I'm very willing to try aetherspouts. I've played aetherize against affinity, and the guy dumped his whole hand again next turn. It helped, but imagine if playing all those cards again next turn wasn't possible?
I'd try vault, too. As a sideboard option, it might be good. I'm not completely sold on the cards, but sometimes trying stuff provides answers theory can't.
I know that Karn, Liberated is not played in U-tron, and I understand why. I really wanted to try casting him though, so I popped one in the list. So far, he's exiled a blood moon and helped me win that game, and one other time I cast him, he just exiled one card in my opponents hand, and a tarmogoyf, before dying.
Nice article, also. I like being able to talk with people about this deck. I've been getting a lot of peeople making fun of this deck, online and in the game log chat (even as I beat a r/w/u control deck 2-0, no less).
Having so many blue tron players here is awesome.
Hi, thanks for all you do for this program and community. Normally you post what cards will be store activity rewards, event participation rewards, and qp rewards. Do you know what those are currently, and when it will change?
There seems to be a problem with installing or opening the new client. It gives an error and there is currently no fix to it. I don't know what will happen to people when the client closes. It will be nice if it gets more attenion.
Mike, the Slivers are still very much humanoid. Only the one on the land and the lord aren't. Just look at the uncommon cycle. The blue one is a sexy girl who wears freaking CLOTHES! (I suppose they're being pictured as turning into stuff. Like, the white one is partially a boa, the red one a lion, the green one a scorpion. But they all have human faces, unfortunately.) At this point, the land one is the anomaly. We may see it as, that's the way they look in their natural state at their lair, and then they evolve into different beings.
Yes, hence put it on your commander! Commanders rarely dies (in related news they often get moved to the command zone though - this is why child of alara ISNT moved to cmd zone geneally speaking).
I don't think M15 has a lot to offer Modern in general. In terms of the cards you picked out I don't think AEtherspouts is very impressive - as your opponent gets to choose whether the card goes on top or bottom they get decide what creatures they want to draw or whether they just put them all on the bottom (I'd like it more if it was like Plow Under but even then in Modern you can always use fetchlands to shuffle things off the top).
Perilous Vault seems worse than O-Stone in most regards. As you mentioned, the choice of being able to keep your Angel or other important permanents is superior. The main difference is that it exiles which only feels like it has fringe relevance against Persist and Undying creatures. Certainly not a bad card but I don't think it's as good as O-Stone and is sideboard material at best.
I found this interesting article on the motherboard that explains what every planeswalker is doing right now. Basically, Jace is ruling Ravnica while Tamiyo is durdling around and ogling Avacyn or something. There's some sexist rant to be made here.
I'm sort of tired of Ajani and Garruk, too. We already had an Ajani literally TWO MONTHS AGO. Did we really need another one? Especially one that just reassembles some of his previous abilities?
And Garruk is cool, sure. I'm a green player, go Garruk, kill all those other buffoons and everything. But he's had seven incarnations now, if you count the Veil-Cursed and the Slayer. SEVEN. I get that the Lorwyn Five will always have an edge over everyone else. But how come that Liliana, who's also one of the original five, only had three versions, and only one of them is really powerful? (Speaking of which, M15 is a great core set, probably the best since M11, but if they wanted to make it *perfect* they would have reprinted Liliana of the Veil for the same reason they reprinted Chord of Calling. Maybe they didn't want her in the next Standard, but I feel like she can't be much more dangerous than Chord in a restricted environment).
This is why what they've done with Nissa is amazing. Nobody even remembered Nissa existed, and now she's one of the best green walkers even printed. More things like this, less Jace 15.0 and Ajani 12.0 please.
thanks Matthew & Zach. On the M2G1 sac decision to smokestack, I agree it was a tough choice, I felt like skullclamp was my only way out, essentially hope to draw a land and then clamp to draw hopefully a bunch of moxes and such that could be saced later to smokestack. That said if I kept cradle maybe I would be able to play more things to then sac to smokestack. Either way I think I had lost but definitely could have been a mistake.
Let me put it this way: I was doing a ton of VMA events. Prior to that, I hadn't played limited in years this side of beta testing. Amazingly fun format. So many cards which I wanted but which were out of my price range are now much more available. Being too successful is a much better problem than its opposite, certainly from a customer perspective. Port is so high mainly because the one format it was in wasn't fun. Likewise Misdirection. Had they been in Modern Masters
VMA drafts may continue, but M15 is coming within two weeks and it will impact to the draft pace of VMA. Maybe it won't be that drastically, we will see...
