Any other Magic players on RFG?

[Sirgin]

Hi. I'm like to hear you guys' input on the Modern deck I'm trying to build. I'd like it to be somewhat competitive. Although I'm not dilusional. Better than my current deck would be good enough.

I currently have this deck, from a few years ago:
http://magic.tcgplayer.co...b/deck.asp?deck_id=919614

I would like to turn it into a Soul Sisters deck, but on a (tight) budget. I'm thinking of this:
http://magic.tcgplayer.co.../deck.asp?deck_id=1112449

Budget is easily my biggest limiting factor. I am not willing to buy playsets consisting of €10 cards. The biggest omission from a "regular" Soul Sisters deck is Serra Ascendant, a card I cannot (will not) afford.
EDIT: Also, I haven't included Martyr of Sands, because that card seems to be included in mosts lists as a way of getting Serra Ascendant to 6/6, lifelink, flying on Turn 2. A really nice move, of course.

The ideal opening move if you have Martyr and Serra in your opening hand is:
T1: Serra
T2: Martyr, pay W, sarcrifice and pump life total to 30+, then swing with the 6/6 serra.

Any thoughts, critique and recommendations are welcome.

[BadEnoughDude]

Lord help me, I started buying cards again. This shit get so expensive, so quickly.

I've also planned out what I think will be a kick-ass Zombie deck, and am almost done building it. Only the most expensive cards left - Death Baron, Bloodghast and Grave Titan.

Bloodghast and Grave Titan are obviously not Zombies - the only non-Zombie creatures in the deck - but they both have appropriate abilities for the theme.

[Crabmaster2000]

Lord help me, I started buying cards again. This shit get so expensive, so quickly.

I've also planned out what I think will be a kick-ass Zombie deck, and am almost done building it. Only the most expensive cards left - Death Baron, Bloodghast and Grave Titan.

Bloodghast and Grave Titan are obviously not Zombies - the only non-Zombie creatures in the deck - but they both have appropriate abilities for the theme.

Grave Titan is so awesome. Bloodghast has always underwhelmed me though. I've seen him in a few decks and he has never seemed very helpful. Unless you're all in totally aggro I can't seem him working, and with Grave Titan in the deck you're probably not fully aggro.

[BadEnoughDude]

Mostly aggro. Bloodghast and Gravecrawler serve a similar function: sacrificing. They can be re-cast so easily, they work wonders with cards like Tragic Slip, Grimgrin Corpse-Born and Attrition.

Here's my decklist, as it's currently constructed. Note: my main purpose was keeping with the Zombie creature theme, outside of Grave Titan (grants Zombie tokens), and Bloodghast (was added because 1) there are NO good 2-drop Zombies and 2) it has Zombie-like abilities.)

2 Grave Titan
4 Bloodghast
4 Gravecrawler
4 Geralf's Messenger
4 Diregraf Captain
4 Death Baron
2 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

4 Reanimate
4 Buried Alive (cheaper alternative to Entomb)
4 Tragic Slip
2 Attrition

4 Underwater Catacombs
2 Island
16 Swamp

Obviously not built for competitive play, just for casual games with friends. That being said, the Buried Alive + Reanimate combo will likely get very annoying very quickly for the people I usually play against.

[Sirgin]

I'll be attending a GP in a couple of months. Familiar with modern, BED? Could you help me flesh out the details on my (budget constrained!) Soul Sisters deck?

[BadEnoughDude]

I'm not familiar at all with the formats, but I'd love to look at your deck.

[Sirgin]

Sort of what I want to build: http://magic.tcgplayer.co.../deck.asp?deck_id=1112449

From that, I'm still missing 1x Ranger of Eos, 1x Honor of the Pure, 2x Knight of Meadowgrain, 2x Boros Elite and a lot of the sideboard cards (Suppresion field, Rest in peace, etc...).

PS: I don't expect it to be competitive.

EDIT: oh and ask if you don't happen to understand what it does (nothing special).

[BadEnoughDude]

I like it.

If it were my deck, I would probably try to add 2 aggressive creature enchantments or equipments. It would help if you had trouble finding creature synergy. Serra's Embrace, maybe?

Also, Serra Ascendant would be scary in a deck like this...

https://www.wizards.com/m...aspx?x=mtg/daily/boab/144

[Sirgin]

Can't go for aura's, especially that expensive. At 4 CMC I can get 2 for 1'd by Path or any other removal and be in a big hole.

You're totally right about Serra Ascendant. The only reason I'm not playing it is because it's very expensive and I'm not spending that much money on the deck. I'm not that serious about magic, anyway. The truly competitive decks cost $400-1000 anyway, so I'm not trying to compete with that. Just making it a slightly decent deck.

Just saw that my store is out of Ranger of Eos, except too expensive foil ones. I want 4 4CMC cards. I have 2x Ranger and 1x Ajani Goldmane. I'm thinking maybe 1x Hero of Bladehold?

Because I lack the Serra Ascendant, the idea is to have Sisters out, + hopefully a Pridemate and have the lifegain triggers trigger Pridemate as well as give me extra time (life).

The deck is obviously Aggro, so I need to swamp the field with the little white creatures. Landing a Honor of the Pure helps massively.


For sideboard strategies, I'm pondering making my deck have no activated abilities. It's already practically like that. It could make Suppression Field very viable if my opponent is using equipment or other cards with abilities.

[Sirgin]

Also, please look here (also by me) where I've added more cards to look at in the sideboard and the "maybeboard": http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/cheap-soul-sisters/

Divinity of Pride looks awesome, but is probably too expensive for what it is.

Ghostly Prison or Blind Obedience are also great under the right circumstances. My deck is 80% done, really, it's just fidgeting with the last cards and the sideboard which are hard to decide.

[InvadErGII]

I...I might have a problem.

[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/6ggCqoY.jpg[/img]

[BadEnoughDude]

Foil or regular? Can't tell from the photos.

Only ask because I saw the price that Liliana foil was going for... Whoa.

[InvadErGII]

I really should've taken a better picture, but that's a foil. The angel is, too, but that's not as exciting.

[Haoie]

Hail to the original TCG!

[InvadErGII]

Anyone else have a chance to mess with Theros yet? After a pre-release and a draft, I'm really enjoying it.