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Honestly, I think a simple and effective way to deal with a wide collection of decks would be to use Chalice of the Void and to a lesser extent Trinisphere . Just taking a look at what is stopped by Chalice of the Void when X equals # gives a decent indication as to its potential in sideboards.

X = CMC 0:

Mainly Living End . Since cascade casts the spell and Living End has a converted mana cost of 0, you can simply plop a Chalice of the Void down onto the battlefield your first turn for free and sit back knowing that outside of some sort of removal, you've pretty much neutered their deck.

X = CMC 1:

Zoo, Pyromancer, Splintertwin, and Infect. While paying for X = 2 would probably be a better choice against some of these depending upon the build (Zoo), this does a wonderful job against anything that relies on being able to Preordain , Ponder , Serum Visions , or Gitaxian Probe through itself. As an added benefit, it also protects itself from Shattering Spree . No such luck with Ancient Grudge .

X = CMC 2:

This is probably the last major one you'll be aiming for. It takes out Tarmogoyf , Dark Confidant , several counter spells, Punishing Fire , Pyromancer Ascension , Blazing Shoal . The nice thing here is that it also deals with quite a few of the commonly used artifact hate cards.

Anyway, I'll use three or four in my 12-Post sideboard, since it's not hard to generate mana for it and there aren't many low cost spells that I wouldn't be able to play because of it. I'm not sure it fits well anywhere else but it's an option if the environment becomes saturated with combo decks.

Sep 4, 2011 -- 2:03AM, ReleaseTheAnts wrote:

Twin is easy to stop on paper, and the lack of people playing mindbreak trap for storm and pyromancer decks is absolutely jaw-dropping. 

So yes, if you don't run combo stoppers, you can't stop combo :o ! WEIRD!!1!

How does mindbreak trap work vs stormand pyromancer decks. Im still confused how this card works and how it works vs these decks

Solution to control being unviable: Ban Emrakul. Unban Visions.

Oh, and unban Bitterblossom. Seriously. Why was that card on the ban list?

Sep 4, 2011 -- 9:42AM, S1AL wrote:

Solution to control being unviable: Ban Emrakul. Unban Visions.

Oh, and unban Bitterblossom. Seriously. Why was that card on the ban list?

Bitterblossom can't be unbanned, as long as it produces faeries. The synergy with spellstutter and mistbind is what causes Fae to have such a suppressing effect on meta diversity.

I could see them banning emrakul, just to make it easier for people to use instant speed removal against the breach/vengeance decks.

What makes me worry about modern is the fact there was zero pure aggro decks that made top 16 or top 8.  Boros was a deck everyone was thinking it could do well in modern and instead Boros doesn't even crack a decent chance to win.  Why because in order to play aggro you need some sort of trick, like poison or sheer amazing draws which won't happen.  So unless so share amazing meta game shift happens modern is going to become like extended, expensive and stale in deck choices.