raginggoblin

Cartel aristocrat would be pretty good here if you're willing to splash white.
It's a sac engine for apostles to trigger your blood artist. It also makes a great combo with Skirsdag.

It's not a mana ability

So... delete everything you put in the deck description and replace it with "be polite". Cause that's what it looks like your goal is here.

It is SEVERELY important that people continue to be critical, if not harsh, to improve others. Magic, as a community driven game, requires communal interactions to improve overall play.

From the first time I joined this site over a year ago, the player base has always been bad. It's not rude, just factual. Overall the player base of this site tends to be worse than other deck building sites, and while that's not a bad thing, it just means that other players with more experience can get (what seems like) unnecessarily frustrated with other people's sub-par decks.

Hopefully in the future people will be more open for advice, because from my experience that is THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM with this site: the stubbornness and inability to accept criticisms that most of the player base has.

The problem isn't the decks remaining on the hot page. In all honesty the bad decks should stay there until they aren't bad. If someone makes a deck that's already nearly as good as it can be for the archetype then they don't really need advice, do they?

Don't divert what I said by talking about website layouts. The only difference the layout needs to to default to NEW when you come to the site. For practicalities sake though, please understand that a lot of the points you made are flawed, albeit they were made with good intentions :)

I agree. I often have to be repetitive and stern when commenting on decks, because most decks on the hot page genuinely are bad.

LET IT BE KNOWN: there is a major difference between casual decks and bad decks. And most of the decks that have rude comments from people are not only bad, but they have owners who refuse to edit them and make them better after SO MANY COMMENTS have tried to make it better.

I am tired of seeing bad decks because:
This website is to give constructive criticisms to decks, but people REFUSE to accept any criticism beyond "nice deck look at mine?"

It's retarded, to be honest.

I actually played a deck of 4 treasure hunts, 4 zombie infestation, 4 reliquary tower, 24 swamp, and 24 island at a modern tournament at my shop once. It seems like it will be super funny, and it is, but it gets old fast and tbh its actually pretty terrible.

I really like the concept, but it seems very slow, especially for vintage.

Really? My shop is like 60% melira pod. hm...

Maze is a little slow, and bog isn't really the right kind of graveyard hate for modern archetypes...

The inquisitions should stay though. G1 versus melira pod: inquisition, hit melira, surgical extraction, they scoop.

Dark depths can only tap for mana when you have an urborg out. And a couple greaves could be nice for the token or even an obliterator.

cut ancient grudge for quasali pridemage?

Because of the cardpool in modern, and the unfortunate lack of tutors, it's probably best to try to cut some of the one of's to round off a few playsets (particularly isochron scepter and silence, they are a far more devastating combo in modern than legacy).
I like the curse of the cabal one of though, very nice card.

Because smallpox is the only card that detriments you, it's probably ok to go to 23 or 24 lands rather than 26.
That's all i've got for now, but i'll let you know if i think of anything else. I love this archetype.

danny, stop making standard decks that cost more than my modern deck.

I like it though, what'll replace griselbrand and farseek when they rotate?

Try cutting cystbearer for ichorclaw myr. He costs less mana and still has the toughness for when he gets blocked.

I'm not self glorifying. That list isn't mine. UG Infect is a defined deck and my link is an example of a deck that can win in tournaments.

The reason I'm saying it needs to look like that deck is because for infect to be consistent and good, most of the deck is a pretty static shell.

As for the defense of Vines, it is good for people to offer input and constructive criticism; however, there are certain cards that shouldn't be used because they just don't work for the deck. Offering the ideas of using a large late game creature for a deck that's supposed to be fast, or saying to use equipment that gives shroud in a deck that relies on pumping your creatures, those comments aren't helpful and they just troll the deck maker.

Expedition map and Beseech the queen are some good cards to have in a hexdepths deck. I'd cut temporal extortion and zenith for them.

Sorry i didnt know if you had a budget since you're using jace. if budget is an issue then wasteland can be replaced with ghost quarter and counterspell is fine.

You still need to get rid of merfolk of the pearl trident, its just a 1 mana 1/1. use cursecatcher or cosi's trickster instead.

? correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not) but I never said anything about mutagenic growth. That card is the reason good infect decks can win turn 2.

At this point we need to understand that Vines is toxic and is trying to troll. just ignore him, he's bad anyway.

Yes Master and Lord are the same, that's why you want both. Because that is the staple of the deck.

Also, your land base should -8 island. +4 wasteland, +4 mutavault.

If it's legacy FoW should replace Rune Snag. And Standstill should replace merrow commerce.

I'd say cut vapor snag for aether vial. Trust me, when i first started playing merfolk i didnt like vial much, but now i know that it is easily the best card in the deck.

Vines, please consider what you say before you make yourself sound more foolish.