Blasting Solemnity - Modern Competitive

Modern MrSilk

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Deck is now 100% competitive! —Feb. 3, 2018

Deck should now be able to stand with the best. After an absurd amount of playtesting, I really haven't had much of an issue against the typical Modern meta builds.

See the entry below this one for the original list.

hourofixalan says... #1

Great deck, would destroy my +1/+1 counter build. Aquitect's Will does the same thing as Spreading Seas for one less mana but then, again, it places a flood counter and that wouldn't work with Solemnity. Try a few more creatures, mainly bigger blockers.

January 21, 2018 6:59 p.m.

MrSilk says... #2

hourofixalan

Thanks for the comment!

So the original deck list had a lot more creatures.. I originally had Zur the Enchanter, Murderous Redcap, Phyrexian Soulgorger, Viscera Seer and a few more that I experimented with. It seems like the Finks and TITI are the best for synergy and providing the all over wincon faster. The ultimate goal for this deck is to either have infinite health by turn 4 and/or a guaranteed win by turn 5.

Thanks again for the comment! :-)

January 22, 2018 7:06 p.m.

Awesome deck I love it! If you don't mind I may ticker with deck idea for EDH.

January 23, 2018 5 a.m.

MrSilk says... #4

Blueecho19 at yahoo dot com

By all means, give it a shot.. I'd be interested in seeing an EDH version! Lemme know when you complete it and I'd be happy to check it out. Thanks for the +1 too! :-)

January 23, 2018 6:05 p.m.

jktorborg says... #5

Zur's Weirding is AMAZING with phyrexian unlife. Also a potential shoe-in if you're looking for an absolute wincon (let's say they have a Leyline of Sanctity, infinite life, or some other shenanigans) might be Axis of Mortality, if you have a sure way to get to negative life (I use zur).

Only problem might be them using zur against you. I never have that issue since I run zur in an Enduring Ideal/prison shell.

I don't know if any of that helps, but it might be a new way to go about winning with your solemnity combo that's potentially more lethal against some decks than Blasting Cannons+Kitchen Finks. I get that that is probably enough most of the time, but zur also hoses combo and control if it resolves. Well, it hoses about everything if you have your side pretty locked down. Something to think about.

January 25, 2018 8:03 p.m.

MrSilk says... #6

jktorborg

Hey, thanks for the input!

Zur's Weirding is an amazing card, I'm actually planning on building a Norin Sisters Weirding deck with it! You're right, it has great synergy with Phyrexian Unlife, but after Solemnity is out, I can't spend that life (past 0) to deny the draw.. And Weirding is coming out with 4CMC during the wincon combo being played (I win almost every game turn 5).

Axis of Mortality would be absolutely hilarious to use when I'm sitting at 0 life with my Solemnity/Unlife combo out.

You are right though.. I need to find a wincon, probably for game 2 and 3 to get passed Leyline of Sanctity. I may actually sub in 3x Axis (or similar card) and take out 3x Blasting Station. Thanks for the +1 btw! Feel free to experiment with the deck, perhaps you can make it even better.. I'm always up for improvement! :-)

January 25, 2018 8:52 p.m.

jktorborg says... #7

Oh wow, I totally forgot you can't spend life you don't have!!! Haha oh my gosh my whole other deck has some holes I forgot about XD I'll have to fix that somehow, maybe some optional "you may gain life" enchantment.

An answer for leyline might honestly be as easy as Detention Sphere then blast em. It's great for controlling the board anyways, might as well toss a few in for something? idk.

January 25, 2018 9:02 p.m.

jktorborg says... #8

For the Zur's Weirding + Axis of Mortality wincon, the only limitation is that you can't have an odd amount of life and win with it. I changed my other deck to include either Peace of Mind or Ajani's Mantra. Hmm, something to consider. Weirding might not be as much of a shoe in as I thought since you can't thoughtsieze/fateseal indefinitely without a lifegain outlet, which takes space.

I would definitely try Detention Sphere since you're already blue/white. Maybe go down 1 scry piece and 1 Spreading Seas for a pair, or find room for it in your sideboard?

January 25, 2018 9:25 p.m.

It does seem like we want Detention Sphere or Wipe Away in the SB since they can both be tutored by Drift of Phantasms to answer any problem permanent!

I'm confused about this Zur's Weirding "combo." You only lose 2 life/turn, so won't it take approximately forever to get to 0 for Axis of Mortality ? Are you actually assuming that preventing draws starting turn 4 locks the opponent out of the game? You know most Modern games end by turn 5 ;)

January 25, 2018 9:49 p.m.

jktorborg says... #10

Haha I suppose it's only really applicable as a late game finisher in my prison deck. I guess it works for me because my opponent's board is totally locked, and the icing on the cake is that they can't find answers to the lock. It's not meant to be played early game, almost ever. Perhaps even a dead card early. The only reason the combo is useful to me is because it's an enchantment-win combo on my colors.

So initially, seeing the Phyrexian Unlife, my response was "Oh I use zur with that card". But, again, only really an advantage for me because I can't cast spells anyways and I usually have a lock.

So again, it's probably not tailored right for your deck since you can't just automatically follow it with an Axis of Immortality and wait the game out.

Haha so new piece of advice: Forget zur weirdness, just add a detention sphere or a wipe away.

If you're curious about my deck and why it seemed to work, it's on my profile, but yeah I think you're right, there isn't much that can stop your infinite damage so long as you can find a way to wipe a permanent last minute. The reason I would say run det. sphere over wipe away would be because det. sphere stops redundancy from saving your opponent, and you have counters to protect the sphere anyways so the split second on the other card isn't quite as advantageous since it can only hit one target, imo. Your opponent can have 3 leyline of sanctity sitting on the battlefield and you can just drop a sphere, exile them all, and blast them for infinity.

Love the deck! That's probably my only recommendation I can think of at this point.

January 25, 2018 10:03 p.m.

MrSilk says... #11

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I've added Detention Sphere to the sideboard. It should be great for defending my combo game 2&3. Like you said earlier, I can also tutor for it if I need it.

January 27, 2018 3:50 p.m.