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Modern: Jeskai Stoneblade and Anti-Meta Decks
23/10/21 0 comments
This article brings a different version of Jeskai Stoneblade, entirely focused on responding to Modern's current Metagame.
antimeta
decks. Today we're going to talk a little about the version ofJeskai Stoneblade
that playerTalisker
used to get a solid Top 1 position in the October 16th ChallengeAd
The Decklist

very
present in the metagame: Cascade Decks and Lurrus Decks. If on one side a Chalice with0 counters
completely stops Crashing Footfalls and Living End, we also have the Chalice withone counter
, which stops virtually all one drops, including the most relevant ones at the moment, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Dragon's Rage Channeler, Death's Shadow, Thoughtseize, Unholy Heat, among several other cards that are extremely present in the format. To take advantage of a symmetrical effect like the Chalice, the deck is built around the use of spells costing 1, the only exception is Prismatic Ending, which even withMana Value
1, can dodge the Chalice by adding some value in X. Yes, it's a choice that makes the deck slower and with fewer options for sequencing plays in the first turns, but it was a conscious choice by the deckbuilder, who followed the line of leaning on the victories that Chalice delivers almost by itself, and try to dissipate as much of this drawback as possible.
fetchlands
andshocklands
, Modern is a format where it's possible to be quite greedy with color choices, decks with three, four and even five colors aren't all that uncommon, but of course everything has a cost and a punishment, and the Blood Moon shows that punishment in the simplest way. "Do you have a nonbasic land? I hope you also have use for red mana." Furthermore, it has specific advantages in the current scenario. Thanks to not always so simple game rules, Blood Moon automatically sends all Urza's Sagas on the battlefield straight to the Graveyard, regardless of how many counters it has. In addition, Modern is full of decks with specific lands that turn out to be important cards for strategy, such as Tron lands and the Amulet Titan'sbouncelands
, so crippling non-basic lands turns out to be a more advantageous effect than it appears.
Cascade
, or theSuspend
cards itself.Ad
Disruptions and Winconditions
disruptions
andwinconditions
(in some cases both at the same time). As the deck's strategy is to spend the first turns sapping the opponent's resources and/or casting cards that leave the game in Jeskai's favor, the first turns of the deck are very proactive in terms of using mana, so Talisker chose to not using counterspells (which in my opinion was very assertive). Therefore, the disruption of the deck is based on removals.


Alternate Card Choices
prison
version of the archetype That said, I've decided to sort out the viable options that best fit the strategy discussed, and it's those options that we're going to talk about here.Ad

definitive
, not caring about mana or with the target's toughness, the card is a very viable option for cases where the problematic creature is beyond the range of other removals from the deck. Even with the less aggressive body than the other creatures in the deck and not having that many white cards on the list to cast Solitude by evoke, I'd say it's worth to try a copy or two.
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