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This is my build on Affinity. Please comment your ideas or opinions! Also please like my deck if you can!
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x4 of thoughtcast and galvanic blast seems excessive, id cut one of each and add in 2 ensoul artifact. ensoul a darksteel citadel and some decks just cant win
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Decks named Jund. Also decks that don't play path.
No Mycosynth Golem in an artifact affinity deck?? I mean, this isn't actually affinity (aside from Thoughtcast), but Mycosynth Golem would still make getting things out much easier. If you do add that, maybe a couple high-cmc cards would be nice (Platinum Angel, Platinum Emperion, Blightsteel Colossus, Darksteel Forge, etc) Also, Mycosynth Lattice would help if you actually want to reinforce Affinity. These are all just suggestions, and if you don't want to add more affinity stuff, you can probably ignore them (except Mycosynth Golem, as he helps tons to get out artifact creatures even if you don't have other affinity stuff)
this is actually a common competetive modern deck which has won many many many tournaments in the past years. Neither is there anything to improve about this list nor is it worth to mark this as unloved because its probably the most 0815 deck there is in the format
That's pretty unfair, there are lots of different versions of affinity, it has quite a few slots to play with. Tempered steel? Ensoul artifact? Dispatch? Tarmo-affinity? C'mon man
There are many versions of affinity, but there are only a couple tier 1 lists. Tempered Steel is a budget build that sometimes gets there because affinity.
Good list in general.I would run 1 more Memnite and 2 Ensoul Artifact but I think that's an individual choice.
I would run 4 Ensoul Artifact
Are you sure you wouldn't run 4 Ensoul Artifact?
Hey there, I've been testing against affinity with a new milldeck for a long time.I've been playing without sideboard with both decks so far, but I want to moveon and use the sideboards now.Can I get you to take a look at the deck and decide on how you would sideboard against it?
Hey there, I've been testing against affinity with a new milldeck for a long time.I've been playing without sideboard with both decks so far, but I want to moveon and use the sideboards now.Can I get you to take a look at the deck and decide on how you would sideboard against it?http://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/tournament-ready-killnmill/I would probably side in a shatterstorm, one more kolaghan and the two echoing truth.Your input will be much appreciated.
ok, i posted on your deck list what i think.
No no no!I wanted YOU to tell me what you would sideboard against ME with your affinity :DBe as evil as you can, really try to close me down.I have a suspicion that you might want to use bloodmoon as I have a lot of nonbasics, though I can get rid of it before it hits the table (chancellor + surgical during your opening upkeep)Knowing my decklist AND sideboard, how would you sideboard your affinity to kill me?What do you take out, what do you put in. I'll use it to play against myself :DIn return for the knowledge I'll give you the feedback of how it changes the matchup, and what works against me or not, so if you ever meet something like this, you'll know what to do!
oh ok. im sorry, i misunderstood. here is how i would side in against you.+2 thought sieze+1 spell pierce+1 blood moonwhat i would take out-2 galvanic blast-1 hangarback walker-1 master of etherium
The +side looks really good, but I think removing galvanic might be a mistake. In most games against affinity it's the hedron crabs that mill most of all my mill cards as they can mill whenever I get land. I think you would be better of with -2 vault skirge instead as my main game plan is not to remove all your life. With the added info on hedron crab, would you reconsider your sb or keep it?
I'm back from testing your sb!I went full freak and played all games with blood moon and a glimmerpost in all opening hands + 5 random.Blood moon was less usefull than I thought it would be. It locked down my lands okay, but gave me the mana for running the deck more as a BR. Blood moon locks down 8 flyers in your deck which has often been a problem for my deck, and with all the removal I have blood moon locks affinity down. Based on this, my suggestion of scrapping vault skirges instead of galvanic blast were wrong, though I can still recommemnd that you keep the blasts somehow as hedron crab works well as a blocker and a miller. Instead of blood moon I would try to use ghirapur æthergrid as all games turned out to be quite long. At times each deck would draw 10-12 cards in a row that were either dead or cancelled each other.
No Shrapnel Blast? It's literally one of the best cards to put in an affinity deck.
That's weird cause its fringe playable in modern affinity
Shrapnel blast is not seen that often in modern modern-designs. galvanic blast usually does the job at the cost of R and no loss of an artisfact.
I would suggest playing Shrapnel Bast if you were still playing Hangarback Walker, but otherwise GB is much better.
Maybe drop one Mox Opal? It doesn't look like you're going to get mana screwed, you have 16 land and four spring leaf drum already, plus once you draw the second one its just a dead drop. Otherwise it looks really solid!
I reckon keep 4x mox opal since it powers arcbound ravenger and cranial plating.
4x Opal has always been correct.
sword of the meek has been unbanned in modern...
do you think it just slots right into affinity? I was thinking it would be more like legacy, played in prison/control/tezzeret decks
^ Sword of the Meek is an inevitable win condition that slots into a control shell with Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas.
am I really getting down voted for a question? I sure don't see anyone playing it in affinity...
There have been a few. Very few, but modern seems to be allways changing these days, so who knows :D
I like the aether grid/ensnaring bridge an package for affinity, turns into a prison deck
And most of affinity's creatures slip through the bridge.
Plus Cranial Plating has that handy instant speed equip ability that slips through as well. Why this card was ever printed as a common is a mystery.
I'd say, cut 1 drum, 1 thoughtcast and try out 2 ensnaring bridges.
What does ensnaring bridge beat that the regular affinity list already can't beat? You're generally fast enough to beat any deck that is trying to go over the top, you're usually faster than most mid-range decks with a lot of evasion and the only match up that's as fast as you is infect. I mean, if you really want to sit there with no cards in hand and try to beat them down with an ornithopter or signal pest and instant speed equipping plating then sure.
During eldrazi winter affinity turned into a combo deck, running ensnaring bridge and the aether frid to lock out eldrazi
I've seen some tron beat down affinity with an emrakul or ulamog. Due to 4 pyroclasm and 4 oblivion stone, tron can actually pull through. And there are other decks that can do unusual stuff which ensnaring bridge stops if you can get to 0 cards (Elves, Infect, Hexproof).
Everything still points to it being a sideboard card. If Tron is at the point it's casting Ulamog and Emrakul you have almost no chance of winning, especially if they have a way to find Karn, or just have Karn in hand. O stone also blows up the ensnaring bridge. Ulamog also just blows up bridge.Eldrazi Winter happened, I don't recall many lists mainboarding bridges though.I honestly didn't even realize anyone was still trying to play hexproof/bogles or elves. Even so, spellskite and whipflare, which are almost always in the side, is good enough against hexproof, and aether grid shuts infect down hard.Don't get me wrong, Ensnaring bridge is a good card and is really good at what it does, but is usually not played in aggro stratagems.
bridge and grid were always side. maqy not be needed anymore, but it did function well when trying not to die to reality smasher on t3. I hate the idea of bridge just jammed in without grids to push through damage. but out of the sb it can become a solid backup plan.
Sometimes what's sideboard and what's not is a public oppinion rather than actual experience.I have often been amazed by games where I had ensnaring bridge in mainboard and won because people folded due to not having any solutions in main. Then they sideboard for a solution and usually win because my deck cannot win if they get the bridge. Think of lantern control here. Lantern control does not really optimize this way of winning, but has gotten enough tops to be a fringe deck, with ensnaring as a main.Affinity has enough ways to play through a bridge, so if it doesn't beat an aggro deck through sheer speed, it can actually win by controlling the game. As for second game with sideboard, affinity could more or less hijack the sideboard from lantern control and win by being adaptive enough to win.