Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-64-2024-12-2112718123

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2024-12-2212718129

Winners

• @Xerk_MTGO on BG Cauldron

• hyyy1 on 4c Creativity

Decklists

Top 32 Archetype Breakdown

7 Energy (4 Mardu, 3 RW)
5 Mono G Broodscale
4 Oculus (2 Grixis, 2 UB)
2 BG Yawgmoth
2 Breach Station (1 Temur, 1 RG)
1 BG Cauldron
1 4c Elementals
1 Amulet Titan
1 Storm
1 UR Murktide
1 UB Mill
1 UW Urza
1 Naya Burn
1 UR Twin
1 Jund Saga
1 Domain Zoo
1 BR Affinity

10 Energy (6 Mardu, 3 RW, 1 Jeskai)
2 Mill (1 UW, 1 UB)
2 Grixis Oculus
2 Temur Breach Station
1 4c Creativity
1 BW Taxes
1 BG Cauldron
1 5c Omnath
1 Abzan Food
1 Domain Zoo
1 Amulet Titan
1 UG Broodscale
1 BR Hollow One
1 UR Twin
1 4c Goryo's Vengeance
1 Storm
1 Grixis Persist
1 BG Yawgmoth
1 Lantern
1 Temur Eldrazi

X-2 or better Archetype Breakdown

5 Energy (3 RW, 2 Mardu)
3 Mono G Broodscale
2 Oculus (2 Grixis)
2 BG Yawgmoth
2 Breach Station (1 Temur, 1 RG)
1 BG Cauldron
1 4c Elementals
1 Amulet Titan
1 Storm
1 UR Murktide

5 Energy (2 RW, 2 Mardu, 1 Jeskai)
2 Mill (1 UW, 1 UB)
1 4c Creativity
1 BW Taxes
1 BG Cauldron
1 5c Omnath
1 Abzan Food
1 Domain Zoo
1 Amulet Titan
1 UG Broodscale
1 BR Hollow One
1 UR Twin
1 4c Goryo's Vengeance
1 Storm

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I’m looking to return to modern after taking a long haitus. I stopped playing near the end of 2019 when Oko got banned. Decks I played towards the end were Jund and Grixis Shadow.

With the unbanning, are there any decks similar to those? I guess midrange. I don’t know what new mechanics are in now. I guess I have some reading to do.

Is Grixis Oculus a similar type deck?

There was a cool trash for treasure deck with goblin engineer. Now that opal is unbanned, that would slot right into it right ?

Sorry for mistakes, english not my first language

Anyone here playing around a more refined version of spike's jund delirium in RG colors only? I remember watching mengu tried the jund version and commented on cutting black to make it more consistent. Plus with the exectation that most decks are graveyard based now, its better to main [[endurance]] and probably splitting copies (2each) of [[vengevine]] and [[omnivorous flytrap]] for beaters.

Discord? There are so many lists online for amulet, some say summoners pact, some say gsz and some say both. I try to look online for people’s thoughts and ideas but I can’t find any. ): I wish there was a group of ppl I could ask online who have experience with this deck. Discord?

I've been looking at a lot of deck lists for Death's Shadow as I've always loved the flavor of putting oneself close to the brink of death to take out your opponent. I have never played modern before and I'm interested as a casual commander player. Am I in over my head? Just looking for some guidance because it seems like the main shell of Death's Shadow is prettt affordable and it looks like the strategy got some new support in the form of FOMO.

Sorry if this post is mostly rambling, I don't normally post.

I've been thinking about some of the mtg podcasts I was listening to shortly after the release of MH3 as well as Sam Black's article about working on MH2. Sam and Mason Clark both gave their insights into what the design process was like, as well as some stories about how certain cards got designed and the discussion around them (with Mason even putting out that Phlage is a card he designed himself).

Obviously a lot of people enjoy the Horizon's sets and they sell incredibly well. And places like twitter and reddit can give a skewed representation of how a small population of highly enfranchised competitive players feel, but I feel as if their impact on the format as a whole is seen as negative.

The goal of bringing in contractors seems to be to get eyes on the prototype cards from people who love Modern and play it at a high level and design a product that pushes the format. I fully believe everyone that WotC has called in has seen it as dream come true and had the best intentions.

