Deck Database
| RCAF (deck id: 1782) |
| 60 Maindeck cards and 15 Sideboard |
Modern ·    Aggro |
| Played by rpitcher in Moderns First: A Birthday Bash! (2-2) |
| MAINDECK (60 Cards) | |
| 16 Creatures | |
| 4 Ajani's Pridemate | |
| 4 Kitchen Finks | |
| 4 Squadron Hawk | |
| 4 Student of Warfare | |
| 22 Spells | |
| 4 Honor of the Pure | |
| 4 Lightning Bolt | |
| 4 Lightning Helix | |
| 4 Spectral Procession | |
| 3 Brave the Elements | |
| 2 Faithless Looting | |
| 1 Path to Exile | |
| 22 Lands | |
| 6 Plains | |
| 4 Arid Mesa | |
| 4 Battlefield Forge | |
| 4 Mountain | |
| 2 Flagstones of Trokair | |
| 2 Ghost Quarter | |
| SIDEBOARD (15 Cards) |
| 3 Disenchant |
| 3 Hallow |
| 3 Path to Exile |
| 3 Relic of Progenitus |
| 3 Stony Silence |
| MATCHUPS | |||||
| R1: | Win: | 2 - 1 | vs. | GabrielVS | Naya 2 |
| R2: | Win: | 2 - 0 | vs. | darkerlink1 | Goblins |
| R3: | Loss: | 0 - 2 | vs. | caliban17 | UR Splinter Twin |
| R4: | Loss: | 0 - 2 | vs. | fatkiddestroyers | Bant Aggro |
| MANA SYMBOLS | |
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32 |
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10 |
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4 |
| Total: | 46 |
| CASTING COSTS | |
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x 14 |
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x 16 |
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x 4 |
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x 4 |
| Avg CMC: | 2.16 |
| COMMENTS |
| I don't have a lot of the money cards for Modern, so this has to do me for some fun in the Birthday Bash :)
Rnd 1 vs Knight of the Reliqaury. G1 my first three lands are pain lands. Student is not so good like that! I bolt some early birds, but the power overwhelems me soon anyway. G2 my opp admits a slow start. I make a little air force and punish the slow start. G3 was long, tough, and close. I hold him off with Finks and sneak out a win with a little air force. Rnd 2 vs Goblins. G1 I think my opp has a bad start, but Finks and tough on red anyway. G2, perhaps another poor start for red, but Finks and Helix make things poorer for red. After two matches I feel like I want to drop a Mountain or two for more Plains. Student needs white, and the deck really has very little need for red mana. (Change it after the event, of course.) Rnd 3 vs Splinter Twin combo. Cool deck. Set up fast and solid in G1. G2 I stumble for lands. I had sided in 6 cards to hurt combo, but didn't get them or land. Combo got me. After getting killed quickly by combo, I had some time to test with some other decks. Pridemate never seems so strong in this deck. Just not enough gain for it to be broken. So I think I might try something like Knight of the Meadowgrain. The double white is tougher, but I want to up the white mana count anyway. Also, I don't like Brave the Elements in this format. I haven't faced sweepers, and too often I want to tap out my white to level up Student. I could see keeping one or two Elements for a late game alpha strike, but three is too many. Figure of Destiny would be nice, but I don't own them online, and I'm not interested in paying for them. Rnd 4 vs Counter Exalted stuff. G1 he gets a sick start, and I don't. When the first two cards he plays add up to more $$$ than my whole collection, I give up. I play Pauper and Silverblack for a reason. |