MOdern

Grixis Death's Shadow

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • Reduce life and make Death's Shadow powerful
  • Use Delve mechanic to faster cast creatures (Gurmag Angler, Tasigur, the Golden Fang) 
  • Fill your graveyard (Street Wraith, Thought Scour)
  • Optimize your graveyard that the opponent can only choose good cards for you to put in your hand with Tasigur, the Golden Fang
  • Interrupt your opponent with
    • Discard (Thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilek)
    • Counter (Stubborn Denial)
    • Removal (Fatal Push, Terminate, Kolaghan’s Command and Lightning Bolt)
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Dredge

Overview:
  • Colors: BLACK GREEN RED BLUE
  • Combo
  • Lands: 20
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: 3% (01.02.2018)
​Deck idea:
  • Mill yourself to fill your graveyard (Insolent Neonate, Cathartic Reunion, Faithless Looting)
  • Put creatures back from graveyard to the battlefield for 0 costs (Prized Amalgam, Bloodghast, Narcomoeba)
  • Dredge (Golgari Grave-Troll, Stinkweed Imp, Life from the Loam) instead of draw
Dredge Ruling:
  • If you would draw a card while you have a dredge card in your graveyard, you have two options:
    • draw the card normally
    • put the dredge card into your hand and mill X
  • Dredge replaces any card draw not just the one that you get during your draw step
Remark:
  • A good hand can result in 10 or more points of power on the board by the second turn
  • Golgari Grave-Troll was banned 2017
Key cards - Creatures from Graveyard:
Key cards - Dredge:
Key cards - Discard:

Jeskai Control

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • ABC

Abzan  Company

Overview:
  • Colors: BLACK GREEN WHITE
  • Combo
  • Lands: 22-23
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: 1% (01.02.2018)
​Deck idea:
  • The decks main focus is to combo off first, and then if that is not an option it will switch into a beatdown game that focuses on out-valuing the opponent and winning though combat damage.
  • Deck-Mix is
    • 8-10 noncreature spells (Collected Company, Chord of Calling)
    • 7-9 manadorks (Birds of Paradise, Noble Hierarch and Wall of Roots)
    • 12 combo slots (3/4/5 split) (Viscera Seer, Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit, Melira, Sylvok Outcast, Kitchen Finks, Murderous Recap)
    • Rest good value creatures and silver-bulle (depending on meta) ( Scavenging Ooze, Qasali Pridemage, Spellskite, Fiend Hunter, Eternal Witness)
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Burn

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • Burn is a deck made up primarily of the most efficient burn spells available
  • It doesn't care what the opponent is doing
  • It simply wants to deal as much damage to the opponents as quickly as possible
  • Lightning Bolt is the epitome of a burn spell. It deals 3 damage, where ever we want, at the low cost of 1 mana. And it does it at Instant speed
  • There are many variations of Burn, including Naya (RWG), Jund (RGB), Mardu (RWB), Boros (RW) and the OG mono-red. The most successful Burn lists however, have been Naya.

Affinity

Overview:
  • Colors: Colorless
  • Linear aggro with combo elements
  • Idea: Flood the board with small creatures
  • Lands: 17
  • Link: Deck description and description
  • Meta: 7% (01.02.2018)
​Deck idea:
  • Strengths:
    • Speed and explosiveness
    • Highly resilient to point removal and board wipes
  • Weaknesses:
    • Sideboard artifact hate
    • Due to streamlined and linear nature not that strong sideboard (also danger of over-sideboarding)
  • Affinity is an Artifact-based fast aggro deck that also goes by the name Robots
  • All around one the affinity card Thoughtcast
  • Not a lot of interaction
  • It combines low-costed creatures with evasion and highly efficient spells in the form of Thoughtcast and Galvanic Blast
  • Theoretically, the deck can win on as early as turn 2, although in reality it mostly wins on turn 4 or turn 5 with light disruption
  • It's one of the most complex decks to play in Modern
  • How to beat: Sideboard artifact hate and aggressive mulligans
Key cards:
Key cards - Fast Mana:
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5-Color Humans

Overview:
  • Colors: BLACK GREEN WHITE RED BLUE
  • Fast Tribal Aggro
  • Lands: 19
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: 6% (01.02.2018)
​Deck idea:
  • Profits from tribal synergies
  • There is still no solid consensus on the optimal use of the last four to eight slots
  • Creatures only deck (except one Artifact)
  • Curve stops at 3 CMC
  • No removal, so problem when outclassed on the battlefield 
Key cards - Lands:
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Scapeshift (Titan Shift)

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • It is mainly a one-card combo with Scapeshift: Sacrificing 7 lands to search for 6 Mountains and a Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle triggers 6 Valakut which makes 18 damage and (often enough in a format defined by fetchlands and shocklands) (or they add a lightning bold)
  • The deck ramps hard and early, seeking to get as many lands into play as quickly as possible
  • Besides some removal most cards search for lands and Primeval Titan as a powerful creature
  • Exists also as RED BLUE control/combo-deck
  • Defending strategy: counter Scapeshift
Key cards:

Black-Green Rock (B/G Midrange)

