![]() ![]() If Wizards ever pulls the handbrake on these strategies, say by removing Become Immense from the format, blue control strategies will be poised to come roaring back. Cryptic used to be a major component of Modern, falling by the wayside in recent years as Infect gained popularity, and has been further suppressed by other ultra-fast builds such as Shadow Zoo and Dredge. Kyle Boggemes’ Jeskai Flash was also packing a pair. Madcap Moon was running two Cryptic Commands, and it wasn’t the only deck in the room to do so. It’s far from a hard lock against the format, but strategies like Dredge are going to find it maddeningly difficult to beat in most situations. This is essentially a UR control deck that incorporates the Madcap Experiment/Platinum Emperion combo, which for the uninitiated, is a four mana sorcery which, if it resolves, “tutors” and puts a Platinum Emperion into play, handily protecting the controller’s life total. ![]() Razorverge isn’t played quite that much yet, but will it be within the next six months?Īnother surprise deck to show up in the top 32 was Madcap Moon, placing 25th in the hands of Robert Graves. We shouldn’t expect too dramatic an upward shift in price just because of Tom’s success, but this certainly provides a boost to a card that’s got the exact same supply profile as Blackcleave Cliffs, which hangs around $20 today. Razorverge is in the $7 to $8 range today. Not only will players looking to pick up this build of Tron need copies, it also validates selection of the land in other strategies when players wonder what GW land they should be using. Grove of the Burnwillows was an expensive and prohibitive card in Tron, and switching it for Razorverge Thicket is going to open the door for more players to get in. Razorverge Thicket has quietly been climbing in price and popularity in Modern for quite some time, as Melira, white Tax builds, and various Collected Company decks all employ it, as well as a smattering of other strategies. His largest departure from the standard Tron world is that, because of the color shift, he eschews Grove of the Burnwillows for Razorverge Thicket instead. Two World Breakers snuck in alongside two Ugin, the Spirit Dragons, and other than that, most every other card in the main deck is familiar. He’s ditched the Pyroclasms for Path to Exiles, likely as a response to the more singular and/or recursive threats of Shadow Zoo, Infect, and Dredge. It looks much like the GR build, with only a few small tweaks. In a departure from the typical GR build, he showed up to to the SCG Modern Open with GW Tron. Tom Ross, fan favorite, gave viewers yet another deck to be excited about this weekend. And watch this YouTube channel to keep up to date with Cartel Aristocrats, a fun and informative webcast with several other finance personalities! Notable entries here include Amulet Titan, which does not seem to have picked up in popularity after its recent GP Top 8, and KCI, which, much to our surprise, only managed to convince five of our players that it was the right choice for MKM Series Prague.Don’t miss this week’s installment of the MTG Fast Finance podcast, an on-topic, no-nonsense tour through the week’s most important changes in the Magic economy. As always, the Modern metagame is far too diverse to discuss every deck with a whopping 72 decks making it into our other category. Storm and Infect close out our named decks with a respectable seven pilots each. Hatebears, an ever-popular choice at our events, made out with 12 pilots and we had a whopping four decks in the eight-pilot category: Elves, Hollow One, U/R Moon, and Collected Company. Burn and Affinity continued to bring a strong showing, with 16 people choosing the former and 14 choosing the latter. Moving down the list, Death's Shadow and Burn both clocked in with 19 decks, showing that these decks won't be held down, even if the meta has started adapting to them. And it did, with 20 players electing to sleeve up the Urza lands to take on the wide field of fair decks. Given the general tendency toward Blue control decks at these events, one would expect their natural predator, Tron, to also show up in force. Jund and its B/G(x) counterparts made up the second largest chunk of decks, with 24 players electing to sleeve up their Tarmogoyfs and Thoughtseizes. Admittedly, these were divided between W/U and Jeskai control shells, but clearly blue control decks are popular at our events, given their prevalence both here and in MKMS Hamburg. W/U(x) control decks dominated here in Prague, at least by Modern standards, with 37 players occupying a little less than 13% of the Modern metagame. Another MKMS tournament, another Modern main event, and for the first time in a long while, one of our decks has managed to crack the 10% mark in our breakdown. ![]()
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