My favorite part of professor vids is he just legitimately wants you to enjoy Magic however you choose. He is the anti gatekeeper....he is a...gate crasher
It's true. My whole channel was born of me just wanting people to be able to play this fun game. + years later, still the same: I want you to have fun and play.
Another method is to use cockatrice. It requires a bit of setup but it should not be too complicated. This method allows you to test out decks and practice with them till you decide to get one in paper and play in your LGS. It's free.
@@Biltzeebub Oh I'm sure Wizards know about them already, I'm not even sure they're illegal, questionable though. I'm sure your comment is fine, I just don't think Prof could reasonably use his position to advertise them. That said I'm not sure what allows Spelltable to operate besides covid and good will.
@@Asmodeus555 Spelltable requires physical cards and so keep WotC running. Free software emulating MODO don't. Besides, it is my understanding WotC invested in/acquired Spelltable.
Wouldn't it be nice if Wizards sold pre-constructed modern decks along with Modern Horizons sets, like with some of the archetypes that the set supports, reprinting some of the older cards those strategies utilize alongside new additions. Like maybe Affinity or Reanimator or Delirium/Domain Aggro or Cascade/Suspend and stuff like that. That would've been pretty cool.
@@lucasbakeforero426 for real. It’s the only deck shardless agent fits into 😂. There’s also other cool Modern cards like allosaurus rider and big gris that deserve a reprint. I like slippery bogle too
I love modern since a long time ago and you summarised why perfectly. I played a Mono Black Vampires deck for years, completely off meta but it never mattered. When you have your own deck and do 3-0 at FNM against Tron, Grixis, Jund and others 1000$+ decks you feel unimaginable satisfaction. Sometimes you loose to Burn, sometimes to D&T but it doesn't matter. It's always great to refine your strategy and get better for the next battle. For me modern has always been about finding your deck and tailoring it on yourself.
Love this bro ive been play modern for a few months now , and i have this rakdos reanimator deck ,i join events and always go againts meta decks (4c omanth/yorion,must of the time actually lol),i would lose alot but didnt care love playing this deck
Hey Prof, I am just trying to get into Modern after a long hiatus from 60 card constructed. With the new boom in Modern interest from MH2 and a lot of my LGSs starting to open up their play spaces, I couldn’t be more excited! But I have found myself trying to pigeon hole my way into a meta-ish deck and haven’t had much luck getting anything ready to just play (I am also just starting to rebuild my collections of playsets after dissolving most of them into commander singles)…. Anyways this is just a legitimate thanks for the advice! I think these tips came at a perfect time to reassure me to just start playing!
One thing I would recommend to someone not just trying to build one deck, but start a modern collection is try and make your first deck one that pivots easily. For example, if you build Izzet storm you are at that point pretty close to having izzet prowess too. Then a lot of those cards are going to slide into the borros prowess deck. After getting some of those cards you are pretty close to a regular Boros burn deck, etc. The same can be said for if you are trying to do different formats. Legacy Death and Taxes and Modern Death and Taxes share a lot of the expensive bits. Same thing with spirits if you are looking at the modern and pioneer spirits decks there’s a lot of cross over there obviously too.
Modern is the best format because: -If you played standard for a while, then abandoned it, you already have some stuff legal in modern -Any deck is viable, as the prof said, anything goes, there's no meta, brewers have a shot. -Standard sucks? buy singles that upgrade your modern decks and there you go. -Multiplayer madness? play modern multiplayer, is even more bonkers than commander, because you don't depend on your singleton luck. -Also, is the best to bring old players back to the game. I have so many coworkers and friends that go "yeah, i used to play, but now i have them just for the memories" and i go "but, let's play, bring whatever deck you have and lets play." 8 out of 10 times that decks are legal in modern.
Exactly! These are all of the reasons that non-competitive modern and commander are easily the best. I'm not sure about the "modern more bonkers than commander" line, but the rest is on the dot
My friends and I used to play multiplayer modern, most of our decks would actually standard or barely ex-standard legal because we haven’t been playing for that long, it’s the most fun I have ever had playing magic. Even when our decks stayed mostly the same, games would always play differently because threat assessment would vary greatly from one game to another, easily achieved when we were playing 8 people games.
Pro-tip for anyone looking to build Tron on a budget: the cheapest version of the lands are the Chronicles reprints, but may not show up on certain sites when searching for the card name (like "Urza's Tower") because they're listed with the specific variants instead (like "Urza's Tower (Shore)" ). This was the case on TCGPlayer at least, but checking again it looks like it's been fixed there.
I've been wanting to try out Modern for a bit, and started putting together a Bant soulherder list. Maybe a weird starting point, but it's so fun. Your enthusiasm for the format is infectious. I hope you make some more Modern videos.
When I got my boyfriend into Magic, he just bought a premade standard deck to see what he liked about it. After that, he was able to determine which cards he enjoyed and didn't enjoy playing and rebuilt the deck accordingly.
I really enjoy your message of playing what you love. For me, that is UW Spirits. I have been playing on Arena and very excited for Explorer there. Looking at MTGGoldfish, I see that UW Spirits recently had a 5-0 Modern League and without any Modern Horizons cards, I'm tempted to break out my modern spirits deck again.
The price has always intimidated me to stay away from modern, but now I am tempted to just pick up a bunch of those double face card proxies that come in zendikar packs and just proxy an entire deck. Or at least, just the fetch lands. I can add those as I go.
I really like modern as well. You can get some really fun gotcha combat tricks even against experienced players. I have used War Report a couple times to really throw my opponent off balance. I still lost, but it's still fun.
Been so wrapped up in drama and spoilers, i had not stopped to consider this irony. Although modern is a term relative to vintage play and historic is a term relative to standard play.
