Goblin Piledrider - Magic Origins modern influences

Magic Origins modern influences

 

Hello Readers,

since the long awaited release of modern masters 2015, we had the privilege to see a spoiler of new cards coming ahead for the new set Origins. After that we’ve enjoyed opening packs and figuring out the strategies for limited in the last prerelease weekend, here are the cards that have most impressed me for  modern and standard;

 

Since the arrival of Dragons of Tarkir, a green spell changed the metagame by bringing back a similar combo used with a banned card. Figured it out? You don’t know yet???

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Well, It’s obvious, I’m talking about Collected Company Side and the banned card Birthing pod.

 

Podless collected

by Samuel Carrier

Lands (23)1 x Dryad Arbor1 x Forest1 x Godless Shrine1 x Plains1 x Swamp (339)2 x Gavony Township2 x Horizon Canopy2 x Overgrown Tomb2 x Razorverge Thicket2 x Temple Garden4 x Verdant Catacombs4 x Windswept Heath
Spells (8)4 x Chord of Calling4 x Collected Company
Creatures (29)1 x Fiend Hunter1 x Linvala, Keeper of Silence1 x Melira, Sylvok Outcast1 x Murderous Redcap1 x Qasali Pridemage – Foil FNM 20101 x Scavenging Ooze1 x Spellskite2 x Eternal Witness3 x Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit3 x Noble Hierarch3 x Viscera Seer3 x Voice of Resurgence4 x Birds of Paradise4 x Kitchen Finks1 x Qasali Pridemage
Sideboard2 x Burrenton Forge-Tender4 x Fulminator Mage1 x Kataki, War’s Wage1 x Orzhov Pontiff2 x Path to Exile1 x Reclamation Sage1 x Sin Collector1 x Scavenging Ooze2 x Abrupt Decay
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The Podless collected deck, as they love to call it, is looking to do the Melira Sylvok outcast , Viscera seer and Kitchen Finks or (Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit, Viscera seer, Kitchen finks  can do it as well)  infinite life combo and then do the infinite damage Murderous Redcap to kill you if you didn’t scoop the game already…

BUT!  as the darkness arised, a bright light glare came from the skies…

 

Hallowed Moonlight

 

This card will block many staples combo cards used at the moment in the metagame. Forget Collected company , Goryo’s Vengeance, Chord of calling, Living end, Splinter twin, Summoner’s Pact, Through the breach, Lingering Souls and Unburial Rites. They can now be managed by Hallowed Moonlight.

 

Hallowed Moonlight can hose all those instantly and can be used again with Snapcaster Mage in u/w control or u/w/x control decks. I can easily see that as a one-of main deck card for those two archetypes. If not, a possible 2-of in sideboards at least.

 

The next card from the Origins set is an old favorite for our favorite freaky goblins.

I shall name it,

 

Goblin Piledriver

 

Its been quite a long time this card was due for a reprint, but here it is. Recently, we saw the card Blood Moon skyrocket to 60$ as the average on the market and this goblin won’t help lower it as Goblin could very well be a thing in Modern. I could definitely see a list including Goblin Chieftains, Frenzied Goblin, Foundry Street Denizen, Dragon Fodder, Goblin King, Goblin Guide, Goblin Warchief with this mischievous Goblin Piledriver.

 

You can even have 4 Blood Moon with 1 Magus of the Moon as a way to be unblockable and Goblin Grenades to finish off your opponent. With only 22 lands and you can kill quick while locking his mana since so many shock lands and fetchlands are played in almost all Modern decks. If this deck ever becomes popular and wins, it could very well change the metagame to 1 or 2 color decks to be less punished by Blood moon strategies. It reminds me of my old days playing goblins in legacy events and killing opponents in 4 turns easily.

Watch your face so it doesn’t get piledrived!

 

After the hordes comes the army of light flying towards us….

 

Vryn Wingmare

 

I totally think that Thalia, Guardian of Thraben is a good card. Although, it needed some kind of transportation.

 

Here she can ride on this pegasus and dominate once again!  This guy can be entered on turn 2 with help from Birds of Paradise or Noble Hierarch and wreck your opponent’s possibilities to cast removal spells.

 

GW Hatebears MTG Modern

by Samuel Carrier

Lands (23)1 x Plains2 x Gavony Township2 x Stirring Wildwood3 x Forest3 x Horizon Canopy4 x Ghost Quarter4 x Razorverge Thicket4 x Temple Garden
Creatures (31)2 x Birds of Paradise4 x Noble Hierarch4 x Leonin Arbiter3 x Scavenging Ooze3 x Qasali Pridemage4 x Voice of Resurgence3 x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben3 x Loxodon Smiter2 x Aven Mindcensor2 x Hushwing Gryff3 x Vryn Wingmare
Spells (4)4 x Path to Exile
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I’d be considering playing Aether Vial in the list but It’s not necessarily needed as we got 6 one-drops to accelerate to our 3 drops. I would suggest to remove 1 x Qasali Pridemage , 1 x Loxodon Smiter , 1 x Voice of Resurgence , 1 x Scavenging Ooze if you want to play a set of Aether Vial. This deck consist of screwing up your opponents mana with Ghost Quarter and Leonin Arbiter so they can’t search for a land, as Thalia and Vryn are making sure they can’t manage your creatures. It’s a prison aggro deck.

 

 

 

To wrap this up,  I’d definitely think there is possibility of combo using Day’s Undoing for card draw. Harbinger of the tides as a new merfolk. since you don’t have to cast it really with vial at 2 or cast it for 4 to bounce your opponent’s attacker or at end of turn to force your opponent to recast it.

 

I will be attending a PPTQ modern this weekend and wish to hear your comments about the future of the Modern metagame. What do you expect in this new meta? Have a great weekend everyone and I will come back soon with an article on the effects of Origins on the standard format. Until then, enjoy  some modern testings!

 

By Samuel Carrier

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