Im finally getting into modern...
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Posted on May 25, 2015, 5:41 p.m. by amccarn
So my LGS is finally going to start holding modern tournaments & I have been dying to get into it. I am just trying to get some opinions on what to play. I am kind of attracted to Twin or U-Tron but I am open minded. I have also thought about grixis delver. I want something that will win but something that is a lot of fun. Budget is not really an issue, I am not trying to break the bank for this but I do just want to make smart purchases.
Anyways, thanks in advance for any advice or opinions!
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I've been having a lot of fun with grixis twin lately. grixitwin
May 25, 2015 7:17 p.m.
lemmingllama says... #5
Try just running some online playtests, even if it's just through the tappedout playtester. We can make all the suggestions, but what you enjoy the most isn't something we can determine.
That being said, all the decks you listed are fairly competitive and viable. Twin is probably the strongest of them all, but also remember that people will always have sideboard answers to Twin. People have less sideboard answers to Delver
May 25, 2015 7:20 p.m.
When I first got into Modern I later felt like it was a mistake to buy into decks like Affinity and Bogles, and you get locked into cards like Mox Opal which only ever go in one deck. I ended up much happier turning those cards into UR staples like Scalding Tarn, Snapcaster Mage, and such. After that point, for relatively little investment, you can change gears from aggressive, Delver of Secrets Flip, to combo ,Splinter Twin, to controlling, UWR or Blue Moon.
lemmingllama I get the idea that folks are more likely to have a dedicated Twin hate card in their sideboard like say Torpor Orb, but it's a bit loaded to say that folks have less sideboard answers to Delver.
For starters, many times their Twin hate splashes over like Combust, Rending Volley, Choke, etc. See also getting double play out of your Burn hate cards. Which in turn leads to many of the versatile sideboard cards that are decent as well, like Golgari Charm, Spellskite, Engineered Explosives, Chalice of the Void, etc.
And let's face it, the current Grixis Delver list is one of the more popular archtypes, at least on mtgo, so serious folks are going to be prepared for it.
Any ways, my 2 cents.
May 25, 2015 7:43 p.m. Edited.
I don't play Twin anymore, but it was the first $$$ deck I bought into. It's incredibly fun and really versatile and powerful but as the others have mentioned, you should play what you enjoy. I've since switched over to Zoo.
Daybreak Coronet Just got reprinted so playing Bogles is going to be super budget friendly for the next little bit.
Once you get a feel for the format and the meta you might also try some rogue decks too.
alpinefroggy says... #2
Go grixis delver or ur twin if your attracted to blue decks. They both give you the opporunity to get all the ur stales like tarn, snapcaster, cryptic, clique, etc and those can be used across many decks. I dont really know which one you would prefer but they are both T1. Mono-U tron does allow you to get into modern fairly cheaply though but it has more niche cards you cant really use outside of maybe another tron deck.
May 25, 2015 5:54 p.m.