I kind of want to say those situations are fun for nobody, but that’s not exactly true – it definitely gave me a laugh. That doesn’t mean such behavior isn’t toxic. After the match I congratulated his opponent with a big hi-five and talked to him about Modern, ignoring a sulky Pascal entirely. I think it’s important not to “feed” his negativity by agreeing with him that his opponent “lucked out” or even paying attention to him at all.

Well, I won’t force you to play it. In fact, I’ll encourage you not to play with Magic cards you consider terrible. You won’t have any fun!

Curiosity is frequently phenomenal for me in testing and events, so your opinions definitely won’t cause me to stop using the card. For the record, I played with Curiosity months before I discovered the Spider Umbra tech, which I think is only even better than Curiosity for a Grixis Control-heavy meta, which we’re not seeing now.

I realize you seem to be doing well with Curiosity, which goes against all the magic logic I can think of, so you must be getting extremely lucky with your timing of it. Cards like Keen Sense have been around forever, so this is not exactly new tech, and Keen Sense doesnt see any play outside of Bogles.

You open yourself up to a blow out if your Delver/goyf gets Abrupt Decayed while you try to cast Curiosity. Even if you connect once, you are just replacing the card you played, so you really need to hit twice for any benefit whatsoever. For a deck that wants to win by turns 5-7, two turns to see any profit seems far too slow. I understand a side benefit is that it can be pitched to Shoal, but that means it is exiled and doesnt grow your goyf.

I just feel like it would be dead in your hand a lot, since i wouldnt feel comfortable jamming in on a creature if my opponent is not tapped out or if i didnt have 2 ways to counter war it on there.

If you want an enchantment to grow goyf, and is good in the BG(x) matchup, i think your original sideboard card of Spider Umbra is SO much better. If you can sneak it on there, it makes your Monkeys bigger than most goyfs, lets you win the goyf vs goyf/tasigur wars, saves your creature from a kill spell you cant counter, and it turns on ferocious for Stubborn Denial if you put it on a flipped Delver.

All these comments seem to focus on Curiosity, which seems like a terrible magic card, even for this deck which ‘protects the queen’.

/.02 cents

You’re welcome 🙂
By the way I love your decks. Now I’m testing the Counter-cats, but I’m planning to test Banana Phone and Curious George too. I’m having so much fun with C-C and pretty good results too.

Yes, otherwise I would play Feed in the sideboard 😛

I lost a lot with this deck when I first built it. You need to stick with it and play a ton. It’s very skill-intensive. I also wouldn’t recommend it for a BGx-heavy metagame, but if you really want to turn some monkeys sideways, Curiosity is where it’s at. Good luck!

Beater: 15
4x Delver
4x Honored Hierarch
4x Goyf
3x Mandrills

Cantrips: 12
4x Serum Visions
4x Probe
4x Scour

Other Spells:
4x Shoal
2x Cryptic
4x Simic Charm
3x Vapor snag
2x Curiosity
1x Spellpierce or Denial (Don’t remember if im keeping the 3rd denial or 1st pierce in the bord)

Board: 15 (changes often)
Core: 10
3x Blood Moon
3x Chameleon Colossus
3x Denial (or pierce)
1x Mandrills
Interchangable Slots: (right now im running)
2x feed the Clan
2x Grudge
1x IDK

The idea i got was that my big dudes can stall the grund all they want, i have a high diversity of threats, which means there is away i can get through. Cryptic probably not the tempo-tool that you are looking for, can add up as some reach when you have alot of grund dudes anyway. All our threats are top notch, and with charm combat math is a pain for your opponent. With the higher amount of 1 drops you can easily put pressure on fast opponents, and the bounce is just incredible, with cryptic i have 9 maindeck bounces, and that is all the deck wants, with a Hierarch online it is just fine to keep bouncing the opponents confidant or what ever while you develop your board.

BR.
ps. sorry i didn’t chech for spelling errors.

My current version does not run Curiosity but I like drawing cards and at least half the players at my LGS have very grindy decks so I’ll will definitely try it out!

Do you think the Burn matchup is good enough that you don’t need Feed the Clan in your sideboard?

Curiosity is better than Tarfire against linear combo decks and control/midrange strategies, but Tarfire really shines against aggro, and Modern has no shortage of those strategies. Curiosity is not a card you want to see vs. Burn or Kiki-Chord, for instance, whereas Tarfire is literally Bolt #5. FWIW I think you’re insane for cutting Lightning Bolt, but have you had any success with your list? Would be interested in hearing more about it. Do you mind posting a list?

Chameleon Colossus is pretty hard to remove in this format, but no trample makes him easy to chump, and he does nothing against a set-up creature deck, which will just attack around him. Huntmaster gains you life so you don’t die to a big attack, puts a body on the board that can immediately block, and then starts gunning down creatures the turn after. I’d prefer Colossus against Jund and Huntmaster against all the creature decks, so since Huntmaster’s more versatile, he’s my 4-drop of choice. (That, and double green can be tough to get to without Hierarch on a Moon plan!)

Curiosity was the best card in this event. Glad I put it back into the list!

Thank you for this!

Thanks! My favorite thing about Modern is that you can play pretty much any card you want, so long as a strictly better version of that card doesn’t already exist. My personal favorites include Mandrills, Curiosity, Peppersmoke, and Rabblemaster.