Modern?

[Peter Dun]

As usual, pls don't play in daily events on modo, or write about in articles :P

For the PTQ season: thoughts?

// Lands
    2 [GP] Stomping Ground
    3 [RAV] Mountain (1)
    4 [SOM] Forest (3)
    4 [10E] Treetop Village
    4 [MOR] Mutavault
    3 [ZEN] Verdant Catacombs
    1 [FUT] Dryad Arbor

// Creatures
    4 [TSB] Wall of Roots
    4 [ROE] Overgrown Battlement
    1 [NPH] Spellskite
    1 [RAV] Veteran Armorer
    4 [PLC] Simian Spirit Guide
    1 [CHK] Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
    4 [M11] Fauna Shaman
    2 [FUT] Grinning Ignus
    1 [FUT] Magus of the Moon
    1 [ROE] Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
    1 [RAV] Flame-Kin Zealot
    1 [NPH] Deceiver Exarch

// Spells
    4 [TSP] Lotus Bloom
    3 [PLC] Wild Pair
    3 [RAV] Chord of Calling
    4 [DS] AEther Vial

// Sideboard
SB: 3 [NPH] Spellskite
SB: 3 [FUT] Magus of the Moon
SB: 3 [NPH] Dismember
SB: 1 [8E] Blood Moon
SB: 1 [M12] Grand Abolisher
SB: 4 [SHM] Kitchen Finks

1) Could cut the kiki combo kill for project x combo kill (saffi, crypt champion, hissing iguanar) or eternal witnesses

2) Could play rg filterland

3) sb?

Kill is wild pair + grinning ignus into lots of walls + zealot + fauna shaman, then emrakul

Kiki-Exarch works too.

[Louis Mackie]

Emrakul to recycle only, or do you get him out ever? You could Wild Pair Battlements then grab Shaman to get him?

[Daniel Royde]

More importantly- average kill turn? combo is broken by- creature removal? and?
Big advantage- people won't know what you're doing until it's too late.
It looks like it might be a bit clunky. Is aether vial really good?

[Peter Dun]

@Louis: yup, also, you can kiki jiki instead of the last battlement, this gives you the mana to activate shaman.

@Dan: slower than most combo decks, you can play hate bears pretty easily though

Vial stops the deck being as clunky, lets you use mana for manlands, makes your hate uncounterable, is a ritual with grinning ignus, and gives your fauna shamans pseudo haste

Also 0/4s are actually pretty good vs jund and zoo as blocking :P

[Daniel Royde]

I'd expect this to be reasonable vs zoo- Melira would have been if fire wasn't legal.
Don't you just lose to any other combo decks?

[Peter Dun]

a white splash is possible, or sb thorns. also, spellskite is very good vs all the combo decks... basically I think this deck is a faster version of twin (due to mana acceleration), but one that can play actual tutoring, which is one of the big issues I have with twin

[Dan Barrett]

Twin does have up to 8 pieces of each half of the combo, and 8 card-filtering/draw slots...

I have no idea if this is good or not, what is veteran armorer for, just to let you wild pair out exarch?

[Louis Mackie]

Yes, it is a 2/2 that becomes a 2/3 on the battlefield :)

Only 3 Wild Pair? You don't really have any way to dig into it, but I guess you tested both configurations.

Dan Barrett said:

Twin does have up to 8 pieces of each half of the combo, and 8 card-filtering/draw slots...

I have no idea if this is good or not, what is veteran armorer for, just to let you wild pair out exarch?