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Yeah but UWR is a pretty midrangey deck in that half of its cards are just burn cards that can be removal against Aggro or reach against control. It closes out games really quickly with Geist + burn, and asks a lot of questions itself. There's also a UWR deck whose only creatures are a trio of...

You know, if I were in the US I would really like to eat at a Chipotle's ("upsacle" fast food burritos). For Diners... uh... find something local? All the American diner chains are pretty terrible.

What makes you say this? I see fair blue decks performing well with some pretty good frequency in Modern. Also UWR is a deck I can play and actually enjoy, unlike a lot of Modern decks out there.

I bet Shadowborn Demon is pretty good in that deck...

Well I know it's not ideal. Realistically, the downside to Misty Rainforest over Scalding Tarn is that I can't grab Mountain or Sacred Foundry, but can grab Island, Hallowed Fountain and Steam Vents. I wonder how many extra game losses that actually results in.

How awful is it to play the wrong fetchlands in Modern? i.e. running 2 Scalding Tarn + 2 Misty Rainforest in UWR instead of 4 Scalding Tarn

Yeah, I remember when I first started thinking that fetchlands were expensive at $10 a pop. Somehow there's more demand for them post-Standard than in Standard, but I suppose that has to do with the growth of the game as a whole.

Yeah, the idea behind 5C Zoo was to spend $0 on cards that I don't need for UWR and have a deck for a month. Unfortunately it looks like my article this week is getting bumped to Thursday (read: next month), so I won't have the credit to build the zoo deck. A 4th Deathrite would have required...

Err, scrap the Revelation list. I don't want to buy Cryptics and Revelations right now. In the meantime, I can throw together a crappy Tribal Flames list without buying any cards I don't need for the eventual UWR Geist deck: Tribal: 4 Arid Mesa 2 Misty Rainforest 2 Scalding Tarn 2 Marsh Flats 2...

I have the store credit to be able to finish off this deck at the start of the month: I think I'll start with Modern there and slowly pick up the cards for the Geist UWR deck.

Sam Black's Legacy deck looks incredibly fun.

How often did they win with the combo? Also, how often did Creeping Tar Pit get activated? Feels a little ambitions with 1 black source.

Yeah, that's much less gimmicky than what I was thinking. I do wonder if there's room for Vexing Devils and Varolz in a list like that.

Mm... Vengevine, that's some interesting tech. Faithless looting too?

I had thought about Joraga Treespeaker and Burning-Tree Emissary too, but uh.. eh. The whole deck seems pretty eh. What I'll actually start doing is directing my Magic funds towards the UWR staples. Probably. I would love to play a Shaman / Cobra deck, but playing green in modern seems like a...

February 26th: Jason recommends doubling down on cube fetchlands in "Learning from Legacy, Part 1". Prices explode. Eh? Eh? No. But I am in the market for Scalding Tarn #3 and #4.

I was waiting at city hall this morning and had the urge to build a terrible modern deck around the following: Liliana of the Veil Deathrite Shaman Lotus Cobra Varolz, the Scar-Striped Myr Superion

Sorry for the slow movement at the moment. Eric and Kranny are both in the middle of buying houses. More to come when things settle down.

Nobody picked it, but it didn't feel like it was bad to have it in there with the other lands.

Cubing is such an intuitive concept that it's astounding how much effort goes into claiming it or restricting its definition. I do like the name though. Props to whoever came up with it.