Eternal Warrior #16: A Parcel of Rogues

Posted on February 18, 2014 by RexDart

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  2. Thanks for the vids. With the PT testing ongoing, not many vids have been posted on Modern Faeries as far as I can tell. I’ve seen some Faeries lists running 25 or 26 lands. Not sure if you’ll pursue this anymore going forward, but for others reading, I might recommend 1-2 more lands.

  3. Damping Matrix hits infinite token combos, plus tons of goodies from pod, affinity and tron, and nothing in your own deck. Should it be considered over Torpor Orb, which hits… everything in your deck? The question is not rhetorical, it is certainly possible that 1 mana is worth all of that downside.

  4. Re: Damping Matrix, a three mana hate card is going to run into a ton of countermagic. But really it would take a lot more games against combo to see how often that was a problem. I don’t think it’s necessarily a big problem that it hits my own stuff, since they’re not winning with it in play and in the meantime I can still beat them down with BB tokens and end-of-turn Mistbind Cliques that don’t champion anything.

    I agree with Enderfall that playing the 25-26 land variant may have been the way to go. What held me back, which I alluded to, is that those 26 land Fae decks in 4-block extended had the benefit of Preordain to avoid getting flooded. Since the 25th (and 26th if I went that high) lands would be Mutavaults, that’s not terrible, but there’s certainly a point where a Mutavault isn’t exactly as good as drawing real action.

    There were only about half a dozen people on UB fae at the PT this weekend. The two pros that made 18 pts or better in the constructed portion were playing 25 and 26 lands, and no Scion of Oonas. They all played Secluded Glens, which I expected but still don’t like, no matter their pedigree. The 26 land version included 6 colorless lands. So it looks like, at least for now, the more controlling variant prevailed over the more aggro variant, though there were so few pilots that it’s hard to draw many firm conclusions. Daily event lists will likely copy the successful lists for a while, and that will become the default mode for UB Fae, right or wrong.