Dragonlord Ojutai viability in Modern?
Modern forum
Posted on July 19, 2015, 3 p.m. by canterlotguardian
Where, if anywhere, would Dragonlord Ojutai be viable in Modern? Or is the cost just too prohibitive to consider using?
canterlotguardian says... #3
That just makes me so sad that I traded my Minamo, School at Water's Edge when it was like 6 dollars. Now it's at 17... Fml.
July 19, 2015 3:21 p.m.
This comes up every once in a while now. Mostly, people agree that it's just a bit too unwieldy. It's got some heavy competition form Restoration Angel, which is still the go-to creature in U/W control and midrange variants. As long as the meta essentially demands these decks to run a full playset of Wall of Omens, resto's pretty nice. Ojutai has plenty of potential though. I wouldn't be surprised to see him find a home later on. Control's just not all that well positioned outside of the Grixis decks that are running around.
I'm also not a huge fan of Silumgar's Scorn since it necessitates that you run sub-optimal lands or a high-number of dragons. It's a card with high variance. Those don't tend to be good.
July 19, 2015 3:31 p.m.
TheDevicer: I agree. Silumgar's Scorn is pretty much only good in a Dragons tribal EDH deck or standard control.
July 19, 2015 4:07 p.m.
I won't try to find a home for it until it drops out of standard and in price.
July 19, 2015 4:30 p.m.
There's an interesting Esper control list with Dragonlord Ojutai and Silumgar's Scorn running Nameless Inversion to increase the Dragon count. But his best home is in a super controlling 
list.
July 19, 2015 4:59 p.m.
canterlotguardian says... #8
U/W control with Ojutai intrigues me. I may have to brew something up.
July 19, 2015 5:07 p.m.
canterlotguardian says... #9
Tagging everyone who's commented so far: JWiley129, addaff, snotice, TheDevicer, LeaPlath. This is my initial list. Feel free to make suggestions/rip it to shreds :P.
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This is my current list if anyone is interested.
MollyMab says... #2
There is a UW deck or Esper making the round that uses Dragonlord Ojutai, Silumgar's Scorn, Minamo, School at Water's Edge then some of them use Mutavault, while others use Nameless Inversion to power up scorn.
July 19, 2015 3:17 p.m.