The Enduring Modern Ideal

by danne601 on 12 June 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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Deck Description

Well , this deck is about building up you mana pool, so you will be able to aford casting Enduring Ideal while not taking to much damage in the progress.
Enduring Ideal, starts the great and awsome process that each upkeep lets you get to search for enchantments and put them into play.

The enchantments that locks down the field is:

*Form of the Dragon: This card makes it unpossible for creatures without flying to attack you, burns 5 damage every upkeep to creatures or players and on every endstep your life will become 5.
Form of the Dragon is the main and only win-con for this deck before sideboard

*Dovescape: This card Counters every non-creature spell, but the caster of the spell gets X numbers of 1/1 flying tokens into the field were X is the mana cost.
Dovescape is the main lockdown spell for burn, and interference with your win-con

*Meishin, the Mind Cage: This card lowers all the creatures attack power with X were X is the numbers of cards in your hand.
Meishin, the Mind Cage is great at making the tokens and all outher flyers that Form of the Dragon can't stop usless and therefor completes the lockdown.

*Leyline of Sanctity for me is self explanitory, it keeps the burn and hand-control away in early game.

The loop-whole to this lockdown, is creatures that destroys enchantments like Qasali Pridemage and cards like this, so you might not be 100% safe even if all the parts to the lock are down, but what i have learned playing this deck is that you shouldn't get too greedy and get Form of the Dragon out too early, because sometimes the other player get an enchantment removal and then you will sit there with nothing and you life has got down to 5 and he can just finish you off with some lame creatures.
Instead you should get Dovescape, that card, locks down pretty much every enchantment removal and other spells that could f**k the combo up. When the field is locked it's LOCKED, which mean that they wont be able to do anything about your Dragon. By then it doesn't matter how many turns it takes to burn him down, so don't be greedy and risk too much by geting the Form of the Dragon out too early, that card makes you vulnerable if you can't defend it.

*Path to Exile: a cheap removal good for nearly every match ups.



For the mana ramp and digging spells i have chosen to go with following:

*Pentad Prism, which is a great 2 mana boost artifact spell for a one time use, like casting Enduring Ideal.

*Sylvan Ranger, which lets you serch for lands while are a okey chumper for you opponents monsters, and therefor he doen't only look for lands he often prevents damage from creatures hitting me.

*Sakura-Tribe Elder, which looks for land and chumps, almost same as the Gatecreeper Vine, but the effect doesn't go through untill he gets sacrificed so sometimes the effect have to be used before it gets to chump, but you shouldn't be too hasty with the sacrificing if you don't need the mana directly he might aswel stay a bit longer on the field.

*Court Hussar, which can be used as both digging for Enduring and digging for mana, aswell as chumping or even standing his ground against some creatures.

*Augury Owl, which is there for the scy effect obviously and chumping of course ;)

*See Beyond, which is a good use for digging and throwing the enchantments back from your hand to the library.

The reason I choosed alot of creatures for digging and ramping is to prevent alot of damage to the lifepoint by creatures my opponent throw at me, and that makes me get a litle more time to set up the lock i need.

In the land pool I have only one thing to coment on. I have put one Stomping ground in there so i could with some help from Pentad Prism cast Form of the dragon directly from my hand. This is only the last way out or if your opponent keeps a realy slow tempo. I have actually won a couple of games by casting that from my hand.

I have tried cards like Lotus Bloom and Peer Through Depths which is good on the papper, but then you get a lack of creature defence early on, and sometimes it takes a couple of more turns to dig up that card you need from your library and by then it might be too late since you have already have taken to much damage.


SIDEBOARD:

*Phyrexian Unlife: It's a realy good savior card for those uncertain situations!

*Greater Auramancy: For more protection from enchantment destroy.

*Leyline of the Void: Use against the grave depending decks.

*Nevermore: Great for countering you opponents sidebord, for example Gaddock Teeg and Qasali Pridemage.

*Volition Reins: Instead of destroying, why not take it over?

*Genju of the Realm: An easy alternative win-con.

*Celestial Archon: An alternative win-con. Most of the times combined with Eldrazi Conscription, but might sometime Bestow another creature for the victory.

*Eldrazi Conscription: Combined with a creature it's a deadly combo.

*Boseiju, Who Shelters: A land that makes spells like Enduring Ideal uncounterable for those enoying matchups.

*Sylvan Scrying: Is a good card for fetching Boseiju, Who Shelters, or other land cards if you already got is on the field.

*Supreme Verdict: A good card for clearing the field for those nasty aggro matches.

