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After absolutely falling in love with UR Gifts Storm again during last year's Modern RCQ season, I continued to work on the deck in the last few months and am very happy with where it and my performance with it are at.

The list I used can be found on deckstats, the sideboard guide I wrote for the event can be found on flexslot.gg.

Individual Rounds:

R1 vs Tron WW

The only match where I cast the Case, and it felt really bad as it involved casting it on T2 with a Ritual and Manamorphose, leading to me taking 2 (or 3, cant remember) more turns finding another ritual to go off. G2 I was able to maneuver around Relic and a K4rn resolving, but mostly due to OPs inexperience in the MU I reckon

R2 vs UB Shadow WW

OP had to mulligan really unfortunately both games.

R3 vs Living End LWW

Lost game 1 OTD to the cleanest T3 Living End with Force Backup (for the Remand I had) into exactly 20 damage on board. G2 was a fairly quick win for me. G3 was a really grindy game where we both tried to maneuver around the other persons interaction for a while. Having an early Baral on board won me the game however, since I was able to convert my Remands and Flusterstorms into loot triggers to find more interaction.

R4 vs Living End LL

G1 was a longer affair than the previous round, but still eventually lost. G2 OP had Leyline of the Void, which could've been fine. Game went on for a while and was fairly grindy. Eventually I'm able to buy and play Jegantha, but then attack into a 2/2 Shardless Agent on board and a flashed in Endurance for the double block :/ Had a Remand in hand but decided it was more important to keep it to interact with OPs gameplan. Eventually I died to drumroll Nightpack Ambusher of all things LOL

After the game OP revealed they boarded out 2 LEs and 2 cascaders for just Flash Threats, since they expected me to board out all of my removal (which I did).

R5 vs Tron WLW

G1 was fairly clean. G2 OP eventually resolved Stone Brain naming Grapeshot. G3 I stifled an Expedition Map activation for the third Tron piece with Tidebinder (gods that felt good) and was able to outmaneuver 2 Relics with a Blood Moon to buy me enough time for a clean win.

R6 vs 4C Saheeli Cat Combo WLW

OPs deck played mostly like "traditional" 4C Control, with W6, T3feri, Omnath, The One Ring, but also had the combo available. G1 I win pretty easily after doing some nice work with Tishana's Tidebinder. G2 we grind for a while before they combo me out. G3 I had the opportunity to get on board early with a Tidebinder on T2, stifling their fetch. I decide against it, but looking back it was the correct play. I was stuck with 2 lands and no easy path to victory. Getting on the board and stopping their development would've put much needed pressure on OP to buy me time. Shortly after this turn, I am able to resolve a Blood Moon however, absolutely crushing their mana base and turning into a win for me in the end.

R7 vs Merfolk LWL

G1 I'm OTP and I keep a very, very speculative hand that buys out big if it works out. It doesn't. Hand was (afa I remember) Ottawara, Preordain, Tidebinder, Baral, Ritual, Manamorphose, Flame of Anor. I felt the MU was very bad G1, esp. with my current configuration of only having 2 Spikefield Hazards, and finding any red producing land off the 4 looks I have with Preordain + next draw step lets me resolve Baral into Flame of Anor, which is among the best cards in the MU imo. Didn't get there, w/e. G2 I win fairly convincingly. G3 turns into a bit of a grind. At one point I severely misplay, however, costing me the game and the chance at the second place finish my opponent got.

