Topic: (Modern) Deck for Girlfriend. Soul Sisters? Bogle? Thoughts? Inside!

Okay so, I've recently got my girlfriend into magic. She's doing okay with using this: http://deckbox.org/sets/299985, in standard. (hell its a tier 1 boros deck, it should stomp face).

Modern, however, isn't at FNM yet... and she wants to compete. My FNM is free, so its super laid back. We have modern and standard turny's every week, which she wants to play with me in. So, I can't decide what a relatively good, non-mechanic-heavy deck would be for her to play in modern. I am going to be playing affinity / melira pod / tron.

I have considering rebuilding this: http://deckbox.org/sets/250471

Once I get the leylines in. Namely considering altering it a bit, throwing in a sword or two, a few steelshapers gifts, some hawks and giving it to my girlfriend to play.

The other thought, is I'm 1 card short of being done with Bogle (http://deckbox.org/sets/309702).

Thoughts? Opinions on the two modern builds? Input? All welcome smile

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Re: (Modern) Deck for Girlfriend. Soul Sisters? Bogle? Thoughts? Inside!

It depends on your meta, however where I play Jund is kind of the big thing, and Boggle doesn't fair very well with that simply because of Liliana, I think that people are starting to have a bit more sideboard hate against GOST especially since right now UW/UWR control is looking to be towards the top of the food chain. Soul Sisters is interesting, I've never played it myself so I can't really comment about how good/bad it is but I think that unless you throw in swords it's going to be fairly tough to do pretty much anything because of all of the removal in the format, your win cons seem to be Serra Ascendant ajani's pridemate, and baneslayer, not really needing to worry about your life total is pretty nice but I'm not sure how good it is with only 10 creatures that can win the game, with lightning bolt able to kill 8 of those (Assuming base stats of course). It also sounds like you're trying to move from soul sisters into more of straight up white weenie, it seems like a good move, but if you just throw Hawks and Swords I think it'll be trapped between 2 good archtypes and not do very well at either one.

I personally liked to be introduced to older formats with combo decks because they really demonstrate the difference between standard and older formats, since generally speaking, standard doesn't have any really good combos, it lets you see that older formats really do have a lot wider range of deck choices, I'm currently running Melira Pod and it's been very fun but Tron is usually a more consistent choice for combo.

Overall very fun looking decks, I think that either would work out well but practice ahead of time would be good for her, because in my opinion good opening hands in modern are less obvious than in standard.

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