I will go in a few days to the GP Bilbao and I will do it with grixis shadow.
Seeing how the format is, what do you think about playing 2 thing in the ice in SB to face pairings like dredge, spirits, humans and the grave hate?
Would you make any major changes to the current lists for this metagame?
Could it be a good card in this deck, right? By ramping and being in control you can put a finisher on a table, in mirror control matchup it looks good.
We went regular, I won 2, I lost 2 and I tied 1. My team also did not have good luck and we dropped in round 5.
I had very bad luck against tron and infect, in these 2 games draw a lot of lands and lost those 2 games.
Right now i am playing a version of jeskai with terminus. In my shop there are many humans and spirits, works better jeskai and the bolt/helix serve me as clock.
This is my list to GP Liverpool (team unified). It is possible that you see some cards like Entreat the angels that maybe could come out, but in this case I have tested it and it has given me many games, especially to finish them before, mirrors, bgx etc...
The second rune halo i thought about changing it for something else, but i do not know which one. Thanks for your opinions!
I recently played the list with a small black splash for 2 fatal push and 3 unmoored ego, 1 engineered explosives in side.
The list improves some pairing of combo and spirits / humans, but it destabilizes the mana base, you can not play 5 colorless lands with a splash, and you have to remove some basics lands to put fetchlands and shocks as polluted delta.
I have not tried Jeskai miracles, but I think the bolt/helix are better than push because they give you a pressure clock, along with snap / vendilion I think you can finish games faster than with UW or Esper. Maybe it does not kill bigger creatures but I think it helps UW more than not the push.
My list for the GP Liverpool will be slightly different because I expect a lot more Tron than my LGS usually has.
Modern is a strange format where one usually makes the right play to sign up with a deck they know how to play even if it's not the flavor of the month. With that being said, I believe the meta will be really diverse and that's why I'm going with a general approach on my sideboard. I think the most common configuration will be a combination of a colorless deck (KCI, Scales, Tron); a Thoughtseize/Looting deck (Dredge, Mardu Pyro, BGx, H1, Phoenix); and a Creature Aggro deck (Humans, Spirits, Company). You can also throw in UWx, Valakut and Storm as the odd ones out.
To be honest I think Storm is on a bad place with all the incidental hate on Dredge. Valakut is probably a great choice. UWx Control is really tough deck selection because it'll be a really open metagame.
My team will be running UW Control, Dredge and Scales. I don't expect to carry as hard as I did in Madrid last year with GDS, but they have two strong g1 decks and I hope they can carry enough for me to stumble on a few bad draws. We wondered if my Dredge player should be playing Storm instead but we decided against it. Even with the ammount of expected hate, since it's unified the RIPs and Leylines will be spread among all three players meaning that it won't be as hard.
Thanks for your report! Im going to Team unified GP Liverpool, my list is very similar but play only 1 Hyeroglyphic and 1 2 telling time.
You do not think that the metagame is focused in combo or uninteractive decks? My sideboard is not closed because i have many doubts. My friend play Hardened Affinity and the other probably GWx Vizier... What do you think on these pairings, humans, spirits, storm, tron...its UW a good decision for a team unified?
I play 2 telling time MB, im very happy with this results, no trigger miracles and its instant. In another list i play 1or 2 mystic speculation, its find but no draw cards only you pay kicker for return...maybe its card advantage.
I'm going to Gp Team unified Liverpool, having in mind the meta expected will be combo, this is my list. My seat its on the right, i hope you can give me your opinion.
I have also played and lost the 2 rounds vs dredge. 2-0 and 2-1.
Dredge is more consistent killing thanks to creeping chill.
At the moment I have removed the supreme verdict for a settle the wreckage in the main. In the side I am thinking about removing the 2nd surgical for another rest in peace, to play 3 in total.
I played today a fnm of 4 rounds. I won 2-0 to spirits (with luck) and thanks to the terminus. I won Bridgevine 2-1. Won 2-0 to hardened and lost 2-0 vs jund.
I was currently playing 3 Leyline of sanctity to combat combo decks like storm, ad nauseam and burn. But with jund I find many difficulties, the discard hurts, also bloodbraid elf is a 2x1 with great impact, and assassins trophy is also very good.
Should I replace the 3 leylines with other cards for the BGX pairing? Geist of saint traft for example?
I will go in a few days to the GP Bilbao and I will do it with grixis shadow.
Seeing how the format is, what do you think about playing 2 thing in the ice in SB to face pairings like dredge, spirits, humans and the grave hate?
Would you make any major changes to the current lists for this metagame?
Thanks!
What do you think about Hidroyd krasis?
Could it be a good card in this deck, right? By ramping and being in control you can put a finisher on a table, in mirror control matchup it looks good.