My fav part of modern is playing what you love, like you said. my old living end deck was so much fun, I had so many spicy techs, and i knew how to play and sideboard well, so i could best many matchups, even if its supposed to be an auto loose
I am my store's local jank player and love building decks that are not decks commonly seen in modern. I have played both cat tribal and High Alert decks and have beaten higher tier decks including Death's Shadow and Jund. Nothing is too bad in modern as long as you can build a cohesive enough deck for it. Luck is a very big part in these games and it is a blast.
i would suggest starting with burn or 50 bucks 8-rack(how i started) this way you learn your opponents decks and get a taste of everything while you can still keep up with the meta
I have a "Bant Burn" deck I am very proud of. Every color except black, primarily red. It's basically a combo / casino deck that plays cards like calibrated blast and hitting something like Autochton wurm and Blinkmoth Infusion
Hello Professor! I just wanted to take the time to say thank you for the information on how to play modern. I primarily play commander in my playgroup and just now starting to play modern. This really helped a lot towards understanding what modern is about and how to play. I wish you the best of luck in all of your future endeavors and hope to get in contact with you to play a round or two sometime! Best Regards!
I tried modern a few years ago with a deck mainly comprised of old standard cards that had rotated out and I was quite fond of but I never got into it as I often got steamrolled in a few turns by all these crazy combos
I dont care what the pros say about which decks are good. I just love doing things I find funny. like getting a 100/100 hydra and flinging it at my opponent, or getting a few thousand goblins and using descent of dragons. Its all about enjoyment. You can make a strong competitive deck for like 20 bucks, and the creative process is just as fun as playing the game, if not more fun. With Commander, I make my decks to tell a story or base on a theme, like the continent of Africa. Its not about what IS good, its what CAN be good.
"Modern allows for expermentation". Can I get this on a shirt? Or a banner? Or any of 20 different places I can put it on display? Eye rolling and complaining when I'm having fun brewing takes half the fun out of brewing
90-110$ is way too much for a lot of new players. While you won’t win as much, I think the best way to get into modern (if you have a collection of cards), find some cards you already have that work well together, maybe you have some tribal pieces, and get singles to fill gaps. I’d recommend going to a local game store, they can help you find what you’re looking for.
I never met anyone with a large enough collection to build a random tribal decent deck and that is willing to fill in gaps with singles bought in their lgs that does not have 100$ to spare on a deck.
@@deshkar2211115 fair enough tribes is a bit of a stretch, depending on the set. When I started magic it was through a deck builders toolkit, and a few more of the same later purchased by family. That gave me enough base to make a few pretty terrible decks, but I had some good pieces. I only ended up following through with elves (already had 4x Arbor Elf, 4x Llanowar Elves, 4x elvish visionary, 1x elvish archdruid, 2x sylvan messanger, some winding ways, and a bunch of misc sideboard cards). My LGS had Imperious Perfect, dwynen's elite, cultivator of blades, and a few more just ok elves. It got me a list I could play at an fnm, for ~$5 in singles (unfortunately probably 40-60 for the toolkits, but those had other use). Honestly I probably could've saved up and bought some ezuris and cocos, but eh I wasn't playing in any competitions (yet). I've spent way too much time in the pandemic making decks online, I try to make decks within the 20-40$ range, have some listed here: tappedout.net/users/Bony_Thicc/mtg-decks/ They are how I should have started competitive magic but I was a dumbass and made a combo deck around fraying sanity and traumatize (for over $100). It has yet to combo off on turn 5 and cause me to win, because I did not know how to build decks.
Four years ago I fell in love with mardu control and after getting a solid deck list together I moved... now four years later; i'm getting back into magic. Looking through decklists still and mardu just has the best of everything- just need to find that solid list. There's so many goood cards for mardu
Loved this video! My LGS announced a revamped Modern scene and I was feeling like getting into it. Being a huge eldrazi fan myself, this feels like the perfect place to build a cool eldrazi deck!
I like how his videos are non biased + just want you to have a fun. Im going to search for that elf deck you speak of.. also I see a time spiral remastered card in each of those modern decks lol.
Tip for testing: you can out your deck on moxfield and use playtest. And using obs to cover your hand and view card popup. You can play with people on discord without meeting in person
Honestly, a modern challenger deck type thing would be very lucrative for Wizards. Take 4 of the top 20 decks in the meta, build skeleton decks of those 4 archetypes with most of the modern staples, and some modern chase cards at 1 or 2 copies. You could get away with charging like $50-70 for these.
Hell they could charge 100 if the card value is there. It would be significantly less expensive than the avg modern deck still, and might still be worth the pickup
I like decks that surprise me by actually working. I don't have really any experience playing modern, but.. I do enjoy finding new styles to play with/in.
Ay I'm early this time. Thanks for this video, professor! I've been waiting for this kind of video to answer some of my questions for a long time. Brilliant!
It's really starting to tick me off that RUclips doesn't tell me when Prof puts a video up and I find out from Reddit hours later that there's a new video.....
Years ago my LGS held a modern circuit with multiple tournaments and I ended up taking 2nd place with a weird monowhite flickerwhisp/tax/weenie brew. It was kind of like Agro with Ajani, kind of like death and taxes with flickerwhisps and aether vials and thalia, arbiters, and mindcensors; but it wasn't exactly either. It gave me some dead draws, but it also gave me huge flexibility (especially with a sideboard) to play around every major net deck at the events. There is nothing more satisfying than aethervialing in a leonin arbiter after a primetime slaps down and pathing it. Or using ghost quarters and arbiter to wasteland them while slapping away with cheap creatures. Modern is the only format I'd be interested in playing and it was the only format I saw people genuinely hyped about brewing interesting decks and going through old cards for fun interactions.
While I do agree with you on the proxing a deck to get reps in and see if you like it, I would still encourage that you pick up a playset of the fetchlands since they are low cost right now. Being new to modern, or magic in general, you'll learn your mana base is the one thing you should sink money into. Have your platset of Fetchs as soon as you can for as cheap as you can to open doors for playing later on.
