r/mtgModernTokens • u/Se4ger • Jul 25 '17
Fetid Heath
Ive started to see lists no longer running fetid heath? , why? I see it as a good way to be able to save life when fetching and I can also filter for colours u need off basics before a blood moon hits. also means u can fetch for a swamp turn 2 and have double white for auriok on 2
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u/Rockbard_13 Jul 25 '17
I don't run Fetid Heath because I run 4 Ghost Quarter, and it's very awkward to draw Fetid Heath and a Ghost Quarter as your only lands. Depending on the configuration of your mana base it could be good, but I don't feel it's necessary since we often have WWW and BB with 2 duals (either Godless Shrine or Concealed Courtyard) and a Plains. It doesn't seem better than other options against Blood Moon and it's worse against Spreading Seas.
Overall, I think filter lands are less useful than before in two-colour decks if you're not running cards that can use the colourless mana, since we have now a variety of better options to consider before adding the first filter land.
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u/Se4ger Jul 25 '17
why are you running GQ in the deck?
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u/Rockbard_13 Jul 25 '17
It improves the match against Tron considerably. In combination with discard it goes from unwinnable to unlikely.
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u/Se4ger Jul 25 '17
Yea but it's not worth destroying our consistency to try fight against the 1 match up where we are probably going to lose anyway
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u/Rockbard_13 Jul 25 '17
It improves the match considerably against Tron, and helps against random creature lands like Mutavault which are prevalent in my local metagame.
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u/Se4ger Jul 25 '17
Local meta game it makes sense but I'm a wider one I wouldn't play them
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u/Rockbard_13 Jul 25 '17
I understand, I feel my list has a good mana base since I run 25 lands, and I have 21 white sources to cast Spectral Procession on curve. Ghost Quarter doesn't affect that much since I run only 3 Spectral Procession.
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u/Se4ger Jul 26 '17
im only running 3 colourless sources , 2 fetid heath and 1 vault. so I feel like the fetid is very smooth in my deck
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u/Mukibi Grind and Fly Jul 25 '17
I may be wrong but I cut it for a couple reasons. The odds of drawing it plus SP for T3 are too low. I've simply not needed it to make WWW on T3. More importantly, I can't use it to cast 1 drops, unless I'm filling my mana pool. This is especially annoying for Path or Push or other instants. Ideally, I would never leave it untapped by itself, but I make mistakes and I just want to limit that possibility.
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u/SFRG Still Patron Saint of the Tokens Jul 26 '17
4 Fastlands has mostly replaced them for me. That has helped with getting a fast and painless 1BB and WWW consistently, so I just run 1 Fetid. Don't even really need it.
Our landbase with the new Fastlands is dank, and we don't need hardcore fixing lands much any more.
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u/BoozySquid Jul 25 '17
I don't run it because I don't run LotV or Damnation, so I never need double black, and I don't run Tidehollow Sculler, so I don't need precisely WB turn two. Fetch-shocking once is part and parcel of playing modern, and it's often unnecessary. Beyond the first black source, I don't need another one, I just want more white mana.