Sure the keep in that game 3 of round 3 was suspect, but one expects to see at least 1 spell in their first 5 cards past the opening hand, seriously. I'll take the blame for keeping a 4 lander, but not seeing a single spell in the top 5 cards past the opener...
Played a friendly modern league last night. Another 3-2 finish... Should have been 4-1 due to land flood in game 3 of round 3.
Round 1, 4 color Vannifar (no red), 2-1. Lost game 2 to Vizier/Druid/Ballista combo. Dismembered and Necrotic'd Vannifar every other time.
Round 2, U Tron, 2-1. Turn 5 kill in game 1, he almost didnt let me know what he was on, only played a tron land the turn before death. He got game 2 by frustrating me to death. Game 3 he mulled to oblivion.
Round 3, UR delver w/ pteramander, 1-2. Lost game 1 to too many bolts. Won game 2 with a turn 3 CoCo. Lost game 3 due to super mana flood even thru using all 3 fetches.
Round 4, Esper control (looked a lot like 8 rack at first), 2-1. Lost game 1 to a phyrexian arena and kalitas. Got game 2 with 2 mutavaults. A late coco got me 2 lords and the game in the 3rd.
Round 5, storm, 0-2. I misclicked when choosing to keep or mulligan in game 2, would have had a 6 card hand with 2 lands, a relic, a sphere, and 2 slivers but I accidentally mulled to 5. Feels real bad, could have at least evened up the match.
I failed to see chalice even a single time when I brought it in. Would have been really handy vs that delver build...
Dredge is a tricky one, you have to get a board presence and avoid conflagrate at the same time. Diffusion will help keep from a conflagrate wiping the board, but does little to increase the clock, Sedge will help with presenting a board presence. I suggest for Dredge siding in Relic and Syphon. Syphon will help recover some life after Creeping chills, you can easily get out of conflagrate range just with 1 really big swing once syphon is in play. Dredge is a matchup where you can cut creature interaction because we can battle them on the board. Also bring in Warping wail, at worst it exiles a bloodghast and at best it counters a lethal conflagrate.
I have to share this one... Played against jund online, in game 3 I had 2 Sinew, 1 Diffuson, 1 Manaweft and 1 Frenetic in play. Opponent cast Damnation. I flip 5 coins. Called all 5 correctly. Opponent scooped immediately.
Supposedly there is an innovation set due to come out this year, per MaRo, and its going to be based around modern. What are your thoughts/expectations for this set? Do you believe there is a chance the print older cards into modern legality with this set? Will they print brand new cards for modern bypassing standard?
Had a great night in the tournament practice room on mtgo last night, 7-1.
Loss was to gw value
Wins vs burn with spectacle cards, br burn, jund, uw control, artifact deck with panharmonicon and semblance anvil, amulet titan, and a combo deck using leonin relic warder, phyrexian metamorph and alter of the brood.
Played another league yesterday, I am leaning towards MTGO just not drawing as well as paper now. The draws always seem to be 1 turn too late and I've never had this much trouble drawing lands when needed or lords.
After last night I am giving some serious consideration to runningChalice of the void again. Played a competitive modern league last night and for the first time ever went 0-10, 0-5. I played mono red phoenix/burn 4 times in the 5 match event. With the new cards from Ravnica Allegiance (skewer the critics and light up the stage) they simply has answers to everything. Certainly I didnt draw well and got mana hosed several times but never have I been held without a single game win before.
Beck is too color mana intensive. My build only runs 1 dedicated blue source other than having a mana sliver out. I've learned you cannot ever count on your manaweft/gemhide making it to the next turn when you need it to most.
The New Perspectives idea seems like a kitchen table strategy. New perspectives is just too high costed a card to run in competitive modern. Not to mention the only cards we'd have to cycle are Homing (or other slivers if homing is in play) and cycle lands.
Blur sliver is run main to add explosiveness, nothing better than a turn 3 coco into Blur and a lord and a swing for 5 out of nowhere. Many have opted to try other haste slivers in that spot as well like Firewake Sliver however I feel the most optimized modern sliver for haste is Blur.
Liquidmetal Coating, I've seen this card discussed ad nauseum throughout this thread over years and it always boils down to the same facts. You cant guarantee you'll have both the coating and harmonic at the same time to justify running both and its too easy for both pieces to just clunk up your hand. This too seems like kitchen table magic to me. If you want removal in your modern slivers list, right now the best option is Dismember and Necrotic Sliver.
Nice report! Definitely have to get a lot of reps in with the deck until you feel comfortable.
Today is B&R announcement day!
Who else is excited for the lack of KCI decks in their upcoming events? I only ever played against it 3 times and I lost all 3 times, it was a very bad match-up for us and I am glad to see it go. I am looking forward to seeing what emerges after this banning.
After nearly a month off, it was back to FNM for me last night.
12 players, 4 rounds
Round 1 - UB Mill 2-1. Mesmeric Orb early on made a pretty decent clock for my opponent, and a bridge a bit later made it more difficult however at the exact best time a top decked Necrotic Sliver destroyed the Bridge and allowed me to swing lethal. Game 2, I was not so fortunate, A Crypt Incursion sent the opponent life total from 4 to 49 with all 4 Mesmeric orbs in play. Game 3, plenty of gas on this one not even a Crypt Incursion for 39 followed up by another for 9 could keep me from my victory.
Round 2 - Budget G Eldrazi Tron 2-0. Very new player who hadn't even gotten down the basics of playing quite yet, but managed to beat Goblins in round 1. I spent most of the match helping him get thru the phases of the game and teaching some along the way. Nice when a turn 3 Necrotic gets there and gets a land before Tron is completed.
