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by toddulent
Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:30 am
Forum: Scalding Tarn (Modern)
Topic: [Article] - Winning my way into Modern.
Replies: 162
Views: 62269

I am really close to having this put together.

Mono-Green Devotion Genesis Wave

[deck]Creatures:24
4 Arbor Elf
3 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Elvish Visionary
3 Strangleroot Geist
4 Eternal Witness
2 Wistful Selkie
3 Primeval Titan
1 Craterhoof Behemoth

Spells:16
4 Utopia Sprawl
2 Fertile Ground
4 Genesis Wave
4 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Primal Command
1 Rude Awakening

Lands:20
13 Forest
4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Kessing Wolf Run
1 Mosswort Bridge
1 Stomping Ground

Sideboard:15
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
2 Nature's Claim
1 Strangleroot Geist
2 Vexing Shusher
1 Beast Within
3 Damping Matrix
1 Dismember
1 Acidic Slime
1 Fracturing Gust[/deck]
I just need:

Creatures
4 Eternal Witness
1 Craterhoof Behemoth

Spells
4 Garruk Wildspeaker

I am considering replacing the Craterhoof Behemoth with Worldspine Wurm, because I have 1 and 15/15 and replaces himself and recursion. Thoughts?
by toddulent
Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:30 am
Forum: Scalding Tarn (Modern)
Topic: [Article] - Winning my way into Modern.
Replies: 162
Views: 62269

I got all of the cards for the Infect deck except Vines of Vastwood today. Those should come in tomorrow. I'll be playing Thursday night.
Played TNModern. 8 people. 3 Rounds. R1 2-1 vs UrzaTron. R2 1-2 vs MeliraPod. R3 1-2 vs UR Control of some sort.

My order of Vines of Vastwood didn't come in yesterday or today, so I got them at the store before we started. I didn't get a chance to goldfish it and played cold. I made a lot of play mistakes. This is my first time playing Infect. I play a lot of aggro in Standard, but wasn't thinking about being as aggressive as possible.

I mulliganed the first hand when I shouldn't have game 1, but I still won. Game 2, he sided in Spellskite and I had never experience playing against it. I wasn't sure
what was happening when he was taking 2 life and redirecting pumps. I hadn't sided in removal, because he hadn't played creatures game 1. Game 3 I just had the nut draw and had a turn 2 kill.

I won the first game vs MeliraPod even after my play mistakes. Too many play mistakes lost me the second game. Third game I got mana flooded. I kept pumping creatures he blocked to kill off his creatures instead of creatures he didn't block. Learned from that mistake.

Round 3 was just obnoxious. He won game 1 with Gideon Jura. I played pretty tightly, but he just kept countering everything I had. Game 2 was another nut draw T2 kill. Game 3 took forever, because of mana flood and counter/burn. I think we had a stack of 6 cards at one point. I manage to get Glistener Elf pumped to lethal, he plays more burn, I Ranger's Guile and he Mana Leaks. FACK! At that point I was just annoyed. I knew I should have sided in anti-control and didn't. The plan was to just beat him down, but COUNTERS! Oh, well.

Entry was
$10 and a Modern Masters pack per match win. After paying $40 for the deck I am a quarter of the way to making my money back. Next week is the same. I'll have a better grasp on the deck. The MeliraPod guy is a friend and we'll play between Sealed matches tomorrow. I had a blast. And I think the plan is to upgrade this to either BG or BUG Infect.
by toddulent
Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:53 am
Forum: Scalding Tarn (Modern)
Topic: [Article] - Winning my way into Modern.
Replies: 162
Views: 62269

I got all of the cards for the Infect deck except Vines of Vastwood today. Those should come in tomorrow. I'll be playing Thursday night.
by toddulent
Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:47 pm
Forum: Scalding Tarn (Modern)
Topic: [Article] - Winning my way into Modern.
Replies: 162
Views: 62269

I'm hoping to do the same with my UR Delver list, working my way toward Volcanic Islands, Forces, and Stifles as funds and trades allow.
Right on.

There was a post on gatheringmagic recently. He took a Modern deck, ported it to Legacy, then ported it to Vintage. I liked the idea, but there was no way I could afford the Modern deck straight off. This is more doable for me.
by toddulent
Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:28 pm
Forum: Scalding Tarn (Modern)
Topic: [Article] - Winning my way into Modern.
Replies: 162
Views: 62269

Winning my way into Modern and into Legacy

I read this post and really loved the idea. I just ordered the cards for the Mono-Green Infect. I did a little digging around and found it can be ported to Legacy with a few changes and roughly $240.00 ($200 of which goes to 4x Berserk in the main and 2x Umezawa's Jitte in the side.). Here is the list:

[deck]Legacy Mono-Green Infect[/deck]

My plan is to play the Modern list as often as possible. I have two stores that have Modern every Thursday, so I have one opportunity a week. There are two stores that have Legacy, one
Tuesday and one Saturday. Once I have the Modern deck down and have acquired the Legacy cards, I should be able to do well in Legacy.

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