One big problem with the deck is that, in a format of ruthless and quick combo decks, Living End usually makes a cursory effort of winning around turn 4, and doesn’t close out the game immediately. The fact that Living End has a failure rate – that manifests itself in hilarious ways – is a knock against the deck from a pilot’s point of view, but speaks well to its contribution to the format). (And of course, there are the games where Plan A is called off and you start hardcasting Valley Rannets, or you resolve a small or ‘desperation’ Living End and get to relive Alara Limited.
Need to find a sideboard card to answer their hate? You may be drawing to two or three outs, but you have many more streets to hit them on. Want to match the control deck land drop for land drop? Seeing at least one extra card a turn lets you do that. This helps the deck tremendously against discard and in any kind of long game. The conceptual beauty of Living End is that your cyclers both put themselves where they need to be for Living End and get you one card closer to a cascade spell. Hypergenesis was much more explosive than Living End and was capable of much more busted starts, but in trading Emrakul for Deadshot Minotaur you gain a certain consistency.
#Seismac swans pro#
This year it appeared on Magic’s largest stage in the hands of Michael Hetrick, who booked a 8-0 start at Pro Tour Valencia before falling back into the pack on Day 2: Creatures (29) Since then it’s been the subject of occasional PTQ/GP Top 8s and frequent mockery, both of which it deserves. In Extended, you could live every Timmy’s fantasy: Lands (21)Īnd there’s always that guy who loves playing Restore Balance: Creatures (14)įans of 5th-pick draft commons have had it good in Modern and its predecessors since 2010, when Living End arrived on the scene. In Standard, this meant the delightful Seismic Swans deck: Lands (41)
If you’re willing to contort your spell base so that only one card is on or below the CMC threshold, you can guarantee that a cascade spell will hit that card every time and so build your deck accordingly. At its most ‘fair’ this involved Shardless Agent into Ancestral Vision or Bloodbraid Elf into Boom // Bust, but this quickly moves into unfair territory once you carry this idea to its logical extreme. With the release of Alara Reborn, players quickly found ways to exploit cascade by using mechanics with wonky costs such as suspend and split cards to bypass cascade’s CMC restriction. Now that the Modern PTQ season is over, it’s a great time to explore some more decks that I can’t be tempted to waste a PTQ shot on for another 8 months now! Let’s set the stage first:
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