Very nice, I think you're pretty much spot on for the most part. I'm not going to get around to a review so I'm just going to add some quick thoughts here.
Avatar Cycle: They seem good at first, but they are supreme mana hogs. And a lot of decks can't afford the 5 mana required to activate them. That being said, while the White one is probably the best, I really like the Phyrexian one.
Slivers: Ugh. But at least they aren't humanoid anymore.
Ob Nixilis: At first I wasn't as excited about him as you are, but after seeing just how often people tutor it is going to be pretty powerful. He effectively crushes ramp decks. But decks that like to tutor for non-ramp cards will sometimes just go for an answer. Still, 10 life is not insignificant even in a format where you start at 40. He's going to make some people cry, so if you use him as your commander expect to have a huge target on your head.
Other new legends: None of them really excite me. But that's just me.
Planeswalkers: They're good. Except Jace. Can we get a new Blue planeswalker please? I'm tired of this guy.
Favorite card: Chasm Skulker. Just lots of cool flavor, and great with card draw decks. I like Genesis Hydra also. Master of Predicaments is my favorite "fun" card.
I like Dio too, I like Ozzy (saw him in concert once, that was cool), thanks. It's a nice change from all the bad music i'm forced to listen to at work. :)
Oh yeah, I need to get back to you with a few things (whereas the Robin one – merely on account of him being the faster responder – is ready to go, we'll see it soon enough, yours probably one week later.)
Thanks for the positive response. I have not yet dived in to Legacy or Vintage and I guess the main reason for that is that it is a fair step up in cost over other constructed formats. I will keep my eye out for it in future though
I'm very willing to try aetherspouts. I've played aetherize against affinity, and the guy dumped his whole hand again next turn. It helped, but imagine if playing all those cards again next turn wasn't possible?
I'd try vault, too. As a sideboard option, it might be good. I'm not completely sold on the cards, but sometimes trying stuff provides answers theory can't.
I know that Karn, Liberated is not played in U-tron, and I understand why. I really wanted to try casting him though, so I popped one in the list. So far, he's exiled a blood moon and helped me win that game, and one other time I cast him, he just exiled one card in my opponents hand, and a tarmogoyf, before dying.
Nice article, also. I like being able to talk with people about this deck. I've been getting a lot of peeople making fun of this deck, online and in the game log chat (even as I beat a r/w/u control deck 2-0, no less).
Having so many blue tron players here is awesome.
Hi, thanks for all you do for this program and community. Normally you post what cards will be store activity rewards, event participation rewards, and qp rewards. Do you know what those are currently, and when it will change?
I think the bigger problem with spout is it costs UU. Vault I do believe is a nice sideboard card. I like it potentially in the Merlia pod matchup.
There seems to be a problem with installing or opening the new client. It gives an error and there is currently no fix to it. I don't know what will happen to people when the client closes. It will be nice if it gets more attenion.
Mike, the Slivers are still very much humanoid. Only the one on the land and the lord aren't. Just look at the uncommon cycle. The blue one is a sexy girl who wears freaking CLOTHES! (I suppose they're being pictured as turning into stuff. Like, the white one is partially a boa, the red one a lion, the green one a scorpion. But they all have human faces, unfortunately.) At this point, the land one is the anomaly. We may see it as, that's the way they look in their natural state at their lair, and then they evolve into different beings.
Yes, hence put it on your commander! Commanders rarely dies (in related news they often get moved to the command zone though - this is why child of alara ISNT moved to cmd zone geneally speaking).
I don't think M15 has a lot to offer Modern in general. In terms of the cards you picked out I don't think AEtherspouts is very impressive - as your opponent gets to choose whether the card goes on top or bottom they get decide what creatures they want to draw or whether they just put them all on the bottom (I'd like it more if it was like Plow Under but even then in Modern you can always use fetchlands to shuffle things off the top).
Perilous Vault seems worse than O-Stone in most regards. As you mentioned, the choice of being able to keep your Angel or other important permanents is superior. The main difference is that it exiles which only feels like it has fringe relevance against Persist and Undying creatures. Certainly not a bad card but I don't think it's as good as O-Stone and is sideboard material at best.
There's an idea. Karn deck, avarice amulet, homeward path. Make it a creature and it'll come running home.
I second the hate for Jace and love for Tamiyo.
