FNMFun-Thoughts on a Modern deck?

FNMFun-Thoughts on a Modern Deck?

with Robert Blum

Happy Weekend Everyone! With Friday quickly approaching we are all preparing for our first M15 legal FNM. Since last week was pre-release weekend and M15 will go live tomorrow I didn't want to give you a standard deck that may not be good in the new meta. So, with that being said I know a lot of stores are starting to run Modern events on Fridays as well. This week I decided to give you a new list that I found while scouring the internet and magic decks this week.

The Deck name is G/R Devotion and it was designed by MTGO user ‘Yamada’. The deck, finished 10th online for a MTGO premier event in modern.

Let's take a look at the featured list....

Creatures (25) 1 Acidic Slimet 4 Arbor Elf 4 Birds of Paradise 2 Craterhoof Behemoth 3 Eternal Witness 2 Kitchen Finks 2 Primeval Titan 1 Scavenging Ooze 4 Strangleroot Geist 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed 1 Thrun, the Last Troll Planeswalkers (4) 4 Garruk Wildspeaker Spells (11) 4 Blood Moon 4 Utopia Sprawl 3 Primal Command

Lands (20) 10 Forest 1 Kessig Wolf Run 4 Stomping Ground 1 Verdant Catacombs 4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx Sideboard 2 Grafdigger's Cage 2 Relic of Progenitus 1 Acidic Slime 2 Obstinate Baloth 1 Scavenging Ooze 2 Choke 2 Ancient Grudge 1 Beast Within 2 Creeping Corrosion

Something about turn two blood moon thanks to a mana dork is just amazing!

Then being able to play out your ramp creatures and search for a back breaking crater hoof all by turn 4 or 5 seems pretty insane.

Especially when your opponent is basically locked out of having lands that they can actually use for something.

The deck seems nuts...

Just the fact that it's green devotion and can quickly ramp into a monster makes the deck good, adding the elfball element with craterhoof makes it sweet... (Craterhoof is my favorite card right now by the way.) and then giving it a lock out like blood moon just makes the deck seem kind of unfair which I love!

I would love to hear your thoughts are there any cards in the deck or the board that you might want to swap out or do you think that it's perfect just the way it is?

Let us know in the comments section.

Rob