But here we are with Energy, Phlage, and Psychic Frog still being competitive powerhouses in the face of unbanning GSZ, Mox Opal and Faithless Looting. Opal and Looting are two cards I thought would never see the light of day and they still don't reliably beat the Energy package. WotC brought back 3 cards that defined modern for years and one that didn't get much time because it was considered too strong to begin with (GSZ) and after a week of experimenting, Mardu Energy is still one of the most played decks with a 60%+ match win rate.

It's just an accepted fact that each new straight to Modern set will eclipse anything else that happened before. I feel that if you hire outside people to work on cards with the goal of not breaking anything. And then one of them comes up with Phlage (in the running for the best card in Modern and may still need to be banned in the future). Perhaps it's time to re-think the approach. Or maybe it's inevitable and the issue is with WotC's approach to Modern. Either way I feel like something really needs to change if we are still jamming Phlage/Ajani into Psychic Frog in a month or two after unbanning Mox Opal and Faithless Looting.

I was trying to make a control deck that just literally just played mostly hate/sideboard cards in the main deck for the best decks in Modern currently with of course some kind of win-con in the main being phlage/solitude. It seems like right now most decks either interact with the GY in a big way or are artifact decks, so why not just play the sideboard cards in the main, I know a lot of you will say "What if you come across a deck that doesn't use either" which is a valid point but those decks are pretty weak anyway and there's still ways in the main to deal with non meta decks, of course it's a feelsbad when you draw meltdown against frogtide for example but hopefully you prolong the game long enough you will draw into good stuff against them (Maybe Sanctifier is too niche? What else could take it's place?)

4 Sanctifier en-Vec

2 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury

3 Snapcaster Mage

3 Solitude

3 Meltdown

2 Spreading Seas

3 Wrath of the Skies

4 Counterspell

3 Consign to Memory

3 Dress Down

3 Ghost Vacuum

3 Galvanic Discharge

2 Spell Pierce

1 Arena of Glory

4 Flooded Strand

1 Hallowed Fountain

3 Island

1 Meticulous Archive

1 Mountain

2 Plains

1 Sacred Foundry

4 Scalding Tarn

3 Steam Vents

1 Thundering Falls

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2024-12-2012718105

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2024-12-2112718115

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2024-12-2112718117

Winners

• NHA37 on Mono G Broodscale

• @Cristia78884858 on Temur Eldrazi

• @OowashiAkatsuki on Mardu Energy

Decklists

Top 32 Archetype Breakdown

5 Mardu Energy
5 Oculus (3 UB, 2 Grixis)
4 Temur Breach Station
2 Mono G Broodscale
2 Hollow One (1 BR, 1 RG)
2 Twin (1 Temur, 1 UR)
2 UW Hammer
1 BW Taxes
1 Jeskai Urza
1 GW Heliod
1 Domain Zoo
1 Temur Song of Creation
1 UR Through the Breach
1 4c Omnath Control
1 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 Neoform
1 Storm

9 Energy (6 Mardu, 2 Jeskai, 1 RW)
3 BG Yawgmoth
2 Temur Breach Station
2 Creativity (1 4c, 1 Jund)
2 Mono R Phoenix
1 Temur Eldrazi
1 Bant Living End
1 Abzan Amalia
1 Domain Zoo
1 Mono G Broodscale
1 Mono U Merfolk
1 UR Affinity
1 BR Hollow One
1 4c Omnath Control
1 RG Rotpriest
1 Grixis Vengevine
1 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 Hardened Scales
1 Grixis Goryo's Vengeance

5 Energy (3 Mardu, 2 RW)
2 Grixis Oculus
2 BR Hollow One
2 BW Taxes
2 Jund Creativity
2 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 Temur Breach Station
1 Storm
1 Mono G Broodscale
1 RG Eldrazi Breach Station
1 Bant Hammer
1 Bant Living End
1 Dredge
1 Amulet Titan
1 BR Waste Not
1 Lantern
1 Bant Martyr
1 BG Yawgmoth
1 Naya Enchantress
1 Mono R Saga
1 Hardened Scales
1 RW Burn
1 Abzan Amalia

