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
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.
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!
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'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.
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 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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!
"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
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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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.
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 UA-cam doesn't tell me when Prof puts a video up and I find out from Reddit hours later that there's a new video.....
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).
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
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
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.
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 affinity on a budget when it was considered not meta, because of that mentality I didn't buy the other 3 arcbound ravagers I needed. After a long hiatus I come back to see they are at 40 dollars and rising. Feelsbadman
Thanks for this video! I am interested in modern but have kind of kept it off due to not knowing the format. I'll try and see if I can make atleast one ok budget vampires deck, as I like that tribe and have most of the stuff for them in pioneer.
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)
Glad to see elves still be a great entry into the format. With MH2 adding Quirion ranger to modern mono green gets a interesting new way to get into wins with Ezuri. Same with its other builds.
@@kylemundy8871 in the testing I’ve done so far ranger can help get out of tight spots say 2 forests with no land drop played for turn her and a dork. With ranger you can coco and try to get something going. She has made some weird spots escapable and helps go big with archdruid. I’ve got 6 dorks and 3 ranger in for the 1 drops and it’s working out well so far in my paper testing.
"What type of deck do you want to make/" I used to play Affinity years ago in old modern. I want to revamp my affinity deck so that I can still compete on curve without Mox Opal. I have a fling shell RN but would love some help! I want it to be a bit unique, and a version of the archetype only I made. Im thinking of mixing cards in like Dispatch and Rancor.
@@DoomStarRequiem Amazing. I hope the additions prove to be powerful enough to warp the format a bit in my favour. Especially with all the artifact hate in the format and the set.
@@ryanpercival9823 i believe Nikachu made a video on urzas saga ,the new enchantment land and how it just helps a lot of decks, especially the artifact based ones, hammertime, modular scales -type Affinity.. you should check it out, might help you fine tune your deck or give you a new deck idea.
@@DoomStarRequiem I did check it out. Thank you :) I now have my new affinity deck with a lot of card draw with thought monitors, that i drafted like a boss, and thoughtsieze, and 2 Urza sagas, which I also drafted. It's good to use an affinity deck with actual affinity cards in it, like companion, enforcer, and frogmite. I then added my own flavor for finishers and powerups, like ensoul artifact, galvanic blast, rancor, and cranial. Its a glass cannon with a lot of potential. Im struggling to find the white mana to put in Dispatch, a favourite of mine, and am struggling if this or scales-modualar fling Affinity is the way to go. Both are fun.
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 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 think with the addition of much better interaction in the format, it will be less paper rock scissors oriented. Before decks had trouble maindecking 1 size fits all interaction, and would have to hit fire games 2 and 3. I think now we will see far less swingy matchups. Really wotc did a good job of fixing gaps in interaction.
Hey Prof and staff! No idea if you'll read this, but with WotC pushing Commander as the Frontrunner format going forward, do you think we could ever see a change in the supplemental set printing rules that would allow cards from precon Commander decks at the very least being allowed in Modern? In this hypothetical situation, let's argue that it would be from the next Precon Deck releases going forward, rather than trying to backtrack all the other cards into the format. Is this something you could ever see happening?
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
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.
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
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
"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
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👽
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.
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!
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
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
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
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 UA-cam homepage with a new video professor!
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
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 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.
Clicked. Saw the link to the Tron Primer. Liked so fast that a black hole began to form.
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.
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.
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!
My boy the professor with a casual sealed box of Innistrad on his book shelf.
I just started playing Magic and this was the literal exact video and content I was looking for. Phenomenal video and super helpful!
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
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.
Having not played Modern for a few years, I'm looking forward to jumping back in. Yee-haw! Thanks, Prof.
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 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.
Rocking my 4c ally tribal deck and having nothing to be jealous about in an enviroment with Jund and Tron. Great video prof!
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.
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
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
Prof is back and talking about Modern!!!
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
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!
"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)
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?
I actually built enchantress with almost 80% of the deck coming from MH2
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?
thank you for all the video's professor you are the major reason i started playing again after a competitive hiatus since 2008
Yeeees, finally a video talking about modern! I missed this
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.
Prof this is perfectly timed. I’m looking to enter Modern for the first time ever so this is really helpful, thanks!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Excited to get into Modern. I appreciate your videos.
"Modern never rotates"
Modern Horizons 2: *ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT ?!*
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.
Great Advice! I was kinda eager to get into modern and shake up the meta! With new Ideas.
Go for it!
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.
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
Wow I was just looking into some modern decks I wanted to try!
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.
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
Just watched you on TYSO. That was a great interview.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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!
"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.
Just saw your interview with Rick Glassman. I thought it was a great. Keep up the good work !
It's really starting to tick me off that UA-cam doesn't tell me when Prof puts a video up and I find out from Reddit hours later that there's a new video.....
What a great intro to Modern! Well done.
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).
