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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 7:35PM
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Okay, So I've been looking at a lot of U/R decks online and I've seen both aggro builds and control builds. But I really don't know which way I wanna go with it. If I go for control then I'd like to make a deck list built around the Niv-Mizzet, The Firemind  and Curiosity  combo that a lot of people have been using in EDH. I understand that a 6 drop is supposedly to slow for Modern, but he's probably one of my favorite cards and I never use him. So building a deck around him that could actually make it through a modern game at my local shop would be awesome. It's obviously gonna be much easier building a U/R deck that just burns the other player as fast as possible. But if I do that, then I might as well play Red Deck Wins right? Note that I'm rather new to magic, I'm a DnD guy. So all tips appreciated?
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4 months ago ::
Feb 04, 2013 - 2:11PM
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Date Joined:
Jan 30, 2012
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Competitive Modern has a fair to moderately high buy-in at a few hundred dollars worth of cards for any given deck that isn't RDW.
That being said, if you're looking for a more relaxed Modern experience, there's no reason you can't throw a decent deck together around the Niv/Curiosity combo. Do you have any ideas for the deck other than "I want to win with Niv!"?
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!
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4 months ago ::
Feb 04, 2013 - 5:30PM
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Well, I was gonna make it a control deck with some burn spells like Lightning Bolt  that knock down life points and can also help work the field when I need to get rid of creatures. I haven't put to much thought into it because I've had a lot of focus on standard lately. I think if I go with the Niv deck then I'm gonna be putting a lot of draw spells besides Curiosity as a back up. I was just more concerned with how hard it's gonna be to play in modern tournaments at my local store. I don't wanna be spending to much money on a deck that I don't plan on taking anywhere. I'm already trying to do that with standard right now, my local shop has 30 - 50 people at FNM some night so it's a lot of work trying to get into Top 8.
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