Does this even? (Modern Humans)
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Posted on Aug. 23, 2014, 3:19 p.m. by subrosian
So, I've only been playing Magic for a little less than a year and so far I haven't touched anything outside of Standard, Limited, and a tiny bit of EDH. I was wondering if this decklist would be at all viable in Modern since I really want to make a Humans deck with Innistrad cards. Any advice on Modern in general or what cards are good/what cards suck would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Meek Champions Playtest
Modern*
SCORE: 1 | 0 COMMENTS | 45 VIEWSDepends on what you mean by viable. In general, curve out aggressive decks like this don't do very well in Modern without some competent of disruption or to them or some way to otherwise play unfairly - see GW Hatebears. Because there are a few key things about the Modern format that they are forced to contend with that makes them less than ideal.
For starters, typically the basic strategies for these decks are to try and get underneath the opponents removal spells, but Modern is a creature heavy format that's flush with cheap removal spells like Lightning Bolt , Path to Exile , etc. The other issue is the prevalence of combo decks. It doesn't matter how fast your start is if your opponent simply EOT Pestermite T3 and kills you T4 with Splinter Twin . This makes it very hard to win with just a 30+ threat style deck.
Things you could do to improve it.
Mainboard all or 3 of Thalia, Guardian of Thraben . It's just way to imporant for you to slow your opponent down.
Remove Knight of the Reliquary . Without fetch lands, it's just way too slow. You just can't afford to play a 2/2 for 3 on T3.
Path to Exile is pretty much a must. You need to be able to break up some combos and push through big blockers like Tarmogoyf .
Brave the Elements
is also a card you should probably strongly consider.
subrosian says... #2
Also I should mention that my budget is obviously fairly small for Modern... I think...
August 23, 2014 3:20 p.m.