Magus is mainly for Junk, Amulet, and Infect.

Dromoka’s command kills Eidolon of great revel, shuts down pyroclasm and anger, and can also kill a threat against Infect.

To choose the best splash colour we must define our hardest matchups.

The only problem with magus is that it dies to Pyroclasm and Anger of the goods and both of these spells need only red mana to cast… But against 3 colored decks that dont use pyro or anger , Magus is insane cause it can be easily tutored with Collected or Chord.

Rending Volley, Blood Moon, Ancient Grudge, Magus of the Moon, do you remember of anything else?

Personally I love red with Magus. In the right meta (and it could well be this one), it has the potential to be insane. I’ll test it at some point. I know of a guy that tested it and it worked great for him.

I’m skeptical of Thoughtseize in Modern Elves; I don’t think we need it. Maybe a grindy version could be good, but it seems strange to me. Maybe it’s just a playstyle preference.

I think you’re making the mistake of splashing for every good card in a given colour. What’s best in other decks is not necessarily best in ours. Also, Command doesn’t do much for us. Would be good in a full-on aggro version, though.

You do NOT want to hold up mana for counterspells with this deck, trust me.

I 3-1’d again today, and probably could’ve 4-0’d if it weren’t for a misplay.

Archer is dead in a lot of matchups and not vital in some of the ones it’s good in, so, I don’t like it main.

Yeah I like the faster speed but most people seem to prefer live commentary. I’m happy to do just replays with commentary though if that’s what most of you guys want.

Thanks. I like Caleb’s work, and I’ll check out the article, although I doubt it’ll change my impressions of the deck much, if at all.

Black for Thoughseize , Abrupt Decay and maybe Golgari charm.
Red for Rending Volley, Blood Moon, Ancient Grudge and maybe Magus of the Moon.
White for Leyline of Sanctity, Dromoka’s Command and maybe Path to exile.
Blue for Spell Pierce, Swan Song and maybe Condescend.

Any other ideas? I am choosing mine and my doubt is between Black or Red.

Thanks

my corrent list: http://ligamagic.com.br/?view=decks/view&id=138193

He says in a later post he was probably too hard on Druid. There we discuss the differences between our decks and agree they’re both good and basically just down to play style.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/327ehm/modern_daily_report_collectcall_elves

Devoted does so much more than just function as a combo piece — that it does is really just icing on the cake. There have been a fair amount of situations where it’s a kill where otherwise it wouldn’t be, either because it’s infinite or because I can tap it for two or three mana (with Archdruid). It also synergizes extremely well with Chord, Company, Heritage, Nettle, etc (many times I will cast a Chord or Company for “free” or even net mana because of it), and provides some very nice value with Ezuri — many times I will overrun, then untap Druid to regenerate an elf or three. Sometimes I will tap her and maybe other sources for a bunch and double overrun. Lots of applications.

In this thread, the author is pretty adamant that devoted druid does not belong in this deck. It the potential to combo is so rare, and when it does come up, it is often overkill. What are your thoughts on Devoted druid? Some times he lets you attack for infinite, but how many times is infinite damage a kill that just one pump wouldn’t be?

You should try my list sometime…

Copy of my comment on the last article:
My list was updated and with awesome results, you should try it:

4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Cavern of Souls
4 Forest
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Overgrown Tomb

1 Dryad Arbor
4 Elvish Archdruid
1 Spellskite
4 Heritage Druid
1 Arbor Elf
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Essence Warden
1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Nettle Sentinel
1 Eternal Witness
4 Elvish Visionary
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Regal Force

4 Chord of Calling
4 Collected Company
1 Summoner’s Pact

SB: 2 Choke
SB: 3 Thoughtseize
SB: 2 Abrupt Decay
SB: 2 Fracturing Gust
SB: 1 Scavenging Ooze
SB: 1 Reclamation Sage
SB: 2 Obstinate Baloth
SB: 2 Golgari Charm

Thanks very much. Glad you’re enjoying it.

Awesome! Thanks a lot for putting the effort in, both in brewing and actual testing. It’s really interesting stuff. It’s very enlightening to get some insight into how you’re thinking as well, enjoyable here and on your earlier 8rack dailies.

Done! There’s commentary as well.

Very true. I’ll get on it now.