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Not bad, but banking on opening with glimpse is rough

Does anyone? I mean even suicide black plays to win. Hell I play reckless rakdos with one of my casual decks and while I often end up killing myself, I go down fighting. It needs an update though, what with stuff like Demonic Pact out there now

Here's some more to chew on. Just ran across this on my Facebook feed. It's the top ten modern decks currently

http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=13469&writer=Seth+Manfield&articledate=8-24-2016&m_source=tcg-fb-post&utm_medium=tcg-fb-post&utm_content=magic&utm_campaign=tcg-fb-post-magic

"You pushed the Goku button."
"I don't see how thats a pro-"
*gets gut checked*
"You really shouldn't have done that"

That's what the above post is

You know what would make my day? Someone casting Declaration of Naught and declaring Wrecking Ball. I would laugh my ass off because then the one card you say makes or breaks this deck will be utterly useless. God you really need to face a tier 1 control or aggro deck. Then you would see just how little land destruction really does in a competitive match. I mean my infect can swing for legal on turn 2 with only one forest for fucks sake. Do you really think top tier decks care about you blowing one land a turn if it's primarily sorcery speed? For crying out loud, control is dangerous with a single untapped island! Good luck blowing it up when everything you cast gets countered, and then when you're empty handed and they whip out their finisher with the quickness, you're up shit creek. I have piloted and faced off against many tier one decks in my few short years of magic, both modern and legacy, and NOT ONCE have I ever been faced with land destruction. Stop trying to make your deck sound like something it's not, because it isn't, and unless WotC loses their mind and reprints a legacy land destro spell like Sinkhole or makes some insane modern land destro spell, then land destruction will never run with the big boys. Face it. This is a mid tier deck with lofty ambitions that's just waiting for a break that won't come. Move on and try something truly worth tier one like Flash Hulk or Modern Bridge.

Slagstorm is only better in that it hits multiple creatures, but you shouldn't write off Split Second. It's really nasty and stops other players from responding, which can save your ass quite a lot. And adding one more Wrecking Ball won't help this deck. All that does is shift the mana curve higher, making it less likely that you'll get the mana you need more consistently

They make my brain hurt trying to grasp some of the things said

Failing to see how you would troll someone with this. You aren't even giving them anything problematic. Gift them with a demonic pact that you've already used the three nonlethal effects from, or grid monitor so that they can't cast creatures. Something...

Almost 90 comments and about 90% of them are you being long winded. You're worse than a super villain monologuing about his perfect plan. Dude just admit that you're full of hot air and let it go. Your deck isn't hot shit in the least.

Oh, and you really should listen to puschkin. He's one if the most experienced people on vault, and he has many valid points. If he contents on your deck, then it's constructive criticism so take it as such

I've only been playing for a little over five years, and even I can make a better deck than this Mr I've-been-playing-since-Ice-Age. I have a control deck that would eat this alive, and if I ever finish adjusting my legacy 8 rack then it'll beat the shit out of this deck too. Kinda hard to blow up my land if you don't have any cards in your hand

It reminds me of my esper Democracy deck. The entire deck is filled with things that greatly benefit me but can be stopped if a player decides to pay up a little and stop it. Add in the Will of the Council keyword (to include the new Council's Dilemma mechanic from Conspiracy 2 once I can get my hands on the set) and it gets really fun as everyone but me becomes the enemy. I'm only the mediator.

This looks like all kinds of fun to play. I love lock decks because it's so fun watching everyone want to kill you but you're actually keeping everyone from outright killing each other and then when the lock finally ends it's absolute chaos as everyone goes for the kill.

Try assembling legacy mono blue control in pauper and come back to me when your budget actually manages to go under $100. And only if you actually include the staples of control at the pauper level. So brainstorm and ponder and such. No shortcuts

Yup. About the only attention you can get here anymore

Oh it's very dead compared to not even six months ago. I remember when the hot page was different daily, sometimes several times a day, and staying up there was a real achievement. And people actually talked about decks and cards and exchanged pointers with each other. Hardly any of us older site users comment or anything because there's nothing really worth it anymore. Everything is budget and apparently no one understands that it's okay to buy cards a few at a time if a deck might get expensive in bulk because of two or three cards. That's why I don't come here much anymore

I find it incredibly rude to like your own deck myself. You built the damn thing, so I would hope you like it at least a little, right? And I'm picky when it comes to likes. I'll like a deck if its innovative or if I have a deck I'm working on that I think would benefit from what I come across in other people's works, and those ones will often come with a comment of appreciation and/or constructive criticism.

that would actually be a decent alternative, but the problem is the main way to go is force of will with griffin as exile fodder is very effective. you could effectively remove blue from the equation with scourge, but would the deck still hold its own then? you could go with a more rampy opener and then use the mana from chain + scourge to power up something as a finisher, but what?

Um no. That would only slow the deck down

Ok. I was just not connecting the dots. This looks kinda fun to play

So how does one cast storm using something that triggers off an opponent? I legitimately want to know how this works because it looks interesting