Tuesday 11 October 2011

Modern - Snapcaster Gifts

Well I have a Modern tournament this Saturday and decided that would be making a gift list to try, which ended being something like this.


Lands 26
4  Marsh Flats
1  Scalding Tarn
3  Hallowed Fountain
2 Watery Grave
1 Godless Shrine
1  Mystic Gate
1 Sunken Ruins
3 Island
2 Plains
2 Swamp
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Academy Ruins
1 Celestial Collonade
1 Creeping Tar Pit

Creatures 7
3 Snapcaster Mage 
1  Phantasmal Image
2 Sun Titan
1 Wurmcoil

Draw  7
3  Gifts Ungiven
4 Forbidden Alchemy

Utility 3
2 Unburial Rites
1 Crucible of Worlds

Counters 8
4  Mana Leak
2  Cryptic Command
2  Spell Snare

Removal 9
3 Path to Exile
1 Dismenber
1 Go for the Throat
1 Doomblade
1 Damnation
1 Wrath of God
1 Day of Judgment

While I was looking for packages for gifts I got a peak at the sun titan package. With some playtesting in standard with Solar Flare I already know how good Unburial Rites into Sun titan is, running it also makes Forbidden Alchemy extremely good, and since you already run ways to drop spells into the graveyard Snapcaster Mage gets insanely good. Regarding the Wurmcoil, at first it was Grave Titan because it left something behind if he got it by Path into Exile but the fact that wurmcoil can be recurred by Academy Ruins.
The question is if the deck is able to keep up with the speed of Modern, I sure think and hope it does or I will be in trouble this weekend :) .

Saturday 8 October 2011

A new post omg :D and with a bug list o_O

Well lately , or rather for a long time, I didn't and I don't fell like writing for this blog.
Miranda, mostly gave up and with the starcitygames tournaments there's so little space to improve decks in standard that I had no reason to post anything. I have never been a fan of legacy and I don't even have much time or people to test.
So, and to have something going on this blog, I will post the lists I'm currently playing or testing.
So here his a BUG I'm having fun with in standard:



Ramp (12)
4 Rampant Growth
4 Viridian Emissary
4 Solem Simulacrum
Big guys (12)
4 Consecrated Sphinx
4 Wurmcoil
4 Grave Titan
Utility (10)
4 Ponder
4 Black Sun Zenith
2 Unburial Rites
Lands (26)
4 UG land
4 GB land
4 UB Land
6 Forest
5 Swamp
2 Island
1 Plains
 It's a pretty standard list that tries to ramp into 4th or 5th turn fatties.
It could run heartless summoning as a ramp tool but I ditched it since it made all my fatties vulnerable to dismember.
In my very limited testing it has been running well, and better than I expected against mono red thanks to wurmcoil and grave titan.