I found this interesting article on the motherboard that explains what every planeswalker is doing right now. Basically, Jace is ruling Ravnica while Tamiyo is durdling around and ogling Avacyn or something. There's some sexist rant to be made here.
I'm sort of tired of Ajani and Garruk, too. We already had an Ajani literally TWO MONTHS AGO. Did we really need another one? Especially one that just reassembles some of his previous abilities?
And Garruk is cool, sure. I'm a green player, go Garruk, kill all those other buffoons and everything. But he's had seven incarnations now, if you count the Veil-Cursed and the Slayer. SEVEN. I get that the Lorwyn Five will always have an edge over everyone else. But how come that Liliana, who's also one of the original five, only had three versions, and only one of them is really powerful? (Speaking of which, M15 is a great core set, probably the best since M11, but if they wanted to make it *perfect* they would have reprinted Liliana of the Veil for the same reason they reprinted Chord of Calling. Maybe they didn't want her in the next Standard, but I feel like she can't be much more dangerous than Chord in a restricted environment).
This is why what they've done with Nissa is amazing. Nobody even remembered Nissa existed, and now she's one of the best green walkers even printed. More things like this, less Jace 15.0 and Ajani 12.0 please.
I thought I changed that. I'm sorry I'll get it fixed right now! Thanks for the heads up!
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thanks Matthew & Zach. On the M2G1 sac decision to smokestack, I agree it was a tough choice, I felt like skullclamp was my only way out, essentially hope to draw a land and then clamp to draw hopefully a bunch of moxes and such that could be saced later to smokestack. That said if I kept cradle maybe I would be able to play more things to then sac to smokestack. Either way I think I had lost but definitely could have been a mistake.
I was thinking about your recent Suicide Black deck when I reviewed Resolute Archangel. Might be sweet to go Suicide Orzhov with it.
Can't believe I missed Master of Predicaments. That's going straight into my super casual Zedruu fun deck.
You lose control of the amulet when the equipped creature dies. Otherwise I'd agree.
Let me put it this way: I was doing a ton of VMA events. Prior to that, I hadn't played limited in years this side of beta testing. Amazingly fun format. So many cards which I wanted but which were out of my price range are now much more available. Being too successful is a much better problem than its opposite, certainly from a customer perspective. Port is so high mainly because the one format it was in wasn't fun. Likewise Misdirection. Had they been in Modern Masters
VMA drafts may continue, but M15 is coming within two weeks and it will impact to the draft pace of VMA. Maybe it won't be that drastically, we will see...
Why do you think Pod dropped so much?
I think you underestimate Avarice amulate. It is very nice on your commander, at least for colors without too much card draw.
I'm tired of Jace too. What about Tamiyo? I wouldn't mind some more moonfolk.
Very nice, I think you're pretty much spot on for the most part. I'm not going to get around to a review so I'm just going to add some quick thoughts here.
Avatar Cycle: They seem good at first, but they are supreme mana hogs. And a lot of decks can't afford the 5 mana required to activate them. That being said, while the White one is probably the best, I really like the Phyrexian one.
Slivers: Ugh. But at least they aren't humanoid anymore.
Ob Nixilis: At first I wasn't as excited about him as you are, but after seeing just how often people tutor it is going to be pretty powerful. He effectively crushes ramp decks. But decks that like to tutor for non-ramp cards will sometimes just go for an answer. Still, 10 life is not insignificant even in a format where you start at 40. He's going to make some people cry, so if you use him as your commander expect to have a huge target on your head.
Other new legends: None of them really excite me. But that's just me.
Planeswalkers: They're good. Except Jace. Can we get a new Blue planeswalker please? I'm tired of this guy.
Favorite card: Chasm Skulker. Just lots of cool flavor, and great with card draw decks. I like Genesis Hydra also. Master of Predicaments is my favorite "fun" card.
Apparently one of your ears resembles a cat...
I like Dio too, I like Ozzy (saw him in concert once, that was cool), thanks. It's a nice change from all the bad music i'm forced to listen to at work. :)
I'm all ears.
Oh yeah, I need to get back to you with a few things (whereas the Robin one – merely on account of him being the faster responder – is ready to go, we'll see it soon enough, yours probably one week later.)
Thanks for the positive response. I have not yet dived in to Legacy or Vintage and I guess the main reason for that is that it is a fair step up in cost over other constructed formats. I will keep my eye out for it in future though