Fatties Cheater

A friend of mine has a similar idea... I'd take a look at his build and see if you can make heads-or-tails out of it (I'm not going to claim for a second that I'm a modern player).

http://deckbox.org/sets/689934

Just took a super quick look and I have a few thoughts.
1) Mistcutter Hyrda and Summoning Trap are completely counter-intuitive. Hydra can't be countered to activate the trap and trapping into a Hydra gets you a 0/0 that dies immediately.
2) Ring of 3 Wishes is bad. Really really bad. 10 mana for a card in hand is way too slow.
3) Without any ramp Garruk is going to be too slow.
4) Summoning Trap only works if your opponent has counter spells and can easily whiff with only 2 fatties in the deck. Since it is one of your main ways of cheating a fatty into play and the fact that it is a dead card against many decks I would run it in the sideboard.

Overall this seems too slow and too easily disrupted to really be competitive at all. =/

Kammikaze, can you make any suggestions to make this work? I've taken all your advice for getting rid of cards but those were my best ideas so any help would be appreciated if you can think of anything.

Actually…that looks like it will work…Nice! Thanks!

What's with the spear of heliod?  I think I'm missing something there.

You may want to try some non-creature or more resilient ramp spells because Modern has a lot of cheap removal to take out your mana dorks.  I'm not saying any is better than another, but here are some options:

Farseek
search for tomorrow
pentad prism
lotus bloom
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Rampant Growth

I've been working on my own Modern deck designed to Cheat things out for a while now. So I will be honestly critical of your deck now that I've taken a more in depth look. I dont mean to be rude just helpful.

You have probably 1-2 too many ways to cheat out Progenitus. and a few too many ways to look for him. You can just summoning Pact for a Fauna Shaman if you really need to. But you dont have quite enough creatures right now to fund the Fauna Shaman throughout the game.

Similarly I dont particularly like Spear or Nykthos in the deck. You need to decide if you need to get up to 6 mana for Garruk or 9 Mana to Tooth and Nail.

Nor do you have much in the way of disruption. I'd drop Selesnya Charm (the charm is good but outside of Goyf theres not too much in Modern that it picks up in the removal department), pick up 2 more Path to Exile at the very least.

So in short changes I'd recommend...
-Nykthos
-Spear
-Selesnya Charm
-Elvish Mystic?
-2 Summoning Pact
+Birds of Paradise
+Path to Exile
+2-3 Fatties

You want like 8-10 Total of the following:
0-4 Summoning Trap
0-4 Amulet
0-4 Garruk

Like
8-10 of the following:
0-4 Fauna Shaman
0-4 Progenitus
0-4 Worldspine Worm
0-4 Other Green Fatty (Craterhoof Behemoth???)

And then probably 0-3 of The Following
0-2 Summoning Pact
0-2 Tooth and Nail

If you'd like to see my deck the current test pattern is this.. (I havent tested this specific Configuration)
http://deckbox.org/sets/645845

All this, everything, it's very very much appreciated. I've gotten value from every single comment in this thread so thanks to everyone. I realize this is just a little pipe dream of mine that will never be *really* competitive, but if I can throw down one of these fatties in one of my casual kitchen table games the look on my buddy's face will be priceless. And who knows, maybe I'll take this bitch up to FNM and see how fast I get slammed. So thanks.

Now, taking what I can glean, especially TRZ's well-thought out suggestions, I may have something workable. I don't have all these cards but I should be able to get them within a week or two. I added Channel of Suns because I have a playset of them, and I threw in a Wrath of God because I have a playset of them too and could wipe the board at some point if needed. Of course, I'm learning that a lot of my ideas that sound good in my head don't actually work so if I need to pull them back out I will. Here's the latest rendition.

http://deckbox.org/sets/683215

I hope I didn't come off as too callus because that wasn't my intent.  I encourage people to try new things, I just want you to know what you might expect to see in Modern.  I've been to events where everyone's playing their own brews and events where everyone's playing a tier deck. 

You never know what could work until you try it.

That I can do. Now I just have to buy the cards I'm missing and play it! (BTW My stacks are potbellied but nowhere near fat enough for a playset of Noble Hierarch

Last edited by xMatch (2014-06-04 21:44:22)

heh I got abit lucky and picked up my hierarchs when they were like 20. Aww yeah. Best investment I've ever traded for. Totally surprised at how amazing they are. Keep an eye out you might be able to get a few for cheap here and there.