We went regular, I won 2, I lost 2 and I tied 1. My team also did not have good luck and we dropped in round 5.
I had very bad luck against tron and infect, in these 2 games draw a lot of lands and lost those 2 games.
Right now i am playing a version of jeskai with terminus. In my shop there are many humans and spirits, works better jeskai and the bolt/helix serve me as clock.
Regards
This is my list to GP Liverpool (team unified). It is possible that you see some cards like Entreat the angels that maybe could come out, but in this case I have tested it and it has given me many games, especially to finish them before, mirrors, bgx etc...
The second rune halo i thought about changing it for something else, but i do not know which one. Thanks for your opinions!
//lands
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Field of Ruin
4 Flooded Strand
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Hallowed Fountain
5 Island
1 Mystic Gate
3 Plains
//Instants and sorcerys
3 Cryptic Command
1 Entreat the Angels
1 Hieroglyphic Illumination
2 Logic Knot
1 Mana Leak
1 Negate
4 Opt
1 Oust
4 Path to Exile
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 Spell Snare
1 Telling Time
4 Terminus
1 Timely Reinforcements
//planeswalkers
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
//enchantments
1 Detention Sphere
1 Runed Halo
1 Search for Azcanta
//creatures
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vendilion Clique
//Sideboard
1 Baneslayer Angel
1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
2 Dispel
1 Geist of Saint Traft
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
1 Negate
2 Rest in Peace
1 Runed Halo
2 Stony Silence
1 Timely Reinforcements
1 Vendilion Clique
I recently played the list with a small black splash for 2 fatal push and 3 unmoored ego, 1 engineered explosives in side.
The list improves some pairing of combo and spirits / humans, but it destabilizes the mana base, you can not play 5 colorless lands with a splash, and you have to remove some basics lands to put fetchlands and shocks as polluted delta.
I have not tried Jeskai miracles, but I think the bolt/helix are better than push because they give you a pressure clock, along with snap / vendilion I think you can finish games faster than with UW or Esper. Maybe it does not kill bigger creatures but I think it helps UW more than not the push.
Against Spirits / humans, does not affect quellers, thalias, freeboter, side gaddog teg and sin collector.
In general, I feel that the pairing can be fighting but sometimes you need some cheaper removal, maybe the second oust in the 75.
In few days i will show my list for GP.
See you in Liverpool!
Thanks for your report! Im going to Team unified GP Liverpool, my list is very similar but play only 1 Hyeroglyphic and 1 2 telling time.
You do not think that the metagame is focused in combo or uninteractive decks? My sideboard is not closed because i have many doubts. My friend play Hardened Affinity and the other probably GWx Vizier... What do you think on these pairings, humans, spirits, storm, tron...its UW a good decision for a team unified?
Thanks!
I'm going to Gp Team unified Liverpool, having in mind the meta expected will be combo, this is my list. My seat its on the right, i hope you can give me your opinion.
Thanks!
//lands
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Field of Ruin
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
6 Island
1 Mystic Gate
3 Plains
//Instants and sorcerys
3 Cryptic Command
1 Entreat the Angels
1 Hieroglyphic Illumination
2 Logic Knot
1 Mana Leak
2 Negate
4 Opt
1 Oust
4 Path to Exile
1 Settle the Wreckage
2 Telling Time
4 Terminus
1 Timely Reinforcements
//planeswalkers
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
//enchantments
1 Detention Sphere
1 Search for Azcanta
//creatures
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vendilion Clique
//Sideboard
2 Dispel
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
2 Rest in Peace
2 Spell Queller
2 Stony Silence
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Timely Reinforcements
3 Leyline of Sanctity
Dredge is more consistent killing thanks to creeping chill.
At the moment I have removed the supreme verdict for a settle the wreckage in the main. In the side I am thinking about removing the 2nd surgical for another rest in peace, to play 3 in total.
Secure the wastes its a good option vs BGx decks, but entreat its more finisher tan secure.
Any changes in yours deck list for the last meta?
I played today a fnm of 4 rounds. I won 2-0 to spirits (with luck) and thanks to the terminus. I won Bridgevine 2-1. Won 2-0 to hardened and lost 2-0 vs jund.
I was currently playing 3 Leyline of sanctity to combat combo decks like storm, ad nauseam and burn. But with jund I find many difficulties, the discard hurts, also bloodbraid elf is a 2x1 with great impact, and assassins trophy is also very good.
Should I replace the 3 leylines with other cards for the BGX pairing? Geist of saint traft for example?
Is it time to return to ancestral vision?
Thank you!
Anyone has tested mission briefing here?
I'm thinking about cutting 1 telling time to try 1 or 2 copies, and include 1 copy of noxious revival to reuse terminus that you think?
I do not know if the metagame is going to change so much for Assassins trophy, but aside from spell snare do you see any more additions?