I would personally use Inquisition of Kozilek myself as you will likely want to undercut their progression so they can't mount an effective offense. I feel like I would swap the ratios of Blinkmoth Nexus to Inkmoth Nexus as the Blinkmoth one falls in direct line with your main win-con and a situation where Inkmoth would be more helpful seems kinda rare.
Anyway, I like the deck, nice work!
August 19, 2012 2:44 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #4
The original decklist called for 4x Blinkmoth Nexus but having 4x Inkmoth Nexus on hand I didn't see an issue with running it. Yes it doesn't fall in line but between the pumps from Master of Etherium , Cranial Plating , and Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas I figured it wouldn't be a bad substitution.
August 19, 2012 2:50 p.m.
Seems like a fine rationale to me.
In my experience with Modern I've seen more Reanimator decks with Griselbrand and the various one shot reanimate effects ( card:Goryo's Vengeance ) than really anything else. Storm has also been a common one. (This is from playing on Cockatrice so take that with a grain of salt. :P )
August 19, 2012 3:01 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #7
Yea I'm wondering based on the "exile" thing from Appetite for Brains
August 19, 2012 3:05 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #8
I wondered because if I can snag a Griselbrand out of someone's hand with Appetite for Brains it gets exiled. However, if it's not all that common in modern I will go for Inquisition of Kozilek
August 19, 2012 3:09 p.m.
The exile thing would certainly undercut their entire progression and makes fine sense.
August 19, 2012 3:10 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #10
Would you say that re-animator is prevalent enough to warrant it?
August 19, 2012 3:45 p.m.
In my experience, I would say yes. It is a good card for getting rid of combo pieces or other win cons as well, like the Eldrazi Gods, things like Felidar Sovereign and similar high-powered win-cons.
August 19, 2012 3:53 p.m.
cooknathan says... #12
I havnt seen any reanimator decks that are extremely competitive (Since Dread Return and Golgari Grave-Troll are on the banned list) but if your worried then why not just card:Tormod's Crypt?
I would personally cut down on the land. +1 from me
August 19, 2012 7:10 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #13
I was just worried for the appetite for brains/ inquisition comparison. Why cut lands?
August 19, 2012 7:28 p.m.
cooknathan says... #14
Out of about 5 playtests I felt Like I had too much land about 2 or 3 of those times. To be fair, within those lands was the nexus' so you could kind of use the mana but I still would have preferred something other than land. Between 16 lands +4 mox opal +4springleaf drum +2paradise mantle your esentially running 26 lands. Perhaps Gitaxian Probe or Etched Champion ?
August 19, 2012 7:49 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #17
I could cut the solitary island and blink moth? I like what tezz does with darksteel citidel and ink moth.
August 19, 2012 8:02 p.m.
cooknathan says... #18
Yeah I think the island can go. But its hard to tell if you should cut more lands or the drum or mantle. A matter of balancing artifacts for land fix.
August 19, 2012 8:30 p.m.
kylegrazier says... #19
this reminds me of my america deck a little. i think card:Soul's Fire would work wonders since you have red in the deck. if you had Cranial Plating and Master of Etherium out with some 10 artifacts (which is not to hard to do especially with artifact lands, which might be worth looking into) you can more or less wipe someone out for 3 mana.
August 20, 2012 3:01 p.m.
Very nice build! Check out mine deck:tezzerets-metal-militia
+1 from me
August 21, 2012 11:42 p.m.
MagnaLynx21 says... #21
Appetite for Brains does basically nothing in modern. So if you can't afford Thoughtseize , don't play either. Failing that, pick up Inquisition of Kozilek .
August 22, 2012 5:07 a.m.
Ohthenoises says... #22
It stops big bomb creatures and every boardwipe that could hit except Whipflare Slagstorm and a miracle Devastation Tide and a select few others.
August 22, 2012 7:07 a.m.
imaginarypuppets says... #24
Woooo +1 for the title alone. But cool theme nonetheless!
August 22, 2012 5:41 p.m.
On the sideboard you can play Ethersworn Canonist instead of Rule of Law and Inquisition of Kozilek instead of Appetite for Brains . What do you think?
Roborapter says... #2
liking this deck a lot! +1
August 18, 2012 3 a.m.