Was wondering if it could work any opinions?

I was thinking about a list with grazer and exploration with rather cheaper interaction spells

and perhaps than denture something like boseju and Urza with w6 instead of some reclemation lists running shark typhoon

Thinking that a ring ban wouldnt imply the death of control and a boost for energy was one of the biggest mistakes i have seen in this sub( and thats saying a lot). Now we have a format dominated by 3 decks instead of a popular card. And playing control is almost impossible.

Shill me your aetherdrift card for modern!

Would [Mirran Spy] be worth trying in Breach Combo. (The idea is with [Emry, Lurker of the Loch], you can put your deck into your hand with an Emry and a [Mishra's Bauble], or mill out your opponent with a grinding station and any 0 mana artifact.)

Also, is anyone else still using the [Rona, Herald of Invansion]/[Agatha's Soul Cauldron] combo in Breach? Breach is so popular, there's emries in opponent's graveyards.

Hello all, I’m attending my first RC this weekend and am torn between a couple decks. Any input/suggestions/insights would be very helpful.

1. Eldrazi Ramp w/Writhing Chrysalis - the deck I’m most familiar with. I won the RCQ with a Through the Breach deck but that doesn’t seem to have much legs at the moment. Moving from Emmy the Promised End from The Aeons Torn doesn’t seem like a reach. Plus this deck has had some good results recently.

2. Eldrazi Ramp w/Nulldrifter - a slight variation to 1. I’m leaning toward the Chrysalis due to its effect but wanted to put this on my list. Eldrazi are my favorite cards by far but choosing between the two variations has been difficult.

3. Temur Breach - the deck I own that I know the least. I’ve played it heavily recently and feel good about the iteration I have but with the resurgence of Karn it made me concerned with the Ramp decks becoming more popular.

I’d love to see any alternate strategies for any of these three options. Unfortunately it’s a little late to fully change away from these but I have a good amount of cards available. I have Amulet Titan built but I only started playing again 7 months ago after a 15 year break and it’s intimidating tbh.

Thanks! And good luck to those attending Portland!

Hello, was looking my card collection and found https://scryfall.com/card/war/34/tomik-distinguished-advokist so I got a question, Do you consider this card useful against Amulet Titan?

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Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-64-2025-02-0112738693

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-64-2025-02-0212738698

Winners

• briosh1 on RW Energy

• Gn42 on RW Energy

Decklists

Top 32 Archetype Breakdown

8 Energy (6 RW, 2 Jeskai)
6 Underworld Breach (3 Temur, 2 4c, 1 Grixis)
5 Eldrazi (3 RG, 2 Temur)
5 BW Blink
3 Oculus (2 Esper, 1 UB)
2 Mono G Broodscale
1 Amulet Titan
1 BR Through the Breach
1 Storm

7 Underworld Breach (5 Temur, 2 4c)
5 Energy (4 RW, 1 Jeskai)
3 BW Blink
3 Oculus (2 Esper, 1 UB)
2 Temur Twin Living End
2 Temur Eldrazi
2 Phoenix (1 Jeskai, 1 Mono R)
1 Amulet Titan
1 5c Tamiyo
1 UB Mill
1 BG Infect
1 Jeskai Artifacts
1 Storm
1 5c Goryo's Vengeance
1 UW Tameshi Belcher

X-2 or better Archetype Breakdown

5 Underworld Breach (2 4c, 2 Temur, 1 Grixis)
4 Energy (3 RW, 1 Jeskai)
4 BW Blink
3 Eldrazi (2 RG, 1 Temur)
1 Oculus (1 UB)
1 Mono G Broodscale

5 Underworld Breach (3 Temur, 2 4c)
5 Energy (4 RW, 1 Jeskai)
3 BW Blink
2 Oculus (2 Esper)
2 Temur Eldrazi
2 Phoenix (1 Jeskai, 1 Mono R)
1 Temur Twin Living End
1 Amulet Titan
1 5c Tamiyo
1 UB Mill
1 BG Infect
1 Jeskai Artifacts
1 Storm

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In this article, we show eight competitive deck options to get you started playing Modern in 2025!

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The 2025 competitive circuit will focus on Magic in two formats: Standard, where cards rotate and a new set with potential for impact comes out every six months, and Modern, an environment with a higher monetary cost but greater deck longevity and biannual releases of expansions dedicated to its high-power level.

While Standard is more intuitive to get into, Modern is one of the most popular Magic formats and has one of the most solid player bases in the history of the competitive scene, and is also one of the environments with the greatest complexity of interactions and breadth of strategies available.

In this article, check out eight decks to start playing Modern in 2025, based on their recent competitive results, position in the Metagame, and learning curve!

