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My attempt at recreating the wheel or in this case a loose facsimile of a Pod deck in Modern.
If you know how to play Pod then you can navigate this. Boy are there pitfalls and mistakes will kill you. There is very little protection from boardwipes and spot removal, but there are creative things built in to help survive. The card advantage this deck brings to the table is no worse than what is provided by Melira Pod. Then again this doesn't have the power level as the older format.One cute combo consists of 6 mana, Kiora's Follower, and Yisan the Wanderer Bard. When activating Yisan, you can respond to the verse counter by untapping Yisan with Kiora's Follower and finally activating Yisan again. If you have 0 verse counters when starting, after all this you will have 2 verse counters and can now look for 2 creatures with CMC of 2. It's a cheat, but a good one.
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Play tested this for several hours and found it to have very similar results to Melira Pod.
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This is creative and cool. In fact I would be surprised not to see some stuff in Khans that helps this style of deck out. In fact, I might build a similar version of this for myself as my second standard deck. What this deck really needs is enter the battlefield effects but not many creatures right now (minus high cmc creatures) have those abiliteis that are good. If I were you however I would not run kiora and nissa. I know that they help you curve, ramp mana and protect you, however I think they take away from what this deck really is trying to do. Maybe garruk, caller would be good
Thanks for the comment. Nissa and Kiora accomplish two things a deck like this needs, lots of mana, protection, and a finisher.
The more I've tested this more irrelevant Nissa and Kiora were. The pure card advantage from both Yisan and Chord of Calling is what wins.
Also, the only thing I hate is the fact that Yisan is a legendary creature.
This isn't a problem as if he lives he generates enough card advantage for you not to notice.If he dies you just play another.
Yisan being legendary is acutally a plus. When you need to restart the process just play another one.
I think he was just saying this because in birthing pod lists you can pod twice in a turn(for cheaper than 6 mana)
That's irrelevant, Yisan being a legend allows you to reset him when needed. Flexibility, unlike Pod which relies on sacing creatures, allows for multiple cards in one turn at varying CMC. Also instant speed summoning...ballin.
Trust me I know that lol
You should add in a horizon chimera.If you have:Horizon ChimeraArchangel of ThuneFathom Magewhen you draw a card it trigger an infinite loop(sorta it can draw your whole deck)it goes: draw a card procs Chimera's lifegain.Chimera's lifegain procs Archangel's countersArchangel's counters proc fathom mage's drawfathom mage's draw procs Chimera's lifegain/repeat.I mean you already have 2/3 of the cards in your deck, this won't come up often but its a quick finisher if it happens.
I thought about this combo and truly considered it. If it was an infinite life loss engine, then I would be onboard.
I went ahead and put this back in. Works out better now with the new creature configuration.
When you used Kiora's follower to untap Yisan for the second time, would you still only get one mana cost creature, and then a second two mana cost creature?
Depending on when you activate it a second time.If you go:Activate YisanUntap in response to his triggerActivate him againBecause putting a verse counter on him is part of the activation effect you would actually get to fetch two 2 CMC creatures instead of a 1 and a 2CMC creature if you let the first trigger resolve before activating the second.
You can do it either way, depending on which creatures are needed. If you need to get two creatures in echelon then you let each Yisan activation resolve individually otherwise you can put two activations on the stack which allows you to search for two at the same verse count.
Sick deck, I've been thinking about building around Yisan, what made you go Bant?
The creatures currently in white have the best in the field abilities. From having access to Banisher Priest to having an attacking fog bank in Seraph of the Sword. White also has access to Detain. Black and Red have more aggressive plans of attack that won't allow you to survive. I think after rotation this deck will have a real chance of being tier 1 or tier 1.5.