No problem. Thanks to you as well kind sir.

I'd swap Vampire's Bite for Brute Force . The life-gaining thingy is negligible due the cost. The +3 resistance that gives Brute Force seems better for me.

Hi Leonato, thanks for your comment and suggestion :) Brute Force is great but, as Phyrexian Crusader has protection from red, I can't target him with it :/ Otherwise, I'd probably use it.

Crap, you're right Walrusyn, I completely forgot the protection!

Minor tweak. I managed to get a Marsh Flats before a Verdant Catacombs

No goodies from Born of the Gods for this deck. Let's wait for Journey into Nyx :)

I'd love a Rakdos Planeswalker but that's not likely :)

looks like a pretty solid build. Why 2x ravens crime and 1 tholughtseize? I feel like 3x thoughtseize would be better.

This looks pretty solid! I will think of adding a color to my infect deck.

Fulminator Mage would be good to keep in SB, super good in the modern meta. Anger the gods and devour flesh seem questionable.

Hi felina, thanks for your comment. Let me know if you splash a color :)

Hi 8vomit, thanks for your comments, suggestions and upvote :)

I will definitely add a couple of Thoughtseize as soon as I get my hands on them :) I like Raven's Crime though, mainly due to Retrace.

Regarding Devour Flesh on sideboard, I use it because a lot of folks in my LGS play GW Auras :) I've been thinking about replacing at least 1 though, as I have two on main deck and I also have Ratchet Bomb on sideboard, which is also good against GW Auras.

I've been trying to test Fulminator Mage as it would be useful against Tron. Nowadays, my strategy against Tron is Ghost Quarter + Surgical Extraction and/or Sowing Salt . This has been a pretty solid strategy so far, and it's also good against Scapeshift as well.

Do you use Fulminator Mage agains other archetypes?

Nice deck but Lightning Bolt cant target planeswalkers. And maybe you could add Dreadbore

Hi MiikaKill, thanks for your comment and suggestion :) I've considered Dreadbore in the past, and I'm considering adding one to sideboard now :) Lightning Bolt can target Planeswalkers though, due to Redirect Rule ;)

This deck keeps evolving :) Tweak on the sideboard: 1 Pyroclasm and 1 Devour Flesh out, one Anger of the Gods and 1 Grafdigger's Cage in.

In the current meta, Anger of the Gods is more useful than Pyroclasm . Pyroclasm is better against Tokens, but I already have Ratchet Bomb for the same CMC.

OTOH, Grafdigger's Cage is useful against a lot of threats (Zombies, Snapcaster Mage , Undying, Persist, Living End , etc).

Do you think it will be good for us they banned Deathrite Shaman in Modern and unbanned Bitterblossom and Wild Nacatl ? Personally, I think that the Blossom is worse to play against than DS...

I think that Deathrite Shaman banning will definitely slow down Jund and I'm kind of curious to see how Jund players will replace it. It was hard to deal with it sometimes, and if he wasn't killed immediately, it would give Jund players a great advantage against all other archetypes. I think DRS was really overpowered for just 1 mana.

Bitterblossom can be hard to deal with, but honestly I don't see many players using it. Let's wait and see :)

OTOH, I did like Wild Nacatl unbanning. I play with him in Pauper (Naya Earthquake) and just love it. Would love to see some good Naya decks in Modern (as a matter of fact, I'm thinking about building one :)).

True, Deathrite Shaman was something you had to deal with directly, both early game and late game as you would either get behind or just drained. However, we had answers like Disfigure and Lightning Bolt in the deck. I don't see the mono black deck or the deck with a splash of red have a answer to the Bitterblossom . Except maybe Illness in the Ranks though

And yes, with Wild Nacatl back in the game, I guess we can expect some sweet Naya decks. Looking forward to those match ups!

Yep, you're right, we had answers to deal with DRS, the problem was when we couldn't deal with him right away... but we had the cards to do it on our main deck.

And you're right, Bitterblossom is different, as we do not have immediate answers. I think that WotC rationale had something to do with all the enchantment hate being printed due to Gods. Black it's not know for its enchantment hate though... :) Guess we'll have to wait and see but I still think that blossom will not be widely used... but we'll have to wait. We have some sideboard options though (Ratchet Bomb can be used to destroy tokens or to destroy the enchantment itself).

