[???] – Modern Becomes a Sanctionable FNM Format in January

[nietkijken]

Originally Posted by Goblin Cabdriver

Really? Show me a list... Seriously, I'd love to play Mono B in modern, I'm not trolling.

a Smallpox deck should work. make it have a lot of control features, creatuers that come back all the time and a set of Dark confidants. It should be good but i dont know about great. I geuss that means a lot of playtesting.

[Kaiyla Han]

Originally Posted by nietkijken

a Smallpox deck should work. make it have a lot of control features, creatuers that come back all the time and a set of Dark confidants. It should be good but i dont know about great. I geuss that means a lot of playtesting.

The last modern event I was in, I took 3rd with my mono green elf combo deck. 2nd place was a highly insane zombie/pox build that took the game over from making the opponent sac everything over and over until they had nothing left while being pinged to death and having no cards in hand. It was nuts. Reminded me of an old necropotence deck back in the days of ice age. 1st was a w/u control deck.

[Mantis808]

Originally Posted by germanturkey

you can basically play a standard deck with upgraded cards and still be quasi-competitive. like playing a delver shell with paths, and bam. somewhat competitive. hell, tempered steel is half way competitive in modern.

Almost half the decks I've played against are exactly that, a decent standard deck with better costed options from other sets included.

[Boros_Archangel]

Originally Posted by Kaiyla Han

The last modern event I was in, I took 3rd with my mono green elf combo deck. 2nd place was a highly insane zombie/pox build that took the game over from making the opponent sac everything over and over until they had nothing left while being pinged to death and having no cards in hand. It was nuts. Reminded me of an old necropotence deck back in the days of ice age. 1st was a w/u control deck.

I have to have a list. That deck sounds awesome, I have no idea how it would function though. Are there enough Pox effects? Are you recurring them somehow?

[The Nihilist]

Originally Posted by Boros_Archangel

I have to have a list. That deck sounds awesome, I have no idea how it would function though. Are there enough Pox effects? Are you recurring them somehow?

There are variations of Haakon Rock which fit the description. Raven's Crime, Smallpox, Liliana of the Veil, and Death Cloud for hands/boards, while Haakon+Nameless Inversion, Gravecrawler, Life from the Loam, Bob, and Bloodghast rule the board state.

[nietkijken]

Originally Posted by The Nihilist

There are variations of Haakon Rock which fit the description. Raven's Crime, Smallpox, Liliana of the Veil, and Death Cloud for hands/boards, while Haakon+Nameless Inversion, Gravecrawler, Life from the Loam, Bob, and Bloodghast rule the board state.

Sounds good, but is it great? I need a list ASAP!

I love mono-B-contol and i probaly have all the cards.

[Kaiyla Han]

Originally Posted by Boros_Archangel

I have to have a list. That deck sounds awesome, I have no idea how it would function though. Are there enough Pox effects? Are you recurring them somehow?

I didn't play it. But I remember Bloodghast, smallpox, ugh... Dark Confidant.. Geralf's Messenger, Gravecrawler, Lily of the Veil, Thoughtsieze, and all kinds of other hand/creature control. With a sideboard using surgical extractions and other fun toys.

Top end was the abyssal persecutor and phyrexian obliterator.

[Hagalaz]

I'd like that list very much as well. Maybe we can reverse-engineer a bit of it?

[s0lesurviv0r]

here's a pox control primer. It looks extremely interesting, I always had fun with Death Cloud. I was planning to make RDW first, as it's cheap and I have most of the burn cards, but I really want to make a pox build as soon as possible.

[Ogrefoot]

BG deathcloud was my ish back in extended, I may try Modern out. I think all the cards I would need are legal, except for skeletal scrying, but I can probably live without it.

[d8dk32]

Originally Posted by Ogrefoot

BG deathcloud was my ish back in extended, I may try Modern out. I think all the cards I would need are legal, except for skeletal scrying, but I can probably live without it.

consider Plunge into Darkness for an effect sort of simillar to Skeletal scrying, but modern legal. Not sure if it really suits your needs, but it might.