This is why I think in an ideal world where you can’t just edit the card to be a bit less busted, you ban Field and Oko. Let me make two statements to open this article up. This site © 2020 TappedOut.net, LLC Still, I’d love to be wrong here and hope Juza and Kanister are correct that the format is a lot more open than it’s felt. Green is my favorite color in Magic, and this list is Green to a T. Personally, I'd like to see a little more interaction here, but it's worth noting that I was scarred by Winter Orb and Static Orb early on in my EDH tenure, so I'm usually over-prepared to blow one up. Why in the world do we have a metagame where the Simic players seemingly generate the 2nd or 3rd most popular deck in the format when they lose to the best deck? You probably want it up to 26 (maybe 28?) My main question is how many Skarrgan Hellkite are correct and if Paradise Druid is worth the slots. All the Ways to Play (and beat) Field of the Dead, Why Leyline of the Void is the Most Popular Card in Modern, Aetherworks Marvel is the Biggest Game in Kaladesh Remastered, We Have Reached the Main Deck Ox of Agonas Stage. Foil. There are lands you want to destroy from your opponents. What I like most is the confidence this build exudes, you're very clearly stating "I am going to ramp, you won't be able to stop me, and then I'm going to cast massive spells." you’re game plan isn’t to mill here, so there's no point in running Ruin Crab and Maddening Cacophony. TappedOut.js Blog Widget, ( Pump the angels and give them lifelink. Feeds | Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. Hopefully I provided some decent food for thought. Both spells will do nothing for you, and probably actually help enable whatever graveyard synergies the opponent has. Ignore Oko altogether and you deal with all the above and your creatures are getting stolen. Contact | Flip. Ghost Quarter. Field of the Dead flooded Standard, Historic and Pioneer with zombie tokens and was eventually banned in each format. Flip have been absolutely fantastic for me. Mtgo only. Maybe at the MPL/Mythic Championship level then those players are still rocking even or favorable win rates against them, but for us mortals I’m still okay with aggro. Flip technically counts as a land, but i'm not convinced that's enough. This is also awkward because the solution to Oko is to go way over the top without relying entirely on the board. However, I can also build a version of Golos Fires that doesn’t maindeck mirror cards and opens up 4-5 slots to just go back to hammering on aggro. EDH 2 / 1 . One I think is more or less agreed upon and the other is a bit controversial. With eight you can get two copies of Field of the Dead and produce over thirty power! So I initially wrote this article on the 11th. 12 - 2 Uncommons. Standard is a dynamic format where you build decks and play using cards in your collection from recently released Magic: The Gathering sets. Scapeshift is a longtime combo enabler. I don’t even think scooping is an unreasonable decision. Simic Midrange: Golos 30%, Red 60%, Mirror 50%. You also have a life gain package. Back to making an accepted statement and a controversial statement. It is also the type of card that only gets better with more released sets, barring something very targeted being printed to stop it. Latest Decks; Discussion (51) Latest Decks. Help | Ow, wait there is a good one for that... !Sephara, Sky's Blade! Crew is Big by E h s t e v e. EDH 6 / 2 . Privacy statement | Contact | But… We are allowed to update our lists! GU (Simic). The deck is also surprisingly mana-hungry, especially if you sideboard more 3-cost cards, so I wouldn’t drop under 21 lands (I run 22). Simic Midrange is in the same boat–game one feels like a joke unless the Golos player stumbles badly or Simic curves especially well. It's not a bad card and it adds bodies for Gaea's Cradle. Some enterprising beatdown mages have cast Scapeshift with Steppe Lynx in play to get a ton of short-term buffs. I love Kanister’s GB Adventures list he submitted for the MC and it may even beat the normal builds of Golos while doing well vs the field! Standard Decks. Show decks from the following selection (9420 selected): Filter! Valakut Exploration and Ancient Greenwarden have both performed pretty well for me as well. The metagame of the now concluded Mythic Championship V tournament consisted just over 40% of the decks playing a combination of Field of the Dead and Golos, Tireless Pilgrim to create an endless army of zombies. This can help you get them back. at a minimum. However, I think there’s another route that’s only slightly less devastating to the current metagame. What Does It Mean to be the Best in the Format. But they are fetchable and they have a different name than basic lands, hence they are more likely to trigger Field of the Dead. 21 lands is waaay too low for a "lands matter" deck. As for Knights? The sheer number of these decks, though, punishes anyone trying to stop Golos, leaving Golos with a weird metagame share and matchup triangle. So Field of the Dead is almost certainly going to bite it, in no small part because aggro won’t have a big enough presence and Oko decks are going to keep them even more constrained. In Modern, it is liable to stack so many triggers from Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle some players have broken the sixty card rule just to cram more Mountains into their decks. Fires of Invention is the other obvious solution since you simply get to leverage far more mana or your wish board for a clean answer to Oko ala Casualties of War or Nicol Bolas. 23 - 11 Rares. The sheer number of these decks, though, punishes anyone trying to stop Golos, leaving Golos with a weird metagame share and matchup triangle. if you run any adventure cards, especially in the three-color builds–, ChannelFireball - Magic: The Gathering Strategy, Singles, Cards, Decks. Ashaya, Soul of the Wild is interesting. Consider adding in flavourful wincon lands like Field of the Dead, and also seriously consider the fetch lands, as they'll effectively be letting all your landfall triggers happen twice. I am Curious to see why no MDFC's are included? TappedOut.js Blog Widget. Printing. Short, maybe; but you don’t need that many +2/+2 triggers if you’re just going to kill the other guy RIGHT NOW THIS TURN. This made it much harder to judge the deck’s worth against Golos as, to quote a true scholar, I was the ************* trying to ice skate uphill. Or something like the Temur Planeswalkers deck just better because it generates value from nearly every card? Hi there. Oko generates a horrific play pattern where you’re punished for playing creatures. Don't forget something like Day of Judgment :P. What I also think is that you are hard to attack well. This site is unaffiliated. Updated Sep 12, 2019 by Buttz using our MTG Deck Builder. For every game where it let me Embercleave a fool out a turn early, it only cracked in for one in the air or couldn’t attack at all because the 1/1 would just get blocked by Murderous Rider. DMCA requests | by Greecenrome, The Big Dirty (5C Golos good stuff) Complete Comment Tutorial! The Scarab God - zombie tokens by Mattio38. This is an awesome primer by the way. Why no Field of the Dead? by Papini, WINDGRACE | Lord of many Land´s This deck is not Standard legal. by Vimozahr, Korvold, Fed but Feasting Enjoy your Elks. It was the latter concern—Golos/Field decks reduced the number of viable strategies in Standard—that seems to have been the reason for banning Field of the Dead. Arzais well, snow lands are of course less versatile than any type of dual lands. I’ll continue to play around with the tribe. by RoaringBunny, Kodama of the East // Kraum You will have a field and you can hit hardback with revenge. The next banned and restricted announcement is to be mad… 14.98 - 31.56 Nissa is bonkers when she ults, which I find happens more often than not. 9 of the top 16 decks were a variation of this deck archetype (“Bant Golos” or “Golos Fires“).