Necessity of Grafdigger's Cage Modern MTGO Meta.
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Posted on May 25, 2016, 1:57 a.m. by Ryotenchi
Im looking for advice from members of our community who do play a Modern deck on MTGO.
Specifically, how significant Collected Company numbers are, and if I must have Grafdigger's Cage no question.
I would like to upgrade to it later, yet its going up in price quite a bit. MTTGoldfish Link
I normally avoid things under metric tons of hype until I understand them better and the hype surrounding them. 16$ is pretty steep.. yet I can believe abzan coco among others is super popular online.. the same as it is in my home town meta.
(The entire store is almost all coco.)
(B/W Non Eldrazi Death and Taxes, For reference.)
It just seems like an incredible piece of hate for the current meta. Boza makes good points.
May 25, 2016 3:24 a.m.
I feared as much, Boza and zandl. Im def going to have to upgrade for them. Im new to MTGO, So Im a little behind on the learn curve for the mtgo meta.
I also have to worry about finding the best white anti burn card.. Timely Reinforcements and Thalia dont get along. I still dont know if I can trust Kor Firewalker and use up 2 sideboard slots on it.
The Nahiri hype, def makes grafdigger's cage that much more must have.. o.o I hope it doesnt get too much more expensive.
May 25, 2016 3:29 a.m.
Firewalker is real. Burn decks don't readily have answers for it, it auto-blocks their little creatures, and takes the edge of the rest of their spells.
May 25, 2016 3:30 a.m.
Aye aye to that. Just havent landed one against burn ever..
May 25, 2016 3:34 a.m.
Burn decks are usually Naya colors and have access to Path to Exile in the sideboard specifically for those pesky Firewalkers. The best white card is probably 3x Leyline of Sanctity. Shuts down sac effects and discard spells.
In my UW Deck, I run 3x leyline and 2 firewalker, since I am purposefully weak to Burn in g1 to strenghten other matchups.
May 25, 2016 3:39 a.m.
Thanx for the help, Boza/PepsiAddicted/zandl.
Shall see what I learn after I get the rest of the deck bought in a week or two and hopefully a few games against those particular decks and not the current in hype ones.
This has to better than my paper experience at least.
May 25, 2016 4:12 a.m.
Forgot to mention Grafdigger's cage also Stops:
- Griselbrand/Goryo's Vengeance decks
- UR Storm (or at least slows them down A LOT by disabling Past in Flames)
- Living End decks
- Restore Balance decks
- Melira combo part of CoCo
- Sun Titan for that UW control deck
- probably a lot more that I am not thinking of right now.
May 25, 2016 4:32 a.m.
buildingadeck says... #11
Cage doesn't stop Living End. Living End distinctly exiles them, so they are not played from the grave.
It is, however, good for the new Dredge decks floating around.
May 25, 2016 5:23 a.m.
@buildingadeck, however, cage does stop opponents from casting a Living End when they cascade into it, since it is still in the library.
Yes, living end still works, but only as early as turn 7 if they suspend it.
May 25, 2016 5:31 a.m.
buildingadeck says... #13
Oh, interesting. I did not know that. Thanks for the information.
May 25, 2016 8:12 a.m.
Wrong cage does not shut down cascade because you exile the cards as you reveal them. Cage does exactly nothing against living end decks.
See Violent Outburst reminder text
May 25, 2016 8:53 a.m.
PepsiAddicted says... #16
well living end is awesome and all but its kinda rare with its <1% share of the modo meta. so it shouldnt really matter ;)
board dem cages
Boza says... #2
It functions well not only against CoCo, but also dredge and Nahiri and Snapcaster mage and Chord of calling and pretty much half of Modern.
May 25, 2016 3:12 a.m.