No longer did the deck rely solely on being a combo deck with an awkward control package. The end product only slightly resembled the previous fringe budget deck I played before. Quickly my plan of spending as little as possible fell apart as I started to value out the deck. However I felt it had very high potential. After some light gold-fishing and a few games later the conclusion became this deck, in its current configuration was trash.
The deck I initially landed on was the super fringe Mono Blue Living End. This lead me to the decision of I want to cast the max amount of Cryptic Commands for the least amount of money as possible. In a conscious effort to continuously improve as a Magic player I wanted to learn “how to Cryptic Command”. What I immediately discovered is the card isn’t as cut and dry as the automatic “counter-draw” I’m used to encountering. I cast the first Cryptic Command I’ve ever cast in my Magic career this year. Usually I lean towards prison style resource denial decks.
Typically when I want to play “control” I do so in a very proactive fashion rather than reactive. However I did not know this and in usual Jeremy Brain fashion I showed up to every event with some monstrosity better left forgotten in a basement. If I had of known this in advance I might have actually tried a bit harder than I did and maybe would have resigned myself to a tier one deck. What we didn’t know at the time is it would be the last Modern PPTQ as far as we can tell. It was definitely the most open I have ever seen the Modern format. This past Modern PPTQ season was an odd spectacle.
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