I made a similar list on accident

"Waste Not the Time for 8-Rack" - Yoda? Playtest

Modern* hazphokksy

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I love the idea of Reforge the Soul nevadathestate, as one of the previous iterations had it recommended by one of my friends. I did put it in at some point, I think there were two of them it ok at first, but after awhile my opening hands would have reforge and there isn't a way to set up miracles in modern, unlike legacy where they have Sensei's Divining Top and Brainstorm. If it was in my hand, it was usually out of reach as most games I only had 4 lands on average and couldn't find the 5th land. Even if I did manage to get the 5th land and cast it, they would get the advantage first as I would spend my entire turn. If I don't have have one of the two enchantments out on the field it's a refueling for my enemy hand, and late in the game you are putting yourself at a huge disadvantage and probably will lose as a result to that. The baseline is that if it isn't miracled, it isn't worth it. Thanks though

Don't worry about making something similar by accident hazphokksy as great minds think alike. Also nice twist on your deck.

Dark Deal trust me, can become an opportune wincon on in it's own right.

gleeson.token, Dark Deal is a great card for this deck. I would play it more, but I live in a very aggressive meta like burn, and mono green stompy etc. and their gameplan is to play as many cards as possible and by the time I hit 3 mana I'm usually already at 10-12 and they have maybe 1-2 cards on average. Against a more midrange/control meta I would definitely put it in. Thanks for the suggestion.

playsets of Ensnaring Bridge and Leyline of Sanctity main or side might be cool eh?

forforforest, I like it, sideboard ho

Hey! I made a deck very similar to this. I've been working on various incarnations, but my first was started out with Cephalids! (My original deck was before modern was a format! It used Megrim, Recoil and Cephalid Coliseum as its main cards, with some Psychatog activators/win condition cards. Mmm, the days of Odyssey.)

In any case, I have a Budget super fast B/R version on my profile that I came up with before I knew this website was a thing. (But to be fair, I think you saw the Burning Inquiry idea first... I was still in my B/U bounce combo world trying to make my old ideas modern.)

Something I found to be really, really broken is Dream Salvage, and I think your deck would also be really good for it. (AKA "Play one Burning Inquiry and it is Ancestral Recall")

I really like the idea of Dream Salvage and possibly Cephalid Coliseum in this deck and I'll definitely have to give it a try. Thanks Frog_Bomb

Only downside to Cephalid Coliseum is that it's legacy format these days :( .

oh really, that sucks.

Four Thoughtseize seems like a bit much. No Inquisition of Kozilek?

it really depends on what you play against, in the actual deck i have it's actually 4 Inquisition of Kozilek instead of Thoughtseize, either will do

You know, if you have issues with Stompy, Master of the Feast could be a solid addition. Not only is he a fatty in the air for cheap, but he makes sure your foes have something for you to force them to discard in the first place.

Interesting approach to Stompy,could be pretty viable but I guess some testing is needed before he can join the deck list. Thanks Buckminsterfullerene

After some testing with it Master of the Feast is an okay inclusion and could replace Sedraxis Specter if you want, the 5/5 body is really nice against stompy, but then i went up against control and got destroyed because for some reason they always had the answer in hand when i played it. That could just be bad luck though.

Just going to point out that with Day's Undoing, it exiles the Waste Not/Liliana's Caress triggers, making it really good at refilling your hand (which is fine), but not much else. The deck looks nice though, +1!

Nevermind, I'm an idiot, I forgot this wasn't Nekusar with drawing, but rather discard. Please disregard me, but I still really like the deck :)

haha thanks Minjahamster the real reason I wanted to try the Day's Undoing was for the Quicken you get the hand first.

I love how modern is becoming more and more varied. I also love how they recently reprinted fetches and are bound to print the other half in the next 1 or 2 years that enables us to play more stuff.

Awesome deck. This is the first Grixis list that I can honestly see giving my Mardu deck trouble.

Now that I've play tested I have some suggestions.

You either flood on lands or don't get enough. To remedy this I suggest Young Pyromancer. I know he "doesn't do what the rest of your deck is doing" but that's the point. Right now your deck can potentially durdle out hard. You may get an explosive play and then have nothing for a few turns. Young Pyromancer allows you to be proactive or defensive while you wait for the rest of your deck to do its thing.

Also this deck really wants Snapcaster Mage, and I say that after much careful consideration because I realize how much of an investment that is.

sounds like a interesting idea kengiczar, This deck had Snapcaster Mage originally even though he does exactly what I wanted which was to flash back spells I was usually forced to play him early on turn 2 due to the aggressive meta that I had. However with the addition of more removal to the deck namely more Terminate and Kolaghan's Command it probably is a good idea to put them back in, but sadly i traded them away, and I still don't have my playset of Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip.

the decks that I've faced are: mono-green stompy splashing red, grixis delver, souls sisters, infect, mono-black control.

Young Pyromancer also is an excellent suggestion that I tried in one of my earlier builds of this deck. Back then it was a delver deck, but after some testing it was more delver than waste not and was better off just being a delver deck which I didn't want. He would still fits in this deck with the 25 instants and Sorcery, it would be a fine inclusion. The hard part is where to fit him in and what to take out. I mean you could substitute 3x Sedraxis Specter for 3x Young Pyromancer

You want 4x simian spirit guide.

Turn 1 - exile guide, play black cleave cliffs, play waste not and say go (99% of the time they can't remove it turn 1)Turn 2 - play land, Manamorphase getting U+R, use R for burning inquiry and let the chain work itself out. You can storm for 20 sometimes on turn two by doing this and just win with a grapeshot.

That would be awesome mitchell.s89 if this was Waste Not storm. I wanted to try a different route, as I find storm to be a little..uninteractive. It's a brew in the making, and from what I know there are currently only 2 real ways to make use of Waste Not that's Waste Not storm and 8-rack. I guess you could say I'm trying to figure out a 3rd deck to use Waste Not as the win condition.

However it's actually pretty fun watching Waste Not storm go off, so many random triggers and draw spells, especially with Dream Salvage.

Yeah, I'm all about them brews, but anytime I see waste not i immediately think of storm. I'm also lobbying to get simian spirit guide banned in modern lol. It's just a ridiculous card.