Recently going back to do F2F gaming. What should i expect? Feel kinda anxious going back since im just new to the LGS. gonna bring my BW sewers!

Hi all.

Im a control player and wanted to understand what key pieces i must attack (counter) to defeat comboing of Belcher and Tameshi. I barely understand how they work.

Hey everyone, newer player here and have a question about how you all use mtgo. I recently started playing paper modern a few months ago, but only really get out 2 times a month, 3 if I’m lucky. What I’m running into is that I’m making some simple mistakes that just come out of not getting a ton of reps in with my deck and/or not understanding the matchup. I’m trying to figure out how I can become a better pilot of my deck and was thinking playing mtgo with it could be useful. The other option would be to pick a different meta deck and kind of play from the other side.

Anyways I’m curious how those of you who play paper tend to use mtgo? Same deck for more reps? Or a different deck so you are more aware of different matchups? Thank you!

Starting to prep for RC Charolette about a month out, I’m not exactly positive what deck to play and was curious what people think. I’m a control player at heart and qualified with a jeskai scam variant. Do I just jam frogulus despite bad numbers? Or nose dive into breach?

Hi guys after some thoughts I am considering to build a Ruby Storm. I came up with this list with Naya colors, mainly to include veil of summer and phlage as an alternate win condition. I'm curious to see what you guys think

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6900196#paper

I am headed down to SCG Portland to hang with some friends and decided to register for a Modern 10k playing Eldrazi Ramp. I've played in a handful of tournaments of varying sizes, but never anything with the cap at 700 players. Not expecting to do very well, I even told my friend that's going to be late to the convention "just text me when you get here, I'll probably have dropped by then" haha. I have always wanted to "get my feet wet" in competitive magic and figured it's a good way to do it with no expectations. Just wondering if there's any tips you wish you had known before competing in your first bigger tournament.

I'm hoping to play in some Modern RCQs so I'm looking to start getting cards together before the switch. I have practically no modern staples, zero fetch, shock, or surveil lands, so I'm more or less starting from scratch.

Of the sub $600 decks (per MTGGoldfish) of Eldrazi Ramp, Belcher, Ruby Storm, or (Bowmaster-less) Orzhov Midrange which would be your pick to play through the next season if my goal is to grind RCQs? Since Modern will be out again for the rest of the year so I'm not too concerned about prioritizing cards that will be useful in other decks.

I would feel comfortable playing any style of deck and I welcome all biased opinions.

Thank you!

I have all of the pieces for breach except opal. I’d like to play it in paper. Spending $600 just for opal seems so much just to play what feels like the strongest deck in modern.

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-64-2025-01-3112738675

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2025-02-0112738685

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2025-02-0112738687

Winners

• slaxx on Jeskai Energy

• @ParadoxEng1neer on Temur Underworld Breach

• @selesneal on BR Through the Breach

Decklists

Top 32 Archetype Breakdown

11 Energy (9 RW, 2 Jeskai)
6 Underworld Breach (5 Temur, 1 4c)
4 Eldrazi (3 RG, 1 Temur)
2 BW Blink
2 Goryo's Vengeance (1 5c, 1 Jund)
2 Amulet Titan
1 Esper Oculus
1 4c Creativity
1 BW Midrange
1 Abzan Food
1 UW Artifacts

7 Energy (3 RW, 3 Jeskai, 1 Naya)
5 Underworld Breach (3 Temur, 1 Jeskai, 1 4c)
4 UW Tameshi Belcher
3 Esper Oculus
3 RG Eldrazi
2 Burn (1 Mono R, 1 BR)
1 RG Through the Breach
1 Temur Twin Living End
1 Storm
1 Amulet Titan
1 5c Tamiyo
1 Mardu Blink
1 Bant Company
1 Domain Zoo

8 Energy (5 RW, 2 Jeskai, 1 Mardu)
7 Eldrazi (6 RG, 1 Mono B)
4 Blink (3 BW, 1 Esper)
3 Oculus (2 Esper, 1 UB)
2 Temur Underworld Breach
1 BR Through the Breach
1 Amulet Titan
1 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 Mono G Broodscale
1 Bant Living End
1 Storm
1 Mono R Phoenix
1 BG Yawgmoth

X-2 or better Archetype Breakdown

8 Energy (6 RW, 2 Jeskai)
3 Underworld Breach (2 Temur, 1 4c)
3 Eldrazi (2 RG, 1 Temur)
2 BW Blink
2 Goryo's Vengeance (1 5c, 1 Jund)
1 Amulet Titan
1 Esper Oculus
1 4c Creativity

