I think you are underestimating how relevant the evasion is. The wolf token from Huntmaster is just a 2/2 ground guy. Pretty irrelevant since basically every creature(Snapcaster Mage, Tarmogoyf, Tasigur, Gurmag Angler, etc.) in Modern can just block and kill it. Two in the air is in an entire different league since there isn’t much in the air in Modern. A reason why Lingering Souls is such a beating. In a board stall the tokens will just keep whittling away at the life total in the mean time. Couple that with the fact that you can blow them up for 4 additional damage and you have a solid looking card.

Im not saying that it will become a staple or anything but it seriously needs some testing.

I think I’d go the other way on that – running 4 Thalias is a bit of a risk in a deck that needs to apply steady offensive pressure to win and doesn’t have much access to card draw, and Vryn Wingmare lets you trim the Thalia count a bit while still having a chance to actually play them all at the same time (so no dead cards in hand).

And while I agree that Modern is more creature-oriented as a whole, I don’t think it can be ignored that Tier 1 decks like Jund and Burn only play 14-16 creatures, and that every extra +1 to cast Splinter Twin buys you at least one more turn to do something about it.

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Nah – I’m a Twin player and I never make exactsies 😀

I’m still surprised nobody is running the Craterhoof Behemoth win condition like legacy elves do – the Modern version is not that far off. Not to mention it’s very much castable.

Spoken like a true Timmy 😀

If you’re not going to win more – why win at all?

The thing is you already have 4 Chord of Calling to search for your cards and if you have that much mana available just get Ezuri and end the game. No reason to play a 6 drop before doing it.

Given that Legacy D&T always had access to Glowrider for this exact effect (minus flying), along with the fact that Modern is generally more creature orientated – I don’t see Vyrn Wingmare making a splash in D&T (maybe as a 1-of to go up to 5 Thalias).

Besides I have seen you hang around in the Belcher and 8-Rack threads so I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Starfield of Nyx gets your creative juices flowing 😛

With regards to other playables, I’d like to put in a word for Vryn Wingmare in Modern Death & Taxes/Hatebears. It can be run alongside Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, and its non-legendary status means it can be stacked up and provide a means to slow your opponent down along with evasive attacker to put him on a clock. I know the D&T 3-drop slot is crowded (Blade Splicer, Flickerwisp, Kitchen Finks), but I think making room for this particular card is worth it.

And if enchantments.dec would ever get popular everybody would start packing Back to Nature *sadface*

But I can understand you excitement. Sometimes you just don’t won to care about competitiveness and just do silly things, right?
I know the feeling

For Bellower, I’d look for it more in this Nic-Fit deck I keep speculating about in Modern but have yet to see (and honestly, it’s possible that Tron/Amulet ARE the “Nic-Fit” decks Modern already has). As for Starfield, I’m a huge fan of some of these crappy tier 4 or worse decks, and I can’t help but get excited about the effect. I genuinely think the pieces are there for those decks (Field, Prison, Halo, etc. are excellent), but we are still missing stuff.

The problem with Mutilate is that you aren’t reliably getting -4/-4 from it. I’d guess that in most Abzan games, especially if you are trying to fetch to avoid lifeloss against aggressive strategy, it’s no better than -3/-3 by turn 4. In some games it could even be -2/-2, depending on how many manlands, basics, and filterlands are in the mix. Moreover, Mutilate can also go TOO big, blowing up your own creatures when you really want to keep those around. Languish doesn’t have those issues.

I do agree that Languish isn’t maindeck material because it doesn’t kill Angler, Tas, and Goyf. But in the sideboard, it’s a great way to handle those aggressive strategies like the Company decks and things like Merfolk, especially for a color pairing without access to sweepers like Anger.

I think the key is playing Languish in a deck WITH those cards, in which case your playing a lot of single target removal anyway.

You dont not play Anger because it doesnt kill the 4 toughness guys. You play it to beat the aggro decks and have single target removal for the things bigger than 3 toughness.

Also, keep in mind, this kills Etched Champion. Something that Anger does not do.

Oh, and for the more serious point – -4/-4 is not where you want your board wipes to be in a world where everybody is casting Tasigur/Angler. It kills everything else, but that’s irrelevant most of the time.