Poll of the Day > MTG players. Money no object, what kind of modern deck would you have?

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hypnox
06/17/20 2:49:51 PM
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I am rather found of elves or mass token style decks.

Never really liked the idea of planeswalkers, so those kind of decks never held much appeal to me. Although a guy was nice to me on MTGO once and let me pull off JTMS ability on him.

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RedPixel
06/17/20 3:27:00 PM
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I have always been a huge fan of counter-burn decks, red/blue, but I don't think it's super viable. Fun as hell though.

There was a Niv-Mizzet combo that lets you auto-win in modern under pretty easy conditions. I forget the card names:

Basically there was a blue 1-cost enchantment you could give Niv-Mizzet in conjunction with his ability:
--Whenever you draw a card from your deck, deal 1 damage to target creature or player, something something
--Whenever you deal damage to target player(?) draw a card

Boom

Edit: Surviving the early turns was pretty much the objective until you got the combo. So putting 3 Nivs and like 3-4 of those enchantments, it was a pretty safe bet you could win depending on the deck. Artifacts could screw you over big time if you're unlucky.
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hypnox
06/17/20 3:29:53 PM
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RedPixel posted...
I have always been a huge fan of counter-burn decks, red/blue, but I don't think it's super viable. Fun as hell though.

There was a Niv-Mizzet combo that lets you auto-win in modern under pretty easy conditions. I forget the card names:

Basically there was a blue 1-cost enchantment you could give Niv:
--Whenever you draw a card from your deck, deal 1 damage to target creature or player, something something
--Whenever you deal damage to target player(?) draw a card

Boom
Yeah modern has some pretty fun win conditions when they go off. I also used a lantern lock a few times until I realized I wasn't an asshole enough to play that deck since it literally turns the game into the other player sitting there having zero fun until the game is over.

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blu
06/17/20 3:30:29 PM
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I don't play Magic because money but I'd have a control deck of some sort.
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OniRonin
06/17/20 3:39:54 PM
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amulet titan

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helIy
06/17/20 4:27:48 PM
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lightsworn

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LOLIAmAnAlt
06/17/20 4:29:27 PM
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fully realizing my own creation.
Which I have not updated in about a year or so...I wonder if any new cheap cards have released that could help.

I've been very lucky with some purchases, buying some things before they spiked. But there are other cards that I'm not putting like 15-30 down for.

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TheSlinja
06/17/20 4:33:35 PM
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mono black bullshit

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Dynalo
06/17/20 4:42:33 PM
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I haven't really kept up much with the modern metagame basically since Modern Horizons was released. And it's changed a lot since then.

I have three decks still built though

UW Monument, built around Oketra's Monument and Whitemane Lion/Squadron Hawk

Eldrazi and Taxes

Allies. Which is just a way worse version of humans.

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trodi_911
06/17/20 4:48:22 PM
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I already have mine. It's a Red/Green Wolf Token deck using Silverfur Partisan and Zada, Hedron Grinder to make lots of wollf tokens. Then you use Xenagos the Reveler to create mana off of the tokens and a bunch of multikicker spells to make everything huge.

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ParanoidObsessive
06/17/20 6:05:31 PM
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I don't play modern decks. I want a Legend deck of 56 Black Lotuses and 4 Fireballs.
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Noop_Noop
06/17/20 7:07:28 PM
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i tend to gravitate towards whatever is closest to RDW at the time

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Mead
06/17/20 7:19:11 PM
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I dunno if theres any modern goblin decks

but goblins

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J_Dawg983
06/17/20 9:39:34 PM
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Amulet titan is my deck so I guess just a foiled out version of it.

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Persinian
06/17/20 10:10:09 PM
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i always enjoyed playing green/blue simic graft/evolve decks... i think i won once with them but it was still fun watching them grow and share abilities.

i dunno if its modern anymore but i had a killer black spirit deck from the kamigawa block.

