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09-25-2013, 03:12 PM
Good morning Sourcers,
As we all know, the state of a Modern isn't good right now. It's overrun with Jund and some kind of Pod variant won the last few Modern Grand Prix... blue hasn't gotten much love lately and I'm thinking that with Theros being released soon, that might change things.
While we don't have the help of Sensei's Divining Top to help us along, we do have a number of playable cards with Scry that might help us along. We have Magma Jet, Serum Visions, Dissolve, and the new Temples to help in library manipulation.
UW gives us a number of cards to help in defeating other archetypes, such as Vendilion Clique, countermagic, Terminus and Meddling Mage. The point of the matter is that I want Jund off the map as quickly as possible, and I'm not sure how much UWR Miracles have been looked at.
I came up with the following list -
Land (23)----------------
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Arid Mesa
3 Temple of Triumph
3 Steam Vents
1 Sacred Foundry
3 Hallowed Fountain
2 Island
1 Mountain
2 Plains
Spells (25)----------------
3 Mana Leak
2 Spell Snare
2 Spell Pierce
3 Path to Exile
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Magma Jet
4 Serum Visions
2 Entreat the Angels
1 Bonfire of the Damned
Dudes (12) -----------------
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Spellheart Chimera
2 Vendilion Clique
Sideboard ------------------
3 Meddling Mage
3 Rest in Peace
2 Terminus
2 Torpor Orb
2 Wear / Tear
3 Swan Song
In looking at Theros cards, Swan Song got my immediate attention; it counters Twin and many other cards with a rather minor drawback. Spellheart Chimera also got my attention as a potentially huge flying creature with Trample, something blue's needed for a while but hasn't had much access to. Huge flying creatures can be a real issue to deal with, so for me it's an auto-include.
Terminus in the sideboard is almost better than Wrath effects because of decks like Pod that care a lot about graveyards to trigger their effects. Living End also doesn't like it but we also have Rest in Peace to take care of that as well.
Scapeshift is weakening by the set, therefore I'm not entirely worried about getting past it. I'm aware that Boseiju is a card, however, but I don't see it much.
With the rather irritating rise of Jund, Tron has reduced it's numbers dramatically. If it starts to rise again we can look at Sowing Salt in the sideboard replacing possibly Meddling Mage, but I'm not certain of its return for at least a little while.
Any suggestions or comments would be really appreciated! This is not a final list by any means and I'm open to discussion, of course.
Thanks for reading!
- Dave Rehm
twitter.com/avatarofbro
As we all know, the state of a Modern isn't good right now. It's overrun with Jund and some kind of Pod variant won the last few Modern Grand Prix... blue hasn't gotten much love lately and I'm thinking that with Theros being released soon, that might change things.
While we don't have the help of Sensei's Divining Top to help us along, we do have a number of playable cards with Scry that might help us along. We have Magma Jet, Serum Visions, Dissolve, and the new Temples to help in library manipulation.
UW gives us a number of cards to help in defeating other archetypes, such as Vendilion Clique, countermagic, Terminus and Meddling Mage. The point of the matter is that I want Jund off the map as quickly as possible, and I'm not sure how much UWR Miracles have been looked at.
I came up with the following list -
Land (23)----------------
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Arid Mesa
3 Temple of Triumph
3 Steam Vents
1 Sacred Foundry
3 Hallowed Fountain
2 Island
1 Mountain
2 Plains
Spells (25)----------------
3 Mana Leak
2 Spell Snare
2 Spell Pierce
3 Path to Exile
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Magma Jet
4 Serum Visions
2 Entreat the Angels
1 Bonfire of the Damned
Dudes (12) -----------------
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Spellheart Chimera
2 Vendilion Clique
Sideboard ------------------
3 Meddling Mage
3 Rest in Peace
2 Terminus
2 Torpor Orb
2 Wear / Tear
3 Swan Song
In looking at Theros cards, Swan Song got my immediate attention; it counters Twin and many other cards with a rather minor drawback. Spellheart Chimera also got my attention as a potentially huge flying creature with Trample, something blue's needed for a while but hasn't had much access to. Huge flying creatures can be a real issue to deal with, so for me it's an auto-include.
Terminus in the sideboard is almost better than Wrath effects because of decks like Pod that care a lot about graveyards to trigger their effects. Living End also doesn't like it but we also have Rest in Peace to take care of that as well.
Scapeshift is weakening by the set, therefore I'm not entirely worried about getting past it. I'm aware that Boseiju is a card, however, but I don't see it much.
With the rather irritating rise of Jund, Tron has reduced it's numbers dramatically. If it starts to rise again we can look at Sowing Salt in the sideboard replacing possibly Meddling Mage, but I'm not certain of its return for at least a little while.
Any suggestions or comments would be really appreciated! This is not a final list by any means and I'm open to discussion, of course.
Thanks for reading!
- Dave Rehm
twitter.com/avatarofbro