![]() If the amount of 《Force of Negation》 and hate permanents rises, I don’t think this deck can keep up, but I think it’s nice to discover something that could potentially at least make people think twice about not playing as much combo hate. I think this deck is more well positioned than it is resilient, and Modern is such a huge format that it’s hard to complain when I play against an Izzet Murktide deck with maindeck 《Force of Negation》, because it’s not hard to imagine a reason why my opponent decided to play them. People are playing a lot more 《Counterspell》 than 《Force of Negation》, which bodes well for the deck that can tap its opponent’s lands before trying to combo. Right now I’m not playing against a lot of hate, or even a lot of disruption. ![]() I’m having a ton of fun playing this deck, but I get a strange feeling alongside my wins. 《Empty the Warrens》 going wide is more important than the extra power you get from 《Aeve, Progenitor Ooze》, not to mention we can’t side in 《Aeve, Progenitor Ooze》 and maintain 《Lurrus of the Dream-Den》 as a companion.Īs an option to 《Wish》 for, these “juke” cards only really matter against graveyard hate, as if you have 3 mana during a 《Wish》 and you were able to cast multiple spells in the same turn, you almost always could just win with 《Underworld Breach》 if you still have access to your graveyard. You can also sideboard in the 《Thassa’s Oracle》 against white decks to help beat 《Sanctifier en-Vec》, you will need to start your combo with a larger graveyard, but you won’t actually be reliant on using any red cards from your graveyard while executing your combo. When you don’t have any spare mana to start your loop you’ll need to cast 2 《Twiddle》 to get enough mana for either 2 《Grapeshot》 or 《Wish》 for 《Thassa’s Oracle》 either way. 《Grapeshot》 twice costs 1 less mana than 《Wish》 for 《Thassa’s Oracle》, but potentially 3 more cards in your graveyard if you didn’t have any spare mana when you started your loop. I’ve actually found the sideboard 《Thassa’s Oracle》 quite important because sometimes in order for 《Grapeshot》 to be lethal you’d need to cast it twice, and the loop doesn’t always generate enough resources to do that. This will allow you to mill your entire library, and then either win by escaping the maindeck copy of 《Grapeshot》 (sometimes twice), or casting 《Wish》 for 《Thassa’s Oracle》. Taking some of the lessons I had already learned from the pre-Ikoria time I had tried the deck, I built the following and 5-0d my first league with it: 《Wish》 allows the deck to have a lot more redundancy without as many terrible cards taking up slots in the 60, and even allows our 《Twiddle》 heavy draws to win alongside a single 《Wish》 as with 6 mana we can 《Wish》 for 《Underworld Breach》, escape 2 《Twiddle》, and then escape the same 《Wish》 for 《Tome Scour》 with a blue remaining to escape 《Twiddle》 again. Now over a year later, after spotting 《Wish》 in the previews, I’ve started to re-explore the archetype, and I’ve been quite impressed with it. It turned out that the un-errata’d 《Lurrus》 offered a lot to Modern in general, and given we didn’t have a big Modern tournament to prepare for anyways, we ended up scrapping the idea and focused on Standard instead. Around the time we were learning that there likely wasn’t going to be a tabletop Magic event for a long time, we also had 《Lurrus of the Dream-Den》 previewed, which looked like it was exactly what we were looking for in the archetype because we could use 《Thought Scour》 and 《Tome Scour》 as effective card selection when looking for 《Underworld Breach》, and then just cast 《Lurrus》 directly from your sideboard and win the game in the same turn. This deck looked like it was doing something powerful, but lacked a lot of resiliency.
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