GP OKC Melira Pod

[Hunteroffire9]

3 gavony township seems like a lot. If it works for you thats great, but I think 2 is enough considering 3 might give you some trouble with mana but idk. Also I'm jelly of this deck, wish I had the cards/money to make it

3 is pretty standard, and it is good for resetting Persist creatures, plus its a huge asset when you have to go on the beatdown path.

How does that work again xD?

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

3 gavony township seems like a lot. If it works for you thats great, but I think 2 is enough considering 3 might give you some trouble with mana but idk. Also I'm jelly of this deck, wish I had the cards/money to make it

3 is pretty standard, and it is good for resetting Persist creatures, plus its a huge asset when you have to go on the beatdown path.

How does that work again xD?

What do you mean? Resetting the Persist creatures? If that's what you mean it works like this: {Kitchen Finks} dies and a -1/-1 counter gets placed on it, when you activate {Gavony Township} the +1/+1 and the -1/-1 counters cross out, so it is just a {Kitchen Finks} without any counters on it.

[imthelolrus]

Karakoram is better against Affinity than Rhetoric, and that is already too slow. Which is why a lot of people dropped it. By the time you have Rhetoric out, Affinity is playing a spell per turn.

What better against affinity? It's a pretty widely played deck at my LGS.

I think he was trying to say "{Kataki, War's Wage} is better against Affinity", but the Autocorrect menace is always looming....

Idk if I'd bother affinity lists are siding in {gut shot} as an answer for Kataki

[DeathlyFoiend]

Karakoram is better against Affinity than Rhetoric, and that is already too slow. Which is why a lot of people dropped it. By the time you have Rhetoric out, Affinity is playing a spell per turn.

What better against affinity? It's a pretty widely played deck at my LGS.

I think he was trying to say "{Kataki, War's Wage} is better against Affinity", but the Autocorrect menace is always looming....

Idk if I'd bother affinity lists are siding in {gut shot} as an answer for Kataki

Yeah, I cut Kataki, don't run Etherswarn after cutting Eidolon.

Orzhov Pontiff, Lingering Souls and any attrition works. Keep abrupt decay in. Also, I would run a second Pontiff in sideboard.

[DeathlyFoiend]

Karakoram is better against Affinity than Rhetoric, and that is already too slow. Which is why a lot of people dropped it. By the time you have Rhetoric out, Affinity is playing a spell per turn.

What better against affinity? It's a pretty widely played deck at my LGS.

I think he was trying to say "{Kataki, War's Wage} is better against Affinity", but the Autocorrect menace is always looming....

Idk if I'd bother affinity lists are siding in {gut shot} as an answer for Kataki

Yeah, I cut Kataki, don't run Etherswarn after cutting Eidolon.

Orzhov Pontiff, Lingering Souls and any attrition works. Keep abrupt decay in. Also, I would run a second Pontiff in sideboard.

I like Souls a bit more since it's relevant in more matchups. I think Pontiff is fine as a second in the board, but it's not the end of the world if you don't.

Pontiff does what Souls does and more, as it involves combo tricks and gets rid of other Soul tokens as well. Pontiff is definitely a better option, but requires so much playing with and around to make it good. Lingering Souls is definitely a test if you don't think having a second pontiff is good enough or you can't use it properly.

[blackychan1]

You guys are awesome. There is so much thought put into modern. So, which card should I cut from the sideboard to put in a second pontiff? And is there a creature that does what {lingering souls} does? I board it in, but never seem to draw it. So I thought that maybe something I could pod or chord for would be better?

[Hunteroffire9]

You guys are awesome. There is so much thought put into modern. So, which card should I cut from the sideboard to put in a second pontiff? And is there a creature that does what {lingering souls} does? I board it in, but never seem to draw it. So I thought that maybe something I could pod or chord for would be better?

There is {Geist honored monk}, but she's eh.. I'll think about it

Edit: random creatures that make tokens:

{belfry spirit}

Hint: don't add these too your deck

[DimirOverlord1300]

Conan, out if curiosity what's your current sideboard like?

[DeathlyFoiend]

For a GP, I would take out a Lingering Souls and Athreos for a Orzhov Pontiff and Entomber Exarch. I would also run another dismember over the second Path, but path is better in those matchups as well. But this is how I would play the deck, as well, which may not always be the best.

[Mattao19]

how about {yisan, the wanderer bard} for pods 5-8?
pod takes 1 and phyrexian green to activate, he costs 3 to activate.  pod costs 3 and phyrexian green and he costs 2g.  however, he doesn't make you sac dudes to activate it, so it's easier to pod into {viscera seer} {melira, sylvok outcast} {kitchen finks} for infinite life, then {murderous redcap} for infinite damage.  seems like a really nice curve...

Taysby surely even you can understand how bad Yisan is ...

[DeathlyFoiend]

You don't need pod every game either. Conan basically stated everything bad about it, too.

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

The advantage of Pod is that it comes out of nowhere. I can sac a {Voice of Resurgence} to find {Kitchen Finks}, next turn untap and sac the token to {Viscera Seer} and {Chord of Calling} into {Melira, Sylvok Outcast} to go infinite. Your opponent has to react in a short span or lose. With {Yisan, the Wandering Bard} you have to make it glaringly obvious you are going for the kill, its over three turns so your opponent has all the time in the world to react, it takes a bigger mana investment, and it detracts from your beatdown plan which is the win con the majority of the time. Long story short, don't do it.

[blackychan1]

I have decided to main deck the {archangel of thune} + {spike feeder} combo. Where should it go? I do not currently own a linvala. (Traded it for a misty) so I may temporarily keep archangel in linvalas spot. But I need a permanent place for her.

[Hunteroffire9]

I have decided to main deck the {archangel of thune} + {spike feeder} combo. Where should it go? I do not currently own a linvala. (Traded it for a misty) so I may temporarily keep archangel in linvalas spot. But I need a permanent place for her.

All of the decks that play the archangel/ feeder combo cut the Melira combo and the deck is no longer called melira pod its angel pod xD

Proooof:
http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/luck-skill-victory-angel-pod/

[blackychan1]

But I like the Melira combo! Nothing runs both?