X-2 or better Archetype Breakdown

5 Mardu Energy
5 Oculus (3 UB, 2 Grixis)
2 Mono G Broodscale
2 Hollow One (1 BR, 1 RG)
1 Temur Breach Station
1 Twin (1 Temur)
1 UW Hammer
1 BW Taxes
1 Jeskai Urza
1 GW Heliod
1 Domain Zoo
1 Temur Song of Creation

6 Energy (4 Mardu, 1 RW, 1 Jeskai)
1 BG Yawgmoth
1 Temur Breach Station
1 Creativity (1 4c)
1 Mono R Phoenix
1 Temur Eldrazi
1 Bant Living End
1 Abzan Amalia
1 Domain Zoo
1 Mono G Broodscale
1 Mono U Merfolk
1 UR Affinity

4 Energy (3 Mardu, 1 RW)
2 Grixis Oculus
1 BR Hollow One
1 Temur Breach Station
1 Storm
1 Mono G Broodscale
1 RG Eldrazi Breach Station
1 Bant Hammer
1 Bant Living End
1 Dredge

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Boltwave

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Hi, I would like to build mono blue eldrazi deck for modern. But I don't know if it's better to use urza's lands or the combination of "tamyio meets story circle" and "Archway of innovation". Can anyone tell me what's better and why? Thank's a lot to whoever answers

What is the best removal in modern? With the fading out of the elemental cards (besides gyro) solitude is falling out of meta. Fatal push is still relevant but their has to be more right? I am building a WBG modern deck and need some more ideas for good removal. Before I had (the before mentioned) fatal push and solitude but I also had go for the throat and terminate. Any more ideas?

So far, they seem fine to me, with one possible exception. Green Sun's Zenith just feels like Chord 5-8, which Toolbox Combo decks honestly needed. Opal as well feels needed to enable Artifact decks to do something, and it really doesn't seem that broken anymore thanks to the existence of Meltdown and Wrath of the Skies. Twin feels like a decent rogue deck, which feels really weird to say consider how powerful it once was. The one that feels like it may end up becoming a problem is Faithless Looting.

What are your thoughts?

Currently I play Zoo debating on switching decks. Torn between Hollow one or Creativity anyone thoughts or should I stick with Zoo still?

With the new unbans and alot of things happening Currently ı am in a dilemma. I have two options for decks to grind out Either jund creativty/persist Or ruby storm. I am okay with both and when leaned on them ı excel on both with practice . What I think (ı might be wrong ofc) Meta is basically blind and need time to settle and blind combo decks are good for now Everybody is packing meltdown for opals and some form of gy hate for faithless Both ruby and creativty is good against gy hates in their way Artifact hate ruby more good against for melt downs People still having storm hate ? Not sure Either forcing the opponent to a gamble with ruby storm or more distruption and flex option with jund creativity.

What are you guys thoughts on these two deck choices and which one would you rather lean between the two and why ?

Splinter Twin has returned to Modern, and players have wasted no time building lists around the most famous two-card combo in the format’s history. But does it have enough to compete with the 2024 Metagame?

https://mtg.cardsrealm.com/en-us/p/56373

It's only been a few days since Splinter Twin was released from its long exile from Modern since it was first added to the Banned and Restricted list in 2016. At the time, Twin was a fan favorite in the format and its ban took many players by surprise, as its numbers didn't justify it leaving the format. But Wizards decided to remove the archetype from Modern in the interest of competitive diversity.

Eight years later and with many requests and memes, the moment of glory that many have been waiting for has arrived: Splinter Twin is now legal in Modern, and players and content creators alike have wasted no time in testing every possible archetype with the card.

