Modern will be slightly cheaper now if your decks need some of the soon to be rotated standard cards that are featured in there. Anyone got ideas about its potential print runs? I highly doubt Chandra, ToD will maintain her price if the challenger decks are printed as much as the old duel decks/pre cons
I will take 30 decks for Proven since 79 is too much. Or unless the default page of 25 threads be increased for the modern sub forums. Another option may be adding the top X decks (via forum posts) into the proven/established section.
Option 2 with no deck sorting. We get to see more decks potentially since there is only 3 sections now.
Any decks that had won a GP/PT in the past 6 months get a sticky for Established. Any new/rough decks that top 8 (or top 32) in a GP/PT or wins a RPTQ stickied for Developing.
With options 1 and 2 we could also create a stickied thread in the main forums that is updated each month with the play percentages of each deck in the Proven/Established sections. This would still give players an idea of what decks to expect at tournaments in the current meta and would allow for a broader deck classification system.
This can be merged with the state of modern thread to at least have a "fresh" topic to discuss.
Hello all. I'm preparing for GP Phoenix and am leaning towards U/B Mill. My local meta has been very rough due to 3 mill players. As a result, the Tron decks all run a Titan. That said, I am hoping to make a run with Mill. Hopefully I can get some input and feedback.
The 4 Ipnu Rivulet means I can run fewer mill spells. I've found the maindeck Mystical Teachings to be quite useful. It's part of a full package of Mesmeric Orb/Mystical Teachings/Snapcaster Mage. Snapcaster has been really good with Mesmeric Orb. The fact that Teachings can fetch Snap has been amazing. The maindeck Winds of Rebuke is my compromise to previously having 4 in the SB. The ability to bounce main deck problems yet mill has been useful. It means I'm not stone dead to main deck Gideon, Blood Moon, or other effects. Snap allows for cheap re-buys. In SB games, it hits Leylines and Blood Moons. The Collective Brutality was a concession to aggro or combo being around and I wanted some disruption.
The maindeck Ensnaring Bridge hasn't been working for me. I just can't dump my hand fast enough. It's also a non-bo with Visions from Beyond. I have been thinking about dropping the Bridge and either go up to 2 main deck Bontu's Last Reckoning and one card]Crypt Incursion[/card] or go 3 Crypt Incursions. The Bontu's Last Reckoning has been clutch because it costs only 3. Not untapping sucks (except for the weird interaction with Mesmeric Orb), but it is one turn faster against humans when Thalia shows up. Haunting Echoes is a pet card and fun-of. With Mesmeric Orb in play, it can lead to an opponent being milled down to basic lands.
Anyway, I am looking for ideas against reshuffling Eldrazi titans and also for R/B Hollow One. Assuming I'm stone dead game one, what's an ideal SB against them? The SB is still a work in progress. Is Leyline of the Void better or can 3-4 Nihil Spellbomb do better? I played against Tron and played Turn 0 Leyline and milled him for 30. He got a natural tron and killed me anyway. As for R/B Hollow One, is Leyline the goods or should it be Crypt Incursions and Surgicals? They don't mesh well, and it feels redundant. Suggestions wanted. Thanks for reading!
Your local meta =/= GP meta. The odds of meeting an eldra titan in a GP is pretty low.
I'm not a fan of bridges, Bontu Last reckoning and Winds of Rebuke. Titi may replace bridge whole cryptic can replace the other two if you have them. I highly recommend testing cryptic. To turn on your bridges, you may want to run more CBs for the escalation to rid your hand. DO this if you expect to meet a lot of 5c humans and mardu pyro.
You can go up a Nihil spellbomb in your SB. More graveyard hate is always good and it cantrips since you may not have a leyline in your starting hand.
JTMS allows any Temporal in our starting hands or not drawn first to be miracled. It definitely has a lot of potential. T3 exhaust, T4 JTMS, T5 miracles into going off maybe?
This week price changes came 1 day too early to see the most of the price changes for the challenger decks.
"Always look for what's not in a playable pre-constructed deck to see where gains are to be made, after all." This is so true. Maybe just maybe it will get people to play standard casually in FNMs.
Hazoret should be mainboarded. Its pretty ridiculous. It can take the place of acid moss in your deck currently.
Focus on buying Sprawl > Stomping > Trinisphere > BM/Chandra. Also get more trackers to replace beast within.
At best, it removes utopia sprawl / BM from our graveyard making goyf smaller by 1. At its worst, its 2 mana draw a card. I like it as a SB option.
Ponza time to shine in modern. BBE check. Blood Moon check. Chandra, TOD check. Only Burn is a cheaper deck now that can consistently put up results
I prefer Big Head Thalia too. I got to admit, the watermark of the set symbol is pretty
Modern will be slightly cheaper now if your decks need some of the soon to be rotated standard cards that are featured in there. Anyone got ideas about its potential print runs? I highly doubt Chandra, ToD will maintain her price if the challenger decks are printed as much as the old duel decks/pre cons
Any decks that had won a GP/PT in the past 6 months get a sticky for Established. Any new/rough decks that top 8 (or top 32) in a GP/PT or wins a RPTQ stickied for Developing.
This can be merged with the state of modern thread to at least have a "fresh" topic to discuss.
Your local meta =/= GP meta. The odds of meeting an eldra titan in a GP is pretty low.
I'm not a fan of bridges, Bontu Last reckoning and Winds of Rebuke. Titi may replace bridge whole cryptic can replace the other two if you have them. I highly recommend testing cryptic. To turn on your bridges, you may want to run more CBs for the escalation to rid your hand. DO this if you expect to meet a lot of 5c humans and mardu pyro.
You can go up a Nihil spellbomb in your SB. More graveyard hate is always good and it cantrips since you may not have a leyline in your starting hand.
I had hoped for more but...