a nicely timed Dovin's Veto against him in G3 won me the match!
Built this deck and tried it for the first time at my LGS today at the standard showdown. Went 3-1, beating Grixis Control, UB Control and BR Aggro. Lost to Mono Blue Tempo. It's a nice deck that's very fun to play and it seems like it has a lot of good matchups.
I didn't know what to put in the sideboard so I experimented some... The Wanderer was actually a super good counter to Rekindling Phoenix! I think I'm gonna put another one in the board.
Could Oath of Kaya be a potential B/W card for this deck? This deck can fit quite a many Planeswalkers already. Also the new Wrenn and Six could be amazing for this deck since there's so few playable RG cards. T1 fetch, T2 Wrenn and get your fetch back and get another shockland.
Mechanically, isn't this a little weak? You basically need three creatures for this ability to be actually useful; the Decoy, a creature to enter the battlefield, and then a creature to attack to make use of the tapped blocker. This just seems much more difficult than it needs to be to activate on your opponent's turn, which is when you would want to most of the time in my experience.
Magus of PonderU
Creature - Human Wizard
, sacrifice Magus of Ponder: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle your library.
Draw a card.
1/1
That would be Magus of Ponder. Pondering Mage is unplayable, especially given that we already had an ETB Brainstorm in Riverwise Augur at 4 mana and that sees zero play.
EDIT: Added "sacrifice Magus of Ponder" to the activation cost....
Hahahaha! The fact that this would rearrange the top three cards, then shuffle the library, and then draw a card would be absolutely redundant and do nothing which is hilarious. There would be no point in pondering and rearranging the top three cards at all. It would literally be used only for card draw.
Ummm.. What? That's literally how Ponder works. You don't have to shuffle.
Isn't it weird that we ended up getting Extended Art Snow-Covered Basic Lands instead of Fetchland reprints in a Modern exclusive set as our land cycle? We could still get Fetches in Modern Horizons though I'm not holding my breath on it.
Well, no, because it was clearly told that there would be no reprints from Modern legal sets. Maybe we still can get the Mirage fetches (Flood Plain).
I know Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir and Knowledge Pool is an old combo (for those who don't know, if you have both on the battlefield your opponent can't play spells from their hand anymore), but could it be viable this time with the new Teferi, Time Raveler?
I have tried playing UW Control with old Teferi and Pool but it was a bit too slow for Modern. The new Teferi is a better card since you can Supreme Verdict while its on the battlefield.
-1 Circuitous Route
-1 Gruul Guildgate
+1 Shimmer of Possibility
+1 Boros Guildgate
Also added a second The Wanderer and Collision // Colossus to the sideboard.
3 Gatebreaker Ram
2 Gate Colossus
2 Knight of Autumn
2 Archway Angel
1 Chamber Sentry
Instants and Sorceries 17
2 Open the Gates
4 Growth Spiral
3 Shimmer of Possibility
2 Dovin's Veto
4 Gates Ablaze
1 Deafening Clarion
1 Circuitous Route
4 Guild Summit
Planeswalkers 2
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
Lands 26
4 Azorius Guildgate
4 Simic Guildgate
3 Gruul Guildgate
3 Izzet Guildgate
1 Boros Guildgate
3 Gateway Plaza
4 Plaza of Harmony
1 Temple Garden
1 Breeding Poool
2 Forest
4 Crushing Canopy
2 Collision // Colossus
2 Dovin's Veto
2 Knight of Autumn
1 Teferi, Time Raveler
1 Gaea's Blessing
2 The Wanderer
1 Archway Angel
1 Ravnica at War
Game 1: RW Feather 2-0
Gates Ablaze won me the game both games.
Game 2: Grixis Control 2-0
The same deck I faced last week. His pre-board deck was pretty bad against me with a lot of hate against aggro, so it wasn't a hard game. Game 2 he mana screwed.
Game 3: Mono U Tempo 2-0
The same deck I lost against last time. This time I drew enough Gates Ablazed and got to resolve two Archway Angels in G2 with 10 Gates in play, lol.
I really like this deck. And it's cheap AF, the only expensive cards are T3feri and the two shocklands in my deck.
Grixis had Nicol Bolases (Dragon-God and flippy boi) but that was it. I lost G2 against Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God but a nicely timed Dovin's Veto against him in G3 won me the match!
Here's the decklist:
3 Gatebreaker Ram
2 Gate Colossus
2 Knight of Autumn
2 Archway Angel
1 Chamber Sentry
Instants and Sorceries 17
2 Open the Gates
4 Growth Spiral
2 Shimmer of Possibility
2 Dovin's Veto
4 Gates Ablaze
1 Deafening Clarion
2 Circuitous Route
4 Guild Summit
Planeswalkers 2
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
Lands 26
4 Azorius Guildgate
4 Simic Guildgate
4 Gruul Guildgate
3 Izzet Guildgate
3 Gateway Plaza
4 Plaza of Harmony
1 Temple Garden
1 Breeding Poool
2 Forest
4 Crushing Canopy
1 Collision // Colossus
2 Dovin's Veto
2 Knight of Autumn
1 Teferi, Time Raveler
1 Gruul Spellbreaker
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 The Wanderer
1 Archway Angel
1 Ravnica at War
I didn't know what to put in the sideboard so I experimented some... The Wanderer was actually a super good counter to Rekindling Phoenix! I think I'm gonna put another one in the board.
Or just play a flash creature at their EOT.
Ummm.. What? That's literally how Ponder works. You don't have to shuffle.
Well, no, because it was clearly told that there would be no reprints from Modern legal sets. Maybe we still can get the Mirage fetches (Flood Plain).
I guess since it's the Buy-a-Box promo.
I have tried playing UW Control with old Teferi and Pool but it was a bit too slow for Modern. The new Teferi is a better card since you can Supreme Verdict while its on the battlefield.
To cheat Knowledge Pool into play you could play Thirst for Knowledge and Chart a Course to get Pool into the GY and then play Refurbish.
Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas to the deck?