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
Thank you for this guide. I’m thinking about getting into modern, so this is helpful.
Great video! FYI - the decklists for Goblins and Dredge only add up to 59 cards.
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
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
Love you Professor!
This video warmed my heart!
Pretty recently, I built my first Modern deck. I built GW D&T because Vince inspired me. :)
Professor, what happened to your recent Marvel vs. DC sleeves video? I can't find it.
It'll be back up in a few. Had an error I needed to fix.
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.
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.
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.
A 60 card deck? what a novelty!
Really liked the Teferi sketch
I played affinity on a budget when it was considered not meta, because of that mentality I didn't buy the other 3 arcbound ravagers I needed. After a long hiatus I come back to see they are at 40 dollars and rising. Feelsbadman
I was playing Faeries before they became cool lmao, now Spellstutter Sprite is nearing 2 bucks
TYSO sent me here. I might get back into magic again... I sold most of my cards in Vegas years ago, though
Great video for what I need right now. Standard has become so bad time for me move into Modern.
Thanks for this video! I am interested in modern but have kind of kept it off due to not knowing the format. I'll try and see if I can make atleast one ok budget vampires deck, as I like that tribe and have most of the stuff for them in pioneer.
I've been really enjoying cedh and kinda wanna get into modern so this was right on time
What cedh deck do you
Play
@@jamesgratz4771 right now im on selvala and heliod
@@bastianrhone9390 sun crowned ?
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)
Glad to see elves still be a great entry into the format. With MH2 adding Quirion ranger to modern mono green gets a interesting new way to get into wins with Ezuri. Same with its other builds.
You think so? I have a modern elf deck and I really don't know if there's room for it. Need to ramp in the beginning, then I'm on to better things
@@kylemundy8871 in the testing I’ve done so far ranger can help get out of tight spots say 2 forests with no land drop played for turn her and a dork. With ranger you can coco and try to get something going. She has made some weird spots escapable and helps go big with archdruid. I’ve got 6 dorks and 3 ranger in for the 1 drops and it’s working out well so far in my paper testing.
@@FolloweroftheBlind thanks for the update. Very interesting, maybe I'll try it myself. Let me know how your testing goes, I'll test myself and see
@@FolloweroftheBlind thanks for the update. Very interesting, maybe I'll try it myself. Let me know how your testing goes, I'll test myself and see
"What type of deck do you want to make/" I used to play Affinity years ago in old modern. I want to revamp my affinity deck so that I can still compete on curve without Mox Opal. I have a fling shell RN but would love some help! I want it to be a bit unique, and a version of the archetype only I made. Im thinking of mixing cards in like Dispatch and Rancor.
Mh2 has a LOT of Affinity support.. the archetype is steadily gaining popularity again.
@@DoomStarRequiem Amazing. I hope the additions prove to be powerful enough to warp the format a bit in my favour. Especially with all the artifact hate in the format and the set.
@@ryanpercival9823 i believe Nikachu made a video on urzas saga ,the new enchantment land and how it just helps a lot of decks, especially the artifact based ones, hammertime, modular scales -type Affinity.. you should check it out, might help you fine tune your deck or give you a new deck idea.
@@DoomStarRequiem I did check it out. Thank you :)
I now have my new affinity deck with a lot of card draw with thought monitors, that i drafted like a boss, and thoughtsieze, and 2 Urza sagas, which I also drafted. It's good to use an affinity deck with actual affinity cards in it, like companion, enforcer, and frogmite. I then added my own flavor for finishers and powerups, like ensoul artifact, galvanic blast, rancor, and cranial. Its a glass cannon with a lot of potential. Im struggling to find the white mana to put in Dispatch, a favourite of mine, and am struggling if this or scales-modualar fling Affinity is the way to go. Both are fun.
@@ryanpercival9823 nice.. that sounds like a hella strong deck.
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.
Fate! I just finalized the sideboard of Modern Monoblack Vampires yesterday.
I'm just going to focus on the one deck I have played and enjoyed since I started playing in 2013.
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 :)
And i tought the video would be:
"how to play modern? "
Prof: play merfolk
The end
I'm a standard player and wish to get into modern. Thanks for the video.
I think with the addition of much better interaction in the format, it will be less paper rock scissors oriented. Before decks had trouble maindecking 1 size fits all interaction, and would have to hit fire games 2 and 3. I think now we will see far less swingy matchups. Really wotc did a good job of fixing gaps in interaction.
Hey Prof and staff! No idea if you'll read this, but with WotC pushing Commander as the Frontrunner format going forward, do you think we could ever see a change in the supplemental set printing rules that would allow cards from precon Commander decks at the very least being allowed in Modern? In this hypothetical situation, let's argue that it would be from the next Precon Deck releases going forward, rather than trying to backtrack all the other cards into the format. Is this something you could ever see happening?
Glasses look great btw prof!
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
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
The best teacher in all of Card-dom.
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.