Help me shut down affinity.
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Posted on Jan. 28, 2014, 11:05 p.m. by 8vomit
I need some competitive advice. I am having serious issues with affinity decks. I recently added 2 Damnation to my SB, but it did not do the trick. What can I add to stop affinity? It is always a tough match up for me. Here is the deck:
A Pain in the Spine! Playtest
Modern*
SCORE: 23 | 8 COMMENTS | 3844 VIEWSmiracleHat says... #3
Beating affinity is quite easy. The one thing that i learned about affinity is that you have to trade your creatures. If they attack and you have a creature that can trade with theirs, do it. Even if yours die, it will be worth it. They try to play as quickly as possible, while you are a bit slower (i'm assuming). If you kill 3 creatures and then you play a Phyrexian Obliterator , then they can't really attack. The obliterator and nighthawk should halt affinity enough, although Kitchen Finks is something that you might want.
January 28, 2014 11:27 p.m.
The trick with affinity is one part understanding the deck and one part having one of the many awesome hate cards.
Understanding the deck - Affinity plays a bunch of really bad cards as a shell to fuel a few nearly broken ones. If you can answer their power cards the deck is left with a bunch of 1/1s and 0/2s. Steel Overseer need to be killed before they can activate it 2 or 3 times. Cranial Plating should be destroyed or always kill whatever is carrying it. Etched Champion will always be a pain to deal with, and don't forget about the manlands, which you can't Abrupt Decay .
Hate cards - There are a ton of anti-artifact cards in modern. Something like Creeping Corrosion or Fracturing Gust will all but win the game for you.
My sideboard plan would be to bring in 2 of one of those, and the 4 Fulminator Mage to blow up manlands. I would remove the Geth's Verdict since you don't really want to trade that card for say a Memnite and the Surgical Extraction because you need to be answering them on the battlefield.
January 28, 2014 11:36 p.m.
Removal removal removal.
Like was said before, they play 3 types of card. Bad cards, broken cards and cards to make bad stuff broken.
Boardwipes are your best friends! As is lots of removal. Once you've destroyed their initial wave of artifacts they are left top decking and also their broken stuff is much weaker. Are red splash for Ancient Grudge in the sideboard is very good.
January 29, 2014 1:22 a.m.
Thanks eveyone for your feedback, especially Slycne you helped a lot. SO next time i get stuck against an affinity deck, ill SB in 2 more Ghost Quarter 4x Fulminator Mage and 2 Damnation , and be less hesitant to trade creatures with them, and hopefully that will shut them down.
I downt want to splash any other colors in the deck. I will probably pick up a couple copies of Creeping Corrosion though. Thanks again all!
January 29, 2014 8:55 a.m.
Glissa, the Traitor ? First strike and deathtouch would help
January 29, 2014 9:55 a.m.
Mac97 Except that the vast majority of affinity's creatures have evasion. Glissa, the Traitor would only hold off Memnite , Steel Overseer - which is almost always tapping every turn any way, Arcbound Ravager and Master of Etherium - which has fallen out of favor in lists. Every other creature in the deck attacks past it.
January 29, 2014 10:01 a.m.
Well what kind of creatures does "affinity" run? It doesn't appear to be what I thought it was. I know it abuses the affinity ability and what affinity does. Forgive me ,but I'm not as familiar with affinity as I thought.
January 29, 2014 10:05 a.m.
Heh, ironically the name affinity is even a bit of a misnomer and hold over these days. The only affinity card the list commonly even runs any more is Thoughtcast . Frogmite and such have all be abandoned for better cards.
With the Help of His Robot Friends Playtest
Modern
SCORE: 7 | 11 COMMENTS | 2772 VIEWS Top 8: 08/30Here's an example of what a fairly typical affinity list looks like in modern.
January 29, 2014 10:11 a.m.
Oh Okay. Got it now. Looks like the best ones have been suggested.
DrFunk27 says... #2
If you splashed white you could deal with Affinity easily. It's not that hard of a deck to beat.
January 28, 2014 11:21 p.m.