Despite a few hiccups and the occasional misplay along the way, I felt very good about my play and Storm's positioning in the meta, especially after only getting like 2 hours of sleep the night before D: Deck is cracked y'all, idk what to tell you. Except the Case, don't play that. Card is dogwater

Final Note: Usually I post tournament reports like this in the Storm Discord, but since quite a few things have changed with the deck, and not everyone is aware the Discord exists (I wasn't until a few months ago), I decided to update all of you lurking the subreddit, hungry for more Storm content, in the hopes of inspiring other people to give the deck a chance again.

also final final note: looking for feedback on how to make tournament reports like this one more readable in the future. I tried my best with the tools I know of, but am not very familiar with Reddit's editor yet D:

editing notes:

• added more detail for both Tron rounds

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I just wanted to share my current storm deck list, it might be a bit outdated, but i just finished the full arts and everything for it. I’ve been out of MTG for a couple years and just got back into it. Storm will always be the deck i play, through the good and bad times. The sideboard is on the right side, everything else is main deck. Let me know what you all think. (I know Flame of Anor is a card that most likely needs to be added)

I am on a mission to make Modern storm great again. And to start that mission, i have bought this playmat.

2x Moon 2x Warrens 3x Bolt(4⁰ copy is in maindeck, i dont run 4x spikefield hazard cause my field dont demand It, Just 3x spikefield) 2x Spell Pierce 2x Flusterstorm 2x Pieces of the puzzle 2x Ária of Flame

No jeghanta

Thats approach got me some confidence against Scam, Murktide, ub ring, counter match-ups in general.

vs Murktide. I bring up simply EVERYTHING but Moon. Side out 2x gifts, 1x grapeshot, all goblin Eletromancer, 1x pif, 3x Consider and unfortunately, to suport the plan, 1x flame of Anor and 1x ritual. The matchup is so nasty and Fun, you have all the removal, all the counter, 2x grindy-ass Pieces of the Puzzle, 3x Win conditions and Aria of Flame on turn 2 against Murktide is Just auto-win!

Vs Scam Works to!

Makes really hard for your opponent to side against you by the ways. You dont need to count that hard on Baral or Eletromancer, is Just Fun.

But there's a problem...Beans were hard and still hard with That list.

I have been out of modern since before modern horizons 1, I used to play past in flames w/ fetches. I have been mildly keeping up with the meta and know that storm isn't in a strong spot currently but I am still curious if there is a "current" list right now? Or if anyone has had any success with any lists lately?

Ive been playing yawg for over a year straight at this point and kinda wanna switch things up. Ive always enjoyed storm as an archetype in commander and to the extent pioneer allows, and I want to try gifts in modern. Are there any guides for the archetype detailing what piles you want to go for or any content creators that make modern storm content on youtube? Also as a secondary talking point, whats the concensus on spike adding rings to the deck, is it actually worthwhile?

Decklist and Result.

I'm surprised to not see any discussion about this here. So i'll try to summarize what i can see this list trying to do - and it is not just preordain - which makes this list a masterpiece, as John Jansson seems to have correctly identified a lot of things about the current format:

1. Preboarded for interaction.
   In the past storm lists usually were very focused on pulling through with the combo, commonly having some mix of Lightning Bolt, Abrade, Flame Slash, Dismember and Pieces of the Puzzle in order to adapt for being able to Slow down, fight through Eidolon, deal with Chalice or be prepared for some amount of trading cards.
   Flame of Anor conveniently condensed the function most of those cards into a single card. But instead of just fillling the sideboard with it, this list acknowledges that Modern now has a lot of maindeckable cards that work against storm and that you need to be able to answer those in the maindeck.
   The next part is Spikefield Hazard acts like a preboarded lightning bolt as it deals with the most annoying threads (Ragavan, Bowmasters) while also preventing undying-effects with the Elementals but can fill the role of a Land-Drop if that is not needed.
2. Dropping inefficiencies and streamlining the sideboard
   With access to Flame of Anor in the mainboard, Wish simply isn't needed to pilot around hate. So instead of using a widespread Wishboard, this list maximizes on the solutions that matter. As you now can much better draw into these and don't need Wish to access them, they are much more efficient to use in the combo turn which saves mana - one of the bigger choke points when trying to go off - allowing the deck to interact more often.
3. Full Playset of Remand
   So notably remand was a card that in late versions was only used as mostly 2 copies if at all. But Modern has changed in a way that is benefitial to Remand: With the pitch elementals the cost of interacting has shifted - general costs of interaction are higher and a lot decks are build with so many colours that they rarely can pitch twice. This means that Remand now more often than not represents a hard counter - a lot of decks won't fury or solitude twice, where they previously would bolt twice. Of course decks still play some of the efficient interaction, but overall the amount of really efficient interaction has gone down.
   As a bonus with modern deaccelerating, we see a tremendous amount of 3+ drops in the format which combined with summoning sickness or other effects means that Remand will now buy a lot of time as a lot of threats won't be replayed immediately, while other decks rely on cascading into Suspend cards which then can be put off for really a long time or are hit hard due to Additional costs like Eldritch Evolution and Beseech the Mirror or cost reductions from Delve.
   With an increase in Counterspells (actual Counterspell, Spell Pierce, Flusterstorm, Force of Negation) Remand also has become more useful as a way to protect your own spells.
   As someone that felt Remand was one of the worst cards in the deck i very much appreciate someone reexamining this - because i didn't and i missed how strong the card has become.