Most of Professor's advice are on point. One thing I wouldn't agree with whatsoever though is looking up decks on mtggoldfish. If you have some experience with arena, commander or standard, just dive into making whatever you like. Did you like the boros knights aggro you played in standard a while ago? Guess what, you can either upgrade it or make it into a combo-ish midrange deck. The sheer amount of cards in this format makes almost anything possible. If you play with a smaller game group or circle of people, for the love of God, don't netdeck. Come up with your own stuff, ask your mates for advice, see what you can trade in from them. Not only will your hobby be cheaper, it will also be a lot more enjoyable and varied. This is in my opinion the only way to once more experience the flavor Magic had for me as a kid/ teenager.
Friday after prerelease: Why do I spend money on this game? Didn't open anything good. I rarely get to play. Today: I didn't know they wrote a book on one of my favorite modern decks. *goes to Card Kingdom* Thanks Proff.
I built a U/B Aggro Mill deck despite people telling me on and on that it isn't gonna cut it. But the obscurity works in my favour in even competitive. Nobody expects the noob move of my field of ruin targeting a Fetch to become two Archive Traps lol
Thanks for this video, it is extremely helpful. Most of the FNMs around me play Modern, which as a relatively new player (started Oct 2018) I have not yet played. Looking forward to it.
Found some AWESOME VIDEOS by MTG Deckmaster on how to play modern storm. I am really looking forward to building the budget deck and playing my first game of modern with it.
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I am planning to build mono green squirrel twin deck from SaffronOlive, I can barely control my excitement. Sadly I wanted to build rogue deck, because Thieves' Guild Enforcer is the best girl. But then I saw prices of Bitterblossom and Cavern of Souls... Let say I will keep rogues in mind for future plans.
I'm getting back into modern for the first time in years, I used to play infect back in the gitaxian probe days, always loved infect so I'm rebuilding that. Maybe not the most competitive in a world of Wrenn and Six, Lava Dart and Plague Engineer, but with a few tweaks to the list around that I should still be able to have some fun games and spread the glory of phyrexia around my LGS.
Im from Ireland and started playing Magic like 2 months ago after I downloaded Arena. I’m super excited to start building a real collection but have no idea where to start or what to buy
This channel actually has a whole series of "Is it worth it..." for various products, those are good. I'm a huge fan of bundles, personally. A decent number of packs, lands and such, while still being not *too* expensive. I'm also a huge fan of sealed events, you're given 6 packs then build a 40 card deck (basic lands provided) * "level playing field", nobody's coming in with a finely tuned deck against a suboptimal budget build * At many stores it's slightly cheaper than buying 6 packs individually * Great social event * More relaxed, casual * Plus, you get cards!
Don't get the cracking packs addiction. Couple booster boxes a week ain't cheap and bulk is kinda hard to get rid of 😅 Buy singles for decks and play! I'm building up 8 commander decks currently, just finished a Windgrace, green red black, lands matter, tokens matter deck. Local lgs is opening next week for tables, can't wait to see the playgroup and the new decks!
welcome friend! If you want to play casual multiplayer, check out commander (EDH is another name). The commander precons are an excellent place to start. If you want more competitive 1v1 style of play standard or modern are decent ways to go, older formats like legacy are insanely priced. prof has many great videos for you to check out!
My advice would be: DON'T. But if you absolutely must or feel you have to start a collection my advice would be TEST a deck in Untap or Cockatrice and after trials and error choose ONE deck and perfect it. Focus instead of building a collection because you will look back and realize money had better uses. You almost never end upgrading one deck, let alone a bunch.
I just finished putting together my first ever modern deck, mono-black Vampires upgrading from the pioneer version I had gotten at some point, and I am SO excited for it! I get to play it on thursday in an in-store event and I'm looking forward to mastering and upgrading it alongside any other modern decks I might build in the future
I have a very similar list to the mono-R goblins list you showed off, but it's an older list and I might swap cards around to try yours. My list has done very well against my buddy's various Scapeshift/Titanshift deck, his Naya Zoo, and another friend's mono-G stompy.
Moxfield is a great resource for people who want to explore different decks. You can build up your own or select one other users have made and play test them in browser.
I played spellslinger UB in standard during oath of the gatewatch, so I decided to buy UB prowess for pioneer and bought the missing pieces for modern. A win win
this is definitely true, I remember when I was playing a suicide blue/prowess back before it hit the main stream and was wrecking 1000$ decks at my fnm lol those were fun days in 2016-2017
A typical Dredge deck really feels like a midrange deck, with the option to go very aggressive when the option is there (usually game 1), but the moment some GY interaction is active on the board the style shifts completly to a control and card advantage deck (Life from the Loam becoming one of the best cards in the deck). This is one of the reason why I love playing dredge, since you can shift your approach so quickly. The budget version in this video however is very much an aggro deck, just focusing on getting lots of creatures on the board to swing with. In a more "traditional" meta it will suffer in any matchup where the opponent has GY hate, since you can't fall back to Loaming and waiting for you Nature's claim. However, when Dredge is off the radar, people leave their Rest in Peace and Leylines at home, which is when the aggressiveness of the deck really shines (turn 2, 14 power? Easy).
