Modern Populate

by TheChurchIsHere on 10 January 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (3 cards)

Creatures (2)

Instants (1)

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Deck Description

Hey guys! While waiting for more GTC spoilers, I wanted to take one last hard look at RTR. I got an idea to make the best Modern deck I could that maintains the flavor and utilizes the mechanic of each RTR guild. These are not intended to be tournament quality decks.

The first one I chose is the one I am most familiar with--Selesnya. I've been running a janky G/W populate deck since I played Selesnya at prerelease, and it's played surprisingly well for not being fully optimized. It became very apparent to me at the outset that proliferate is not worth it if you're copying tiny creatures--1/1s don't cut it, even if they have flying. 2/2 knights with vigilance are barely worth it. Once you get up to 3/3s, the mana efficiency really skyrockets--prevent all damage to you and get a 3/3 centaur for 1G? Yes, please.

Let me know what you think--what would work better? What should come out/go in? This is just a rough version, imo, and I think it could be improved. Thanks in advance for any input!

How to Play

Sideboard are cards I am considering, but unsure of.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Populate
  • G/W
  • Selesnya
  • Flavor

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

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