Grn/Black ramp deck help please
Modern Deck Help forum
Posted on June 10, 2015, 9:22 p.m. by Zerrok
My deck:
Green Ramp + Black Ragequit Playtest
Modern
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 19 VIEWSwhat cards would you suggest?
OtakulordAndrew says... #3
Cards I would suggest adding include cards such as Inquisition of Kozilek, and Thoughtseize for hand disruption, Abrupt Decay, Maelstrom Pulse, and Slaughter Pact for removal, Birds of Paradise, and Arbor Elf if your looking for ramp, Thrun, the Last Troll, Thragtusk, Eternal Witness, Kitchen Finks, Tasigur, the Golden Fang, and Grave Titan for high curve value creatures.
In terms of the deck as you have it presently Ant Queen doesn't do much more than act as a 5cmc 5/5 beater with the slim chance of producing tokens overall not a great card for modern but not the terrible. Deadly recluse does not do much in modern as it will most likely either trade with another creature in an aggro match up which is not a concern for decks like burn or affinity, if it's against midrange the opponent won't care aboout trading or eventually using removal once they are set up for the late game, and if it's against a combo or control deck they will just be able to ignore knowing that it does nothing to threaten them and stop them from comboing off or winning the late game. Deathgreeter doesn't do much unless you build around him in a life gain deck. Elvish Archdruid, and Llanowar Elves, are best suited to devoted elf tribal decks as there are better ramp options for non elf decks as archdruid requires heavily tribal elves to be strong and lanowar is out classed by mana creatures that can produce multiple colors of mana. Sylvan Primordial is just to slow to be effective in modern and does not provide enough advantage when it does drop for a quick format like modern in which your opponent can flash in a Deceiver Exarch at the end of your 3rd turn and combo off with Splinter Twin by turn 4. Viridian Emissary is a strictly worse Sakura-Tribe Elder. Wall of Bone is to slow and will do nothing against every deck in the format. Army of the Damned is another card that is just to high cost for modern you will be long dead before you get a chance to cast it. Diabolic Revelation is unplayable in every format it requires to many resources being put into it with little gain. Explosive Vegetation, and Kodama's Reach are more cards that are to mana intensive for the pay off they give you and will overall put you behind your opponent in terms of having sunk 3-4 mana to set up for a future turn when you most likely would have to invest 1 turns worth of mana to play the spell and don't get immediate benefit. Sadistic Sacrament's tripple black cost weakens the overall strength of the card along with the fact that it is a card that sets up for the long game at 3cmc when you could be disrupting an opponents hand for cheaper removing current upcoming threats as opposed to distant future threats. Exsanguinate is another card that doesn't do much in modern do to the amount of resources you have to sink into it to get value from it. In terms of your land base fetch lands and dual lands would add more consistency to your deck and if you decided to include man lands would give you a land that could double as a creature when needed.
Zerrok says... #2
anything?
June 10, 2015 10:20 p.m.