Mining Modern For New Decks
By Conley Woods  Because the various midrange, control, and aggro decks give plenty of attention to that upper tier of playable cards, as a deckbuilder, you need to be willing to look deeper. Building a deck around Lightning Bolts and Thoughtseizes and Death's Shadows is totally fine, but the chances that you happen to stumble upon the magical build that shakes everything up are slim, based purely on how many other people are trying to do the same thing. There is definitely something there, and if you do miss, you are still playing Death's Shadow and have a pretty good deck, but you also have a lower chance of hitting it out of the park. I would describe the exploration of Death's Shadow to have a high floor but a low ceiling (relative to where other Death's Shadow decks are). Instead, I think that if you are really looking to make your mark in Modern as a deckbuilder, you should be exploring powerful cards or strategies that are not under the Tier 1 microscope. It might seem a bit strange, but our goals as deckbuilders here is almost the opposite of what it should be. The further we move away from Tier 1, the more likely we are to find a gem that is undiscovered and has the potential to blow up. We are investigating cards that are unplayed or underplayed, meaning there is more opportunity for discovery but also more opportunity for failure. In other words, we are exploring low-floor, high-ceiling territory.  |
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