I'll pull Mind Spring. But not both, as I have recovered from way too many games by using one. And I'm still a fan of Remand, and I'd rather keep Mana Leak in. I'm sure I'll find something. I'm still looking for a place for Memory Lapse. And Energy Flux is good... I'll try to find a slot.
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That's actually a really sick combo, didn't think of that. What would you suggest I pull?
Hmm, that could do some real work in here. Especially with High Tide.
Hmm, I hadn't thought about those... I appreciate your advice, I definitely want to put Future Sight in. Mana doubling effects are exactly what I want here, High Tide probably being the favoured one since it's an instant. As for the Fountain, it will probably do very well in here. And I like Proteus Staff, but I think I'll have to take a pass. Turning a drake into a Snapcaster Mage seems somewhat underwhelming. I think I'd rather fill the slot with another cantrip.
I've noticed a few cards that seem to be missing, but it looks like a very fun deck, and certainly something I would play. Tarmogoyfs wouldn't go amiss. I think Remand is too good to miss out on the mainboard in an aggro deck that includes blue. Maybe an Electrolyze could go? Ordinarily, I would suggest Copperline Gorge, but there's just not enough green in the deck. Most of the time, that would just be a nonbasic mountain that enters tapped. Other than that, though, the deck looks interesting and fun!
I'm having a hard time taking anything in the sideboard out for evacuation. What would you suggest?
Combo decks are usually disrupt-able. That's their downfall.
You're*. And I understand modern quite well. I'll admit, I'm not nearly as versed in standard, but I do still understand that what to do with a sideboard. I'm not a child. I've been playing magic for some time, and I know how things work. Card advantage is always the most important thing. Jund in modern was really only big because of it. Thoughtseize, Inquisition, Liliana, Bloodbraid, cards that generate massive card advantage. That made the deck work. That's why it was successful. That is why Underworld Connections and Duress are in his sideboard. Lifebane Zombie, too. It's the reason he chose Bloodgift Demon and Griselbrand over any other demon in standard.
Pyroclasm. Jund Charm. Any sort of wrath effect. Path to Exile.
Baneslayer is equivalent with Griselbrand here. Simple win condition. Disenchant is for Abrupt Decay and soon to be Golgari Charm (currently Naturalize). The aggro defense here is Killing Wave. He's mainboarding 3 Mutilates in the place of Kitchen Finks already, and killing wave either kills the enemy or all of their creatures and leaves you with several 2/2s. That's for aggro decks. There were definitely legendary threats in the format. One particularly notable one being Thrun, the Last Troll. Exactly the kind of thing to come in against Finkel's deck. Clique is his Duress. It's for card advantage. Simply card advantage. Since you watched the live stream, I don't need to tell you (but I will) that the winning deck, played by Yuuya Watanabe, was sideboarding Thoughtseize, not to mention that it came in against his opponent in the finals. It came in against what Yasooka had described as a "control deck". Underworld connections is the same as Duress. You board it in against control decks to bury them in card advantage. That's how Yasooka beat Finkel. Raw card advantage. I understand all right, I think you don't. The cards in the sideboard are mirrors of cards in the deck with similar functionality, like Arbor Elf and Llanowar Elves. By the way, you made a grammatical error in your first sentence. You used the term "there" when the proper term would have been "their".
Makes sense.
Not sign in blood. Altar's Reap for this deck.
Skirsdag Flayer is good, but requires a large mana investment. The deck could use some instant speed removal, though, for really big threats like Griselbrand.
I disagree with that one. He is worse for the deck, but he is still pretty powerful. He has an ETB ability, so if they remove him (and they're bound to, he's too big a threat not to) you still get value. He's removal and heavy creature power in one card. He's big and flies, and in the right deck, is little quirk isn't even considerable to be a problem. For this deck, though, Harvester of Souls is much better.
What red demons are these? Rakdos, Master or Cruelties, and Sire of Insanity? Only three red demons in standard, and I wouldn't even run them.
John Finkel at the 2012 World Championship ran UW control. If you look at his decklist here you may see a couple of one-ofs in the sideboard. Hard to argue with Jon Finkel.http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=1059500
Could be worth a try, though. Modern can be a brutal format, just a warning.
I highly doubt that apostles would stand very well in modern. Modern is most of what I play. Any variation of apostles has to be perfectly sculpted for the format by someone who knows it perfectly. This includes metagame, cards, synergies, how to build a perfect sideboard, etc. and that is not always an easy thing to do. I am not even there yet and I have been playing modern basically since Innistrad came out. Not too long, but nowhere close to skilled enough to build modern apostles.
Sorry, yeah that was me. Forgot to check the user.
Never been seen for a reason. Aristocrats is its own deck.
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