RBW Modern Human Aggro?

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Posted on June 1, 2013, 2:19 a.m. by vampirelazarus

So, my LGS is starting up modern tournaments. Standard has made me fall head over heels in love with my humans aggro deck, but the majority of it is rotating come Theros.

So I want to make it modern. And the issue is: I have no idea what modern entails. The sheer amount of cards and information is overwhelming to this guy who basically started last year. Ive created a very very rough sketch, and was wondering if you all could take a look at it, as I'm not sure what is good, what could be better, etc... Very vague, the help I'm asking for, isn't it?

I always like building with little restrictions.

That said, I have decided that it's meant to be 100% creatures all of which are human, and I would prefer it to be aggroish, but I could make it midrange, if it would run better that way.

Anyways, the deck is ...And then they fought back.

Slycne says... #2

Well to start I wouldn't play 100% creatures. You need ways to interact with your opponents board that aren't bound to a creature body and summoning sickness. For starters, RBW gives you a great sweet of removal Lightning Helix , Lightning Bolt , Go for the Throat , Zealous Persecution , Path to Exile .

Also if you want this to be an aggro deck, it needs to be a lot more aggressive. 11 of your cards, nearly a 1/3 of your creatures, are 1/1s and this is little to pump them save Hero of Bladehold . Sure some of them have abilities, but the lack of aggressive bodies or ways to pump them just won't get the job done. Here's a quick search listing of all the human creatures in modern. You just need to be playing more abusive cards than that.

What you may want to do is something like balance the deck mostly white for Honor of the Pure , and keep the other colors for the misc utility creatures and spells. If you're willing to move away from humans, there are already some successful tokens lists in BW.

June 1, 2013 3:48 a.m.