Could not exactly remember which one I used first... so my first modern decks are Affinity and Splinter Twin.
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I found that Affinity was just too fast, although admittedly I didn't have the best grasp on the matchup. I started with Hurkyll's Recall at 3 and went up to 4. I think I did it once or twice at the most and they basically dumped their hand the next turn, possibly discarding a card or 2 at their end step.The Fluff wrote: ↑4 years ago
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ah, so you were a fish player for a short time too. One of my friends who is a fish player often slogged it out with my affinity. Fish are scary fast, just one or two turns slower than the robots. I often won because he was not able to buy any hurkyl's recall, but my victories were narrow.. if he had one more turn he would have been the winner, cannot block the fish army because one of my lands has been enchanted with spreading seas. He only stopped playing his deck because it got stolen.
my memories are unclear too. Not sure if MoPT already existed those times. But I almost never burned the player with galvanic blast, I used the blast instead to kill mutavaults that can block Etched Champion. Also I was slowed down, because he's countering cranial plating with steel sabotage. Good times.FoodChainGoblins wrote: ↑4 years agoI found that Affinity was just too fast, although admittedly I didn't have the best grasp on the matchup. I started with Hurkyll's Recall at 3 and went up to 4. I think I did it once or twice at the most and they basically dumped their hand the next turn, possibly discarding a card or 2 at their end step.The Fluff wrote: ↑4 years ago
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ah, so you were a fish player for a short time too. One of my friends who is a fish player often slogged it out with my affinity. Fish are scary fast, just one or two turns slower than the robots. I often won because he was not able to buy any hurkyl's recall, but my victories were narrow.. if he had one more turn he would have been the winner, cannot block the fish army because one of my lands has been enchanted with spreading seas. He only stopped playing his deck because it got stolen.
If I'm remembering correctly, I think one of my opponents responded with double Galvanic Blast, then discard a single card. Next turn, dumped the hand and then killed me the following turn. Merfolk needs a lot of Lords to race that and I'm not sure if Master of the Pearl Trident was out yet?
I actually really want to give this a shot, got a list? Maybe I can borrow from a friend.stubb wrote: ↑4 years agoI've been on RUG Delver exclusively since the start of 2019 and while I've toyed with getting a second deck, I've found that attacking with undercosted beaters while holding up Spell Pierce is everything I want to do in Modern, and I'm getting to the point where my knowledge of the deck and its matchups goes a long way toward making up some of the raw power shortfalls.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/04-03-18-rug-delver/ is what I've been on. Hexdrinker is nuts. Wrenn and Six gives the deck a threat on a different axis, a value engine, and shores up the go-wide matchups. I may be a little overloaded on Force but I like the effect, and little Teferi just wrecks this deck.idSurge wrote: ↑4 years agoI actually really want to give this a shot, got a list? Maybe I can borrow from a friend.stubb wrote: ↑4 years agoI've been on RUG Delver exclusively since the start of 2019 and while I've toyed with getting a second deck, I've found that attacking with undercosted beaters while holding up Spell Pierce is everything I want to do in Modern, and I'm getting to the point where my knowledge of the deck and its matchups goes a long way toward making up some of the raw power shortfalls.
What do you think of this SvenSveeterSven RUG delver build that has been 5-0ing all summer?stubb wrote: ↑4 years agohttp://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/04-03-18-rug-delver/ is what I've been on. Hexdrinker is nuts. Wrenn and Six gives the deck a threat on a different axis, a value engine, and shores up the go-wide matchups. I may be a little overloaded on Force but I like the effect, and little Teferi just wrecks this deck.idSurge wrote: ↑4 years agoI actually really want to give this a shot, got a list? Maybe I can borrow from a friend.stubb wrote: ↑4 years agoI've been on RUG Delver exclusively since the start of 2019 and while I've toyed with getting a second deck, I've found that attacking with undercosted beaters while holding up Spell Pierce is everything I want to do in Modern, and I'm getting to the point where my knowledge of the deck and its matchups goes a long way toward making up some of the raw power shortfalls.
that would indeed surprise some people. First time I heard of such a thing.Canopy wrote: ↑4 years agoBack when modern first came out I made a brew with liquimetal coating and cards like oxidize which could do t2 land destruction or just give me a vindicate every turn. I ended up abandoning it because it created non games when it went off but felt pretty weak otherwise. Not very fun to play in the long run but it did surprise a few people.