While getting one of our non-basic lands turned into a basic land isn't a big deal, the problem with Field of Ruin is that it forces us to shuffle our library (the searching for a land isn't optional, like it is with Ghost Quarter). Thankfully, we didn't run into Field of Ruin, which is an incredibly good foil to our deck.Our last game against Eldrazi Tron was a good example of how it's possible to Polymorph into Emrakul and have it still not be enough to win the game (while we did end up winning, if our opponent had saced a land instead of Chalice of the Void, we probably would have lost on the backswing, even after annihilating six permanents). On the other hand, we have the upside that our combo is always lethal. While the fact that we have to wait a turn to win after activating our Proteus Staff is sometimes frustrating, the same is true of using Polymorph to find an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn (although with Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, we do have a blocker, which helps to make sure we survive). As for the combo itself, it was surprisingly effective.While this isn't horribly slow, it's certainly possible that we get run over by aggro the turn before we are able to close out the game. Our absolute best draw is to make tokens on Turn 2, cast Proteus Staff on Turn 3, activate Proteus Staff to stack our deck on Turn 4, and win on Turn 5. One of the challenge of the deck is that, while consistent, it isn't as fast as some other combo decks in Modern.In hindsight, we probably should have kept the Blood Moon that we scryed to the bottom of our deck in game two, but the combination of the slowness of our combo and our opponent's big, disruptive creatures made it a challenging matchup either way. Our one loss came to GR Eldrazi, which feels like a hard matchup.While the plan of Proteus Hunt looks very strange on paper, apparently it actually works! We played a friendly league and, against all odds, ended up going 4-1.
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Is it actually possible that using the artifact to stack our deck can work in a format as powerful as Modern? Are there really situations where the Treasure Hunt / Lightning Storm kill is better than just getting an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn for our Polymorph in troubles? Let's get to the video and find out then, we'll talk more about the deck!
Playing Proteus Staff without any Emrakul, the Aeons Torn in the main deck feels really strange. Last week during our Instant Deck Techs, we had a clear winner: everyone wanted to see the crazy Proteus Hunt deck that's build around Polymorphing with no creatures in the deck to stack our library before winning with Treasure Hunt, a ton of lands, and Lightning Storm. Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Much Abrew About Nothing.
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