Dr_Jay I agree. Leyline deals with every one of my creatures except Stuffy Doll, and counters are an important part of stopping my main combo. Though once I've fed you spirits and stuff with Forbidden Orchard and am casting the Act for [R], I can just recast it after Remand or pay for the Mana Leak.

"I can goldfish a turn five win, pay attention to me. I'm not going to contribute anything to the discussion." ~riomhaire.

Your deck is very color intensive. I think going up to 6 dorks might be needed.

The land base is pretty tight but you can probably squeeze in some more utility. I feel that whenever someone is running Knight of the Reliquarythey should squeeze in as much utility in the land base as possible.

Moorland Haunt Make more swordbearers if the game goes long.

Gavony Township Dorks become big dudes.

I like Mark of Asylum in my sideboards. It blanks all burn based removal.

If you really like the Meddling Mage effect you might want to switch to Nevermore it's a bit harder for people to hit with removal.

You also have access to Detention Sphere as a possible sideboard card if tokens are giving you hell.

Blackwind36 It is intensive, but I really do have 8 dorks. I'm, tbh, counting LCobra as a dork.

I'll take all your other considerations into, well, consideration. Thanks for the comment (and +1)!

Also, he counted EVERYTHING as a suggestion. Including his combo pieces.

lol, I notice that I'm not seeing the retarded blade anywhere.

DERPLINGSUPREME.....

Whaaat?

This list has way too many shock lands. You could easily cut 3 Temple Garden a Hallowed Fountain and a Breeding Pool along with a Forest and a Plains for 3 Razorverge Thicket and 3 of some combination of Stirring Wildwood, Gavony Township, Moorland Haunt, Ghost Quarter and Tectonic Edge. You probably want an least 1 LD land with knights in your deck. This mana base will give you more to do if your flooded and will deal you significantly less damage, which is relevant in a format where burn is tier 1

Sick deck bro I'm halfway through putting it together myself. I saw the weekly deck tech and I'm going to finally stop spectating modern and dive into the play field so thanks for being my first?(Thats not weird is it? its probably weird).

I think your sideboard could be improved with these cards:

Kataki, War's Wage -> Hurkyl's Recall - Kataki, War's Wage while very taxing is never actually going to deal with problematic artifacts the way you need it to. Hurkyl's Recall offers you some instant speed temporary artifact bouncing that will set any affinity deck back multiple turns. when sideboarding I'd pull out either a Path to Exile or a Remand for this guy.

Worship -> Torpor Orb worship being so costly and so circumvent-able makes it a really awkward sideboard choice that doesnt help you vs. burn or really fast aggro decks for long and hey thats what the leylines are for. Torpor Orb on the other hand is a powerful artifact that turns off Splinter Twin combo as well as Siege Rhino plus those fancy new Value chord decks and snapcaster lists. When sideboarding torpor orb it will come down heavily to just how useful Mirran Crusader,Knight of the Reliquary or Qasali Pridemage in the matchup.

Meddling Mage,Kor Firewalker -> 2x Spellskite I'm not quite sure what we're trying to stop with something as often flimsy as a Meddling Mage but I'm near positive Spellskite stops it better! Spellskite is the mac daddy sideboard king being easily supplemented where ever you need him he shits on burn,twin,low discard jund decks, and infect. you often wont even need to activate his ability as your opponent wouldnt dare play into him unless absolutely necessary. This guy easily replaces Qasali Pridemage , Knight of the Reliquary or Mirran Crusader.

I look forward to playing with your list and improving it with you!

Birds of Paradise & Sphinx's Revelation is no longer in the deck so you need to update your deck description. Why don't you run any buddy/check lands? A Sunpetal Grove is not fetchable, but Knight of the Reliquary can find it. Overall cut a few shocklands.

It's a fun deck to play and currently have it sleeved up (minus 1 Lotus Cobra, but have an ooze in its place. I might be adding another Steelshaper's Gift to make sure I have a sword to play.

Really cool deck, was wondering how it does against some of the modern staples like Twin, Affinity , Tron and Azaban. I'm looking to build a competitive modern deck and considering this one.

Twin - Easy. Enough interaction.

Abzan - Hilariously Easy. They can't deal with our threats and their threats get r3kd.

Affinity and Abzan - No testing - YET! But Jund is a good matchup.

Thanks for considering buying the deck!

HydraOoze

Ive played vs. Tron and afinity as well as burn and bogles

rg tron fucks us up bad.

Affinity game 1 can be rough but between kataki and the stony silences i play in my board we do okay.

Burn can be messy if we lack hexproofers but game 2 its really easy to board in against them. My boards a lot different from this deck though as i play 2 chalice of the void, 1 leyline instead of the 3 fire walkers.

Bogles is a monster game 1 if you cant get a crusader on board and still isnt amazibgly favorable.

Hey thanks for the matchup comparisons. I'm still debating this deck or a Tron deck.

lf you wait, l'll have playtesting results by Sunday.

Also Vexton what's your list?

my list was identical to yours besides tweaks to the sideboard but I changed it slightly, cutting knights for Vendilion Clique and a Scavenging Ooze. I also changed out Sword of Feast and Famine for another Sword of Fire and Ice as U/r/X is super popular in modern as it makes up 24% of the meta according to mtg gold fish.

My list

My board explained:

2x Chalice of the Void - It stops burn and a lot of 1 drop heavy decks as well as living end and amulet bloom when set to zero. setting it to 2 means storm plain old cant win. I find its a flexible and very powerful sideboard tech that doesnt disrupt our all important three drops.

1x Rule of Law - Stop storm and living end as well as other cantrip style decks.

2x Stony Silence - these fuck up affinity royally and can disrupt tron and eggs. You kind of board out most of your swords and slide 2 thruns in and convert to a bant hexproof list when you use these.

1x Relic of Progenitus - This is mainly in here for the rare dredge deck and the fact it eats out living end, goyfs, and disrupts snapcaster lists on the cheap.

2x Spellskite - Grixis twin, Grixis delver, Grixis control, and burn make up almost 40% of the gp meta with infect trailing and this card is good against all of them and more its one of the best sideboard cards out there and is just a huge hurtle for all the top decks to beat.

2x Grafdigger's Cage - 2 words. Collected Company

1x Leyline of Sanctity - I felt chalices and spellskites were enough burn hate that this could be dialed back a bit especially with how narrow this is in the board.

1x Negate Gotta stop the karn and sylvan scryin in tron somehow. Mana Leak cant stop that much mana. also good vs. living end and the spell heavy decks making up the majority of the meta.

1x Qasali Pridemage - Good against bloodmoon, twin and control decks as it stops their disruptive artifacts/enchnatments and is another creature they need to answer.

2x Thrun, the Last Troll - Something to counter board against suspected pyroclasms and anger of the gods. also good to board in if your swords or non hexproof creatures have issues sticking in the game.

Moorland Haunt doesnt go too well with Sword of Light and Shadow, does it? Cool deck though, alot like my own.

haha! no Sword of Body and Mind! nobody likes that card! its like the shameful accident.

"Student Budget Version" ran it. And it was good. But that was more of a casual deck.

YAYYY!! First comment! Congrats! I would consider some board wipes in the side board like Wrath of God. I would totally put in Collected Company.

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Otherwise, no suggestions. +1!

I agree with Collected Company, otherwise cool deck!

This is a sweet deck man!

Retreat to Coralhelm? Because Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm is a fantastic combo.

Also, Collected Company, Tarmogoyf, and Scavenging Ooze would be fantastic additions to this deck, depending on your budget.

Have you thought about adding the new blue green man land?