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-qualifier-2024-12-2012718066

Winner

• A_Turtle on RW Energy

Decklists

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Top 32 Archetype Breakdown

10 Energy (6 Mardu, 3 RW, 1 Naya)
4 Breach Station (2 Temur, 1 UR, 1 Jeskai)
3 Jund Creativity
2 Mono G Broodscale
2 Burn (1 RW, 1 Mono R)
2 UR Through the Breach
1 Storm
1 UB Oculus
1 Temur Eldrazi
1 Jeskai Wizards
1 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 BR Hollow One
1 Amulet Titan
1 RG Phoenix
1 UR Twin

X-2 or better Archetype Breakdown

6 Energy (5 Mardu, 1 RW)
3 Breach Station (2 Temur, 1 UR)
2 Jund Creativity
2 Mono G Broodscale
2 Burn (1 RW, 1 Mono R)
1 UR Through the Breach
1 Storm
1 UB Oculus
1 Temur Eldrazi
1 Jeskai Wizards
1 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 BR Hollow One

New Cards (FDN)

Boltwave

Tournament Highlights

• Nacatls Avenged! The winner is A_Turtle on RW Energy! What, did you think we were gone for good? The Energy core remains excellent, and when everybody else is trying to play new strategies with previously-banned cards in suboptimized shells, playing Energy continues to be a smart decision I believe.

• hugofreitas1 is our runner-up and played Storm! Now, this archetype is mega slept on right now. The hate pieces seeing play don't overlap with Storm all that much, and it's still a blazingly fast combo deck. Don't diss Storm!

• Gitaxian_Probe was on Mardu Energy. The B splash continues to see usage in the Energy shell, and we'll see if it is the best idea moving forward since the deck will go through more iterations in the coming weeks...!

• Zanman was on Mono G Broodscale. Eyyy a Mox Opal Broodscale deck! I was really hoping to try this out at some point, congrats to Zanman for getting a nice result with it!

• Preparation was on UB Oculus. Mainboard Dreams of Steel and Oil huh?

• ODlS was on Temur Eldrazi. Karn Eldrazi is a sweet idea, you'll really punish the Mox Opal decks out there with the built-in Stony Silence static ability of Karn the Great Creator!

• Ale_Mtg was on Temur Breach Station. Honestly... this deck continues to look incredible on paper, Mox Opal and Underworld Breach is very strong. I personally expect this to see more usage as people try the deck more because that's a powerful recipe in my book!

• Viatt rounds out our T8 with Jeskai Wizards! Oh yeah, with Ring banned, it's now perfectly defensible to play Flame of Anor and Tamiyo Inquisitive Student as your source of card advantage! Love the fact this deck can play Wrath of the Skies, which is possibly one of its best assets in the current (unstable) metagame!

• In the 5-3 bracket, I'm intrigued by Mateusf34's take on RG Phoenix! What a sweet one

• Congrats to A_Turtle for taking the tournament down!

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As per title, what are some decks that makes you feel like playing a good game of chess, with deep gameplay, interaction, certain level of bluff and rewarding end.

I have an older amulet titan deck that I shelved around the time of the eldrazi summer and was curious if with bans and everything would it be a good time to jump in? I've played commander but miss the competitive and aggressive nature modern brings so what do you all think. Should I dust off the old deck and put in a few upgrades? Been doing some reading and got this deck to a place that I like and the modern seen at my lgs is always popping off!!! So what do you guys think? Should I make the upgrades and jump back in with amulet titan? Or stick to standard 🤣🤣

Also if you are curious about the list I'll drop it here:

https://www.archidekt.com/decks/10526410/no_rings_only_amulets_titan

I think most of the cards unbanned aside from splinter twin are able to be slotted in and used to great effect.

Does anyone have lists from challenges or personal brews that incorporate them?

Bonus points if it is a toolbox list using GSZ for random silver bullets.

Back during the pre-ban era of modern, Twin was widely seen as the policeman of modern. By this was meant that other decks had to dilute their gameplan with removal spells in order to have answers to Twin combo, thereby forcing the other decks to become more fair, meaning interactive.

Now that Twin is back, will that be true once more? Will all the other combo decks have to devote some slots to removal spells to respect the Twin combo? Or perhaps this was never true and it was always a myth that Twin was the policeman.

What is the cold, hard, truth behind this public perception of everyone's favorite duo? Crime-stopping hero or yet another combo deck in a vast sea of combo decks? You decide

Hey everyone, I was very hyped to see Splinter Twin unbanned - please don't hit me if you disagrees :/ Anyhow this is a list I brewed up heavily inspired by NeonMushroom's Grixis Living End list, but I though why not revieve Living Twin?