Overview:
  • Colors: BLACK GREEN 
  • Midrange
  • Lands: 23-24
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: 3% (01.02.2018)
​Deck idea:
  • High-powered but cheap threats
  • No synergy but powerful cards
  • Ideally you put both players in topdeck mode (drain resources with early hand disruption and must-answer threats)
  • Trouble against big mana decks (e.g. Tron)
  • Played also as Abzan (+White) and Jund (+Red)
Key cards:
Key cards - Planeswalkers:

Traditional Tron 

Overview:
  • Colors: BLACK GREEN
  • Ramp deck
  • Lands: 19
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: 8% (01.02.2018)
​Deck idea:
  • Ramp quickly with Urza Lands (assembling tron) (can make 7 colorless mana as early as turn 3)
  • Deploy powerful threats early
  • All cards either seek to find and play these lands, or a massive threat to cast off them
Key cards - synergistic lands (assembling tron):
Key cards - Planeswalkers:
Key cards - Big threats:
Key cards - Search:

Eldrazi Tron 

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • Ramp quickly with Urza Lands (assembling tron) (can make 7 colorless mana as early as turn 3) (not as consistently as Traditional Tron)
  • Deploy powerful threats early
  • More interaction than Traditional Tron
  • Doesn’t automatically win the late game
Key cards:

UW/X Control

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • You blank a broad proportion of cards in your opponent’s deck (e.g. creature removal)
  • Raw power high-end cards for game-ending
  • Controlling the early turns with counterspells and removal
  • Access to the best sideboard cards in the format
  • Maintaining control of the early game is crucial
Key cards:

Storm 

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • Non-interactive deck
  • Turn-4 or even Turn-3 kills possible
  • Cast instants and sorceries for less mana with "Baral, Chief of Compliance" and "Goblin Electromancer"
  • Create a lot of mana with so called "Rituals" (create floating mana)
  • Prolong this process with "Past in Flames"
  • And finish with a "Grapeshot"
Key cards:
Key cards - Rituals:
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Land Destruction

Overview:
  • Colors: ABC
  • Description
  • Lands: ABC
  • Link: -
​Deck idea:
  • ABC

LAntern Control

Overview:
  • Colors: BLACK GREEN WHITE RED BLUE
  • Control
  • Lands: 18
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: 2% (01.02.2018)
​Deck idea:
  • Restrict access to cards
  • The longer the game goes, the more likely the Lantern deck will win
  • Very skill intensive to play
Key cards - Prison pieces:
Key cards - Neutralizing:
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Death and Taxes

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • Plays small creatures who provide some element of control on the battlefield
  • Out tempo the opponent through virtual card advantage, evasive/efficient beats, and creating dead cards in their hand utilizing taxes and an aggressive land destruction plan
  • Keep in mind this deck is a meta deck at heart, its power stems from that, not the intrinsic power of the cards themselves.
  • There are three variants of the deck:
    • Eldrazi And Taxes 
    • G/W Death And Taxes
    • Mono-White Death And Taxes

BW Tokens  (TIER 3)

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • ABC

GW Hatebears  (TIER 3)

Overview: ​Deck idea:
  • The idea is to hate on various aspects of the Modern Metagame, hence the name Hatebears
  • It is a deck that runs efficient creatures with various abilities geared towards disrupting your opponent's game plan (Leonin Arbiter, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, Loxodon Smiter)
  • Generally the creatures are efficient, and even if you aren't disrupting your opponent's preferred routes of play you are still dropping creatures and beating face

Bant Spirits

Overview:
  • Colors: GREEN WHITE BLUE
  • Type?
  • Lands: ABC
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: -% (01.01.2111)
​Deck idea:
  • ABC

HarDened Scales

Overview:
  • Colors: G, Colorless
  • Type: Aggro
  • Lands: 20
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: 3 % (27.12.2018)
​Deck idea:
  • It's all about +1/+1 counters
  • Take advantage of the synergy between cards like Hardened Scales and affinity cards with counters like Arcbound Ravager or Hangarback Walker
  • Very strong anti-creature matchups
Key cards:
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Ironworks (KCI)

Overview:
  • Colors: GREEN, BLUE, RED, Colorless
  • Type: Combo
  • Lands: 18
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: -% (01.01.2111)
​Deck idea:
  • Spend your first couple turns playing eggs, and then have one big combo turn
  • The priorities on which eggs to crack and in what order has changed a bit, that's covered below
  • The end goal however is to draw your entire deck and enter an infinite combo where you sacrifice Pyrite Spellbomb to deal 2 damage
Key cards:

Bridgevine

Overview:
  • Colors: ?
  • Type?
  • Lands: ABC
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: -% (01.01.2111)
​Deck idea:
  • ABC

Merfolk

Overview:
  • Colors: BLUE
  • Type?
  • Lands: ABC
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: -% (01.01.2111)
​Deck idea:
  • ABC

8-Rack

Overview:
  • Colors: BLACK
  • Type?
  • Lands: ABC
  • Link: Deck description
  • Meta: -% (01.01.2111)
​Deck idea:
  • ABC