Yes! This was one of my favorite decks to play in paper before fury really took over and now that I am able to play on MTGO, this was one of the first decks I built, in paper and online. This is gonna be a good episode!
9 4-ofs and 1 2-of, that's called just good old fashion deck building right there Love to see just how streamlined this deck is for the shaman strategy
One of my favorite tribes ever. The deck has a lot of flexibility as far as how you construct it. And it pushes crazy stupid damage. Lot of fun! Great video!
I only play red really because well it's the only colour worth playing but I am certainly going to mess around with it some more, soon as I get some more rares to craft the missing cards for the deck.
I love how fun and interesting this deck is. I've spent a bit of time looking over the options for Shaman creatures in modern, and I think I've got a few bangers that might be worthwhile for anyone else that's considering this explosive pile of cards XD The first option is including the classic bastard magic card Burning-Tree Shaman. This bad boy kicks Yawgmoth and Hardened Scales players right in their teeth, eating up a lot of life rapidly, while also sitting outside of standard 1-mana interaction range. They'll have to revolt their Fatal Push, or specifically Grist and throw a creature at it. This entry comes with a bonus suggestion, in case 3 mana is too much and you'd prefer to get lower to the ground with a 2-drop instead: Immolation Shaman. It still punishes land, artifact, and creature abilities, but only from your opponent, and it comes stock with Menace. At the very least consider including a few of these instead of that wacky blue Orvar in your board, if you don't want to think too hard about changes to the main deck. The next, and most spicy suggestion I'll be making, is Keldon Flamesage. This bad boy has Enlist, so you can tap a creature whenever it attack to boost it's power, and then you get to look at the top X (X= it's power) cards of your deck and cast a free instant or sorcery from among them, as long as it too costs X or less. The big thing here is that, while we obviously don't have a ton of non-creature spells, we REALLY want to put a collected company on the stack, and the deck is full of 2-power creatures you don't want dying that you can freely tap to boost the Flamesage into CoCo range. Finally, after watching the deck get stuck in the mud repeatedly and weeping inwardly at how mana variance really beats up decks like these, I have a dangerous, highly illegal suggestion in a world where Orcish Bowmasters exist: Sensation Gorger. Who DOESN'T love revealing the top card of their library and forcing everyone to discard their hand to draw four new cards if it's a goblin or shaman? I know I do. It's not even mandatory, there are two separate instances of the word "may" in the ability text! You're not a coward, are you? As an extra upside, sometimes you'll make an opponent discard their 6-7 card hand on turn three and they might just have a heart attack on the spot >=D
I don't know if replacing Orvar is where you want to go with Immolation Shaman, Orvar is generally tech against Creativity decks - they cheat in Archon of Cruelty, you discard Orvar to the trigger and kill their Archon with your Orvar copying theirs. Immolation Shaman doesn't do a whole lot against that.
I love this deck. I run a similar build with 4x Essence Warden, 4x Flamekin Harbinger, and 2x Ewit instead of 4x Ewit, 2x Fable, 4x Bolt. My bolts are in the sideboard. Mine is pretty much a modern carbon copy of ThrabenU's legacy TRIGGERS shaman deck (the first time it was brewed and trophy'd)
Hey Brian! This is aaron! We drove down together to GP Atlanta with Doug and Dre. Truly ancient times. I remember playing UW baneslayer that tournament. Deglamor being the insane tech.
Oof, that first game against Hardened Scales was fun. I played the deck for almost two years and I miss Affinity Math. Even without the Zabaz draw, seeing that line with saccing the Ballista to counter-up the Ravager/Ozolith to get around the Bolt gave me the good brain chemicals. I haven't played since Agatha's Soul Cauldron was printed but also seeing your opponent able to throw Infect damage after the attack with Soul Cauldron/Ballista's ability on Inkmoth was a nice little realization. Ah, I miss playing Robots. I should put it back together at some point.
I tried this in arena timeless, having acces to Deathrite shaman helps to the lack of ignoble and also added Ojer Taq on top, making any attack deadly.
Just started fiddling with this archetype in Historic on MTGA, I am using Commune with Nature so I can dig a little deeper and find a good threat on T1. I am also testing Seasoned Pyromancer as well.
40:26 why not play Rage Forger? You put two +1/+1 on your 2/1 and 3/3, making them 4+5 power. Then you attack and get 2+2 1 damage triggers. Opponent is at 12 life?
Deckbuilding is weird sometimes. It's interesting how DRC is a shaman, powerful in the format, AND has a useful trigger for prodigy to double but doesn't really work here because delirium is too hard and making it easier would junk up the deck in other ways.
since it's a similar playstyle to this deck, have you thought about checking out thunderkin awakener/lightning skelemental decks? There's a fair number of ways to take it (scam, jund with coco, full rakdos aggro, etc.), and I'd like to see what you think of it. Bloodthorn flail from LCI has been great with the deck
Honestly, I like the Legacy leagues so much more. The Modern metagame seems so samey every single time. Does the Legacy metagame just feel more diverse to me? Do brews hold up better in Legacy? Do they have better answers?
Im curious how portable this is to Legacy? How many decks can handle a full force aggro deck? Just curious because of how powerful goblins have shown to be
Yeah this deck is kinda nuts, a friend of mine made a jund variant of this list and its pretty OD. If you dont have an answer to the prodigies amd the CoCos they literally will just run you over.
The unfortunate nature of all the money being in the landbases is that budget decks, instead of being unusual strategies, are usually just "real decks" with bad manabases.