10 Modern decks here: 1) Blue-Green Counters-spam growth deck (make your creatures bigger constantly!) 2) Green-Black Creature-heavy undergrowth deck (kill your creatures constantly!) 3) Blue-Black delve & self-milling deck (eat yourself alive) 4) Blue-Black rogues & krakens opponent-milling deck (spiral your foe into crippling insanity) 5) Red-Black demon circus of bloody revelry deck (chaos that burns me back but oooh it feels goood) 6) White-Black cleric sacrifice & revival deck (endless cycle of rebirth causing collateral damage) 7) White-Black tax & lifegain deck (make everything your opponent does unbearable to do) 8) Black self-sacrifice witchy cooking deck (sit back, cooking dinner, not caring what your foe has) 9) Black discard deck (make everyone hate you forever) 10) And Rainbow Snow :) and 11) a 56-land 4-sorcery deck for the lols when it pops off 5% of the time I love all my babies (though I do have favorites)
This Rock/Paper/Siccors-Thing is a great thing, i 100% agree with the prof here. Yeah, may suck for pro players, but only if you, as a pro, want it easy. Reminds me of the stupid argument ygo-players give: "a low deck-counts assures your deck can always work and doesnt have bad matchups" - which debunks itself directly by ruling out any deck not on the highest of powerlevels. Its totally fine your deck doesnt has a good matchup against x because there are 20, 30, 40 viable decks - as long as your deck can still win. You shouldnt be able to put in all silver bullets at once.
Its more about how much interaction is in the format, non-interactive decks turn into rock paper scissors or coin flip matchups which is usually what modern is. Unlike legacy for example.
i love playing modern with only singel cards, a "commander" (you can use any creature, but that desides your coloridentity) and ofc against mostly 4 people. in short its minicommander. Its my second favorite format. give it a try. Its also a good midway cause you dont need 4 times a card but also if a strategie is just a bit too slow for commander, this opens the gate. in my case i also got players with different budget so the one with more money run often a ton of commander decks and use the rest for minicommander the other players have the option to build the minicommander and borrow a commander deck. win win :)
I mean, my Modern deck that I consistently play is a Black White Midrange Deck that I ported over years ago from Legacy (As I had stopped playing legacy due to life just not allowing it) and as time has gone by, the deck has become more like it was in Legacy thanks to the Unbanning of Stoneforge Mystic, the Printing of Giver of Runes and the fact that Vindicate is now legal in Modern. Heck, even though I don't have Lillian of the Veil anymore, I got a more budget/less versatile replacement in the form of Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage! Though I am trying to build a second deck that is a Mono-Red Aggro-Burn deck that I refuse to use Prowess creatures in. That should be fun!
I should clarify that I almost habitually play Black White to the extent that people at my LGS would ask jokingly "What are you playing today? Don't answer, Black White?" and I find it very hard to break from that mold, as it's literally my favorite color combination, that also was a reason I got into magic via Boy Scouts and outside of my Lorywn-Shadowmoor Treefolk Deck I played long LONG ago, is the deck I know the best in terms of what it can do lol.
I didn't know I have a bunch of cards I can use modern in those deck list the professor post in this video. I might build a couple of modern decks and see how I do.
I remember back in the day, my friends and I used to just print the photos of cards and glue them on lands, lol. When you got those poor man blues, you gotta do what you gotta do.
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My favorite part of professor vids is he just legitimately wants you to enjoy Magic however you choose. He is the anti gatekeeper....he is a...gate crasher
It's true. My whole channel was born of me just wanting people to be able to play this fun game. + years later, still the same: I want you to have fun and play.
@@TolarianCommunityCollege and it was that ethos that got me back into magic. It made me not afraid of not being good at it. If that makes sense haha
Some might even say, he is MTGesus
"White Weenie Aggro" is my pro wrestling name.
I wheezed so hard I died, thanks!
So your signed to the aew roster?
I'll do you one better: it's my Tinder profile alias.
Just weenie aggro
Another method is to use cockatrice.
It requires a bit of setup but it should not be too complicated. This method allows you to test out decks and practice with them till you decide to get one in paper and play in your LGS.
It's free.
Untap.in too, the controls are slightly confusing at first but you can test decks online or with mates for free
Xmage too but a but risky to mention legally dubious methods of play.
@@Asmodeus555 oops, should I take down my comment? I would not want both softwares to be taken down :(
@@Biltzeebub Oh I'm sure Wizards know about them already, I'm not even sure they're illegal, questionable though.
I'm sure your comment is fine, I just don't think Prof could reasonably use his position to advertise them.
That said I'm not sure what allows Spelltable to operate besides covid and good will.
@@Asmodeus555 Spelltable requires physical cards and so keep WotC running. Free software emulating MODO don't. Besides, it is my understanding WotC invested in/acquired Spelltable.
Wouldn't it be nice if Wizards sold pre-constructed modern decks along with Modern Horizons sets, like with some of the archetypes that the set supports, reprinting some of the older cards those strategies utilize alongside new additions.
Like maybe Affinity or Reanimator or Delirium/Domain Aggro or Cascade/Suspend and stuff like that.
That would've been pretty cool.
Unfortunately they make products ages in advance and don't know what the meta will be like and so they don't know if a deck will be anywhere near good
@@basicpigeonbee They have done it before. Modern Event decks. There was only one, but there was one.
A temur cascade precon would be cool. And would help more people get access to staples of the deck
@@jamesgratz4771 I would buy that lol
@@lucasbakeforero426 for real. It’s the only deck shardless agent fits into 😂. There’s also other cool Modern cards like allosaurus rider and big gris that deserve a reprint. I like slippery bogle too
I love modern since a long time ago and you summarised why perfectly. I played a Mono Black Vampires deck for years, completely off meta but it never mattered. When you have your own deck and do 3-0 at FNM against Tron, Grixis, Jund and others 1000$+ decks you feel unimaginable satisfaction. Sometimes you loose to Burn, sometimes to D&T but it doesn't matter. It's always great to refine your strategy and get better for the next battle. For me modern has always been about finding your deck and tailoring it on yourself.
Love this bro ive been play modern for a few months now , and i have this rakdos reanimator deck ,i join events and always go againts meta decks (4c omanth/yorion,must of the time actually lol),i would lose alot but didnt care love playing this deck
Hell yeah bro👽
I miss paper magic
Stop
I miss magic
you play magic? It would be SO COOL to see you post some videos about mtg!
