It looks very solid, so not much to say from me. The only thing I would question are the 4x Spell Snare and maybe the 3x Electrolyze (though I can understand that they're amazing vs aggro). In my experience, Dispel is a fantastic card against almost every deck out there, I would take out a Snare for one (keeping the second in the sideboard).

scrotality, thanks man! The Scalding Tarns are needed here. My acquisition plan is to get Blood Moons, then Snapcaster Mages, and then the Scalding Tarns. The Moons are the most vital to the deck, and I think it can work at an FNM without the other two. Snapcasters are certainly needed too, and Tarns as well, when I have the money / trade fodder to do so.

Ensnaring Bridge is an interesting idea, where would it fit though?

Thanks to you too, FAMOUSWATERMELON! The full suite of Spell Snares is something I'm trying out for the first time. The vast number of targets it has, especially in Affinity, control variants, and BG/x variants, is why I am trying the four. It may certainly change. As for the Electrolyze, I originally had them out last year but see them run in the placing versions of the deck. It's something I have also yet to test. A mainboard Dispel is a good idea.

What do you both think about the sideboard at the moment?

Perhaps 1x Engineered Explosives has a place in the SB? As a Merfolk player myself, I know it's one of the cards that I don't want to see on the other side. It would also be great against decks like bogles and elves.

That's a good option, doozy, but I think I would prefer Chalice of the Void to also help against Burn and such.

I would do Engineered Explosives in the side instead of Batterskull. Explosives is amazing, and yea I dunno. I kinda stopped running Batterskull after Kolaghan's Command was printed haha

That's true, scrotality. I was concerned with running BSkull with Kolaghan's Command around, but the number of Grixis decks has declined since it was printed. There's Jund too, but I'm not overly concerned.

+1 I love the blue moon archetype, and I'm taking a variant that splashes white to help with the affinity and burn matchups to GP Det this weekend, seems to do well based on a few modern FNMs.

Thanks, tweedls. How's the 3-color mana situation working for you? I can't image it's easy with the mainboard Moons. What are you using from the white?

I generally just get 1 plains and I'm good through the moon, the only big restriction it gets is not being able to reliably cast Pia and Kiran Nalaar without Blood Moon out, but I replace those with Geist of Saint Traft and I also get some very nice SB options, like Path to Exile for eldrazi and matchups that Lightning Bolt aren't as good in.

I would think Path to Exile is pretty bad for a Blue Moon splash. Once Blood Moon hits, and depending on the Eldrazi variant, that one or two Wastes will be the only way for them to generate colorless mana. A PTE would let them fetch that. I'd prefer to Roast an Eldrazi over PTE it. (unless it's World Breaker - that better be countered).

I run Roast , and I generally don't path unless I have a Spreading Seas for the basic, or enough counters to stop anything important.

Hmm, I guess that works. How about in your other match-ups? I guess I'm having trouble seeing the benefit of the white splash, and hopefully both of us will benefit from this discussion.

so I went to the gp detroit yesterday with my deck mentioned above (finished 5-3-1 barely didn't make it to today) and I found out 1 thing against control: resolving geist is almost an auto win. It was ridiculous, I'd drop a Batterskull, and counters would fly, and when they would be tapped low after that, I'd drop Geist of Saint Traft and the look on my opponents' faces were hilarious. Another thing I found out was Vedalken Shackles , no matter how good Kolaghan's Command is, is an amazing card, it makes your opponent never want to play anything that you can take, and grinds the game to an excruciating stop for your opponent, I'm moving up to 3 copies because 2 just wasn't enough. And often post board, your opponent doesn't expect you to have Path to Exile in a Blood Moon deck, so they fearlessly fetch out all of their basics and play their bombs, only to get pathed, with failing to find about 50% of the time, the element of surprise is amazingly potent in modern.