dknight27

ya, I know what you mean. it probably is too temperamental for competitive play, but I think it could stand in casual at least. and it is a fun concept

damnit. ive been forgetting to click the modern button when I search lately. oh well, switching it out for sakura tribe elder. doesn't hurt the deck that much.

unfortunately gilded lotus does pretty much nothing for you in here. as soon as you play it, you have enough lands to do pretty much everything else in your deck, so its not needed late game, and if you wanted to do it faster with chief engineer, the same thing applies. because you have the engineer, you don't really need it.

plus, with only 2 copies, you are much more likely to draw it late game when you REALLY don't need it.

better, but it could still use a little work. i love invisible stalker in here. he should be able to chip away about 5-7 life, which is exactly what you need to otk with psychatog.

vampire nighthawk is also good cause it gives you board control and can win back some life if the opponent is running a hard aggro build.

but the rest of the deck could use a little work. ordeal of erebos has no place in here. i know you want to put it on stalker, but it is a dead draw until you have a stalker, and you cant afford a dead draw in a combo deck like this.

mana leak is a worse version of counterspell. exchange them, your lands should be able to handle the 2 blue cost.

vapor snag doesnt really help you here. sure, it will buy you a turn, but your deck is a long term win strategy, so a turn really wont help you that much. if you want to run more effective removal, i would run 4 damnations. they wont really hurt you that much as you are running so few creatures, and it will devastate most opponents who rely on some kind of creature presence. this will also clear the field for psychatogs otk.

careful study isnt really needed with traumatize in the deck, so i would swap it out for ponder. ponder is arguably the best turn 1 in magic (along with thoughtseize which you also have going for you), and it will help you find your combo pieces much more quickly.

im not that big a fan of dismember, but if it works for you, go for it.

psychatog's best friends are mill cards that you use on yourself, not discard stuff that actually takes away from his ability to pump himself up

oblivion crown, ordeal or erebos, and zombie infestation don't help you at all in this deck. traumatize is the ideal card to run, as it will give you around 20 cards in the grave with a single shot, which will give you the ammo to pump out the damage with psychatog.

also, your mana curve is way too low to run 25 lands. 22 would be much better, even if you run 4 copies of traumatize, which you definitely should.

goldenglow moth doesnt really fit in here. if you are going for a white weenie build, you have to go all out with it or you will lose by running out of steam. the moth gives you 4 life sure, and will chump block for you, but white weenie isnt really concerned about that. you need something that will help you hit the aggro win as fast as possible.

might i suggest 2 isamaru and 2 soldier of the panthion

mind twist doesnt actually work well in most cases. you need to pay at least 4 for it to be more effective than other discard options, and by the time you get 4 mana available, it is more than likely that the opponent has already used up most of his hand. its better to stick with a sure and cheaper discard that you can hit them with early and deprive them of a combo piece or a win condition than to stick it out for the big hand grabber

mind's eye isnt really needed considering i will be hopefully drawing an extra card each turn, so i would rather give the card spot to something else. bident is already in here. ive never been that big a fan of cyclonic rift. sure, it wipes the board for you, but you have to shell out 7 mana for it, and you have to wait around until that happens. i would rather have something i can use on the spot than something i would have to wait for unless im siding it in for something specific.

assemble the legion is a must in here. as soon as your deck runs out of steam, it puts you right back in it

normally I hate using dolmen gate. its one of the best cards ever made, especially since it can be played in modern. but you are right, its very necessary in here to keep the tokens alive to use for chump blockers

10 times isnt a big enough sample size. you have a 3 card combo that also requires 2 mana ramps to go off turn 1, which is ridiculously unlikely.

in order for a turn 1 you need in your hand- land, dark ritual, simian spirit guide, rite of flame, waste not, and wheel of fortune, and another card.
mass hysteria must be drawn by the combo or be that other card. on top of this, you have no guarantee that your opponent is running creatures, or in what proportion they are to the deck, or if they are running many lands at all. plenty of vintage and legacy decks dont run many lands but are pure speed combo decks that go off with only 1 land on the field.

so, even if you get your 7 part combo off turn 1, which is highly unlikely, your opponent still needs to discard the right cards in order for you to either draw the pieces necessary to complete the win, or pump out enough tokens to swarm. either way, you have no way of knowing on here whether it worked or not.

i realize that grapeshot is your alternate combo, in case you end up drawing through the deck off of waste not instead of producing tokens, but thats also unlikely to hit correctly. you would need to play 19 other spells that turn to get the otk, and thats extremely unlikely, even with running 3 demonic tutors. again, the entire combo is contingent on what the opponent discards.

and since this is a casual deck, there are much better choices than elixir of immortality and reforge the soul (which will almost never work as you wont draw it first that turn but because of your combo.

good point, subbing in dictate for glory right now

ive built at least 10 decks using the cards and combos you describe above. this one is meant to be different in that it relies on dumping your hand for burn then refueling it with diminishing returns.

scepter is awesome indeed, but if you don't build the deck around it, it falls flat. I wanted this build to be able to operate without it. same thing with snapcaster

banning it in legacy is just another instance of the bullshit format control magic does

whoops, got in the habit. its modern

its not an edh

baneslayer angel is a must in here. he is your win condition and gives you massive lifelink. i prefer nyx-fleece ram over lone missionary

i made a modern white red build of this concept here- http://www.mtgvault.com/dknight27/decks/modern-eidolon-burn/

absolutely. what a devastating blow. sac a creature, get your token, opponent loses a creature, scavenge the creature, double up your creature in 1 swing.

im not sure i can make it fit though, especially since it costs 3 black. im always afraid of trip costs in modern cause the lands arnt that good

fated conflagration is a must in here. it is an absolutely devastating burn card, and it lets you set up your next 2 turns (hopefully), which is super important in a burn deck.

you are right in your description, your curve needs some serious work. i would suggest going RU so you could use 4 ponders and 4ish preordains. i dont really know why the rest of the magic community isnt as in love with those card as i am, but its hard to find a better turn 1 in mtg than throwing out a ponder. i know they will burn you late game, but its worth it to speed up the deck and your own development.

diminishing returns is an excellent consideration for blue in here, as it wont hurt you and will reset your hand (which is always in trouble in burn decks), but the best news, it gives your opponent more ammo to hang himself while giving you the burn power you need to finish him off. the hand reset is of extra importance if you run pyrokenesis and fireblast cause they murder your card advantage and development, both of which always hurt with burn.

anyway, thats how i would handle the burn version of this deck. another way to do it would be to go RW and use baneslayer and assemble the legion and do a longer version of the build