No Treasure Cruise? No Torrent Elemental? No Lightning Strike? No Shaman of the Great Hunt?Ordeal is junk, Palm is VERY conditional and sits around in your hand a lot, Stoke is tough with the critter base you have and Wold Slash is just Shock with an irrelevant ability, (NOBODY plays Fog effects).
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Could not agree more.Because you are trying to hit pretty much every avenue available to your colors it is really hard to give you advice on what to do. Unfocused decks like this are like talking to someone with ADD that are on crack. It is next to impossible to interject anything constructive when the main subject changes every 5 seconds.I'd be happy to help you out with this when it is a little more focused and you can explain in the comments what it is you are trying to achieve with the deck...
Can't see making this without Blue and Dig Through Time...?http://www.mtgvault.com/magicviking/decks/waste-not-the-dark-deal/
Mana Tithe does not really fit as this is as far from a control deck as you can get. If you worry about protecting your guys then run Brave the Elements as it can be used offensively as well.Mirror Entity seems far too cute by far when you could use that slot for 1 more Elspeth or even better to load up on the powerhouse Knight of the Reliquary.You are also going to need some maindeck graveyard hate in here to deal with Snaps and the like. I know they are not Knights but Dryad Millitant and/or Scavenging Ooze fits that bill and are damn good critters to boot.Sejiri Steppe slows you down a bit and with an ability that is only sometimes useful and a complete dud if you are playing BtE. Maybe look into lands like Gavony Township, Ghost Quarter or other utility lands KotR can got get you.
Dont forget that in Blue you also have the new monster Treasure Cruise available!
Personally I'd go GU for the Blighted Agent and Gitaxian Probes but I completely understand the Black as Stinger and Unearth are powerful draws.You can actually play this in BUG with the dual and Cycle lands available...
Ops, missed that one!Then go Vines and Mutagenic, (in that order).
Off the top of my head:With 16 ETB tapped lands you have no early game and are literally giving away tempo to your opponent. Consider some pain lands to help speed things up.Dump Titan's Strength for the new Red Berserk: Temur Battle RageKick Tymaret out and fill the spot with something triggering Temur Battle Rage Ferocious ability.Drop a Downfall for the more flexible Utter End.Hope that helps...
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Before you add any of those pumpers you need to dump your Giant Growth for 4 Invigorate.
Running White without Knights of the Reliquary is just pointless.
Sometimes you have to trade bulk to get what you want. I just traded aprox 15 cards to get 1 more Sorin for one of my standard decks and 1 Dark Confidant for one of my modern decks. It was a trade that worked for both of us as he got 1/2 a deck he wanted to build and I got the missing pieces I needed for my decks...
Brawler could be ok but it is WAY to early to speculate on FR cards yet with only a handful spoiled.Brimaz is expensive because he is good. Trade for 1 or 2 if you can, you wont regret it.Another warrior that is not expensive and might work for you is Tormented Hero.
Tokens and Stoke the Flames with Grand Masters buyback looks painful in standard and modern.UR burn splashing W seems like it would benefit the most by recycling draw spells to fuel the burn or even set up a soft lock with hard counters while say a Delver or Young Pyromancer does the dirty work...?
Agreed. I use TCGPlayer as my pricepoint because there are multiple vendors competing for my $ and I can in fact click a button and actually buy the card for that price right there and then. Real world pricing in real time.
It's also a $2 card. A playset of those eats up half his budget. That is a pricey Giant Growth...
Sorin has to be in the main. His +1 is fantastic in a critter heavy deck and his -2 can help you rebuild after a board wipe.Your removal seems very costly and more suited for a control type deck, not a horde style that wants to drop threats every turn. With all the token decks running around I would mainboard Bile Blight.You also need to smooth out your mana. Urborg is an auto include and you might even consider running 2 in here.I know he is not a warrior, (neither is the terrible Ripper), but where is Brimaz? The ultimate "weenie" badass is missing from a weenie deck!
More Wild Defiance, Rangers Guile for protection, Unnatural Predation to bust through chump blockers, Invigorate for a more effective pump. More critters like Ichorclaw Myr, (a must have), and Rot Wolf, (curve topper)....and there is always Swiftfoot Boots...
Just played this in a local Modern tournament and it did surprisingly well!Match 1 was against a UR Aggro where I had tempo advantage the whole time and he could not stick Delver or YP. 2-0. Allstar: SwiftspearMatch 2 I ran into Tron and between Ghost Quarter and a couple of well timed Assaults it was never a match. 2-0. Allstar: 50/50 split between GQ and Assault.Match 3 was a blowout against a Jund list with 3 Ooze main deck and Relic of Progenitus in the SB. 0-2. Allstar: His Scavenging Ooze.Match 4 turned out strange against a rougeish UW control build that I could not quite figure out and whiffed on my sideboarding for game 2 and likely gave that one away but recovered in game 3 by simply going all out aggro with Stoke the Flames as a curve topper. Allstar: Young Pyromancer.Finished preliminary rounds in 3rd position and were set for playoff against the deck ranked 2nd.Playoff semi-finals I got to face off against what I normally play in this format, Death and Taxes! However this D&T build had Wingmate Rocs in it? After the game he stated that the idea of flickering a Wingmate was just too sexy a prospect for him not to try. That said, the rest of the deck was hating in all the wrong places when paired up against mine, (no Dryad Militant), so it ended up being a relatively simple affair as soon as Assault came online. 2-0. Allstar: Assault.Finals against the same Jund list that wiped the floor with me in the preliminary rounds and I managed to steal game 1 by outracing his removal before he Reliced up and it was all over. 1-2. Allstar: His sideboard.As long as this deck does not get hated out like the Jund list did to it I would say that it has some merit and is set to surprise quite a few decks that are running light on the graveyard hate. It was surprisingly stable game 1 and in most all games I never really felt I was out of it until the yard hate hit. Not bad for a budget build with next to no playtesting behind it!
Try 2 Ghost Quarter instead, I can pretty much guarantee you'll love what they will do for you!
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