Yessssss
why not just green screen yourself into a paper tournament lol am i right
Hey Prof, I am just trying to get into Modern after a long hiatus from 60 card constructed. With the new boom in Modern interest from MH2 and a lot of my LGSs starting to open up their play spaces, I couldn’t be more excited! But I have found myself trying to pigeon hole my way into a meta-ish deck and haven’t had much luck getting anything ready to just play (I am also just starting to rebuild my collections of playsets after dissolving most of them into commander singles)…. Anyways this is just a legitimate thanks for the advice! I think these tips came at a perfect time to reassure me to just start playing!
One thing I would recommend to someone not just trying to build one deck, but start a modern collection is try and make your first deck one that pivots easily. For example, if you build Izzet storm you are at that point pretty close to having izzet prowess too. Then a lot of those cards are going to slide into the borros prowess deck. After getting some of those cards you are pretty close to a regular Boros burn deck, etc.
The same can be said for if you are trying to do different formats. Legacy Death and Taxes and Modern Death and Taxes share a lot of the expensive bits. Same thing with spirits if you are looking at the modern and pioneer spirits decks there’s a lot of cross over there obviously too.
Modern is the best format because:
-If you played standard for a while, then abandoned it, you already have some stuff legal in modern
-Any deck is viable, as the prof said, anything goes, there's no meta, brewers have a shot.
-Standard sucks? buy singles that upgrade your modern decks and there you go.
-Multiplayer madness? play modern multiplayer, is even more bonkers than commander, because you don't depend on your singleton luck.
-Also, is the best to bring old players back to the game. I have so many coworkers and friends that go "yeah, i used to play, but now i have them just for the memories" and i go "but, let's play, bring whatever deck you have and lets play." 8 out of 10 times that decks are legal in modern.
Exactly! These are all of the reasons that non-competitive modern and commander are easily the best. I'm not sure about the "modern more bonkers than commander" line, but the rest is on the dot
My friends and I used to play multiplayer modern, most of our decks would actually standard or barely ex-standard legal because we haven’t been playing for that long, it’s the most fun I have ever had playing magic. Even when our decks stayed mostly the same, games would always play differently because threat assessment would vary greatly from one game to another, easily achieved when we were playing 8 people games.
With the reprinting of fetch lands, I will finally be able to finish my Modern Boros Burn deck, really glad they finally did this.
That’s awesome
Man!
@@jamesgratz4771 thanks! I've been saving up from mono red for a bit now when I started, and it's the perfect time to make the final leap!
Don't forget those sunbaked canyons
@@stevenolson6684 sacred foundries too 👍🏻
@@kylemundy8871 yep got those when they were decent priced
Clicked. Saw the link to the Tron Primer. Liked so fast that a black hole began to form.
Great thumbnail Prof.
I agree that playing with Scalding Tarn *is* the best way to play modern. 😁
Its always a joy to see you in my RUclips homepage with a new video professor!
Pro-tip for anyone looking to build Tron on a budget: the cheapest version of the lands are the Chronicles reprints, but may not show up on certain sites when searching for the card name (like "Urza's Tower") because they're listed with the specific variants instead (like "Urza's Tower (Shore)" ). This was the case on TCGPlayer at least, but checking again it looks like it's been fixed there.
I've been wanting to try out Modern for a bit, and started putting together a Bant soulherder list. Maybe a weird starting point, but it's so fun. Your enthusiasm for the format is infectious. I hope you make some more Modern videos.
Soulherder looks awesome and is something i've considered building
When I got my boyfriend into Magic, he just bought a premade standard deck to see what he liked about it. After that, he was able to determine which cards he enjoyed and didn't enjoy playing and rebuilt the deck accordingly.
I really enjoy your message of playing what you love. For me, that is UW Spirits. I have been playing on Arena and very excited for Explorer there. Looking at MTGGoldfish, I see that UW Spirits recently had a 5-0 Modern League and without any Modern Horizons cards, I'm tempted to break out my modern spirits deck again.
My boy the professor with a casual sealed box of Innistrad on his book shelf.
The price has always intimidated me to stay away from modern, but now I am tempted to just pick up a bunch of those double face card proxies that come in zendikar packs and just proxy an entire deck. Or at least, just the fetch lands. I can add those as I go.
I really like modern as well. You can get some really fun gotcha combat tricks even against experienced players. I have used War Report a couple times to really throw my opponent off balance. I still lost, but it's still fun.
I find it amusing that Modern has cards from Magics past going back 15 odd years, while Historic has cards going back 3 years...
Words are funny.
Been so wrapped up in drama and spoilers, i had not stopped to consider this irony. Although modern is a term relative to vintage play and historic is a term relative to standard play.
historic has many cards going back further than three years thanks to the anthology sets.
Modern was once upon a time as old as Historic haha.
My fav part of modern is playing what you love, like you said. my old living end deck was so much fun, I had so many spicy techs, and i knew how to play and sideboard well, so i could best many matchups, even if its supposed to be an auto loose
I just started playing Magic and this was the literal exact video and content I was looking for. Phenomenal video and super helpful!
The last I was this early, the Professor didn't even like Merfolk.
Who am I kidding, I've never been THIS early.
And I don't think the professor has ever not liked merfolk
I am my store's local jank player and love building decks that are not decks commonly seen in modern. I have played both cat tribal and High Alert decks and have beaten higher tier decks including Death's Shadow and Jund. Nothing is too bad in modern as long as you can build a cohesive enough deck for it. Luck is a very big part in these games and it is a blast.
True bro i built my wtf rakdos reanimator deck and somehow beat amulet titan , luck is a big oart aswell
Having not played Modern for a few years, I'm looking forward to jumping back in. Yee-haw! Thanks, Prof.
i would suggest starting with burn or 50 bucks 8-rack(how i started) this way you learn your opponents decks and get a taste of everything while you can still keep up with the meta
Yeeees, finally a video talking about modern! I missed this
"Fetch lands are the most expensive part of the deck"
Me: *laughs in E tron*
3 Eldrazi Sibling with their counterpart
SO pissed I didn't pick them up 3 years ago, lol.
