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Dom Harvey

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Currently looking at this for Standard:

4 Thragtusk
4 Farseek
4 Azorius Charm
2 AEtherling
3 Sphinx's Revelation
3 Urban Evolution
1 Ranger's Path
3 Augur of Bolas
4 Supreme Verdict
2 Dissipate
2 Think Twice
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Terminus
4 Breeding Pool
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Temple Garden
4 Hinterland Harbor
4 Glacial Fortress
3 Sunpetal Grove
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Alchemist's Refuge
SB: 2 Terminus
SB: 4 Voice of Resurgence
SB: 2 Clone
SB: 2 Renounce the Guilds
SB: 1 Negate
SB: 1 Dispel
SB: 1 Essence Scatter
SB: 1 Alchemist's Refuge
SB: 1 Oblivion Ring
but I'll be looking intently at this after M14 comes out:
4 Goblin Electromancer
4 Hidden Strings
4 Krenko's Command
4 Young Pyromancer
4 Battle Hymn
1 Infernal Plunge
3 Burn at the Stake
3 Past in Flames
4 Faithless Looting
1 Reforge the Soul
3 Augur of Bolas
3 Molten Birth
4 Steam Vents
4 Sulfur Falls
4 Hallowed Fountain
1 Izzet Guildgate
1 Glacial Fortress
8 Mountain
SB: 2 Reforge the Soul
SB: 4 Boros Reckoner
SB: 4 Pillar of Flame
SB: 1 Augur of Bolas
SB: 1 Rally the Peasants
SB: 3 Dispel

and experimenting with this for Modern:

4 Manamorphose
4 Infernal Tutor
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Pyretic Ritual
4 Desperate Ritual
4 Faithless Looting
4 Grapeshot
4 Goblin Electromancer
4 Gitaxian Probe
3 Past in Flames
1 Empty the Warrens
3 Sleight of Hand
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Blood Crypt
1 Watery Grave
3 Steam Vents
1 Island
1 Mountain
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Shivan Reef
SB: 2 Empty the Warrens
SB: 4 Thoughtseize
SB: 2 Molten Slagheap
SB: 2 Ignite Memories
SB: 2 Dismember
SB: 2 Reforge the Soul
SB: 2 Into the Roil
CML needs to get his Martyr-loving statist ass in here so I can sing odes to Vizkopa Guildmage.
 

CML

Contributor
nah wrath is a natural fit. f em and their creatures. like soul sisters has a rough time coming back from being behind and this kind of reset button is very good as a stabilizer early on for non-martyr hands v. aggro and as a oops-i-win kind of thing later on against whatever. back in the heyday of combo pod and splinter twin it was even good with blind obedience. i was gonna type that it's also good against melira pod but then i realized we just always lose anyway
 

Jason Waddell

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Staff member
I was waiting at city hall this morning and had the urge to build a terrible modern deck around the following:
 

Jason Waddell

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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 losing proposition if you don't have the funds for Tarmogoyf.
 

Jason Waddell

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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.
 

Dom Harvey

Contributor
The best home for Varolz is probably something like:

4 Varolz
4 Ranger of Eos
4 Death's Shadow
1 Hex Parasite

With Thoughtseize, Dismember etc.
 

Jason Waddell

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

Dom Harvey

Contributor
Sam Black is awesome.

To troll people in Legacy, I recommend:

4 Show and Tell
4 Progenitus
4 Griselbrand
1 Worldspine Wurm
4 Nefarious Lich
4 Nourishing Shoal
4 Dark Ritual
4 Brainstorm
2 Ponder
2 Lim-Dul's Vault
1 Sickening Dreams
3 Thoughtseize

4 Lotus Petal
1 Chrome Mox
4 Ebon Stronghold/Peat Bog
4 Polluted Delta
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Underground Sea
1 Swamp
<lands>
 

Jason Waddell

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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 Verdant Catacombs
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Temple Garden
1 Stomping Ground
1 Steam Vents
1 Blood Crypt
1 Godless Shrine
1 Plains
1 Mountain
1 Forest

4 Kird Ape
4 Steppe Lynx
3 Deathrite Shaman
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Geist of Saint Traft
2 Qasali Pridemage


4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Helix
4 Path to Exile
4 Tribal Flames
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
 

CML

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Hi guys I scrubbed the Invi due to jet-lag, idiocy, bad luck etc. so I'm back in here to theorycraft

I think 5c Zoo is OK in modern, though I definitely want 2-3 Ghor-Clan Rampager. Melira Pod is a bad and pervasive matchup (and the best shell for Varolz, you goofs -- sac outlets at 1/2/3), so ideally the Ooze will keep em in check. Also play 4 Deathrites man come on. Some amount of Loam Lion might also be right

Probably best not to play fair Blue in Modern

Dom's decks are magnificent
 

Jason Waddell

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I think 5c Zoo is OK in modern, though I definitely want 2-3 Ghor-Clan Rampager. Melira Pod is a bad and pervasive matchup (and the best shell for Varolz, you goofs -- sac outlets at 1/2/3), so ideally the Ooze will keep em in check. Also play 4 Deathrites man come on. Some amount of Loam Lion might also be right

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 buying a 4th Deathrite.

Also, there's no room for Loam Lion with Deathrite around. The CFB Player's Championship version played 10 1-drops (4 Ape, 4 Lynx, 2 Loam Lion), but something has to go to make room for Deathrites.
 

Jason Waddell

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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
 

Dom Harvey

Contributor
It's not good if you're actually in those colours. It's especially bad for something like Twin, where paying 3 life instead of 1 to get your third R for Kiki or w/e might actually matter.
 
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