Please let me know what you think and what should be added or removed. Thank you :)

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/50f5ltuB10ijeF2lMm5V3w

Hey everyone,

I play a lot of Phoenix in Pioneer and since they unbanned Faithless Looting, I am really excited to try this in Modern.

Here is a list I brewed up, I am happy about your feedback and input. Are there cards I missen or you think that are not good?

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/_MKmmsk-pU6Oka-WKJeL9A

So with the one ring banned, I'm going to start getting into modern I am debating between Hollow one because it looks fun, and explosive It can also be a budget build with upgrades over time Dredge just looks like alot of fun, I know it is easy to get shut down but I think it's interesting and decently cheap with room for upgrades to the manabase

A phoenix deck either izzet or rakdos, maybe go grixis in the future, izzet would be like pioneer, and rakdos would try to fill the grave with archon of cruelty to use persist on and whatnot

What are your guys thoughts? I'm fairly new to actual modern magic and I know these might not be the most competitive, but I think they could be okay, if there is any other decks that might be good to try instead?

List: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/twizards-2/?cb=1734721381

I plan to play Modern tonight for the first time in a long time. I dusted off my old jeskai twin list and spent some time upgrading it, but I'm stuck on my last two slots. I don't want to spend the money on Tamiyo or Pact of Negation right now so I'm trying to figure out if I'm better off putting in 2 Delver, 2 Preordain, or something else. Maybe 2 Pestermite.

Delver is a wizard before it flips which feels very relevant since I'm down 4 Tamiyo, and is an extra creature to sac to Flare. It also has the potential to make the beatdown plan more viable when I can't combo, however I don't have a reliable way to flip it so that's flimsy.

I'm sure some people will comment on my including white when I have 0 white spells mainboard and only a couple questionable white cards in the side. I thought I'd be getting some Orim's Chant that I wanted to splash for but that fell through. I'll probably ditch white after I have a better feel for the local meta and what I really want in my sideboard. Happy to hear any suggestions!

I built the original [[crashing footfalls]] iteration when it released using [[as foretold]] and [[electrodominance]] to cast it and [[ancestral visions]] in a UR [[blood moon]] shell. I know the cascade lists are pretty down now, and I never really dug that version anyway, not enough jank for my taste. Anyone still working on the old tempo version, or a [[restore balance]] [[greater gargadon]] version? I've still got all of those cards and have the modern rogue deck bug at the moment, between this and skelemental variants I'll be the most "that guy plays shitty but cool decks" person at locals

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-64-2024-12-1912718086

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-64-2024-12-2012718096

Winners

• Gobern on UR Eldrazi

• steelleaf51 on Abzan Amalia

Decklists

Top 32 Archetype Breakdown

9 Energy (6 Mardu, 3 RW)
3 Jund Creativity
3 Temur Breach Station
2 Grixis Oculus
2 Murktide (1 UR, 1 UB)
1 UR Eldrazi
1 Temur Song of Creation
1 Amulet Titan
1 BG Yawgmoth
1 BR Hollow One
1 Storm
1 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 Mono R Prowess
1 4c Goryo's Vengeance
1 Grixis Persist
1 UB Basim
1 Mono G Tron
1 Grixis Wizards

5 Temur Breach Station
4 Energy (2 Mardu, 1 Jeskai, 1 RW)
3 Amulet Titan
3 BR Hollow One
3 Eldrazi (1 UR, 1 Temur, 1 UG)
3 Oculus (2 Grixis, 1 UB)
2 Twin (1 Temur, 1 Grixis)
2 Creativity (1 Jund, 1 Mardu)
2 Mystic Forge (1 Colorless, 1 UG)
1 Abzan Amalia
1 BG Yawgmoth
1 UR Wizards
1 UW Miracles
1 UB Urza

X-2 or better Archetype Breakdown

6 Energy (4 Mardu, 2 RW)
3 Jund Creativity
2 Temur Breach Station
2 Grixis Oculus
1 Murktide (1 UR)
1 UR Eldrazi
1 Temur Song of Creation
1 Amulet Titan
1 BG Yawgmoth
1 BR Hollow One
1 Storm
1 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 Mono R Prowess