I have a "Bant Burn" deck I am very proud of. Every color except black, primarily red. It's basically a combo / casino deck that plays cards like calibrated blast and hitting something like Autochton wurm and Blinkmoth Infusion
Hello Professor! I just wanted to take the time to say thank you for the information on how to play modern. I primarily play commander in my playgroup and just now starting to play modern. This really helped a lot towards understanding what modern is about and how to play. I wish you the best of luck in all of your future endeavors and hope to get in contact with you to play a round or two sometime!
Best Regards!
I tried modern a few years ago with a deck mainly comprised of old standard cards that had rotated out and I was quite fond of but I never got into it as I often got steamrolled in a few turns by all these crazy combos
I dont care what the pros say about which decks are good. I just love doing things I find funny. like getting a 100/100 hydra and flinging it at my opponent, or getting a few thousand goblins and using descent of dragons. Its all about enjoyment. You can make a strong competitive deck for like 20 bucks, and the creative process is just as fun as playing the game, if not more fun. With Commander, I make my decks to tell a story or base on a theme, like the continent of Africa. Its not about what IS good, its what CAN be good.
"Modern allows for expermentation". Can I get this on a shirt? Or a banner? Or any of 20 different places I can put it on display? Eye rolling and complaining when I'm having fun brewing takes half the fun out of brewing
Eff those people tell em to play Yu-Gi-Oh lol.
Just remember not all ideas are good. Experimenting is great, knowing when to give up on a deck is also good (from personal experience)
You've hyped up Modern enough that just as I went looking for this video it appeared. Excited to give the format a try! Thank you.
90-110$ is way too much for a lot of new players. While you won’t win as much, I think the best way to get into modern (if you have a collection of cards), find some cards you already have that work well together, maybe you have some tribal pieces, and get singles to fill gaps. I’d recommend going to a local game store, they can help you find what you’re looking for.
I never met anyone with a large enough collection to build a random tribal decent deck and that is willing to fill in gaps with singles bought in their lgs that does not have 100$ to spare on a deck.
@@deshkar2211115 fair enough tribes is a bit of a stretch, depending on the set. When I started magic it was through a deck builders toolkit, and a few more of the same later purchased by family. That gave me enough base to make a few pretty terrible decks, but I had some good pieces. I only ended up following through with elves (already had 4x Arbor Elf, 4x Llanowar Elves, 4x elvish visionary, 1x elvish archdruid, 2x sylvan messanger, some winding ways, and a bunch of misc sideboard cards). My LGS had Imperious Perfect, dwynen's elite, cultivator of blades, and a few more just ok elves. It got me a list I could play at an fnm, for ~$5 in singles (unfortunately probably 40-60 for the toolkits, but those had other use). Honestly I probably could've saved up and bought some ezuris and cocos, but eh I wasn't playing in any competitions (yet).
I've spent way too much time in the pandemic making decks online, I try to make decks within the 20-40$ range, have some listed here: tappedout.net/users/Bony_Thicc/mtg-decks/
They are how I should have started competitive magic but I was a dumbass and made a combo deck around fraying sanity and traumatize (for over $100). It has yet to combo off on turn 5 and cause me to win, because I did not know how to build decks.
Rocking my 4c ally tribal deck and having nothing to be jealous about in an enviroment with Jund and Tron. Great video prof!
dredge isn't control? I mean maybe there is a dredge deck that is but most of them aren't and the one you showed is aggro/combo
I think he meant control in the same way mono-black "control" decks work. Removal and pieces never truly dying.
Four years ago I fell in love with mardu control and after getting a solid deck list together I moved... now four years later; i'm getting back into magic. Looking through decklists still and mardu just has the best of everything- just need to find that solid list. There's so many goood cards for mardu
Prof is back and talking about Modern!!!
Loved this video! My LGS announced a revamped Modern scene and I was feeling like getting into it. Being a huge eldrazi fan myself, this feels like the perfect place to build a cool eldrazi deck!
I like how his videos are non biased + just want you to have a fun. Im going to search for that elf deck you speak of.. also I see a time spiral remastered card in each of those modern decks lol.
Tip for testing: you can out your deck on moxfield and use playtest. And using obs to cover your hand and view card popup. You can play with people on discord without meeting in person
Honestly, a modern challenger deck type thing would be very lucrative for Wizards. Take 4 of the top 20 decks in the meta, build skeleton decks of those 4 archetypes with most of the modern staples, and some modern chase cards at 1 or 2 copies. You could get away with charging like $50-70 for these.
Hell they could charge 100 if the card value is there. It would be significantly less expensive than the avg modern deck still, and might still be worth the pickup
I like decks that surprise me by actually working. I don't have really any experience playing modern, but.. I do enjoy finding new styles to play with/in.
Ay I'm early this time. Thanks for this video, professor! I've been waiting for this kind of video to answer some of my questions for a long time. Brilliant!
Loved the Nikachu shout-out. You should appear on his "Coffe and Mtg" show and talk Merfolk.
Prof this is perfectly timed. I’m looking to enter Modern for the first time ever so this is really helpful, thanks!!
Great Advice! I was kinda eager to get into modern and shake up the meta! With new Ideas.
Go for it!
It's really starting to tick me off that RUclips doesn't tell me when Prof puts a video up and I find out from Reddit hours later that there's a new video.....
thank you for all the video's professor you are the major reason i started playing again after a competitive hiatus since 2008
Years ago my LGS held a modern circuit with multiple tournaments and I ended up taking 2nd place with a weird monowhite flickerwhisp/tax/weenie brew. It was kind of like Agro with Ajani, kind of like death and taxes with flickerwhisps and aether vials and thalia, arbiters, and mindcensors; but it wasn't exactly either. It gave me some dead draws, but it also gave me huge flexibility (especially with a sideboard) to play around every major net deck at the events.
