i havent had really any issues with land drops but there are still issues with getting 3 blue. Sometimes i feel like i get forced into bad fetching decisions when playing against decks that run magus of the moon or blood moon. i really havent needed visions because im running the 4/3 split on foundry most of the time i can stabilize and durdle till i find something without the extra draw/manipulation. that being said though cards like ratchet bomb and cage arnt always needed and can come up as just blank spots in game 1 where visions may have been a better card in place. this list felt nice though as a midrange/tool box that can just outright win with whir. Flooding does happen on occasion but it hasnt effected me to much. The top decks havent been bad either.
thought i would throw a tourney report out there and a list. so went 4-0 and split 5th round with this list. event was 20+ people
round1 vs eldrazi tron 1-0
game 1 im on the play and have a rather decent hand. im able to pithing needle exploration map on turn 1 and i assemble thopter combo naturally and whir into ironworks for game on turn 5. SB in spreading seas, disdainful stroke, and damnation
game 2 i keep a hand with needle and seas. i seas a temple and just dont draw anything relevant. thotknot and reality smasher destroy me.
game 3 i keep a slow had with hate. i get a thopter foundry in play and have a whir in hand. All is dust kills my foundry and im stuck durdling forever. the opponent has a ratchet bomb on 2 and im sitting with alot of lands. Ulamog comes down and exiles a land and a pentad prison as i dont have much on board. i sac inventors fair in respons to grab ensnaring bridge. im staring down ulamog, battered skull, and a endbringer. they uptick bomb to three to deal with bridge. i cast bridge, they try to ratchet it and i whir in a welding jar to protect myself. i draw into foundry and sword and one turn later whir in ironworks for the win. intense game 3
round2 vs little zoo 2-0
game 1 they have a slow hand and im able to push and brutality my way to the mid game. assemble thopter combo and whir in ironworks to seal the deal. SB in seas, spellskites, damnation
game 2 i seas a templegarden and the opponent just doesnt draw into any other color then white and tezz basically takes care of the rest
round3 vs B/W? 3-0
game 1 he plays a bitter blossom and i think he may be on tokens, i assemble thopter combo while being beat down by lingering souls and that bw manland. he taps out and i whir in ironworks for the scoop faze. see the trend? unfortunately i dont see enough of his deck to know what he is playing but i assume stony is coming in so SB out diggers, relic, and skite. in comes abrupt decay
game 2 i keep a hand with decay mana excel and tezz. he rips abrupt out of my hand im able to land a tezz on 3 and start making whatever artifacts i have in play 5/5s for beat down. he lands a stony but im already on the beatdown plan. he cant stabalize with tarpit and pentad beating him down.
round4 vs death and taxes 4-0
game 1 i assemble thopter combo rather early he says he doesnt think he has an out but continues playing to scout the deck. between having thalia, orther thalia, flicker whisp, and arbiter he has good creatures but ive whired in a bridge to grind it out. SB out diggers, relic, skite, 1 brutality, 1 jar. in comes abrupts and damnation
game 2 he keeps a greedy hand, i keep a pithing needle opener with questionable mana. he throws down a turn 1 vile. i pithing needle it. he doesnt get a land for 2 turns then drops a stony. i drop a tezz and start beating down with useless artifacts. tick tezz down all the way because whisps keep resetting my artifacts. eventually we get there.
i split for top. I made some mistakes in the games because i have a more casual nature. there were rounds where i could have won games early with tar pit activations but my lack of attention or over attention to opponent board states stop from choosing smarter lines. My take away from playing is that Ironworks pulls you out of unwinnable games a lot of times. the 1 of has earned its place. i need to test against more archetypes though. im confident in the shadow, abzan, aggro, burn, and control matches but i havent played against any collected counters, or scapeshift matches.
proxy out decks before you commit to buy. i have multiple modern decks and some i really like to play and others while they may be very good at winning i dont really like them because of the play style. Boggles is a good deck and would fit the play style you are looking for but like the other guy said people hate playing against it because it is prolly the least interactive deck in modern. also a really helpful tool is mtggoldfish it has a decent meta game breakdown and prices out decks for you.
i have a question because the argument for more SB slots seems to be to prepare for more decks because modern is quite open. In the Event that an absurd number of decks become viable lets say 80 for arguments sake do you then have to once again increase SB slots because you cannot prepare for someone deck?
he has always been a good card and you can run away with the game if left unchecked. I think he may be seeing more play because the format has slowed down a little compared to previous years. That being said though I cant think of to many instances where you would run "baby jace" over origins jace.
having more cards in your SB kinda takes away an important aspect of the game which is meta gaming. If you can just pack an answer for everything what would be the point of meta gaming and choosing an appropriate deck to get through the field? 15 is fine.