5 Temur Breach Station
3 Energy (2 Mardu, 1 Jeskai)
3 Eldrazi (1 UR, 1 Temur, 1 UG)
2 Amulet Titan
2 BR Hollow One
1 Oculus (1 Grixis)
1 Twin (1 Temur)
1 Creativity (1 Jund)
1 Abzan Amalia
1 BG Yawgmoth

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I go by beestime online and I'm looking forward to an FNM tonight. I was messing with Hollow One before the B&R but now for obvious reasons it's sick as hell. Looking for a community. Playing tonight with this. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/zijqx4zo306aDFRN0GFX6Q

I know there are so many posts just like this one popping up on this sun right now. The same sort of "is my deck viable posts" but could you give me some insight maybe how to streamline my build?

Now that the bans/unbans have been out for a while and the metagame has shaken out and energy is no longer the top dog out there, which I'm still upset that they had to ban the one ring just because one OP deck was able to fully utilize it.

I'm thinking I may be on to something with this brew I'm working on, I think it really has legs. I've been testing it with my sister against her Jund Kindred Ooze, and Goryo's Vengeance Obezedat of the Ghost Counsil deck. I've even been able to win games against a timely vindicate on one of my crucial lands!

My basic list revolves around starting the game with a leyline of anticipation in play. Then T1 eot flash in a noble hierarch. T2 eot flash in deceiver exarch, village bellringer (no pestermite because being damaged by orcish bowmen is backbreaking), or Saheeli Rai. T3 Splinter Twin or Felidar Guardian to combo off and easily win from there. I also play Kiki-Jiki, breaker of mirrors for redundancy. I also play savage summoning for redundancy in terms of the leyline effect, and it has the bonus of making my stuff uncounterable which seems really good. Especially when my opponent thinks they'll catch me off guard by trying to consign into memories my game winning triggered abilities!

All suggestions are welcome!

Hey Yall,

With the recent unbanned cards in modern looking to shake things up a bit (still too early to tell for sure) I was looking at other banned cards in Modern and noticed some cards that are banned in Modern but legal in Timeless that have no real effect on the meta. So with that said, what's everyone's thoughts on unban Uro and/or Oko? Would they take over the meta or would they fold to energy and other fast decks? Or would they only act to slow the game down?

So Monday came and I was as suprised as everyone to see Twin unbanned. Considering this was my old favorite deck I had to go and dust my old cards. Considering this was played on Wednesday I had to just take cards from my collection to build the deck so the build is a bit wonky and contains almost no cards from LotR and beyond (I only had 1 Sink into Stupor from prerelease)

List: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/u-i9-Cds30SGeZi2pjE72A

Round 1 0-2 vs Jeskai Control

So yeah Round 1 I run into a bad matchup. My opponent was on a Jeskai build that played a lot of the same control cards, but instead of Twin combos had Solitudes, Leyline Bindings and Phlages.

This was actually a close matchup. In game 1 I ultimately got ground down though when he went into Snap Flame of Anor later in the game. I had at least one spot where I could have comboed him had I actually had drawn a Splinter Twin, but I actually didn't draw a single Twin in my like first 25 cards.

Sideboard: +2 Blood Moon + 4 Force of Negation -2 Flasme Slash -1 Electrolyze -2 Pestermite -1 Splinter Twin

Game 2 played out similarly. A long grindy game. Here it ultimately came down to a close combat game. I had one turn where I could draw Bolt to win, but that wasn't and he ultimately stabilized on Phlage to kill me.

In the post baord game I had little option to combo, but I think maintaining the threat was actually solid. He attempted a Turn 3 Teferi and if I actually had the combo there I could have comboed after forcing the Teferi. In general Force felt very valuable here.

Round 2 2-1 vs RG Prowess

I lose the die roll here. Game 1 I keep a hand that has Turn 3 Exarch Turn 4 Twin with not much else. He has a very fast explosive kill and my Turn 2 Snapcaster Turn 3 Deceiver Exarch are not enough to stop him from killing me on his Turn 4 on the play without losing my Exarch and then losing the next turn.

