Avatar of the Resolute
Modern forum
Posted on Feb. 1, 2016, 11:48 p.m. by APPLE01DOJ
Did the world just look Avatar of the Resolute over or what? This card is bonkers in Mono Green Stompy. 2 mana seige rhino that can block flyers? yes please!
Fits right in with Experiment One, Strangleroot Geist and Scavenging Ooze.
I played it in standard with hardened scales. Seems like mono green stompy scales could work. New Nissa would be bonkers.
February 2, 2016 12:09 a.m.
It's phenomenal in Mono-
Stompy, as it can break board state deadlocks and block Affinity like it's going out of style. I don't know what other decks it could fit into, but my guess is that it will like anything with Gavony Township or Nissa, Voice of Zendikar in it.
February 2, 2016 1:09 a.m.
RoarMaster says... #7
Yeah, avatar is pretty sweet, I am a fan. I e been mucking about with a +1 counter deck for a little bit. I think it has a lot of potential, its capable of some pretty crazy aggro starts. T1 - Hardened Scales. T2 - Simic Initiate enters with 2 counters, - Servant of the Scale enters with 2, gets grafted by mage, ends up a 4/4. T3 - Avatar of the Resolute enters with 2 via ability, hardened adds one, graft with the graftmage add 2 more, Avatar ends up as 8/7 trample reach and you still have Servant of the scale as a 4/4 'arcbound' backup.
Explosive starts for sure, but "Dies to Removal" hahaha
I dig it though, Tier 2 potential at least imho.
February 2, 2016 1:42 a.m.
First I would just like to say that this is a fine card its not broken or anything and it is not siege rhino that was just a weird comparison. If you did want to play a stompy deck with this though you should play GW with Nissa, Voice of Zendikar white gives really good sideboard options and then you can play things like Kitchen Finks in the main and what not maybe even Matter Reshaper if you are feeling spooky.
February 2, 2016 3:25 a.m.
RoarMaster says... #9
I was trying new things with my shaman deck a week or so ago and made this "Shamanless Shamans" deck. I was at the time just toying around with Rage Forger, seeing if I could get him to work outside of a shamans-centric deck. As I have always loved his Hellrider effect. Since they printed hellrider though its hard to say if ragey is worth it anymore. Anyway, the deck is just a concept at the moment, but it is basically a G/B Collected Company // Hardened Scales deck. Check it out if you like, it attempts to abuse Avatar of the Resolute of course. Shamanless Shamans
February 2, 2016 4:51 a.m.
It's not that it's been overlooked, it just doesn't really fit into every deck that plays green. It has to be a deck that can afford the double green cost and one that cares about +1/+1 counters. I'm not saying it's a build around card, just that it comes with conditions which therefore limits how many decks can use it to it's full potential. So, until some deck playing the Avatar starts to regularly place in major events, your not going to see it in any kind of large numbers (with the exception of some local metas).
One thing to keep in mind as well. Even though modern has a fairly large pool of cards to choose from, people are always going to stick with cards they're familiar with and cards they've seen the pros do well with. So even though the card pool is so large, in reality a relatively small number of cards actually show up on the "competitive" scene as people try to mimic the success others have had. Also, a lot of times when a card is first spoiled the community in general deems it as unplayable in certain formats (right or wrong), so unless it ends up making an immediate impact, you really only seeing them in random home brews in local meta's. Which means even when those decks are doing well against premier tier 1 decks they rarely get the exposure to go mainstream and therefore don't take off in the way they would if they had Top 8'd a major tournament.
February 2, 2016 11:05 a.m.
I just threw this together, Seems like it could be alot of fun and actually pretty decent. I could see it taking down some FNM's.
Anyone else care to give some input?
Caligula says... #2
Hmmm, I like where your heads at with this. I might have to pick some up and mess around
February 1, 2016 11:51 p.m.