Originally Posted by
escobert
Originally Posted by
Pete for President
Originally Posted by
escobert
Originally Posted by
Pete for President
I recently discovered that playing a blue counter deck is really really fun
I've been playing Mono Blue Tron in modern. It's a fun control deck. Unne goes into a bit more detail in his post about it's win cons.
Previously I had been playing a budget version of Affinity. But, I figured I'll never shell out $200 for a play set of Mox Opals or $150 for a play set of Glimmervoids so I gave up on my Affinity dreams.
Also, if you want to look into formats a good one is Pauper. It's mostly played on MTGonline and the decks consist of only cards printed at common. It's a VERY fun format and most decks are in the $50 range.
Pauper does sound like fun! I've been putting together decks and it's eating my wallet.
Today or tomorrow another order will arrive containing some materials for a blue/black milling deck. It's my first attempt at one of these so i hope it's going to work!
Check out these lists for the Pauper meta
http://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/pauper#online
These are the two Pauper decks I run:
Grixis Death Metal
Rhystic Tron
And my Modern Deck:
RoboTron
Wowa that's some big things happening in the RoboTron deck. How does it cope with aggro?
This is the milling-type deck I have taped together:
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/manic-scribbles/
It's purpose is to get the Manic Scribes out, mill myself to get the delirium active, defend with all defenders and then go to town with milling the opponent. When there's a bunch of land cards in the graveyards the Centaur Vinecrasher can become beastly, although honestly I have yet to trample someone to death with those. Most of the time the milling is a greater threat than my creatures. The deck is not doing too well at this point, it seems to get countered very easily (by Learn From The Past for example) and I have no sustain for life whatsoever.
Today I did have a fun combo with the Wild-Field Scarecrows, the Forgotten Creation and the Centaur Vinecrasher. Late game I sacrificed the Scarecrows, fetched the four lands adding up to the lands I had already saved in my hand and drew 6 new cards on my upkeep due to the Forgotten Creation's ability and made the Centaur Vinecrasher that much stronger. Fun times.
My other decks are pretty much simple beatdown ones so it's fun to play this deck in a different playstyle. It's way harder to play it in comparison. Maybe that's also why it hasn't done too well just yet.