Tag: Modern

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Main Deck

Creatures (7) 4 Monastery Mentor 3 Dark Confidant Sorcery (11) 4 Thoughtseize 4 Lingering Souls 3 Maelstrom Pulse Instant (13) 4 Raise the Alarm 4 Abrupt Decay 4 Path to Exile 1 Surgical Extraction Enchantment (2) 2 Intangible Virtue Planeswalkers (3) 3 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

Lands (24) 2 Plains 2 Swamp 1 Forest 4 Windswept Heath 4 Godless Shrine 3 Temple Garden 2 Overgrown Tomb 2 Murmuring Bosk 1 Isolated Chapel 1 Sunpetal Grove 1 Woodland Cemetary 1 Vault of the Archangel

When I first started getting into Modern this is the deck I came up with. This was a Standard deck during Innistrad block and I was absolutely blown away by the new Sorin. He was my favorite character in the lore at the time, and I really wanted a BW Planeswalker for my Teysa, Orzhov Scion EDH deck. He was perfect for me. I made a deck using him and Lingering Souls to swarm the board. I had Garruk Relentless backing them up with spot removal and death touch wolves. It was a lot of fun to play, and this deck is similar. It is much more of a control deck though. When Monastery Mentor was printed I wanted to abuse the crap out of it. This shell was still around, so I stuck him in there and have never been happier with how it turned out.

Sideboard

(15) 4 Timely Reinforcements 3 Rootborn Defenses 2 Sundering Growth 2 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Intangible Virtue 3 Beast Within

The sideboard kinda sucks unfortunately. I really like Timely Reinforcements against aggro and burn decks. Taping three in this deck makes people assume it’s Lingering Souls but then to get three creatures off the bat plus a huge life swing feels great. With Thoughtseize, Surgical Extraction, and fetch lands it can be fairly easy to get 1 or 2 points below your opponent to trigger the life gain. The rest of the Sideboard is not terribly exciting to me. I don’t use this deck in tournaments very often, so I don’t get to test out different cards.

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Main Deck

Creatures (27) 4 Noble Hierarch 4 Birds of Paradise 4 Leonin Arbiter 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben 2 Scavenging Ooze 4 Mirran Crusader 3 Loxodon Smiter 3 Aven Mindcensor Planeswalkers (2) 2 Elspeth Knight Errant Artifacts (2) 2 Sword of War and Peace Instants (4) 4 Path to Exile

Lands (25) 6 Forest 4 Plains 4 Temple Guarden 1 Canopy Vista 3 Razorverge Thicket 2 Windswept Heath 2 Gavony Township 3 Ghost Quarter

This is my primary competitive Modern deck. While I don’t get to tournaments very often, this is usually what I pilot. I built the deck over the course of a year and some change. Trading for bits and pieces at a time. I wrote the list myself, but I used This article to find which cards I wanted to use. The list went through many versions before I decided on this particular build. The one before this actually ran Sun Titan and a fourth copy of Ghost Quarter as a land destruction package. I took it out because it was super slow and not terribly effective. If I could cast a 6 drop and have an untapped land ready to go, then chances are either destroying their mana base won’t do much or I’m already ahead and it is just rubbing salt in the wounds.

Sideboard

(15) 3 Voice of Resurgence 3 Kataki, War’s Wage 3 Leyline of Sanctity 2 Spellskite 2 Qasali Pridemage 1 Sword of Fire and Ice 1 Vryn Wingmare

This is the latest iteration of the sideboard. I’m not crazy about the single copy of Vryn Wingmare, but nothing else came to mind for that slot and it was the night before a GPt at a local shop. I may run a fourth Loxodon Smiter to go against control decks, but I’m already fairly well positioned against them. If I can get my hands on a second copy of Sword of Fire and Ice then I think I’d run that instead. The swords work really well with Mirran Crusader, so I may end up putting the one of in the main deck and running additional tech in the sideboard. Spellskite{/mtg_card] is quite good against Twin and Infect, so I may get a third copy of that.