Best Manlands for Modern?
Modern Deck Help forum
Posted on Jan. 27, 2018, 1:36 a.m. by antacidbrn
I have been thinking a lot about "Man Lands" lately. On the plus side, they seem to add a lot of utility to decks by fixing mana flood and increasing creature count. On the other hand, they enter tapped and cannot be activated until mid game for the most part.
I feel like Inkmoth Nexus and Celestial Collonade make appearances in modern. But I recently brewed a deck Modern Dagger Burn where Creeping Tar Pit is a key card. I am working on an Izzet list with Wandering Fumarole and a Boros list with Needle Spires, but I wonder if they are any good.
In what ways are you using man lands and which are the best to brew with in Modern? Do you find these helpful and which ones are the best for Modern?
Raging Ravine sees play in Jund when Jund rears its head. Sometimes Treetop Village. The GB one too sometimes.
Creeping Tar Pit sees some play, normally out of Esper who needs the extra threat.
Mutavault is a merfolk staple.
Inkmoth/Blinkmoth both see play in Affinity and Inkmoth in Infect.
Celestial Colonnade is a staple of most UWx decks.
Shambling Vent and Stirring Wildwood see sometimes play in Abzan.
The rest don't line up well enough to the format, sadly. The RB one is a mana sink...that costs mana to turn it into a mana sink? The UR one is OK but nothing amazing and no current UR deck wants the investment, unless URW where the Collonade is better.
January 27, 2018 2:21 a.m.
antacidbrn says... #5
LeaPlath, I never realized Mutavault was a Merfolk staple because I have not played against that deck, but I expect popularity is on the rise with so many good additions coming for that tribe in Rivals.
January 27, 2018 12:25 p.m.
I had a bug tempo build and Lumbering Falls serious work. Having an unremoval threat proved invaluable at times
January 27, 2018 1:09 p.m.
majin_shinsa says... #8
8 rack uses Mutavault as the secondary win condition but decks like Goblins, Naya Zoo or Death's Shadow don't wanna use man lands.
January 27, 2018 8:50 p.m.
antacidbrn says... #10
APPLE01DOJ, what deck do you run Treetop Village in? It seems like good mana flood insurance for any green deck, but entering tapped in Modern is a help of a price to pay.
ToolmasterOfBrainerd says... #2
Man lands are very competitively playable, but not in every deck. They're great to have a way to finish the game without having to dilute the controlling aspects of the deck. Inkmoth and Blinkmoth Nexus, creeping tar pit, celestial colonnade, treetop village, raging ravine, mutavault, shambling vent, and stirring wildwood are the most playable.
January 27, 2018 1:45 a.m.