Let's try a deck - Modern RG Ponza

In my quest to try different Modern decks I am now testing RG Ponza - Red Green ramp with land destruction. I have a soft spot in my heart for this kind of deck as I once won entry on the Pro Tour playing a similar deck. Blood Moon might be my favorite magic card.

Here is the current deck list I am using:

4 Arbor Elf
1 Beast Within
2 Birds of Paradise
4 Bonfire of the Damned
4 Inferno Titan
1 Chandra, Pyromaster
4 Stone Rain
1 Kessig Wolf Run
3 Stomping Ground
4 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
2 Primal Command
1 Mountain
8 Forest
2 Stormbreath Dragon
2 Thragtusk
4 Utopia Sprawl
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Blood Moon

4 Ancient Grudge
2 Anger of the Gods
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Sudden Shock
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Lightning Bolt


The initial video


Match against Mono White Humans


Match against Bant Eldrazi




More Let's try a deck articles:

Let's try a deck Modern Living End: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2017/05/lets-try-deck-modern-living-end.html

Mirage Block Flashback Drafts

Do you recognise this card? You should. It is the #1 expensive card on MTGO, but it will not remain in that position for long. Why? Because it is a promo, a very likely reprint in Vintage Masters and it is getting flashbackdrafted today.

That is right. Mirage Block Drafts! Happening on Magic Online today.

If you get a LED, sell it immediatly IMHO.

So how do you win the MI/VI/WL drafts? Well, I have some experience doing just that when they were drafted last time (October 2012). Here is what I learned:

• Everyone Thinks GR is the best archetype. It isn't. But be aware of this!
• Many games will go to time, so be sure to be quick on Magic Online!
• Blue is overpowered as was often the case with the old sets
• Do not play more than two colors.
• Blue-White flyers is a good deck
• Blue-Black control works wonders.
• Crypt Rats and Kaervek's Torch are really good cards, but you want to be Blue Black and not Blue Red if you can help it.
• Evasion wins games. It is not hard to clog the ground so the RG beasts can't get in.
• Do not draft RG unless it is severely underdrafted. It will most likely be overdrafted as everyone wants to get in on the Torch action.
• You have to know all the tricks you can do with a Quirion Ranger, even if you are not playing a green deck yourself.
• Blue tempo works extremely well thanks to Undo and Man-o-War.
• Breezekeeper, Azimaet Drake and Cloud Elemental win games.

Money cards to look for

Money rares: Lion's Eye Diamond, Cursed Totem, Phyrexian Dreadnaught, Vampiric Tutor, Mox Diamond, Null Rod, Firestorm, Doomsday, Natural Order, Undiscovered Paradise

Money Commons: Crypt Rats, Impulse, Fireblast, Quirion Ranger, Spinning Darkness