OTOH, Waste Not, from M15, will be different, I think. I guess this one will be more used than blossom, but... Let's wait and see :)

Right now, what I'm really curious to see is how Jund players will replace DRS :) What do you think about this? I was thinking about Birds of Paradise and Noble Hierarch (mainly because of the Exalt thing - but could also be used to access Lingering Souls ). They're both one mana drops but are far from DRS.

In the announcement text [http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/285], WotC are explaining why they brought Bitterblossom 'back'. And I actually think it's a fair explanation. Many decks in the format have ready answers, like Abrupt Decay , just not black if it resolves. However, even on the draw, with all the discard spells, we have a chance of just picking it out of their hands. Though, on the other hand, the decks playing Blossom, will protect it with counter magic like Spell Pierce I assume. We'll see

Concerning Waste Not, that might actually fit in this deck too. Imagine going Wrench Mind into Wrench Mind I think, but I can be wrong, the Blossom and Waste Not might fit better different decks. Don't forget the Blossom grants evasion too and is not dependent of your opponent.

Honestly, I don't really see a DRS easily being replaced. Yes, from the start of Magic, Birds of Paradise has been around. However, late game that card was a dead draw. DRS was early game, mid game and late game awesome! - Or a pain in the *ss, if you are on the other side of the table :) - For Junk, I can see Noble Hierarch taking the spot, but not for Jund. Time will tell!

On a different topic, did you ever consider splashing one Watery Grave ? Late game you might be able to use the Rise side to get one of you creatures back and bounce another creature in stead of having the Fall dead in you hand.

Indeed, DRS was awesome in all game stages :)

Regarding splashing one Watery Grave , that may be great idea :) Would have to tweak the mana base a little, but it can be useful on late game. Guess I'll need to run a couple of tests. Rise would be even more interesting if it was instant speed, but let's test it :)

Play tested the deck yesterday against several decks and what struck me were the hard times versus 'mono' red (splash of black for (Bump in the Night ). How do you deal with these kind of decks?

@Dutchmen: I think I was wrong about Bitterblossom , at least regarding net decks :)

Played three games online yesterday and two of my opponents were using Blossom: one B/G Zombies deck and the other a U/B Control.

Fortunately, I managed to win both (2-0 and 2-1). First match against B/G Zombies was really tight but I managed to win when I was at just 2 life. I forced him to discard a blossom and removed it with Surgical Extraction , but he played a lot of zombies. Second match, I won easily: I let him empty his hand and put a lot of zombies on the battlefield and then wiped the board with Anger of the Gods and finished the game with two Phyrexian Crusader .

Second game, against U/B Control, was... interesting. I won the first match (heavy discard on the early turns) and he won the second (I played a Ratchet Bomb really badly, which cost me this match - should have used it to destroy Blossom and remove it from the game with Surgical Extraction but I decided to remove the tokens). Third match, on my turn 4 he had only two lands tapped on the battlefield and one Blossom and two cards in hand. I played my 4th land and an Inquisition of Kozilek . He had one Blossom and one Lily. I forced him to discard Lily. At this time, he was at 15 life (Fetch Land, Shock Land and Thoughtseize ) and I was at 20. I had no creatures in hand but had two Lightning Bolt :). Next time he played the second Blossom and I targeted him with both Bolts. On the, next couple of turns I just had to wait for him to loose 2 life on each of his upkeeps. It was fun, at least for me :D

@Dutchmen: against mono red, my strategy is simple: heavy discard and trying to have at least one Phyrexian Crusader in the battlefield as soon as I can, as they don't have any card to deal with it. I also try not to use Fetch Lands, Shock Lands, Thoughtseize and Night's Whisper unless I really need. Otherwise, I'm digging my own grave :) OTOH, whenever I can, I kick Vampire's Bite , saved me a lot of times agains RDW. I also play a little trick: when they have Goblin Guide and I draw something that helps me deal with it, I don't do it right away and I wait for him to attack. Can be useful to draw an extra card :D Also, whenever I can I also attack with Inkmoth Nexus , even when I'm that my opponent will destroy it. Nexus will be destroyed, but I'll keep 3 life :)

And most of the times, they don't have enough mana for Bump in the Night flashback.