Blingbots: A More Modern Affinity
Modern
355 VIEWS
The robits are back and booooooyyy are they shiny —Feb. 12, 2017
It's tax season, and with those sick nasty refunds come sick nasty bling. I mean, good lord is it pretty.
I rolled into Modern on Friday and went 3-1 for the first time since... The first week I played Esper Control. And the only reason I went 3-1 there is because my opponents all flooded... Boy it felt good.
For the most part, it ran like a standard Robots deck should: flooding the board, swinging for a lot, tilting your opponent. The only real, noticeable difference was in my round four match against Grixis Control. I laid down a Pia's Revolution on game three and he spent about five minutes sitting there trying to find a way to get rid of it. His life total was so low (4) that he let me make an arbitrarily large Arcbound Ravager and float an arbitrary amount of mana. It seems great, but it's awful against Anger of the Gods (which he played in the side, of course), and Path to Exile. At this point, it seems like a "win-more" card, and as such belongs in the side, only to brought in against decks with non-exile removal. However, seeing as it's far harder to remove than a Master of Etherium, I am going to stick with it for a few more weeks in the main to see how it plays out in the long run. Only time will tell.
As for the new land, I love Spire of Industry. I don't get punished anymore for "Glimmervoid, Signal Pest, pass", and that is amazing. While those plays are rather narrow and don't show up too often (I've only had to do it a handful of games), they still hurt and I'd like to minimize them as often as possible. The pain for a color isn't actually terribly relevant with the prevalence of Springleaf Drum and Mox Opal, and it's almost like pain for Vault Skirge in a way; you take it, because it's better for you in the long run. While the choice of Spires over Glimmervoids was mostly a budget concern (four foil Spires is less than one foil Glimmervoid, after all), it seems to be playing out quite well. Again, only time will tell, but so far I'm enjoying it.
As a final update, I'm still considering OG Springleaf Drum's and Blinkmoth Nexus'. I mostly take issue with the color and the templating, but these MM Blinkmoth's look so bad in comparison to the rest of the deck... Wizards, give me a foil promo Memnite!