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I haven't kept up with Modern, so this is no longer relevant to the modern meta.
My own personal brew of the Rogue-Deck / Archetype Trap-Valakut. I call her Blood Titan because her essence is green but she exists in a sea of crimson colored land.
I play with the Khans printing of Wooded Foothills because it is totally Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle from a distance. :D
Please leave any feedback, questions, or comments below!
Main Win Cons
- Emrakul, the Aeons Torn + Through the Breach is a simple and effective turn 3 kill with the right hand.
- Primeval Titan + Through the Breach Can also be a turn 3 kill if you have 4 mountains out already and the opponent is at 18 or less life and no blockers.
Back-Up Win Cons
- Get one of your creatures countered and cast Summoning Trap for 0.
- If the game has run past turn 3, play Through the Breach on the opponent's End Step, force them to use up their counter, leaving all your mana open for a follow up Primeval Titan or some such on your turn. If they don't counter, the creature you put into play will last until the end of your turn thanks to Breach's Updated Oracle Text.
- Get 2-3 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacles into play courtesy of Primeval Titan and even if they remove the titan, this turns every land draw and ramp spell into 2-3 faux Lightning Bolts.
- Beat their face in with your removal-resistant menagerie.
- If all else fails... Hard cast Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.
Noteworthy Card Choices
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Emrakul, the Aeons Torn is powerful enough that you want regular access to her in your hand. However, the deck is made more versatile and balanced by not going "all-in" on any one particular strategy. Hence, we only run 3 copies of the World-Ender.
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Summoning Trap You want to make this an omnipresent threat, but you also don't want to rely on it. Keep it a 3-of.
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Land Base: The number of fetches is an important decision. Start with 4 Wooded Foothills and 4 of any fetchland that summons Mountains. We prefer real land, and mountains specifically, over fetch lands as a rule because we're playing with Valacut, the molten pinnacle and you never know when you will need to hard-cast an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Still, in order for the deck to function successfully we also require a minimum of 2 Forest on the table, generally by turn three. 6 Forest Key-word lands + 8 Fetches + 9 early game ramp = 23 sources of green from which to draw from by turn 3. This is acceptable. There's no need to run more fetches. We run 3 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle. You typically want at least 2 in play when pursuing your land-based win-con, however you do not want more than 1 in your starting hand and running just 2 is risky, since Land destruction is a thing. 3 is the perfect number to run. Speaking of land destruction, here is another easy to overlook aspect of the deck, and another compelling reason to keep your fetch count lower. You never want to be playing against a control deck that's stalling you out, and not be able to hard cast Emrakul because they blew up a Valakut. Make sure to run a few higher than 15 lands altogether to head off this counter strategy.
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25 Land and 9 early game accelerators: I've seen a number of lists running 27 lands and 12 accelerators. Don't do this. We only need to get to 5-6 land to start winning and 25-9 split is just about perfect to get you there. 27-12 will over saturate your deck and force you into an "All in" mentality, where you just have to scoop if things don't work out perfectly.
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Farseek That Selesnya promo art is just too beautiful not to run as a 1-of at the least. This is a great card since it fetches our Stomping Ground but it is inferior to the Sakura-Tribe Elder and Search for Tomorrow in terms of flexibility.
Things I do not run
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Scapeshift It's very all-in and combo-y. The deck wins enough late-game already without needing to resort to this single-use bomb.
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White/Naya. I've seen folks use Windbrisk Heights and a variety of other White cards to bolster the number of ways to cheat Emrakul, the Aeons Torn into play. I love the idea of using Windbrisk Heights here but the whole Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle angle of attack is very greedy, and is so effective that again, we're sacrificing more ways to win with Emrakul for more resilience and flexibility.
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Oracle of Mul Daya is super fun when she works, but she dies to Lightning Bolt and can't block anything without dying. Nope.
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See the Unwritten It's a Sorcery. If only it weren't.
Hate for other Decks/Archetypes.
Remember, the most effective way to play is to follow your own plan to WIN first and foremost. Not many people can get back up again after being run over by an Emrakul. That being said, we do pack a lot of ways to deal with our opponent's plays along the way to that end game. You'll notice a lot of our board is there to deal with various aggro strategies.
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Burn: Courser of Kruphix and Obstinate Baloth are our starting point. Post board we have Feed the Clan to really fortify against their onslaught.
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Aggro: Stall their assault by blocking with Sakura-Tribe Elders before sacking for ramp and unleashing the Lightning Bolts to good effect. Follow up by stabilizing with Courser of Kruphix's and Obstinate Baloth's wide behinds.
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Mill: Emrakul, the Aeons Torn will ruin any mill player's day. By the time they recover, you've generally won.
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Control: Summoning Trap goes from being good to being an incredibly dangerous wild card in this matchup. It synergizes very well with Sakura-Tribe Elder, Courser of Kruphix, Obstinate Baloth, and of course Primeval Titan. You're looking at a very good first game. Post sideboard, you'll also have access to Boil to make things that much harder for them.
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Delver: Make sure to take out those Delver of Secrets as soon as you can since flying is not your specialty. Post Board. you can bring in a couple Spellskite and Boil. As always, Summoning Trap is an all-star in any blue match-up.
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Twin: No longer matters... #RIPTwin
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CoCo Decks: Unleash Anger of the Gods and a barrage of Lightning Bolts. Mwahhaaha
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Affinity: A Tough matchup. Bring in Fracturing Gust
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Tokens: Anger of the Gods leaves them blinking and wondering what happened.
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Hexproof Auras: Do you even Spellskite, Bro? Fracturing Gust also comes in here.
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Infect: Please, by all mean continue to pump my Spellskite.
If you liked this, check out this fellow RG (Gruul) Breach player's deck! He's got a lot of good things to say.
RG Breach 2018
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