4 Energy (2 Jeskai, 1 RW, 1 Naya)
3 Underworld Breach (1 Temur, 1 Jeskai, 1 4c)
2 UW Tameshi Belcher
2 Esper Oculus
2 RG Eldrazi
1 RG Through the Breach
1 Temur Twin Living End
1 Storm
1 Amulet Titan
1 5c Tamiyo

3 Energy (2 RW, 1 Mardu)
2 Eldrazi (1 Mono B, 1 RG)
2 Blink (2 BW)
2 Oculus (1 UB, 1 Esper)
2 Temur Underworld Breach
1 BR Through the Breach
1 Amulet Titan

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Last weekend there was RC Prague and the meta of that tournament contained multiple decks that relied heavily on cards in their graveyard. Most notably Temur Breach which ultimately won the event but also decks like Hollow One and Eldrazi Ramp have multiple cards that care about graveyard.

Because of that there were multiple situations where players kept ordering and dividing their graveyards such that different card types were in different piles or some relevant cards were separated from the rest of the pile if they could be for example escaped like Phlage or Nethergoyf. While this happened on feature matches no judges were commenting this in anyway, atleast I didn't notice such case.

This caused a little chat this week with our local store owner who also judges our tournaments like basic FNMs but also RCQs. He pointed out that Magic Tournament Rules state that in formats like modern people are allowed to change the order of their cards in their graveyard since there are no legal cards which care about graveyard order but Magic: the Gathering rules 404.2 states that graveyard must be kept in a single pile. The rule also states that order of the pile can't normaly be changed but tournament rules overrule this for modern.

Obviously, player dividing cards into different piles in graveyard doesn't give much advantage for the player since the opponent can also see the cards in those piles and some might argue that this might be disadvantage for the player doing it since they usually remember their own relevant cards in the graveyard better than their opponent. After all this still, do you think that the aforementioned rules should be followed in tournaments or should more free apporach be granted if both players agree to it? And, if there a judges here, are there actually some newer rules that state that graveyard can be kept in multiple piles?

Personally I am on neither side. I am completely fine with single pile or multiple ones as long as rules those piles are in a clear view for opponent also and they don't take unreasonable amount of space. I also state that I am not looking for any kind of trouble for any player who acted in previously explained way in the RC Prague.

I played Karn the Great Creator for the first time in paper last night. Up against a Warren Soultrader deck in round 4 I twice resolved Karn and chose not to fetch a Tormmods Crypt. Both times, next turn my opponent combo'd for the kill, ignoring my Karn.

I was pretty upset with my play, thinking I had made the wrong decision twice which lost me the match, which is probably true.

On the drive home, though, I realized I had failed even harder. I had forgotten to enforce Karn's static ability. My opponent should shouldn't have been able to combo.vecause they needed to sacrifice an artifact treasure token to recourse the loop.

Epic fail on my part. Playing in paper is hard. Watch your triggers and game state. Good luck out there.

Love seeing new tech added to this archetype all the way up to the RC

I pose the question though which is the better build .

Is It temur with access to consign and nulldrifter for more consistent card advantage Or is RG with a more manageable mana base and the sick new tech with writhing chrysalis

Cool tricks like nulldrifter triggering kozileks return makes it hard not to want to keep it in with energy being one of Eldrazis harder match ups

Is it too much extension to try running both nulldrifter AND Writhing Chrysalis ?

Access to both stone rain and consign in the side sounds awesome but leaves less room for karn board silver bullets

Anyone else trying to run both ? Does it delude both strategies trying to do so ?

Hi all, im playing Jeskai. I build it to have a good matchup against Boros and Frog. But i feel exposed against Eldrazi Matchup. Any ideas on how to deal with it? or better, to beat it?

Feel bad for me.

I had about 80% of energy complete I just need 2 more ocelot pride 2 more phlages and the seasoned pyros. I had been eying oculus for a while as I played UR murktide before mh3 and that was the most fun I had playing magic. Oculus looked like it could recapture the magic so I traded in what I had of energy for what I was missing for oculus. Now 2 weekends later oculus looks to be invalidated in the meta do to BW blink and also energy is just putting up numbers right now. I shouldn't have been so impulsive.

TLDR: There is no point to this post just someone feel bad for me and tell me it's gonna be ok.

Hello, All:

Recently, Dimir Frog hasn't been showing great results online as well as anecdotally for my FNMs.

The match-ups against Boros Energy and BW Blink continue to be harsh for me to the point where I was wondering: is it time to bring back several [[Phyrexian Crusader]] in the sideboard? Haven't seen them in recent lists in a minute..