Sideboard: +2 EE +2 Pyroclasm -1 Electrolyze -2 Memory Deluge -1 Spell Snare

Game 2 we get into a pretty long grindy game where it again ultimately came down to him finding the last Lightning Bolt to kill me before I could beat him down. Here again I just didn't draw into the combo, but ulitmately my dorky creature beatdown plan was enough.

Game 3 I keep a very removal heavy hand and just kept on kiling his early creatures to prolong my game. He had a fairly early Cindervines that both put pressure on me and stopped me from comboing (the only opening I had where I could have tapped him out I did not have the Twin). This turned into an extremely long grindy game. Ultimately I beat him down with his own Soul Scar Mages after taking over 3 of them in total in this game with my Archmage's Charm. Ultimately I ended on 4 life here and he almost finished me out, but I could close it.

Round 3 2-0 vs UB Faeries

Ok this was probably the most lopsided matchup of the evening. He was playing a very homebrew build with Sheoldred and Liliana of the Veil.

Game 1 he played an early 1/1 flier and started to beat down. He quickly began tapping out for activating Restless Reef and beating me down with it. At this point I felt like he didn't really know what was going on. A turn later I recklessly tried to combo into an open blue mana. I get blown out by Rona's Vortex. Here i had to explain to him how the combo actually worked. A little bit later I tried to combo again and killed him

Sideboard: +2 Force of Negation -2 Spell Snare

Game 2 I force his Liliana of the Veil on the play. Then we grind a little bit before I ultimately manage to combo him out with protection.

Round 3 2-0 vs Amulet Titan (ft. GSZ)

I lost the die roll here too. Game 1 he plays an early Urzas Saga hand. I keep on having mana open to stop his Dryad. Then after he fetches Amulet of Vigor and can't present a Titan that Turn I end of turn use Archmage's Charm to steal his Amulet of Vigor to stop him from doing anything explosive. We durdle a little before I combo him out a little bit later

Sideboard +4 Force of Negation +2 Blood Moon -2 Flame Slash -1 Electrolyze -1 Spell Snare - 2 Memory Deluge

Game 2 I keep a hand of mostly control elements and a Moon. I forced his Turn 1 Amulet and then hit a Turn 3 Blood Moon. That basically locked him out and we played a little bit of Draw Go until I actually found a combo to kill him after countering his force of Vigor on my Blood Moon.

We then played a couple more games. Overall I went 5-1 against him on Amulet.

This lead to a 4 way tie for first at 3-1 (I actually got paired up round 2 and 4) and me winning a little bit of Store Credit (12,5€ for 5€ entry)

Overall the deck actually quite impressed me despite how hastily it was thrown together. Archmage's Charm was just the one I had lying around instead of Flame of Anor and it was actually extremely good in a lot of spots from countering to drawing, to removing Soul-Scar Mages and Amulet. Another card that extremely overperformed for me was Force of Negation. That card was so good that I would actually consider moving some portion of them to the mainbaord. I also was suprised how easy sidebaording felt to me.

As for the not so good: Desolate Lighthouse was fine, but awkward some of the time. Probably just not a card for contempporatry modern and definitely not two of them. Flame Slash was a very mediocre card. It did what it was supposed to in being additional removal, but you probably are at least supposed to be playing Galvanic Discharge here. Electrolyze is just too far out. It wasn't awful, but it was definitely one of the cards I cut a lot. That was just one of the cards I put in to fill out the dek. Same goes for Izzet Charm. Card was ok, but I don't think you want to play this. Memory Deluge also was just ok, but I think I don't actually need them in a build with 4 Archmages Charm. That was another one of those "I need to get to 60 cards" card.

I think this was the most fun I have had playing Modern in years. That deck was pure joy to pilot. Very long and very close games most of the time. Overall I feel like Twin right now is getting underrated quite a bit. I think it is at the very least a solid choice to play. I am incredibly happy to have this deck back. I also ordered some more cards for the Wizards build of Twin and I think I will actually go back to playing my weekly Modern tournaments. Attendance at our store also spiked back up to ten people (from 3 the week before I was told). People were genuinely much more excited to play and that was despite the more busy time right before Christmas. I hope we can recover again to the 15-20 people we regularly had a while ago. The last few months seem to have really hurt the scene, but people were excited

If you have any questions feel free to ask.