Is UR storm viable?
Modern forum
Posted on Jan. 22, 2015, 10:03 p.m. by xzypher
With the new bannings of cruise, dig, and pod, can storm make a comeback? It was hurt by the cruise banning but it performed tremendously before then. Can it ever be restored to its former glory it will it remain a fringey combo deck?
lemmingllama says... #3
The problem with Storm is that it folds to any kind of meaningful interaction. I can see it being used in specific metas, but in general it will likely stay tier 2. Still, if you plan on playing it then just practice a lot and change your deck to fit the meta you are in. Swan Song, Spell Pierce, and Defense Grid might be necessary to ensure you can pull off victories after sideboarding.
January 22, 2015 10:14 p.m.
TristanTaylorsVoice says... #4
Treasure Cruise gave storm the staying power to power through any sort of discard based strategy. Some pros debated between the merits of Desperate Ravings and Treasure Cruise, since Desperate Ravings can be cast with red mana and doesn't rely on the graveyard. That should be your first step if you want to make storm work post bans. Discard + Abrupt Decay is a huge bane to this deck however, not to mention it mulligans terribly since you need to assemble a critical number of spells in a single turn for your deck to function. I don't think storm is viable without a backup plan right now the deck can easily switch into.
January 22, 2015 10:15 p.m.
filledelanuit says... #5
UR storm is very viable. Don't let them haters tell you otherwise.
More seriously, it depends on your exact meta. BGx is not a very good matchup with all of their discard. It is not unlosable but is harder without TC. Tron is an amazing matchup for us. They have almost no way to meaningfully interact with us and we are way faster. There only hope is a turn 3 or 4 Karn, wurmcoil doesn't kill us quickly enough. Scapeshift is also a favorable matchup although closer. For scapeshift you want to have so way to deal with counters. Twin is even and tempo twin is slightly favorable.
Storm is actually pretty well positioned as our only bad matchup is BGx.
Storm loses to a combination of disruption, and a clock. If you only have one of these we will be able to win.
We beat all combo decks except infect as we are way faster and more consistent. Having said that infect is beyond horrible. Control decks are fightable using Defense Grid and aggro decks have to have a tempo element or Eidolon to beat us.
All in all, Storm is pretty well situated as long BGx isn't too dominate in your local meta.
January 22, 2015 10:30 p.m.
jandrobard says... #6
Short answer: no.
Long answer: as lordoftheshadows said, It depends on how spendy your meta is. If everyone plays casual brew/goodstuff budget decks, then it's decent.
January 22, 2015 11:22 p.m.
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storm needs something to keep it going. I had good success with this deck
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January 23, 2015 12:14 a.m.
Not unless you're very good at playing it.I 100% guarantee that Finkel and a good portion of the rest of the pantheon will be playing storm at the pro tour
GlistenerAgent says... #2
Not yet. BGx decks will be big, and I don't see Storm beating them.
January 22, 2015 10:03 p.m.