Husband, Father, Mathematician, and Twitch Streamer
Power Level: Fan Favorite
These are decks that we play on stream regularly because people like them, but they tend to have a few too many poor match ups in the format to be something I think will ever be a major player in Modern. They can be fun and powerful in the right meta game though.
This is a Blue-Black Combo deck that self mills to try and put Scholar of the Lost Trove, God-Pharaoh’s Gift and Unburial Rites into the graveyard. Scholar casts our namesake card when it comes into play, which then returns other creatures from our graveyard to play to win the game with.
This is a “Mono” Colored Control deck that looks to interact with cards like Thoughtseize and Languish, while generating card advantage with Phyrexian Arena and Golos, Tireless Pilgrim.
This is an aggressive tempo deck that looks to disrupt the opponent with cards like Lofty Denial and Nebelgast Herald, while beating down with a slew of evasive threats.
This is a Blue-Black based control deck that splashes in some Green in order to play Assassin’s Trophy to remove problem permanents and Pulse of Murasa to help stabilize as the game goes long. It looks to generate card advantage with creatures like Snapcaster Mage and Torrential Gearhulk as well as powerful spells like Cryptic Command.
This is a combo control deck that is looking to keep the board in check using efficient removal like Lightning Bolt and Path to Exile. Our eventual combo is Nahiri, the Harbinger ticking up to eight and then ultimating to find Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Nahiri offers powerful flexibility in a deck like this. She enables us to filter through cards we draw that might not line up well against our opponent, while also serving as additional removal with her down tick.
