Boston Comic-Con PPTQ HELP!!
Modern Deck Help forum
Posted on July 16, 2015, 11:47 p.m. by samk125
For a little bit of back story, I bought my ticket to Boston Comic-Con a few months ago, and I've been eagerly awaiting it's arrival ever since. I happened to look at the website for it again, and I notice that there is going to be a MTG Preliminary PTQ hosted on Saturday, and I'm even more stoked about going than I was before!
Now my question falls to which deck should I bring?! The format is Modern, so I have a whole plethora of things to play with. I've whittled my choices down to two decks that I'm quite eager to try, a Gruul Hexproof/Burn build. OR Mono-U Counter/Mill.
Both choices have merit, and I'm at a loss of which to choose. HELP!!!
VampireArmy says... #3
We literally can't help you unless we see the lists.
July 17, 2015 12:01 a.m.
OtakulordAndrew says... #5
I would need to see the lists in order to say for certain but off of description alone I would advise neither.
In terms of red green hexproof burn, I would assume that playing green white boggles would be a more effective hexproof aggro beater deck and that regular mono, dual, or tripple color burn would be more efficient in terms of aggressive burn damage.
In regards to mono blue mill control, mill functions best in modern as a relatively all in strategy in esper with decent sideboard options or as blue black infinite combo control deck with Duskmantle Guildmage, and Mindcrank.
July 17, 2015 2:23 p.m.
I would ask that all of you forgive me for not posting the lists earlier. I started this forum in the early hours of the morning.
Mono-Blue Mill/Control:
Alzheimer's Disease (C.R.S) Playtest
Modern
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 4 VIEWS
Gruul Hexproof/Burn:
Gaea's Blessing Playtest
Modern
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 2 VIEWS
July 17, 2015 4:34 p.m.
OtakulordAndrew says... #7
Both the deck lists you posted will probably get destroyed by any reasonable modern deck as they are relatively slow and run large numbers of inefficient or slow cards. The first thing one should ask themselves when building a deck for a format is what is the worst thing my opponent can do/ how quick do I think my opponent can beat me, in terms of modern you will frequently be able to see things like infect decks winning turn 2 or 3, turn 3-4 burn deck wins, opponents flashing in Deceiver Exarch at the end of your 3rd turn into turn 4 Splinter Twin for game and large numbers of midrange and tempo decks that can pick apart your hand with hand disruption such as Thoughtseize Inquisition of Kozilek, etc. while removing your creatures with cards such as Path to Exile, Abrupt Decay, Lightning Bolt, etc. or countering your spells with cards such as Spell Snare, Mana Leak, Remand, etc. all while beating you down with efficient creatures such as Tarmogoyf, Goblin Guide, Delver of Secrets Flip, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, etc.
Specific thoughts on the decks you have posted.
Alzheimer's disease (crs) - all your counter spells are slow and inefficient for their cost while the large bulk of your creatures are slow, over cost inefficient and don't contribute to your mill game plan at all splitting your resources in regards to your win condition. The mill cards you have are so-so with cards such as Archive Trap being quite nice in a number of match ups in the format while cards such as Tome Scour are sub par by modern standards. The deck is also filled with useless filler cards such as Elixir of Immortality that overall waste deck spots.
Gaea's blessing - overall slow and inefficient as either an aggro deck or midrange deck, with a large number of your spells being very situational dead cards most games such as Naturalize, and Unravel the Aether, pointless in the deck such as Elixir of Immortality, and Glaring Spotlight, as well as large number of slow inefficient spells such as Homing Lightning, Shock, Lightning Strike, Advocate of the Beast, Roaring Primadox, etc.
Final thoughts if you want to play these decks you will probably have a poor time and get steamrolled by most decks however it's your registration fee. If you would like to play mill I recommend looking to play either esper mill, if you want strong mill, disruption, and a strong side board, or Mindcrank combo if you want a more control heavy deck that does not have to focus on mill, If you want red green aggression I would recommend playing grull, or naya burn if you want to play an aggressive burn strategy, while if you prefer a more creature heavy strategy to play an aggro zoo deck variant probably naya.
July 17, 2015 5:17 p.m.
calebrudolph says... #8
You could also play the best modern deck ever boggles :)
samk125 says... #2
Neither deck list is posted on here, for sake of keeping my brews to myself until after the event. Just looking to see which way people think I should go. I'm completely comfortable playing both styles.
July 16, 2015 11:48 p.m.