THE Modern Format Primer

Modern ChiefBell

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Update (Change 6) —June 9, 2016

Decks Added: Mono U Tron, and Gruul Zoo.

Tidied up a bit.

ChiefBell says... #1

Large, large update.

October 21, 2015 4:48 p.m.

lordmalphas says... #2

As a grixis delver pilot, I would like to point out a few things:1) Inquisition/Thoughtseize are almost always in the sideboard to bring in against combo/tron. Seeing them maindecked is rare. 2) Grixis will almost always Thought Scour before dumping a tasigur/angler, so if you see that when playing them beware (in temur colors it will usually be Hooting Mandrills instead)3) Pillar of flame does not see play in Grixis variants and I see no reason it would in the others, but I have little experience with them4) Monastery swiftspear only sees play in delver decks currently that are hyperaggressive (burn over counters), with the possible exception of U/R delver (which I have not seen anywhere).

October 21, 2015 6:09 p.m.

xzzane says... #3

I think it's safe to put bloom titan into the tier 1 category. It currently is the 9th most played deck at large events according to modernnexus, at 4.1% of the meta. Urzatron and merfolk should probably be put into tier 1 as well. Maybe separate the tron into U tron and g/r tron?

November 14, 2015 1:18 p.m.

justme says... #4

can you put a link to jeffs deck that you mentioned?

December 1, 2015 5:03 p.m.

JRaynor says... #5

There's a broken link in the Loam (Tier 2, Midrange, Combo) section, in the last paragraph.

December 16, 2015 5:58 p.m.

car says... #6

Jund and goblin

December 21, 2015 7:18 a.m.

Marenkai says... #7

Jund is in GBx.

And Goblin isn't viable in Modern.

December 21, 2015 11:42 a.m.

phaze08 says... #8

Anyone know why every few days the link to this 'deck' appears to be dead?

December 21, 2015 1:59 p.m.

Marenkai You take that back!


The ULTIMATE Modern Goblins Primer

Standard rorofat

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December 21, 2015 2:13 p.m.

car says... #10

goblin is a legit strategy

December 21, 2015 3:44 p.m.

Marenkai says... #11

Goblin sure is legit, but not viable as a strategy (or a very rogue Tier 3).

The fact is, you're playing a downgraded version of another deck (Naya Burn, RDW, etc.) just to be in a Tribal theme.

Collected Elves has more chances of seeing competitive play than Goblins for the moment.

But it's still a cheap and powerful deck to play in FNMs.

If you want Goblins in this Primer, I want Bant Control, Nightfall and even Slivers to be there too. These decks are powerful, but not powerful enough to win consistently against the best decks of the format, that's why I agree with the authors' decision not to put them in.

December 22, 2015 4:15 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #12

More can be put in.

December 22, 2015 3:32 p.m.

lordmalphas says... #13

elves actually does see competitive play. goblins does not

December 22, 2015 4:12 p.m.

APPLE01DOJ says... #14

Suppression Field is pretty good for SBing vs BG/x.

Hinders both Liliana of the Veil and manlands.

December 22, 2015 4:43 p.m.

Marenkai says... #15

AND it basilly shuts down Living End... Or at least slows them down a lot if they have removal (Beast Within)

I didn't know this card existed before I got my ass kicked by it at the last Modern tournament my LGS held XD

December 26, 2015 4:16 p.m.

phaze08 says... #16

I think alot of other players may enjoy reading about gifts tron. I recently read about uw gifts tron and its a crazy deck

December 30, 2015 10:05 a.m.

Marenkai says... #17

R.I.P Twin.

I won't personally miss you, but some will.

Now let's enter the TRON Era.

January 16, 2016 3:45 p.m.

Monsmtg says... #18

Maybe Eldrazi B? Also link for bogles primer is broken. Great job on this whole thing I love it.

January 20, 2016 8:22 p.m.

TheFoilAjani says... #19

Might need to fix the "Splinter Twin, Tier 1 combo" section.

January 31, 2016 1:57 p.m.

ChiefBell says... #20

I'm not doing the primer anymore. xzzane is.

January 31, 2016 1:58 p.m.

xzzane says... #21

Edits to the primer will be done over the week. Twin and eldrazi will both be added. The tier section will most likely need to be reworked, but only when we have a better idea of what the meta will turn out to be.

January 31, 2016 9:57 p.m.

Scouty says... #22

I'm not sure where it would stand among the tiers, but is there a chance you could do a section on Dredgevine decks?

February 21, 2016 10:57 a.m.

I'm thinking about building a Modern CoCo Elves deck but noticed that there wasn't a description under the Top Decks tab. Can you just not find anyone do it or is it not competitive enough?

Anyway, I love the primer and continue to refer to it. Thank you!

February 25, 2016 10:17 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #24

Elves is a pretty good deck and has had some moments in the sun. It should be added really. As should dredgevine.

All of the decks are outshined by Eldrazi at the moment though.

I am no longer in charge of this project, xzzane is.

February 25, 2016 10:44 a.m.

xzzane says... #25

Eldrazi will be added soon. I'll add dredgevine as well. Does anyone know anyone that regularly plays dredgevine? I'm a little behind updating this since taking it over because college got super busy. I have to grade papers for one of my teachers, which takes forever.

February 25, 2016 12:57 p.m.