Similar in concept to a deck like Infect, the goal is to get a Puresteel Paladin on the table, a bunch of cheap equipment, and swing-out before going to get a snack before your next round. Yes, we have another Lurrus deck, probably the card that over the last 2 years has single-handedly forced the average mana value of decks downward the most. Luckily for everyone, a pair of Hammer pants are not required to play the deck, but you do you. Fantastic for a deck like Control that wants to maintain peak flexibility, but Path to Exile and Deflecting Palm both handle large dudes like Murktide Regent that Ending is just useless against. Prismatic Ending was in the sideboard the first couple of months after MH2 came out, but it looks like the prevailing wisdom has caught up to my thought that in Burn it’s just too expensive a lot of the time. One of the stronger hate cards we have seen recently for sure. The only new card in this list is Sanctifier en-Vec, which booted Kor Firewalker from the sideboard and trades lifegain potential for some really vicious graveyard control. ![]() Burn doesn’t try and be fancy or break the mold too often, it just wants you dead and signing that match slip ASAP. Yeah, the matches are over fast and I have plenty of time to hang out or get some food, and right now the deck is well-positioned. I may show up with a different deck at FNM here and there, but even if I have practiced a lot with the other decks, when a larger event rolls around, I am probably sleeving up my Mountains and melting some faces. You’ll see those sideboard cards again as we move forward.Īnyone who knows me knows that over the years since I began playing again following a long break (or who knew me before), I’m Burn Guy. ![]() You’ll note a number of MH2 cards chilling in the sideboard, as well as 8 others in the main. All these Blue creatures means it is easy to be able to pitch to Force of Negation, giving the deck some very important counterplay that had previously been missing. Shardless Agent was a great creature pick up though, and kept the deck at 8 cascade options. Now most of the cycling creatures are blue, the sorcery speed cascade spell has disappeared, leaving the instant speed one. These days the deck looks quite a bit different. Not a lot of counterplay, but when graveyard hate was low (and Dredge was in a slump), it would appear for a bit. Cascade into Living End and simultaneously wipe your opponent’s current board and bring back all of your own. ![]() It’s colors were Jund (Black/Red/Green) and you were spending a mana (or 2 life for Street Wraith) to cycle and put big, dumb idiots in your graveyard. Let’s dive into our Top 10 and see the shape of Modern, as we are almost to Halloween.Ĭlassically Living End has been a pretty all-in style of deck. Some have obviously gotten more out of control than others ( Ragavan says hi), but the set has a ton of strong cards and decks have changed quite a bit as a result. What’s caused this variety and how can we take advantage of it? The most obvious thing is that Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) happened, and there are so many powerful cards in the set that it has warped how we build and quite a few cards from the set have made themselves invaluable to your Magic collection. Modern is definitely a format where your matchups matter….a LOT…but given how in the last few years we would often see multiple decks above 10% of the meta and 4 or 5 taking up over 60% just by themselves, it’s refreshing to see more variety. Sure you can register one of the Top 10 decks I will be discussing today (at least according to Goldfish) and probably have a decent night against a lot of opponents, but even decks outside the Top 10 can show up and wreck face. While it’s been quieter about Modern, one of the most common refrains I have been hearing the last couple of weeks, is just how wide open the format feels. It’s been a bit since my last article, and while I have sat back and kept a general eye on how Modern has been going, so much of the Magic Twitter drama has been focused on other formats.
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