Shadows Over Modern
By Todd Anderson   When I say "attrition", what cards come to mind? For me, that word evokes cards like Lingering Souls, Liliana of the Veil, Eternal Witness, and (to a lesser degree) Sphinx's Revelation. Card advantage is hard to come by in Modern, because that usually means having to expend more mana for your trouble. For a long time, Snapcaster Mage was one of the only card-advantage spells seeing regular play in Modern, but even then you still have a tough job making the 2/1 body a relevant factor. So, with so much removal and discard running around, what are we to do? The simplest answer is to play cards that are good off the top of the deck, making sure that your random draws after your opening hand are strong enough to keep up with the opponent. You could also take a similar route to the other discard decks in the format, playing discard of your own. After all, once you've both run out of your initial resources, having a lot of good topdecks is important. Death's Shadow does this well because they play so few lands, so the likelihood of drawing a spell is higher than most other decks once you've both run out of relevant cards. But if you're not in the business of casting Death's Shadow, there are a lot of ways you can go. Here is a perfectly reasonable Sultai deck you could play that gives Death's Shadow a run for its money.  |
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