

Speaking of discard outlets, the situation now changes dramatically with Innistrad: Midnight Hunt. With other words: it is a two-for-one in our deck. Four copies might sound much, but Modern is a creature-heavy format, and we lack cards like Faithless Looting and Careful Study as discard outlets. Graceful Restoration and Priest of Fell Rites may not be as high powered as Persist, but they get the job done while being cards that can be pitched to either Elemental.ĭamn is damn good because it is not a dead sweeper when we got our own fatty on the board, and even Bone Shards fits our deck excellently because we can further our game plan and still get value. Ephemerate also makes sense because our main reanimation targets, Archon of Cruelty and Ashen Rider, have enter the battlefield triggers. This gives the deck a lot of flexibility. Since the Elementals get sacrificed after having been evoked, they can be targeted again by Persist if needed. Just like the Modern Elemental deck, this one also uses the new Elemental creatures, Solitude and Grief here, combined with Ephemerate. So now, twenty years later, Wizards finally decided to open the cemetery gates to introduce a reasonably weakened descendant of Entomb into the Modern card pool. No wonder they put a tombstone on it … This is a spell you don't want to see haunting Modern. It is a really powerful, sick Magic card, one that was banned in Legacy and restricted in Vintage at a certain point in time. Reanimator by David Humpherys, Top 4 at Pro Tour New Orleans 2001 (Extended)Įntomb is the cheapest and fastest way to populate your graveyard.