I realy enjoy combo decks and this deck i pretty damn cool, in my opinion. It's so fun to play. There is also alot of ways you can toy with the sideboard, which is awsome! It's also wining against the more "turnament qualified decks" which makes it so Enjoyable.

This deck is fun, this deck is good and this deck is EPIC! ;)

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Combo
  • Epiq

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for The Enduring Modern Ideal

This deck seems pretty good!

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Posted 31 December 2013 at 23:59

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It does, doesn't it?
Try it out and you will find out just how good it is!;)

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Posted 01 January 2014 at 16:02

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Phyrexian unlife should be in the maindeck, It is part of the "can't kill me combo"

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 21:47

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Hi there, I have seen many Enduring Ideal decks, but this deck looks more balanced and versatile, I like the way you have focused on creature defence.

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Posted 01 January 2014 at 16:40

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Thanks you.

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Posted 01 January 2014 at 16:42

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Augur of bolas might not be the best alternative, have you tried Augury Owl or Omenspeaker out?
They can find you not only Instants and sorcerys, they finds you whatever you feel like getting.

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Posted 01 January 2014 at 16:52

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Accuarly that's not a bad idea, I will definitely try those cards out, thanks!

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Posted 01 January 2014 at 16:57

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Augury Owl might be a bit better than Augury of bolas, thx :)

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 18:18

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- Supreme Verdict x3
+ Path to Exile x3
(in main)

With path in main you can interact with creatures earlier and you will free up spots in your sideboard for other cards.

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Posted 01 January 2014 at 17:26

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Agreed, this probably better.

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Posted 01 January 2014 at 17:51

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plus you don't waste any turns by casting Path since it so cheep, Supreme is a bit expensive sometimes

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Posted 01 January 2014 at 17:53

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It's someting that have crossed my mind too, but is kind of good having a card that clears the field from creatures for the aggro matchups, also it can't be countered, but i will think about it.

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Posted 01 January 2014 at 18:09

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Just a thought, but sometimes when i want to put Eldrazi Conscription into play i usualy cast it on one of the fetching creaures instead of wasting a turn by search for Celestial Archon, but Gatecreeper is a defender witch doesn't attak...
isn't there another card you can put in there instead of the defender to get more targets with Eldrazi?

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Posted 26 January 2014 at 11:38

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Perhaps Farhaven Elf?

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Posted 26 January 2014 at 11:40

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I see what you getting at but i'm not that comfortable puting in a 3 drop though...

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Posted 26 January 2014 at 11:48

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I searched a bit and found Sylvan Ranger that might be beter than the Gatecreeper, it's pretty much the same card but without defender

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Posted 26 January 2014 at 11:55

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Removed Seal of Primordium from sidebord and added Nevermore instead

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Posted 30 January 2014 at 21:06

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Removed Blood Moon from sideboard and added Phyrexian Unlife.

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Posted 04 February 2014 at 19:22

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mystic decree? (enchantment for 2u&2c "all creatures loose flying and islandwalk)

would work great with form of the dragon

and maybe island sanctuary? (you can choose to skip your draw phase, if you do, creatures can't attack you until your next turn unless they have flying or islandwalk)

just some thoughts.. looks solid tho.

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Posted 12 February 2014 at 20:26

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Mystic Decree is good, but it ain't legal in modern...
same goes for Island Sanctuary.

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Posted 13 February 2014 at 12:14

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Out of curiosity, would it be advantageous to drop an Archetype of Imagination in there to fetch with Enduring Ideal as well? That way, all your opponents creatures no longer have flying which strengthens your lockdown. CMC is high though so I'm not 100% on that. What are your thoughts?

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Posted 26 February 2014 at 18:04

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That could accuarly be a good card, to bad it's so expensive to cast normaly, but I will defenetly try it out. I placed one copy in the sideboard meanwhile.
Thanks for you input! :)

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Posted 27 February 2014 at 13:34

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I placed one copy of the Archetype of Imagination in main and removed a copy of Meishin, the Mind Cage :)

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Posted 02 March 2014 at 08:20

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Dovescape and Guile plus any other noncreature spell you could go infinite doves I think.

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Posted 08 July 2014 at 23:51

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Guile is an awesome creature, but I can't realy rely on getting it in time and I can't search for it with Enduring Ideal, but it's a cool combo, I will defenetly remember it, maybe the card can fit the deck down the line, but not right now.

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Posted 09 July 2014 at 16:18

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Love the deck. I think archetype of endurance and lotus bloom would help!

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Posted 13 October 2014 at 02:23

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I played with lotus bloom for a while at the begining, but, it's only good if you draw it on your starting hand and this deck doesn't realy mulligan well since you need alot of cards.

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Posted 14 October 2014 at 19:02

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