Mind Boggling

Modern MTG73JLE

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wasterbaster says... #1

this isn't standard at all!

August 23, 2014 6:18 p.m.

kosment129 says... #2

It looks like you're trying to build bogles. So just build bogles.There isn't nearly enough heroic enablers, you've lost yourself entirely to spot removal, your manabase has too many basics for a deck this quick, and your finishers, frankly, cost too much mana to play on a twenty land base.

September 15, 2014 8:05 p.m.

If you like Unflinching Courage , why not love Armadillo Cloak ? Use it on your critters OR your opponents. It doesn't matter!!

September 17, 2014 8:19 a.m.

MTG73JLE says... #4

Armadillo Cloak is not Modern Legal.

September 17, 2014 10:13 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #5

But like..... there are only 4 creatures in here that can actually win you the game, and they dont have hexproof or anything.

September 20, 2014 5:37 p.m.

ElPared says... #6

not every enchantment deck can run Invisible Stalker .

I'd recommend Greater Auramancy instead of Congregation at Dawn , Temporal Isolation instead of Path to Exile , Kor Spiritdancer instead of Selesnya Charm , and pretty much any enchantment that buffs a creature over Vines of Vastwood .

If you're going for enchantments, use enchantments. Adding all that spot removal in isn't helping you that much, especially when there are enchantments out there that will do a similar job.

October 2, 2014 11:45 a.m.

Please take budget out of the title... affinity is cheaper than this

October 9, 2014 8:22 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #8

Well, this has changed

October 9, 2014 9:39 a.m.

MTG73JLE says... #9

It has. People keep telling me to just make bogles. So I did

October 9, 2014 11:23 a.m.

A very good sb option is Retether . Also you could add things like Commune with the Gods to help thin out your deck in mid game turns. Also goes well with Retether . Rancor is a must and you mite even think about Gatherer of Graces . Gatherer of Graces +Rancor +Kor Spiritdancer = massive card advantage!

October 10, 2014 10:46 a.m.

godofcruelty says... #11

October 11, 2014 9:47 p.m.

Slycne says... #12

As someone that played a lot of bogles last season, here's a few suggestions.

"fetch lands: thin your deck = less chance of drawing land"

While strictly a true statement, it's basically a mathematical fallacy. The actual amount of thinning equating to a spells instead of a land is like every 100 games or so. Let's say you have 10 cards in play or in hand with 2 of them being lands. So there are 18 lands still in your 50 card library. Fetching a land out takes you to 17 lands in a 49 card library. Or roughly changes from 36% of your deck is lands to 35%. Bogles runs fetches because it wants to grab Dryad Arbor in response to an edict and because the mana requirements are actually quite steep. It often wants to go T1 G, into T2 WW, into T3 WWG - or some variation there of. There's almost no coloress symbols in the whole deck, so the mana needs to be spot on.

Speaking of lands. Flooded Strand and Plains just seem very wrong. Having one of your fetches not be able to get Dryad Arbor will eventually lose you a game, and not scooping to Blood Moon by still being able to cast Nature's Claim is way more important than fetching a Plains for pretty much anything else. Try to get any green fetch and a Forest here.

Mana Tithe it's occasionally going to blow someone out, but I think it's more likely to lose your a game by being a dead card than it is to win you one. There are just better cards that can be run here.

Hyena Umbra /Spider Umbra . This is a very common initial mistake. On the surface first strike is the more relevant ability, but there are a bunch of factors that favor maxing Spider Umbra first. For starters, there's already 8 other sources of first strike in the deck, Daybreak Coronet and Ethereal Armor . Reach is also a lot more important for a number of match-ups than it might first seem. Most of the UWR decks ways to win involve countering your lifelink and keeping enough pressure in the air, and what comes up even more frequently is the affinity match-up, where Inkmoth Nexus is their out to you gaining a ton of life or likewise flying a Cranial Plating past you with one of their many evasive creatures.

godofcruelty While Spectra Ward won't knock off any of your existing auras, you still won't be able to target it with any more afterwards. You're also really not worried about getting protection really, the bogle gets really big very quickly, umbras protect it from wraths and trample and Spirit Mantle ensures that damage goes through. It's also a 5 mana spell in 20 land deck.

October 11, 2014 10:27 p.m.

godofcruelty says... #13

true. . . yeah good point. Also though, could you do me a favour and check out my Mardu deck Blade to the throat?

October 12, 2014 10:13 a.m.

MTG73JLE says... #14

Slycne thanks so much for the help, will do.

October 12, 2014 11:50 p.m.

MTG73JLE says... #15

Also, Slycne what could I use instead of Mana Tithe

October 12, 2014 11:52 p.m.

hdlu says... #16

Why are you running mana tithe, from my perspective, your going to be the aggresive deck, and using mana tithe might not be the best idea. maybe in sideboard though

October 19, 2014 10:47 a.m.

Slycne says... #17

MTG73JLE The last 3-4 slots in bogles are typically very flexible and usually reserved for a few pieces of interaction. A lot of it depends on what metagame you expect to see most. Usually it's some number of Suppression Field , Path to Exile or more Spirit Mantle . Suppression Field and Path to Exile are nice catch alls, while Spirit Mantle is great in a creature heavy meta. Mainboarding something that's good against Jeskai Ascendancy combo isn't the worst either since that deck will be very popular for the time being.

October 19, 2014 6:25 p.m.

MTG73JLE says... #18

The problem with Suppression Field is it messes up my fetches. If I need to save myself or my creature, and I don't have 2 mana, then I can do anything :( other ideas for the switch?

October 21, 2014 4:09 p.m.

mama_tom says... #19

I'm interested to know why you have only 3 Windswept Heath and 3 Wooded Foothills instead of 4 Windswept Heath and 2 Wooded Foothills. For consistancy?

December 1, 2014 5:01 p.m.

MTG73JLE says... #20

Overall, you can have any combination if the two since you only ever fetch for forests :)

December 2, 2014 8:19 a.m.

Jake1515 says... #21

This deck looks AWESOME

December 9, 2014 5:49 p.m.

JexInfinite says... #22

Take out Damping Matrix for another Stony Silence. You already have 3 Torpor Orb, (one of which I would take out for a Grafdigger's Cage or Suppression Field), to prevent ETB effects. Activated abilities of creatures are usually crap anyway.

December 13, 2014 10:23 p.m.

danthek84 says... #23

Umm...Bra? Mind Bogled?

Mine is a little bit heavier bant, but let me know what you think. +1 for a fellow boggle deck.

December 16, 2014 5:13 p.m.

danthek84 says... #24

December 16, 2014 5:31 p.m.

Jake1515 says... #25

What is Relic of Progenitus used for?

December 23, 2014 7:32 p.m.

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