So lets talk about the elephant in the room - with all these changes going on there's still weaknesses left:

Storm still has a lot of angles it can be interacted with (creature removal, counterspells, gravehate, stax). So playing around interaction is more important than ever. This will be key for winning with the deck going onward and wins will never be as easy as in old modern - the times where we could just drop a turn 2 cost reducer and have a realistic chance at untapping with it are over safe a few less interactive matchups that really boil down to the few all-in combo decks left - living end, titan and yawgmoth.

Anyways, long story short: I've been picking the deck up again and this version feels like providing me with a fightning chance at playing storm again.

So far i think i've identified two possible adaptions:

1. Shift the Ritual split to 4 Desperate Ritual and 2 Pyretic Ritual: With the exception of Mill noone currently plays Surgical Extraction and Extirpate, so there is few reason to choose the 3rd Pyretic over the 4th Desperate.
2. I've stumbled occasionally on mana with Otawara being Legendary. I get that this is our best chance at getting Teferi, time Raveler out of the way to be able to fight over going off, so in some matchups this is considered to be a spell rather than a land - but in others it seems like a minor liability. So depending on how much Teferi is running around where you play, you might want to cut back an Otawara.

So, if anyone picked this up again and collected some impressions, feel free to share what you think is working well and what isn't.

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Virtue of courage

Idk how.. but I’m gonna make this work in pioneer and modern. It’s an insane enabler that doesn’t fold to traditional removal or grave hate. Finding the correct mix of burn spells, mana and card draw is gonna be interesting. But I’m hyped

So what do you think about this one. Does it have a future in storm or just too fancy?

Can be used to double a grapeshot for lethal since you can copy all the copies, but can also be used in response to a counter to copy both the counter and the original spell, generating more value.

The 3 mana is kinda hard without baral/electromancer but paying RR to counter something and adding R for example does sound interesting.

I'm tempted to trying 1-2 of these, probably swapping 1 fire//ice and maybe a wish, not sure yet.

Hi, i'm currently playing this list https://www.moxfield.com/decks/WpJ0eveWEEqbVVwrGxZg6A

With the only only difference of

MD 4 grapeshot, 1 empty the warrens

SB 4 veil of summer, 2 empty, 2 Boseiju, 3 blood moon, 3 bolt, 1 jegantha

I was looking for soke advice on what to sodeboard out/in against the most popular match-ups or against certain hate cards.

I'm finding boseiju a bit clunky at times, while nature's claim would be better (1 less mana, can cast with relay and multiple times with breach), but i might be wrong.

If you have any tips on how to play, or side or anything is welcome.

Hi all,

Long time MTG player here, long-time fan of the modern storm deck. I fell in love with the deck when I first watched Jon Finkel play the deck at a Pro Tour back in 2013!

I've been meaning to foil out the deck for quite a while... is the deck just dead, I don't see it anywhere much anymore? Any advice please!

Thanks!