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It's led to the recent trend of stapling the effect you actually want onto a creature with appropriate-stats-for-effect-level. Crucible of Worlds is a 3 mana ef
by freeone3000 8y ago
It's led to the recent trend of stapling the effect you actually want onto a creature with appropriate-stats-for-effect-level. Crucible of Worlds is a 3 mana effect. As a creature, it should be green. It should therefore cost 2G. A 2G creature is reasonable at 2/3. Therefore, Ramunap Excavator is appropriate.
My modern deck plays entirely creatures, and entirely humans. It has duress, thorn of amethyst, nevermore, and into the roil main, with the option of getting disenchant, rule of law, and electroylze out of the side... as humans. It's effectively made spells obsolete, since the spell you want is probably a creature now.
- brandnewlow 8y agoAlong with the radical power creep of creatures, Wizards has - increased the cost of blue spells that counter creatures, because new players get sad when their monsters get countered - started giving evasion abilities to many more creatures, since new players get sad when their monsters get blocked
- technofiend 8y agoTime to dust off the shadow deck. :-)
- freeone3000 8y agoStandard currently has Essence Scatter, Divest, and Wizard's Retort. It's not that counterspells have gotten cheaper, but graveyard recursion is fairly prevalant and "Can't be countered" clauses are on some pretty beefy finishers right now.
- deadmetheny 8y agoDo you happen to have a deck list anywhere?
- brandnewlow 8y agoThis article follows the evolution of the deck. The last one sounds close to what OP is running: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/deck-evolutions-modern-humans https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/deck-evolutions-modern-...