Mono-Black Devotion (MBD) is a fringe modern deck which has emerged over the past 6 years since the introduction of devotion mechanic in Theros. The deck will occasionally post respectable results but has yet to really break out. There have been a number of good articles about the archetype as well ...

Given the recent loss of Faithless Looting, this deck will require a little bit of reworking (cathartic reunion and/or lightning axe seem like good replacements). However, I think that this B&R announcement actually helps this deck a fair bit as the graveyard hate will back off. In particular I ...

Is anyone running a build focused on the life drain from Pashalik Mons and Sling-Gang Lieutenant? Yes. I'll post a list shortly. Essentially it tries to abuse the persist goblins ( putrid goblin & murderous redcap ) to get lots of mana from prospector and multiple triggers from Mons (or Sling-g...

when can we see the price of stoneforge mystic stabilizing? I'm not sure when to get my set Kicking myself for not pulling the trigger in a set last week before the announcement. I wonder if it will drop back down to $40. Also, I wonder if there is any chance of a reprint in the near future which w...

Creatures 4 Elvish Reclaimer 4 Ruination Rioter 4 Countryside Crusher 4 Bloodbraid Elf Spells 4 Flame Jab 3 Raven's Crime 1 Assassin's Trophy 4 Life from the Loam 3 Wrenn and Six 3 Seismic Assault Lands 2 Blood Crypt 2 Dakmor Salvage 1 Forgotten Cave 2 Lotus Field 1 Nurturing Peatland 2 Overgrown T...

Is there even a slight chance this deck can survive losing Faithless Looting? In a word? No. The deck was on the fringes before, Looting allowed it get get some value going to draw the game late enough to get some wins. Now our engine is gone, Horizon's attempt to give us relevance with Seasoned Py...

Is there even a slight chance this deck can survive losing Faithless Looting? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I think there are a couple of questions: 1. Do we try to find another (less good) draw/discard piece to replace looting? (I.e. cathartic reunion ) 2. OR do we find something to replac...

looking at the list again, is lava dart the optimal card for those two slots? What are you killing with those in your meta? We are not a phoenix deck, and it seems pyromancer is the only card that benefit from those darts. The 2x Lava dart are filling the spot I'm least certain about. In theory the...

A skelemental strategy + pyromancer strategy. That looks interesting. What are the snow covered lands for? Thanks! Yeah, I think it has potential. I swapped in the skelementals to replace young pyromancer that are usually in mardu pyro. Unearth helps to mitigate the restrictive mana cost of skeleme...

thanks for the advice everyone. Will put the snow deck on hold, and will place the goblin cards back to my scg cart. :) Have a friend who has merfolk from whom I can borrow a set aether vial for using with the gobs. Yeah I second this. Outside of Bring to Light Scapeshift with Ice-Fang Coatl, I thi...

Deck: Mardu Unearth Creatures 4 Lightning Skelemental 2 Monastery Mentor 4 Seasoned Pyromancer Spells 4 Faithless Looting 3 Inquisition of Kozilek 2 Lava Dart 4 Lightning Bolt 2 Path to Exile 2 Thoughtseize 4 Unearth 3 Kolaghan's Command 4 Lingering Souls 2 Smiting Helix Lands 2 Blood Crypt 4 Blood...

There are a couple of decks I've got my eye on. I am very interested to see how Urza Thopter does in a wider meta. It seems like the deck still has a lot of potential for growth/change. It's hard to say if it's current success is due to relatively little artifact hate. However I think that the room ...

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4 years ago

It's also rather good in the 3 color snow decks that have plenty of snow basics.

Currently working on a trade to get some for my treefolk snow deck. ><

Yes, this. With [card] arcum's astrolabe [\card] and vista, snow decks can easily operate with 4 colors using basic snow lands.

Like you, I have mardu pyro for competitive play. I have my RB gobos for fun. Lots of reasons to play them right now (see above).

Without speculating on whether Hogaak will be banned, there is likely going to be a point in the future when Hogaak is not the apex predator. Modern Horizons, War of the Spark, and M20 have hardly been explored to their fullest due to the nature of the current meta. Which decks/strategies do you thi...

I've been trying to merge the Horizons Ninjas with the classic modern faeries deck. The Faerie Seer obviously fits perfectly and I was drafting some Lorwyn/Morningtide this past weekend and it sort of clicked. Apparently I'm not alone as there is a Snow Ninja+Faerie list in the "Bitterbible&quo...

I've been playing Skred for 3 years. I love it to death, but as time passes I'm having a harder time actually competing. I don't really care about winning so much as having fun, and I'm not a tournament grinder by any means. I would describe myself as an FNM hero, personally. As such, I need someth...

I'm going to be the guy dropping a hot take in here. This card is straight garbage. There's nothing here that can't be better accomplished by the already established fetches, and the people saying "run it in 2-color decks!" you realize that you already have options that let you do that, r...

This card is an auto-include 4x in any two color modern deck I make now. It particularly shines when I'm trying to splash a second color and don't want to run a bunch of shock/enters tapped lands (for example in RB goblins running Blood Moon). When Modern Horizons first came out a lot of people were...

This is the thread to discuss the Bx Devotion archetype in Modern.