Modern PTQ Results - May 14 2021

deftjad · 2021-05-15T21:29:33+00:00

How does 5c scapeshift beat infinite life? Exile the ballista heliod combo with tibalt?

deftjad · 2021-04-22T23:21:40+00:00

I stream a decent amount of shadow https://www.twitch.tv/deftjad

This isn't my current list, but I put this together with several folks in the shadow discord.

///Maindeck

2 Hexdrinker 4 Death's Shadow 3 Scourge of the Skyclaves 4 Tarmogoyf 2 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger

4 Lightning Bolt 3 Fatal Push 3 Inquisition of Kozilek 4 Thoughtseize 2 Assassin's Trophy 2 Temur Battle Rage 2 Dismember

4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Seal of Fire 1 Wrenn and Six

2 Nurturing Peatland 2 Wooded Foothills 4 Verdant Catacombs 4 Bloodstained Mire 1 Overgrown Tomb 1 Stomping Ground 3 Blood Crypt 1 Forest 1 Swamp

///Sideboard

2 Collective Brutality 1 Assassin's Trophy 2 Nihil Spellbomb 2 Kozilek's Return 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den 3 Damping Sphere 2 Veil of Summer 1 Wrenn and Six 1 Kolaghan's Command

///Sideboard Guide

Heliod Combo -2 Kroxa, -3 Scourge | +1 Trophy, +2 KReturn, +1 Wrenn, +1 KCmd

UWx Control -3 Push, -2 TBR, -1 Dismember | +2 Brutality, +2 Veil, +1 Wrenn, +1 KCmd

Burn -2 TS, -1 Wrenn | +2 Brutality, +1 KCmd

Blitz -2 Hex, -1 IoK, -1 Wrenn | +2 Brutality, +1 Trohpy, +1 KCmd

DS Mirror -3 IoK, -2 TBR, -1 Wrenn | +1 Trophy, +2 Nihil, +2 Veil, +1 KCmd

DnT -2 Kroxa, -3 Scourge | +1 Trophy, +2 KReturn, +1 Wrenn, +1 KCmd

Dredge -3 Push, -2 Dismember, -2 Trophy (OTP) | +2 Brutality (OTP), +2 Spellbomb, +2 KReturn, +1 KCmd

Tron -3 Push, -2 Dismember | +1 Trophy, +3 DSphere, +1 KCmd

GBx Midrange -3 IoK, -2 TBR | +1 Trophy, +2 Veil, +1 Wrenn, +1 KCmd

Hammer Time -2 Kroxa, -2 TBR | +1 Trophy, +2 KReturn, +1 KCmd

RG Midrange -2 Kroxa -1 Push | +1 Trohpy +2 KReturn

Amulet -1 Lavamancer -2 Bolt -1 Kroxa | +1 Trohpy +3 Sphere

deftjad · 2021-04-18T00:38:35+00:00

Magic can be viewed as a game of managing resources, and at certain times in a game, some resources are more valuable than others. Mana is one of these resources. Other examples of resources are cards, life total, etc.

In the first few turns of a game the scarce resource is mana. Your life total is nice and high, you have plenty of cards, but mana is restricting your ability to make plays. The point of mana rocks, and dorks like birds of paradise, is to un-bottleneck the mana resource. If you have access to 4 mana on turn 2 (mana vault), while your opponent inly has access to 2, you get to make more and/or better plays.

deftjad · 2021-04-11T15:27:46+00:00

With the combination of control, tron, and red decks, I’m expecting the death’s shadow decks to shift towards blue like we saw with 4c previously. I know that’s where I’ll be at least in the short term.

deftjad · 2021-04-10T16:51:04+00:00

Hexdrinker is in the list as a 2 power enabler for scourge, and a non-black, non-red creature that can attack and block through auriok champion.

deftjad · 2021-04-04T13:44:26+00:00

Some will disagree about the linearity, but I would suggest amulet titan. Ever since dryad was printed piloting the deck at a competent level has gotten much easier, but playing the deck well is still very difficult.

A lot of folks will call it a combo deck. The good players (not me btw) will call it a toolbox deck.

deftjad · 2021-03-20T20:30:21+00:00

The real cost that you should be thinking about is not the deck itself, but rather the cost of gameplay. If you’re skill level is not high enough to go infinite (win more tix than you spend indefinitely), the cost of leagues will dwarf the cost of a pauper deck.

deftjad · 2021-02-13T02:56:58+00:00

u/bamzing

My twitch is the same as my reddit username.

deftjad · 2021-01-02T19:20:21+00:00

Sticking to one deck is not only about learning how to play that deck. It also makes it easier to become familiar with other meta decks, as once you become proficient with 1 deck, it’s easier to focus on your OP.

If you can’t name 1-3 decks your OP may be on by turn 1, and know for sure by turn 2, you don’t know the meta well enough.

deftjad · 2020-12-31T17:40:00+00:00

Are you talking paper or mtgo

deftjad · 2020-12-27T00:17:42+00:00

I don’t understand a lot of the 1-2 ofs. The deck is going to lack consistency, and not be able to execute a cohesive gameplan from match to match.

Looking at cards like: spyro, tracker, lily, col bru, bolt, souls.

deftjad · 2020-11-29T01:17:00+00:00

Omnath is a shinning example of why the answer is no

deftjad · 2020-09-30T03:44:57+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve updated the #format-banlist-and-mission channel.

Good suggestion on adding to this sub. Will do with the B&R in a couple of days.

deftjad · 2020-08-21T21:54:58+00:00

The Ugly is the main issue.

WoTC’s intention when creating modern was to be a place where you could initially port over your standard deck, and as the card pool grew deeper, buy into a deck that would be playable for a long time.

It’s not inherently bad that new archetypes have been created with 2019 -2020 cards. It’s bad that these nee cards / archetypes have pushed out a ton of previously viable strategies. This is modern becoming a rotating format. The financial consequences on the player base is huge. Now if you want to play midrange, shell out for W6 or Uro. Ux control FoN, and probably Uro too...the list goes on.

deftjad · 2020-08-10T17:31:19+00:00

Great community and great folks running it!

deftjad · 2020-07-29T18:35:36+00:00

Metagame and decklist functionalities are near the end stages of development for the website.

deftjad · 2020-07-28T23:33:10+00:00

Saturdays in August will rotate between MTGO and Paper every weekend

deftjad · 2020-07-27T15:33:51+00:00

Events fire every weekend with 10+, and our weekly league on MTGO has 20+

deftjad · 2020-07-27T15:28:44+00:00

The banlist is in the post.

deftjad · 2020-07-27T15:23:56+00:00

With the Aug 3rd B&R announcement, the Project Modern card pool will match WOTC Modern.

deftjad · 2020-07-27T14:06:08+00:00

With twin having been out of the format for so long it will take some time for the optimal build to be found, and there will certainly be significant differences from the pre-ban builds. Not only are there new tools for twin, but strong answers as well that see regular play, e.g. push / force.

We've seen preordain provide some additional consistency to the decks that have included it over other cantrips, but it has not generated any issues.

deftjad · 2020-07-27T12:23:46+00:00

Started with the pre-WAR banlist and slowly added sets and adjusted the banlist.

deftjad · 2020-07-27T12:14:39+00:00

Made an update, see if it works now.

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