For that matter, its painful shield extends to the other Dragons in the deck as well. Like the Angel, it also lives through Lightning Bolt, and if the opponent has a Path to Exile or a Maelstrom Pulse for it then they’re going to have to take some pain for it. The downside to playing Regent is that it makes the deck a little more sorcery-speed, but we already have a bit of that with Geist and it’s not like Thunderbreak is bad. Most decks don’t mind recasting the card that kills you. Silumgar’s Scorn, being a hard-counter, will out-perform Remand against ramp-type strategies (Tron, Scapeshift) and grindy matchups that go long (Twin, Junk). Thunderbreak Regent would ordinarily be worse than Restoration Angel, but we are getting something for the downgrade. Also, the difference between 4 power and 5 is especially relevant in this burn-focused archetype.ĥ mana is a lot in Modern, but at least it’s enabling actual Counterspell while it waits to close out the game.
Thundermaw Hellkite has already seen a ton of play in this archetype as a way to finish people off, and it’s played over Stormbreath Dragon for its ability to eat Birds of Paradise, Vendilion Clique, and Lingering Souls tokens with its enters-the-battlefield ability. This deck ignores any kind of Nameless Inversion shenanigans and goes for the throat with actual Dragons. It doesn’t kill Celestial Colonnade, but if those decks were popular we’d be playing Thrun in the sideboard.Īnd while we’re on the topic of Celestial Colonnade decks, there’s one that’s both proactive enough to survive in the current environment and blue enough to want a hard counter for UU. However, Nameless Inversion matches up well against many of the most heavily-played ones like Treetop Village and Inkmoth Nexus. It dodges some of the format’s removal, matches up well against Siege Rhino, and represents a pile of damage.īefore, I was running Tectonic Edge in the colorless land slot because neither Abrupt Decay nor Maelstrom Pulse interact with opposing manlands. Like Icefall Regent in the DragonFolk list, the Colossus wouldn’t be ideal if it weren’t for the Dragon creature type, but in this case that means a lot, and I could see going up to a second copy. This second one is more about playing a typical midrange role and then beating down with a giant Tarmogoyf, and Nameless Inversion fits that plan just fine.Ĭhameleon Colossus ups the Dragon count to 8. The first used Liliana and a few other Pox-type effects to bin Haakon, but it wasn’t the best shell for Silumgar’s Scorn. I thought of two different ways to build BUG with Nameless Inversion. When you need to buy time to develop, or if you’re trying to force your threat through opposing countermagic, that can make a big difference, and being able to counter creatures is a big factor. Here, we have another conditional hard counter, only the satisfying requirements can come from in hand or in play. The Denials were fine, but the deck wasn’t exciting enough to hold my interest. Then, I was testing whether Stubborn Denial was maindeckable if you had enough sources of ferocious. As some of you might recall, I did an article on BUG back in February, which you can find here.
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