Comments on: Standard Spike: UBw Control in Modern

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:04:19 +0000

I’m playing this deck in real life and I really really enjoyed these videos and am hoping for more. I would recommend adding more sideboard for mono-red, that deck seems very popular, and timely reinforcements is good against zoo as well.

But yeah, if this was on youtube I would like, subscribe, vote up and all that so make more

By: Mason

Mason — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:57:13 +0000

Against storm you can respond to a ritual with esper charm and have him discard.

By: apaulogy

apaulogy — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:33:33 +0000

Some day, I will learn how to read

By: _ShipItHolla

_ShipItHolla — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:25:00 +0000

And Progenitus Shuffle into your library.

By: apaulogy

apaulogy — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:16:46 +0000

Vigilance and Lifelink…answered my own question (“)(-_-)(“)

By: apaulogy

apaulogy — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:14:09 +0000

I wasn’t criticizing Shreikmaw, in fact I think it is brilliant.

Iona is a great target to shut off Storm.

Is there a reason for Sphinx of Steel Wind over, say, Progenitus?

By: _ShipItHolla

_ShipItHolla — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:12:34 +0000

Really sorry about the mic! I caught what I was doing but apparently not until doing it a bit.

You might be right about being poorly positioned, but the deck still has room for improvement. I’ve been playing and improving it since this DE but I think I’m going to move onto something new.

@apaulogy, Archangel seemed good at the time, but Iona is better vs. Combo (which is a poor matchup) and in general. And Sphinx of the Steel Wind is better against Jund, so in the end I’m looking more towards Iona and Sphinx in the Board.

Shriekmaw is actually a pretty sweet choice with Unburial Rites, especially if you’re playing a build that runs multiple copies (as I now am).