There is nothing more satisfying than aethervialing in a leonin arbiter after a primetime slaps down and pathing it. Or using ghost quarters and arbiter to wasteland them while slapping away with cheap creatures.
Modern is the only format I'd be interested in playing and it was the only format I saw people genuinely hyped about brewing interesting decks and going through old cards for fun interactions.
Professor have you ever heard of Untap? It's a website that lets you play any card game and make decks for those games completely free
Had I found Untap.in earlier in my life my life would have been different, better. Card prices are over the roof in a harsh economy.
While I do agree with you on the proxing a deck to get reps in and see if you like it, I would still encourage that you pick up a playset of the fetchlands since they are low cost right now.
Being new to modern, or magic in general, you'll learn your mana base is the one thing you should sink money into.
Have your platset of Fetchs as soon as you can for as cheap as you can to open doors for playing later on.
Most of Professor's advice are on point. One thing I wouldn't agree with whatsoever though is looking up decks on mtggoldfish.
If you have some experience with arena, commander or standard, just dive into making whatever you like. Did you like the boros knights aggro you played in standard a while ago? Guess what, you can either upgrade it or make it into a combo-ish midrange deck. The sheer amount of cards in this format makes almost anything possible.
If you play with a smaller game group or circle of people, for the love of God, don't netdeck. Come up with your own stuff, ask your mates for advice, see what you can trade in from them.
Not only will your hobby be cheaper, it will also be a lot more enjoyable and varied. This is in my opinion the only way to once more experience the flavor Magic had for me as a kid/ teenager.
Friday after prerelease: Why do I spend money on this game? Didn't open anything good. I rarely get to play.
Today: I didn't know they wrote a book on one of my favorite modern decks. *goes to Card Kingdom*
Thanks Proff.
I was watching this to find tips on building something pyromancer ascension as my first. And it's budget. So I guess I'm happy, thanks Prof
I built a U/B Aggro Mill deck despite people telling me on and on that it isn't gonna cut it. But the obscurity works in my favour in even competitive. Nobody expects the noob move of my field of ruin targeting a Fetch to become two Archive Traps lol
Thanks for this video, it is extremely helpful. Most of the FNMs around me play Modern, which as a relatively new player (started Oct 2018) I have not yet played. Looking forward to it.
How’d it go?
Found some AWESOME VIDEOS by MTG Deckmaster on how to play modern storm. I am really looking forward to building the budget deck and playing my first game of modern with it.
I am planning to build mono green squirrel twin deck from SaffronOlive, I can barely control my excitement. Sadly I wanted to build rogue deck, because Thieves' Guild Enforcer is the best girl. But then I saw prices of Bitterblossom and Cavern of Souls... Let say I will keep rogues in mind for future plans.
I'm getting back into modern for the first time in years, I used to play infect back in the gitaxian probe days, always loved infect so I'm rebuilding that. Maybe not the most competitive in a world of Wrenn and Six, Lava Dart and Plague Engineer, but with a few tweaks to the list around that I should still be able to have some fun games and spread the glory of phyrexia around my LGS.
Im from Ireland and started playing Magic like 2 months ago after I downloaded Arena. I’m super excited to start building a real collection but have no idea where to start or what to buy
This channel actually has a whole series of "Is it worth it..." for various products, those are good. I'm a huge fan of bundles, personally. A decent number of packs, lands and such, while still being not *too* expensive.
I'm also a huge fan of sealed events, you're given 6 packs then build a 40 card deck (basic lands provided)
* "level playing field", nobody's coming in with a finely tuned deck against a suboptimal budget build
* At many stores it's slightly cheaper than buying 6 packs individually
* Great social event
* More relaxed, casual
* Plus, you get cards!
Don't get the cracking packs addiction. Couple booster boxes a week ain't cheap and bulk is kinda hard to get rid of 😅
Buy singles for decks and play! I'm building up 8 commander decks currently, just finished a Windgrace, green red black, lands matter, tokens matter deck. Local lgs is opening next week for tables, can't wait to see the playgroup and the new decks!
welcome friend! If you want to play casual multiplayer, check out commander (EDH is another name). The commander precons are an excellent place to start. If you want more competitive 1v1 style of play standard or modern are decent ways to go, older formats like legacy are insanely priced. prof has many great videos for you to check out!
This channel has everything you could possibly need.
My advice would be: DON'T. But if you absolutely must or feel you have to start a collection my advice would be TEST a deck in Untap or Cockatrice and after trials and error choose ONE deck and perfect it. Focus instead of building a collection because you will look back and realize money had better uses. You almost never end upgrading one deck, let alone a bunch.
I just finished putting together my first ever modern deck, mono-black Vampires upgrading from the pioneer version I had gotten at some point, and I am SO excited for it! I get to play it on thursday in an in-store event and I'm looking forward to mastering and upgrading it alongside any other modern decks I might build in the future
Howd it go?
Fate! I just finalized the sideboard of Modern Monoblack Vampires yesterday.
I have a very similar list to the mono-R goblins list you showed off, but it's an older list and I might swap cards around to try yours. My list has done very well against my buddy's various Scapeshift/Titanshift deck, his Naya Zoo, and another friend's mono-G stompy.
I figure I better watch this one now, because, I don't know when it might be deleted, like the last one I didn't get to watch before it was gone
Pretty recently, I built my first Modern deck. I built GW D&T because Vince inspired me. :)
I actually built enchantress with almost 80% of the deck coming from MH2
A 60 card deck? what a novelty!
Really liked the Teferi sketch
Great video! FYI - the decklists for Goblins and Dredge only add up to 59 cards.
MTGO has helped me test my modern decks
the wine analogy was perfect
Thanks for the confidence boost on this prof, gonna try to build the modern deck I was thinking about making
Don't. Save your money, try Untap and then find out if the deck suits your style before spending. There is not going back...
