Comments on: Exploring Some Overlooked Modern Gems https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/10/exploring-overlooked-modern-gems/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Zach Stackhouse https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/10/exploring-overlooked-modern-gems/#comment-2129716 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:53:17 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=18878#comment-2129716 Feels like the goryo’s vengeance deck would want to go jund with a couple copies of traverse the ulvenwald. You are already milling a ton of cards and running five card types, so by the time you need to go off you either have griselbrand through your card draw or you have delirium and can tutor it up for G.

Adding green also gives you access to nature’s claim, the tool for busted combo decks to handle their hate in all its artifact and enchantment forms.

]]> By: Dan W. https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/10/exploring-overlooked-modern-gems/#comment-2129715 Sun, 07 Oct 2018 18:03:33 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=18878#comment-2129715 Cool article man, modern is jammed to the gills with solid cards that can fulfill a particular need for a particular deck. Whether that’s something like Zur’s Weirding, or Dawn Charm, or Intuder Alarm. While these sort of cards almost never see play, it’s not because they’re not good enough, but because the shell for them hasn’t formed yet.

This extends to new cards as well, look at Mission Briefing. The pendulum seems to be going back and forth for Mission Briefing too. This card has been heralded as the second coming of Snap (it’s not) and decried as hot, wet garbage (it’s not). Mission Briefing is a gem in its correct decks, one of which (I believe) is U/B/x Mill.

Yes, I know Mill, laughing stock of the competitive community. The deck no one takes seriously. Mission Briefing (if it’s adopted) may just alter people’s perceptions of what Mill can do. Is it going to be the next KCI or Humans deck? No, of course not. But with Brief working to fill two major gaps the deck had (consistency of draws and the lack of gas) Mill can genuinely compete. Briefing also allows for Archive Traps to be cast for their trap cost, which makes living the dream of a free trap into a two mana trap (with the upside of a fixed draw) obtainable.

The point of all this is to say that as long as there isn’t a strictly better version of a card for a particular deck, then people can arguably play whatever pet cards they want.

Thanks for all you guys do here at Modern Nexus.

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