Notable mainboard change: Replaced Tidehollow Sculler with Blood Artist! I've been having tremendous difficulty lately with Torpor Orb, since the only answer is preempting it with a discard spell or Qasali Pridemage. If I've used or somehow lost the Pridemage already, I'm screwed (lately to an insane level when my opponent played Ensnaring Bridge to prevent the beatdown alternative). It occurred to me that Blood Artist is an alternative combo, as I can still recur a persist creature forever with Melira down, and Blood Artist will still trigger with a Torpor Orb out.

Tidehollow, on the other hand, is too inconsistent. He's great if paired with a Voice, as I can pod the Voice away to get to 3CMC, but if he's my only remaining 2-drop, things get awkward. I'll find him a spot in the sideboard, he's still great for matchups where I side out the pods.

Hehe yeah the combo works, its pretty spicey. I've dicked around with it some, but I still am on my USA deck in modern for real tournaments. My meta has shifted now though to where nobody plays "real" decks, everything is a brew, so I'm tweaking out a U/R Tron deck (with emrakuls! Yeah!) to be my pet project. My USA one is tuned for real turnys already.

I was thinking the other day how Archangel of Thune provides yet another infinite win condition. Kitchen Finks + Archangel of Thune + Sacrifice Outlet = Infinite Life + Infinite Counters on everything on the field.

Just wanted to throw this comment out there as evidence that I did come to this realization independently and did not copy it when inevitably someone makes the same connection >.>

Ohh. I turn 2'd a Thalia lastnight vs eggs, and turn 3'd it the following game. Needless to say, he died horribly to the straight up melira aggro plan.

Haha yes it does. I absolutely love when that happens. Glad you're liking this. I am still really enjoying piloting mine :)

Just took down my first modern tournament with this. It helps when round 2 I get paired against someone running infect and hit a turn 2 Melira both games.

Moved Inquisitions to the side, replaced in the main with Orzhov Pontiff and Harmonic Sliver. Tempted to put the Shriekmaw in the main to have something more at the 5 slot to pod into. Unless I have a bunch of Meliras and Viscera Seers that got killed, Reveillark is just a flier for me that can pod into Mikaeus. If I don't need to resurrect those, I'd rather pod into removal.

On the side I added a Thalia I picked up last night and another copy of Inquisition and got rid of the second Baloth and the 4th Melira.

I couldn't agree more, I despise eggs. My hatred is sufficient to confirm that I need to find a copy of Thalia by tomorrow.

I see a lot of Pithing Needles and Nevermores around here. I hate interrupting the pod chain, but that's what Qasali Pridemage is for I guess.

I think I may indeed put Pontiff in the main, I've been thinking back and remember SO many 1 toughness creatures that were a pain in the ass. There's this one Shaman deck I can't stand....I'd love to clear out his Flamekin Harbingers before he can start tossing down his Rage Forgers.

Yeah it's heavily dependant on your meta. My Meta sideboards in static hate for combo, like stony silence / pithing needle / nevermore / meddling mage (odd how most of that is standard, lol). The only slaughter games in my meta is from one jund player, and stone beat his face lastnight 2-0. Not sure if he removed it or not, but he just flopped around and died. Absolutely isn't a deck you can just pick up and run with. Gotta get a good feel for it. Thalia is important for eggs too. Pod out a mana dork or two for canonist and thalia, proceed to watch eggs player QQ like a bitch. 

I take, far too much enjoyment, in beating egg player's faces in. Absolutely detest that deck. At my latest PTQ I was paired against three, of the 5 eggs players. Got free lunch from the people at the PTQ being happy I beat their face in (rounds 1/2/3). Basically knocked them out of the competition, heh.

Don't need the 4th melira. I'd sideboard out the inquisitons and run abrupt decays. You need some way mainboard to unstoppable kill small shit (sideboard hate). Thalia is a very strong sideboard card, really hinders everyone else (much more so than you). Not sure how much I like Mikaeus. Hard casting him is a bitch, and you can only pod into him off revilark. He does provide another fixer for persist though. Orzhov Pont might should be mainboard. That's a board wiper against U control decks that are going to beats with cliques and snapcasters. Only need one baloth, thats boarded in vs jund. Sun Titan is sexy.