Ramp into Ætherling

[the_intelligentleman]

Alright. I like the card {Ætherling}. A lot. And I was wondering if there was anyway to make it fit in a modern deck. So here's my thought. Ramp into it. A turn three of four Aetherling is pretty darn good. I need help though and have no idea how to make it work. Thoughts?

[cltrn81]

Personally I feel it is unplayable in modern.  Even ramping into it does not guarantee to have an open mana available to save him from removal.  A ramp deck should be doing better things with a six mana creature IMHO.

[Kaalia with haste]

Could maybe be a control deck win condition. That's about all I've got for it though.

[Munchlax]

Could maybe be a control deck win condition. That's about all I've got for it though.

There are better cards to win in control with

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

Yeah, the biggest problem is that you are looking at 7 mana for it to be effective and a UG shell to make it work, you might as well play {Scapeshift} at that point.

[blackychan1]

Scapeshift+ ætherling??
Scæpthershift?

[Kaalia with haste]

Could maybe be a control deck win condition. That's about all I've got for it though.

There are better cards to win in control with

That's true, I didn't say it was the best control deck win condition, I just said it could be one

[cltrn81]

It is an out of the box idea and I do not mean to shoot it down without giving it a thought.

I just think any deck with {U} as control is doing other things with their mana.  Casting a {6} CMC creature is not typically what {U} control wants to do.  Then you talk about ramp and {G} comes to mind......at that point your {6} CMC creature may as well be a {primeval titan} or something like that.  I am just trying to wrapt head around a deck that what's that {6} CMC creature so bad and I do not see it.

It takes a lot of mana to get him to the point that he is swinging unblockable as a big creature and at that point, what does your opponents board state look like?