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round1 vs eldrazi tron 1-0
game 1 im on the play and have a rather decent hand. im able to pithing needle exploration map on turn 1 and i assemble thopter combo naturally and whir into ironworks for game on turn 5. SB in spreading seas, disdainful stroke, and damnation
game 2 i keep a hand with needle and seas. i seas a temple and just dont draw anything relevant. thotknot and reality smasher destroy me.
game 3 i keep a slow had with hate. i get a thopter foundry in play and have a whir in hand. All is dust kills my foundry and im stuck durdling forever. the opponent has a ratchet bomb on 2 and im sitting with alot of lands. Ulamog comes down and exiles a land and a pentad prison as i dont have much on board. i sac inventors fair in respons to grab ensnaring bridge. im staring down ulamog, battered skull, and a endbringer. they uptick bomb to three to deal with bridge. i cast bridge, they try to ratchet it and i whir in a welding jar to protect myself. i draw into foundry and sword and one turn later whir in ironworks for the win. intense game 3
round2 vs little zoo 2-0
game 1 they have a slow hand and im able to push and brutality my way to the mid game. assemble thopter combo and whir in ironworks to seal the deal. SB in seas, spellskites, damnation
game 2 i seas a templegarden and the opponent just doesnt draw into any other color then white and tezz basically takes care of the rest
round3 vs B/W? 3-0
game 1 he plays a bitter blossom and i think he may be on tokens, i assemble thopter combo while being beat down by lingering souls and that bw manland. he taps out and i whir in ironworks for the scoop faze. see the trend? unfortunately i dont see enough of his deck to know what he is playing but i assume stony is coming in so SB out diggers, relic, and skite. in comes abrupt decay
game 2 i keep a hand with decay mana excel and tezz. he rips abrupt out of my hand im able to land a tezz on 3 and start making whatever artifacts i have in play 5/5s for beat down. he lands a stony but im already on the beatdown plan. he cant stabalize with tarpit and pentad beating him down.
round4 vs death and taxes 4-0
game 1 i assemble thopter combo rather early he says he doesnt think he has an out but continues playing to scout the deck. between having thalia, orther thalia, flicker whisp, and arbiter he has good creatures but ive whired in a bridge to grind it out. SB out diggers, relic, skite, 1 brutality, 1 jar. in comes abrupts and damnation
game 2 he keeps a greedy hand, i keep a pithing needle opener with questionable mana. he throws down a turn 1 vile. i pithing needle it. he doesnt get a land for 2 turns then drops a stony. i drop a tezz and start beating down with useless artifacts. tick tezz down all the way because whisps keep resetting my artifacts. eventually we get there.
i split for top. I made some mistakes in the games because i have a more casual nature. there were rounds where i could have won games early with tar pit activations but my lack of attention or over attention to opponent board states stop from choosing smarter lines. My take away from playing is that Ironworks pulls you out of unwinnable games a lot of times. the 1 of has earned its place. i need to test against more archetypes though. im confident in the shadow, abzan, aggro, burn, and control matches but i havent played against any collected counters, or scapeshift matches.
1 breeding pool
3 watery grave
3 darkslick shores
2 creeping tar pit
2 darksteel citadel
2 ghost quarter
1 inventors' fair
4 polluted delta
1 flooded strand
2 island
1 swamp
creatures
1 spellskite
other
3 tezzeret, agent of bolas
4 thopter foundry
3 sword of the meek
4 whir of invention
4 fatal push
2 collective brutality
3 mox opal
2 welding jar
4 pentad prism
1 talisman of dominance
1 pithing needle
1 relic of progenitus
1 grafdigger's cage
1 engineered explosives
1 ratchet bomb
1 ensnaring bridge
1 krark-clan ironworks
3 abrupt decay
3 surgical extraction
2 damnation
2 spreading seas
2 disdainful stroke
2 spellskite
1 crucible of worlds
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proxy out decks before you commit to buy. i have multiple modern decks and some i really like to play and others while they may be very good at winning i dont really like them because of the play style. Boggles is a good deck and would fit the play style you are looking for but like the other guy said people hate playing against it because it is prolly the least interactive deck in modern. also a really helpful tool is mtggoldfish it has a decent meta game breakdown and prices out decks for you.
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