What We’d Play: February Week 2
Spencer: This week Spencer has decided to fight the format on a different axis. With the number of reflector mage running around Spencer doesn’t want to be caught with creatures in play. This week he is on Mage-Ring Esper
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
2 Prairie Stream
1 Plains
2 Sunken Hollow
4 Shambling Vent
2 Swamp
1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
2 Mage-Ring Network
3 Island
1 Windswept Heath
1 Bloodstained Mire
4 Dig Through Time
2 Painful Truths
2 Languish
1 Planar Outburst
1 Ruinous Path
2 Scatter to the Winds
2 Utter End
3 Clash of Wills
2 Murderous Cut
2 Duress
2 Immolating Glare
2 Grasp of Darkness
1 Void Shatter
4 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
1 Silumgar, the Drifting Death
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
SB: 3 Flaying Tendrils
SB: 2 Arashin Cleric
SB: 2 Negate
SB: 2 Disdainful Stroke
SB: 1 Ultimate Price
SB: 2 Dragonlord Silumgar
SB: 2 Infinite Obliteration
SB: 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
Casey: Casey has caved in. Playing the “Best Deck” it is something Casey often says he should do and decides to meta-game instead. Not this week though. This week. Casey is playing Rally.
2 Catacomb Sifter
2 Elvish Visionary
2 Grim Haruspex
4 Nantuko Husk
4 Reflector Mage
3 Sidisi’s Faithful
4 Zulaport Cutthroat
3 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
4 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Plains
1 Swamp
1 Canopy Vista
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
2 Prairie Stream
2 Sunken Hollow
3 Windswept Heath
4 Evolving Wilds
4 Collected Company
4 Rally the Ancestors
SB: 2 Arashin Cleric
SB: 1 Felidar Cub SB:
2 Fleshbag Marauder
SB: 2 Murderous Cut
SB: 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
SB: 2 Abzan Ascendancy
SB: 3 Dispel
SB: 2 Duress
Manny: Manny is all in on turning his opponents lands into basic island in this Modern metagame full of crazy non basics. This deck even includes a Sea’s Claim as a 4th Spreading Seas effect.
4 Cursecatcher
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Harbinger of the Tides
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
4 Master of Waves
3 Merrow Reejerey
2 Phantasmal Image
4 Silvergill Adept
4 AEther Vial
4 Spreading Seas
1 Dismember
2 Spell Pierce
1 Sea’s Claim
7 Island
4 Cavern of Souls
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
1 Minamo, School at Water’s Edge
4 Ghost Quarter
2 Darkslick Shores
SB: 3 Hurkyl’s Recall
SB: 2 Dispel
SB: 2 Dismember
SB: 2 Spellskite
SB: 1 Threads of Disloyalty
SB: 2 Relic of Progenitus
SB: 1 Spell Pierce
SB: 2 Hibernation