@@fernandodiaz9064 it's not a meta deck and I plan to proxy first
TYSO sent me here. I might get back into magic again... I sold most of my cards in Vegas years ago, though
Moxfield is a great resource for people who want to explore different decks. You can build up your own or select one other users have made and play test them in browser.
Excited to get into Modern. I appreciate your videos.
I played spellslinger UB in standard during oath of the gatewatch, so I decided to buy UB prowess for pioneer and bought the missing pieces for modern. A win win
this is definitely true, I remember when I was playing a suicide blue/prowess back before it hit the main stream and was wrecking 1000$ decks at my fnm lol those were fun days in 2016-2017
Wow I was just looking into some modern decks I wanted to try!
Just saw your interview with Rick Glassman. I thought it was a great. Keep up the good work !
And i tought the video would be:
"how to play modern? "
Prof: play merfolk
The end
Dredge as control? I never would’ve considered dredge to be a control deck - always an aggro or even a combo deck
A typical Dredge deck really feels like a midrange deck, with the option to go very aggressive when the option is there (usually game 1), but the moment some GY interaction is active on the board the style shifts completly to a control and card advantage deck (Life from the Loam becoming one of the best cards in the deck). This is one of the reason why I love playing dredge, since you can shift your approach so quickly.
The budget version in this video however is very much an aggro deck, just focusing on getting lots of creatures on the board to swing with. In a more "traditional" meta it will suffer in any matchup where the opponent has GY hate, since you can't fall back to Loaming and waiting for you Nature's claim. However, when Dredge is off the radar, people leave their Rest in Peace and Leylines at home, which is when the aggressiveness of the deck really shines (turn 2, 14 power? Easy).
"Modern never rotates"
Modern Horizons 2: *ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT ?!*
10 Modern decks here:
1) Blue-Green Counters-spam growth deck (make your creatures bigger constantly!)
2) Green-Black Creature-heavy undergrowth deck (kill your creatures constantly!)
3) Blue-Black delve & self-milling deck (eat yourself alive)
4) Blue-Black rogues & krakens opponent-milling deck (spiral your foe into crippling insanity)
5) Red-Black demon circus of bloody revelry deck (chaos that burns me back but oooh it feels goood)
6) White-Black cleric sacrifice & revival deck (endless cycle of rebirth causing collateral damage)
7) White-Black tax & lifegain deck (make everything your opponent does unbearable to do)
8) Black self-sacrifice witchy cooking deck (sit back, cooking dinner, not caring what your foe has)
9) Black discard deck (make everyone hate you forever)
10) And Rainbow Snow :)
and 11) a 56-land 4-sorcery deck for the lols when it pops off 5% of the time
I love all my babies (though I do have favorites)
Thank you for this guide. I’m thinking about getting into modern, so this is helpful.
This Rock/Paper/Siccors-Thing is a great thing, i 100% agree with the prof here. Yeah, may suck for pro players, but only if you, as a pro, want it easy. Reminds me of the stupid argument ygo-players give: "a low deck-counts assures your deck can always work and doesnt have bad matchups" - which debunks itself directly by ruling out any deck not on the highest of powerlevels. Its totally fine your deck doesnt has a good matchup against x because there are 20, 30, 40 viable decks - as long as your deck can still win. You shouldnt be able to put in all silver bullets at once.
Its more about how much interaction is in the format, non-interactive decks turn into rock paper scissors or coin flip matchups which is usually what modern is. Unlike legacy for example.
Just dropping by to say, "Great thumbnail!"
Thanks!
Just watched you on TYSO. That was a great interview.
You should sell sleeves with your playmat arrrrrt!!!! 😄 love the vids thanks for the content.
i love playing modern with only singel cards, a "commander" (you can use any creature, but that desides your coloridentity) and ofc against mostly 4 people. in short its minicommander.
Its my second favorite format. give it a try.
Its also a good midway cause you dont need 4 times a card but also if a strategie is just a bit too slow for commander, this opens the gate. in my case i also got players with different budget so the one with more money run often a ton of commander decks and use the rest for minicommander the other players have the option to build the minicommander and borrow a commander deck. win win :)
I mean, my Modern deck that I consistently play is a Black White Midrange Deck that I ported over years ago from Legacy (As I had stopped playing legacy due to life just not allowing it) and as time has gone by, the deck has become more like it was in Legacy thanks to the Unbanning of Stoneforge Mystic, the Printing of Giver of Runes and the fact that Vindicate is now legal in Modern. Heck, even though I don't have Lillian of the Veil anymore, I got a more budget/less versatile replacement in the form of Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage! Though I am trying to build a second deck that is a Mono-Red Aggro-Burn deck that I refuse to use Prowess creatures in. That should be fun!
I should clarify that I almost habitually play Black White to the extent that people at my LGS would ask jokingly "What are you playing today? Don't answer, Black White?" and I find it very hard to break from that mold, as it's literally my favorite color combination, that also was a reason I got into magic via Boy Scouts and outside of my Lorywn-Shadowmoor Treefolk Deck I played long LONG ago, is the deck I know the best in terms of what it can do lol.
I didn't know I have a bunch of cards I can use modern in those deck list the professor post in this video. I might build a couple of modern decks and see how I do.
I'm just going to focus on the one deck I have played and enjoyed since I started playing in 2013.
Great Video, ans thank you for the lists! Modern really ist the best format for me, too. Such a deep cardpool and so many strategies... Just beautiful
I remember back in the day, my friends and I used to just print the photos of cards and glue them on lands, lol. When you got those poor man blues, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Great video for what I need right now. Standard has become so bad time for me move into Modern.
I had a budget modern deck once. Kuldotha rebirth. No one wanted to play against it unless they had chalice.
That sounds fun id play against it. I only have boomer living edge atm lol.
@@thestormtrooperwhocanaim496 only cost me $20 to put together at first
Love you Professor!
This video warmed my heart!
The best teacher in all of Card-dom.