Brionac I personally run 2 druids in my list :) I initally think it's redundant without mirror entity, but looking at the new landbase, it does help even to fix colour or give that boost in the mana ramp to do more things.

Okay, if we are going to talk about dying to bolt, then all Allies are useless no? jk. I get your point. What I was trying to bring across is that if Drana was left unchecked, the next turn is almost GG for the opponent. Back to the dying to bolt part, well, that's 1 bolt down and not to your face. You still have other creatures that evaded that bolt.

oh ya, since we have red, consider this card: Firemantle Mage I overlooked this card and I think this gives the pseudo-unblockable or something that makes chump blocking harder.

I personally think the mage is a redundant Kabira Evangel, I wouldn't want both.

against affinity, Kabira becomes redundant. Or, when our luck is out and we need that kind of card to help push through the last bit of damage.

I think Firemantle Mage is probably at its best as a substitute to Kabira Evangel against decks with creatures that have different colors (BGx), or no colors at all (Tron/Affinity). That means it probably should be in the 75 (I like having evasion mechanisms), but it's probably coming in off the sideboard.

Should it be a 4-of if you run 4 Evangel to replace it completely? Or just a 2-of and side other stuff in for the remaining Evangels?

That's an interesting question. On the one hand, stacking instances of menace does nothing, and a 2/2 for is kind of meh. On the other hand, successfully evading blockers is a critical part of aggro strategy, so you need to maximize your odds of actually seeing one of them across the course of the game. I think you run 2 in the side as an initial test along with something else (Lantern Scout gets my vote), and then increase their numbers if necessary.

I think the Firemantle Mage is only useful against tron. Machines will always have plenty of creatures to do the double block. I also am not sure Lantern Scout justifes dropping what's in the current sideboard.

Harabaz Druid + Mirror Entity

Have you considered running Xenograft and Turntimber Ranger?

I've been running this for quite a few months. I don't know if the Oklahoma deck you're referencing is the same as this one but this showed up in a Top 8 list months and months ago.

Allies

The deck is completely solid. It goes toe to toe with nearly every deck in T1.

The combo with Harabaz Druid + Mirror Entity is absolutely devastating, can be activated when you cast the Entity and catches the opponent off guard every time.

Otherwise the deck will get there just through unparalleled beats alone. It puts other aggro decks on the defense when you have a smooth hand.

I'm not telling you to that your deck is wrong. You do your own thing and I respect you for incorporating the new allies. I personally believe most of them are garbage as far as non-standard formats go. The old Zendi was simply better. I'll be adding in Ally Encampment and the new Gideon, Ally of Zendikar to my Modern deck and that's probably about it. I've debated putting in Collected Company over Lead the Stampede, but I see benefits and downfalls to both and still believe Stampede is better. (A card to consider btw)

I also believe the 5 color is too far of a stretch. It will slow down your game and make things slightly more difficult for you to hold together at competitive tiers. However I respect what you're doing. Nice deck overall. You made the right decisions as far as what you were going for in my opinion.

Try making room for the Entity though. It will blow your opponent away. Works great when you turn on cards like Mutavault and Inkmoth too.

+1

I have to say that after a lot of testing, I've moved on from Mirror Entity. It's super clunky without Harabaz Druid, and I was only running 2. 4 sounds crazy hard to make work. I have tested Ally Encampment with Harabaz Druid to proc Ally triggers like a fiend, though (bonus points if you use Akoum Battlesinger), and that's been very explosive, while more sound in the "don't have lots of mana" scenario.

What do you mean exactly by clunky? I don't quite see how. Mirror Entity by itself without the Druid is effective. You just use your remaining mana to pump. Even at an X cost of 2 you're going to get value out of it, especially in a deck like mine where all the "Rally" triggers are +1/+1 counter triggers.

It also allows for superior combat tricks.

Imagine this:

You have a couple dudes on the field with anywhere from three to four counters. Lets say a Hada Freeblade at 4 counters and a Kazandu Blademaster at three counters with an AEther Vial at 3 counters, a Harabaz Druid, and an Akoum Battlesinger that you just cast this turn.

Move to beats step.

You swing your Freeblade, Blademaster, and Battlesinger in for a current value of 12. Let's say they're gutsy or defenseless and take it. Regardless of whether they block or not you're going to catch them off guard.