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InfestedAdam
06/17/20 10:19:23 PM
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I would get a Black Lotus and one of each Mox just for collection sake. I do not have the experience to properly make use of these cards. That said, I would love to update my Kithkin and Treant deck from Lorraine.

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JoeDangIt
06/18/20 12:06:51 AM
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I'm not really a fan of buying cards directly, for me the fun has always been doing the best with whatever I happen to get.
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Lokarin
06/18/20 12:52:09 AM
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Land Tribal

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AllstarSniper32
06/18/20 2:17:35 AM
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I like tribal decks so I have a bunch of decks centered around various different creature types.

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Zeus
06/18/20 2:21:04 AM
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Meaning last 2 blocks + core? I haven't been keeping current, so no idea.

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shadowsword87
06/18/20 2:30:07 AM
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Zeus posted...
Meaning last 2 blocks + core? I haven't been keeping current, so no idea.

That's standard, modern is all the cards with the modern cardframe.

And I would probably go for scapeshift, or possibly jund if I wanted to just beat face.

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funkyfritter
06/18/20 2:32:46 AM
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Red aggro, which is modern is less of a specific deck and more a pile of staples that get configured based on the metagame.

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hypnox
06/18/20 2:37:11 AM
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Geez MTG is still expensive looking at the current meta decks the cost are anywhere from 400(not many) all the way up to 1500 where the average seems to be about a grand.

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shadowsword87
06/18/20 2:42:54 AM
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Oh yeah, I don't really consider it worth it to play competitive decks.

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InfestedAdam
06/18/20 10:39:49 AM
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JoeDangIt posted...
I'm not really a fan of buying cards directly, for me the fun has always been doing the best with whatever I happen to get.
Friends and I started doing for a few blocks. We would split the cost on a booster box, divide half the packs among ourselves, and have a draft with the remaining booster packs. Kept the cost down and prevented any of us from simply dropping cash to make a better deck. I was not particularly good at making a deck with what I had but my friends were creative in what they could make.

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blu
06/18/20 10:41:24 AM
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hypnox posted...
Geez MTG is still expensive looking at the current meta decks the cost are anywhere from 400(not many) all the way up to 1500 where the average seems to be about a grand.

Pokemon decks are about ~200 and it's cheaper to go to the next deck as you already have a lot of the staple trainers.
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TheSlinja
06/18/20 11:45:11 AM
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hypnox posted...
Geez MTG is still expensive looking at the current meta decks the cost are anywhere from 400(not many) all the way up to 1500 where the average seems to be about a grand.
the worst part is just how much cheaper those decks would be if they would stop fucking around and reprint fetchlands so people can actually play modern

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Zeus
06/19/20 1:51:42 PM
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TheSlinja posted...
the worst part is just how much cheaper those decks would be if they would stop fucking around and reprint fetchlands so people can actually play modern

Reminds me that I never got around to buying any of the old OP dual lands. At the time, I was balking at the prices for Bayou. These days that card is hundreds of bucks >_>

BG was always one of my favorite color combos, mostly on a thematic level. (I also enjoyed running a WBG zombie deck built mostly from the Apoc expansion. I later added Teneb the Harvester to it, but that was after my active playing days had reached an end so it only got used maybe once or twice. )

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SantaKhala
06/19/20 3:46:09 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
I don't play modern decks. I want a Legend deck of 56 Black Lotuses and 4 Fireballs.

Back in Shandalar I used to play a deck of 20 Black Lotuses and 20 Ball Lightnings...

Could possibly win in 1-2 turns unless my opponent had First Strike creatures, such as Tundra Wolves or White Knights.

My starting hand: 3 Black Lotuses and 4 Ball Lightnings, or 4 Black Lotuses and 3 Ball Lightnings.

Opponent Turn 1: Do anything other than summon a creature with First Strike.
My Turn 1: Draw the missing card and end up with 4 Black Lotuses and 4 Ball Lightnings.
Summon all four Ball Lightnings. Deal 24 points of damage. GG.

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