I remember a while back when black-based decks were raving about how it was excellent against Boros, and it would be one threat/wall that the BW Blink decks can't Solitude/Skyclave. Plus it's an another Unearth-able threat.

Thoughts?

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Hey all, I'm excited to have finally gotten around to streaming, and I was able to record a really sweet run with UR Twin the other day! As someone who got into Modern over ten years ago to play Twin, who went through a few different coping strategies with the ban over the years from Temur Kiki, to Jeskai Saheeli, to Cutthroat Kiki, I'm absolutely thrilled this deck is back in action!

In the league, I try to provide a lot of historical context to Twin and what's made it great in the past vs. how the deck has needed to change to keep up with 2025 Modern. I did my best on walking through my plays and logic, so hopefully my 10+ years experience as an Izzet mage is helpful for those of you looking to learn more about this awesome archetype!

League Results: >!We wound up going 4-1, which was an awesome first run for this version of the deck. The list overall felt really strong and consistent, although I plan on trying out Galvanic Discharges over the Unholy Heats, as it's possible it's just more reliably strong in this particular build. But overall I was really happy with the deck and how it performed!!<

I will also mention that this is my first time making league content like this, so I welcome any and all feedback on how to improve! Thanks so much for watching and happy Twinning!

The decklist, for reference!

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Hi guys is my first time posting here.

I'm just a chill guy that got back in the hobby from a long pause. I used to play standard some years ago but I always liked modern more. At the time I didn't have the budget to build a modern deck but now I got back by building a boros burn and having a lot of fun in my LGS. I was wondering about building another deck but I didn't want to spend a huge amount on a single deck. I am being tempted to go for belcher or for dredge. I know that dredge is not at his highest but my LGS is not that tier 1 heavy in decks. The only perplexion I had in mind is that so far my games with burn have been very short and usually I get to wait 40ish minutes while everyone finish their turns, so I'd like something more lengthy for another deck.

Any suggestions. Sorry for my bad english in advance

Magmakin Artillerist 2R Elemental Pirate Whenever you discard one or more cards, deals that much damage to each opponent Cycling 1R When you cycle this card, deal 1 damage to each opponent 1/4

Seems cool for Hollow One decks, and goes infinite with [[Curiosity]] and [[Keen Sense]] if you end your turn with 8 or more cards in hand, as you discard, deal damage, draw a card, discard again...

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-64-2025-01-3012738656

Source: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-64-2025-01-3112738666

Winners

• @SCIPIOS1 on Temur Underworld Breach

• ShadowTitan1 on Jeskai Energy

Decklists

Top 32 Archetype Breakdown

12 Eldrazi (11 RG, 1 Temur)
7 Energy (6 RW, 1 Jeskai)
6 Blink (4 BW, 1 Esper, 1 Abzan)
3 UW Tameshi Belcher
2 Temur Underworld Breach
1 UB Mill
1 Jeskai Artifacts

8 Energy (5 RW, 2 Jeskai, 1 Mardu)
7 Eldrazi (6 RG, 1 Temur)
5 Underworld Breach (4 Temur, 1 4c)
3 BW Blink
2 Amulet Titan
1 Esper Oculus
1 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 BG Necrodominance
1 Mono G Tron
1 Jund Creativity
1 4c Rhinos
1 BR Hollow One

X-2 or better Archetype Breakdown

8 Eldrazi (7 RG, 1 Temur)
4 Energy (3 RW, 1 Jeskai)
4 Blink (4 BW)
3 UW Tameshi Belcher
2 Temur Underworld Breach

6 Energy (3 RW, 2 Jeskai, 1 Mardu)
4 Eldrazi (3 RG, 1 Temur)
3 Underworld Breach (2 Temur, 1 4c)
2 BW Blink
1 Amulet Titan
1 Esper Oculus
1 UW Tameshi Belcher
1 BG Necrodominance
1 Mono G Tron

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4U

Artifact Creature - Robot Artificer

Flying

Affinity for Artifacts

3/4

Spoiled Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1iedle0/several_new_cards_from_opening_videos_reposted/#lightbox

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Ooh so this one is interesting. A 3/4 flying body for U is pretty useful in Affinity, and the 4U Affinity cost is pretty easy to turn on in a Mox Opal world. It wasn’t that long ago that the deck was playing Frogmites, and this ultimately just costs U more for a much more relevant body.

The downside is of course that it’s just a (french) vanilla beater at the end of the day, at a time where the best Affinity decks are really built more around efficiency and disruption. Still, I’m pretty curious to see what it’s like slamming two of these by Turn 2, and I think it’s definitely worth some testing at the very least.

Thoughts?