At the end of declare blockers you vial whip out a Mirror Entity. Triggers. You're now at a value of 17. After Entity resolves, activate Entity's ability, tapping your Druid (lets say all your lands are tapped because you've been living off a Cavern of Souls and a Plains this whole time). You add 5 more mana to your pool and put it all into Entity's ability, making all your dudes 5/5 base for turn. That's adding a total power of 13 to your 17.

That's 30 damage my friend, unblocked.

That can happen as fast as TURN 4. And doing my math on it now, the scenario described suggests you'd be completing wasting two potential mana on Turn 3 by not playing your Battlesinger then. So to readjust you're paying X = 7 instead of five as your two lands would be untapped turn 4, meaning your power total would go up by 4. So 34. 34 damage with three creatures on Turn 4.

Not many competitive decks in Modern can say they do that.

And those kind of scenarios in similarity are highly regular and consistent in my brew of Allies.

While I understand you may have had your own downsides to it, I simply can't see where Mirror Entity isn't effective when combined with the Harabaz Druid.

I realize some of my math is off by small numbers but the point is you're getting in there for 15 on turn 3 and more than twice that on Turn 4. Both Hada and Kazandu should have one more counter each actually writing this out.

Before Entity

(Hada at 0/1 + 4/4; Kaza at 1/1 + 3/3; Akou at 1/1) = 9

Entity = Rally Triggers

(Hada at 0/1 + 5/5 + 1/0 Akou; Kaza at 1/1 + 4/4 + 1/0 Akou; Akou at 1/1 + 1/0 Akou) = 14

After Entity 7

(Hada at 7/7 + 5/5 + 1/0 Akou; Kaza at 7/7 + 4/4 + 1/0 Akou; Akou at 7/7 + 1/0 Akou) = 33

There. The math. The value.

Because Mirror Entity's effect is expensive, in a deck that doesn't want to run that many lands (yes, even is a big deal). Furthermore, Mirror Entity without lots of dudes to support it (which you described quite well in your hypothetical scenario) is just a 1/1 guy that can self-pump somewhat inefficiently. Needless to say, most decks in Modern are quite capable of slapping down some 1-for-1 removal to answer your early threats, and then you're stuck with a lone Mirror Entity and wishing it were something else. It certainly has potential (as I have executed some of those 30+ damage blowouts myself), and there's no doubt that it's amazing with Harabaz Druid, but AEther Vial-fueled Allies is fairly explosive to begin with, and in that context Mirror Entity has the dreaded whiff of a win-more card, especially sans Druid. That means it helps slam the door shut once you're ahead (as an aggro deck with 3 creatures in play and no blockers tends to be), but isn't much help when you're behind. I would be open to playing it again (since my deck still has Harabaz Druid), but as no more than a 2-of. It's worth noting that Adaptive Automaton has similar results to the explosive Ally turn you're describing, requires no mana to go off, and is better at helping you rebound from getting 1-for-1'd a lot.

Champion of the Parish would do a lot of work I bet despite not being an ally. Ever considered him?Awesome deck +1 i'll be playing something like this on untap!

I found the deck right before you responded lol. Figured I'd respond here to not troll the other page.

I like your deck given what you're going for. In magic, you have variability vs consistency when you brew/tune a deck, and you go for variability. With that said, I agree with some people that your synergy weakens a bit for certain combos (like the mana dork becoming underwhelming or the Mirror dude having less potential); but I think you also give yourself access to more angles and CoCo helps you sort of stitch those together.

What's your mulligan strategy? Just in some superficial drawing and casting I see that you pretty much have to mulligan to get the right hand, but then when you get it, it goes off.

Like you say though, the results will speak loud lol

With 4 hardened scales, is there a reason to not play gavony?

It depends on how many Cavern of Souls and/or Ally Encampment you already play. Having too many lands that don't produce G for noncreature spells can be very crucial.

Hey guys, I'm going to the starcity open here in Atlanta with my allies build....gulp. You guys rock; ya'll are great brewers and have helped me soooo much. If any of yall want to practice with me some online, just hit me up. I think I need to tighten up my sideboard at this point, and as far as playing, make sure I don't make any play mistakes. I tend to make more play mistakes in paper than on modo, so I need to work on that. Any advide you guys can throw my way would be appreciated; this is the biggest tourney I've gone to so far.

So, you added Vials again. How did they go with 4 Scales?

They worrrked soooo much betters as a 4 of instead of 3. Same thing with scales. To me, the deck seems to really want the 4 of.

Wish you the best of luck, show em what you got ;)

So, I saw an Ally list placed 10th in Atlanta- Was that you?. Out of how many is that? Regardless, it is respectable that the list almost got into Top8.