Round 3 - Humans 2-0. Game 1 my opponent misses a vial trigger on turn 2 (his first vial trigger) and it literally cost him the game as he was a turn behind from then on in the game. Game 2, opponent started strong out the gate with T1 vial, T2 Thalia, T3 Mantis and activate vial for an Image of Mantis and swinging for 8; however, that was not good enough. My T3 I landed 2 lords along side manaweft, T4 landed necrotic and Blur and Striking and went to town vindicating Mantis Riders. I stabilized at 3 life and turned it around completely.
Round 4 - ID
Pretty good night for the first time back in nearly a month 3-0-1 and a share of 1st.
Glimpse of Nature is banned in modern. I would absolutely love for it to be legal, I would at least attempt to run it.
By the way guys the cycle lands did ok, they were not great. I did run into a couple instances where I really needed a land untapped but had one of those lands. I did get a few draws out of them though. I am going forward without them in the list as they slowed things down too much.
I heard an exciting rumor the other day though, slivers in the near future (sometime by 2022).
The loss was all on me, i made too many errors vs dredge.
Round 1, 4 color Vannifar (no red), 2-1. Lost game 2 to Vizier/Druid/Ballista combo. Dismembered and Necrotic'd Vannifar every other time.
Round 2, U Tron, 2-1. Turn 5 kill in game 1, he almost didnt let me know what he was on, only played a tron land the turn before death. He got game 2 by frustrating me to death. Game 3 he mulled to oblivion.
Round 3, UR delver w/ pteramander, 1-2. Lost game 1 to too many bolts. Won game 2 with a turn 3 CoCo. Lost game 3 due to super mana flood even thru using all 3 fetches.
Round 4, Esper control (looked a lot like 8 rack at first), 2-1. Lost game 1 to a phyrexian arena and kalitas. Got game 2 with 2 mutavaults. A late coco got me 2 lords and the game in the 3rd.
Round 5, storm, 0-2. I misclicked when choosing to keep or mulligan in game 2, would have had a 6 card hand with 2 lands, a relic, a sphere, and 2 slivers but I accidentally mulled to 5. Feels real bad, could have at least evened up the match.
I failed to see chalice even a single time when I brought it in. Would have been really handy vs that delver build...
Epic finish!
Do we get some new/old slivers???
Tron, bring in spheres, harmonics, and telekinetic. Take out striking, sentinel, blur, 1 coco.
Control, bring in frenetic and Hivelord. Drop striking, 1 coco, sentinel.
Loss was to gw value
Wins vs burn with spectacle cards, br burn, jund, uw control, artifact deck with panharmonicon and semblance anvil, amulet titan, and a combo deck using leonin relic warder, phyrexian metamorph and alter of the brood.
The New Perspectives idea seems like a kitchen table strategy. New perspectives is just too high costed a card to run in competitive modern. Not to mention the only cards we'd have to cycle are Homing (or other slivers if homing is in play) and cycle lands.
Blur sliver is run main to add explosiveness, nothing better than a turn 3 coco into Blur and a lord and a swing for 5 out of nowhere. Many have opted to try other haste slivers in that spot as well like Firewake Sliver however I feel the most optimized modern sliver for haste is Blur.
Liquidmetal Coating, I've seen this card discussed ad nauseum throughout this thread over years and it always boils down to the same facts. You cant guarantee you'll have both the coating and harmonic at the same time to justify running both and its too easy for both pieces to just clunk up your hand. This too seems like kitchen table magic to me. If you want removal in your modern slivers list, right now the best option is Dismember and Necrotic Sliver.
Today is B&R announcement day!
Who else is excited for the lack of KCI decks in their upcoming events? I only ever played against it 3 times and I lost all 3 times, it was a very bad match-up for us and I am glad to see it go. I am looking forward to seeing what emerges after this banning.
12 players, 4 rounds
Round 1 - UB Mill 2-1. Mesmeric Orb early on made a pretty decent clock for my opponent, and a bridge a bit later made it more difficult however at the exact best time a top decked Necrotic Sliver destroyed the Bridge and allowed me to swing lethal. Game 2, I was not so fortunate, A Crypt Incursion sent the opponent life total from 4 to 49 with all 4 Mesmeric orbs in play. Game 3, plenty of gas on this one not even a Crypt Incursion for 39 followed up by another for 9 could keep me from my victory.
Round 2 - Budget G Eldrazi Tron 2-0. Very new player who hadn't even gotten down the basics of playing quite yet, but managed to beat Goblins in round 1. I spent most of the match helping him get thru the phases of the game and teaching some along the way. Nice when a turn 3 Necrotic gets there and gets a land before Tron is completed.
Round 3 - Humans 2-0. Game 1 my opponent misses a vial trigger on turn 2 (his first vial trigger) and it literally cost him the game as he was a turn behind from then on in the game. Game 2, opponent started strong out the gate with T1 vial, T2 Thalia, T3 Mantis and activate vial for an Image of Mantis and swinging for 8; however, that was not good enough. My T3 I landed 2 lords along side manaweft, T4 landed necrotic and Blur and Striking and went to town vindicating Mantis Riders. I stabilized at 3 life and turned it around completely.
Round 4 - ID
Pretty good night for the first time back in nearly a month 3-0-1 and a share of 1st.
By the way guys the cycle lands did ok, they were not great. I did run into a couple instances where I really needed a land untapped but had one of those lands. I did get a few draws out of them though. I am going forward without them in the list as they slowed things down too much.
I heard an exciting rumor the other day though, slivers in the near future (sometime by 2022).