Mono-color deck challenge..
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Posted on Dec. 3, 2017, 9:13 a.m. by Metroid_Hybrid
Some guys at work are putting together Modern-legal, Mono-colored decks for some of the long downtimes at work this month.. Most of them are expecting me to go Mono-Black, however Im going a different route here.. I wanted something powerful, yet something so incredibly unique that they have never seen before.. I came up with something that fits these criteria, yet would lose HARD post-sideboard in a normal tournament environment; Mono-White Tempered Steel Infect w/ Ethereal Armor..
Blessed Phyrexian Steel..
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I originally built this a few years ago, and therefore may be neglecting some other powerful spells printed since then. I also dont actually have a sideboard built IRL yet either; Im primarily concerned with streamlining the Mainboards effectiveness first..
P.s.: My brother (and me) used to believe that proliferate doubled the number of poison counters on resolution, and played accordingly, in our noob phase.
So if you share the same misconception, then its better for me to dispel it here, than if the judge must point it out at an event.
December 3, 2017 10:26 a.m.
APPLE01DOJ says... #4
How cool. I wish I could do this!
I would suggest Mirran Crusader for the SB.
How about some Signal Pest or Cranial Plating MB? (if you're allowed to use Plating that is)
December 3, 2017 12:28 p.m.
Metroid_Hybrid says... #6
Xica, you obviously didnt read the OP very closely due to you citing sideboard answers & specifically Kolaghan's Command, when I addressed those concerns already..
APPLE01DOJ: Thanks, though I work at UPSs main hub, so those long downtimes are sandwiched between hours of blue-collar insanity.. lol..
In the original form of the deck, I had put in dual lands to splash for Cranial Plating & Vector Asp, but took them out to keep it strictly mono-colored, and more consistent as a result.. What would you suggest I cut for Signal Pest?
December 4, 2017 10:41 a.m.
Oh...
I thought that he himself took up this task to challenge himself, instead his whole playgroup, building decks around this principle.
P.s.: out of pure curiosity, does split mana (like from lorwyn/shadowmoor block) count as being dual colored?
December 4, 2017 4:19 p.m.
Metroid_Hybrid says... #8
Yep.. Its not a really Spike playgroup either..
As far as the split-Mana cards are concerned, they would pass in what we are trying to do, however they would violate the color identity rule for a mono-colored deck in Commander/EDH..
December 4, 2017 4:43 p.m.
the only monocolor decks that would be worth sleeving would be skred and D&T, the rest are cute but not really competitive
December 5, 2017 9:24 a.m.
APPLE01DOJ says... #11
I disagree 100%, Mono Green Infect, Mono Black 8-Rack, and Mono Blue Control are all completely viable.
December 5, 2017 11:04 a.m.
arcdevil
Oh my sweet summer child...
You really have to experience the misery of playing against 8-rack, which just got much worse with their new toy, in Sword-Point Diplomacy.
So lets sort it out by color:
Black:
8-rack
Black devotion
Aristocrat/Drain life decks
Mono black infect (control infect)
Green:
Mono green stompy
Forest belcher
Dramatic Entrance decks
Mono green infect
White:
Martyr proc
Souls sisters (which recently got Oketra's Monument aka. mono white thopter foundry)
Mono white tokens
Blue:
Mono blue faeries
Merfolk
Mono blue control, with stuff like Thing in the Ice
Flip
ninja-....-delver (Force of Will goes long ways, specially since the now have Chart a Course to fill their hand up)
Red is probably the best color to have viable mono colored decks in modern, so here is a short list:
Skred
Free win red
Burning bridge
Mono red tron (if you count that one as red)
(Various) red deck wins versions
Goblins
8 whack
i would also add my mono red hollow one deck to the list
...and i am pretty sure this list is far from exhaustive
P.s.: You seem to be a pretty fresh and naive spike, since you have no knowledge of the existence of merfolk decks.
Tiers are not based on win/loss ratio, or anything similar, they are only based on number of players. Of course they can't be terrible, since people would not play them.However not being a tier deck doesn't mean that the deck is weak(er) than the tier ones, for examples check out living end (which was at one point a jank brew), or the coverage when lantern control made its first appearance at the GP, and anally raped every tier deck in its way to the top of the tournament, including stuff like Splinter Twin decks.
December 5, 2017 11:37 a.m.
Oh i forgot...
Indomitable Creativity + Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
i mean T2 emrakul is the pinnacle of unplayable useless jank.
Its so bad that its restriced in legacy (aka. Tinker)
December 5, 2017 11:42 a.m.
Actually after thinking about it you both are right.
I mean, all those decks are mediocre to plain bad, but I didnt took into consideration that we were talking about a theoretical monocolor only meta, meaning that all the actual good decks are absent. In such lanscape "mediocre" becomes "good enough" so I guess all that decks make the cut...
December 5, 2017 3:17 p.m.
arcdevil
Your ideas are really making me curious...
So if all those decks are bad, then what counts as a good deck by your standards?
Is it only good if it has a meta share above an arbitrary X%?
Is it good if it put up results (or won?) a Pro Tour (its qualifier?) or some other competitive event, within X time before today?
Is it good if it has a X% average win chance against decks in the current meta?
I tend to judge deck's goodness by the last criteria.
But i am really interested in gettting a small glimpse into the thought processes of the "tunnelvision spike", who thinks that Merfolk, or martyr proc are medicore to bad, just because "i said so"....
I am really interested in the "why", of course that can only be answered if you are not a simple troll who is just attempting to play with our nerves, by throwing around adjectives left and right without any basis.
Xica says... #2
1# using artifact creatures in modern if a very dangerous place to be. They are hit by both all the creature, and all the artifact removal in existence.
For example: Ancient Grudge, Kolaghan's Command, Shattering Spree... etc. - these spells are more than able to clear your side of the board for very low mana costs.
What is even worse is that infect creatures (without innate evasion, or the pump spells) are unable to win combat, against creatures of the same cmc.
2# Either play boggles or don't, going halfway with Ethereal armor is a recipe for disaster.
If you ask me about white infect, i would say that the best option is probably to play all the best "gain protection from choosen color" spells in white, maybe with the added Isochron Scepter, for free wins - when itsenchanted with something strong like Path to Exile, Angel's Grace or just good old Emerge Unscathed - which gives your creature protection for always
December 3, 2017 10:24 a.m.