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Sometimes failure leads to better insights. Right now, i'm just like "head in front of the wall" until the wall breaks. In preparation for GP Madrid i've put Affinity to the test and my failure rate is great. By all means, now i know what a real great aggro deck is - and how complicated board states could be. I didn't respect this for all years playing magic and that makes me sad again :( No matter what, after the GP i'm likely running Bant Knightfall or (even better) Vengevine Aggro / Hollow One. Here's what i'm running for now. First: Super Vengevine A MTGsalvation user created the following beauty: 4 Bloodstained Mire 4 Wooded Foothills 2 Stomping Ground 4 Copperline Gorge 3 Mountain 1 Forest 4 Insolent Neonate 4 FAithless Looting 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Vengevine 4 Burning-Tree Emissary 4 Hidden Herbalists 4 Reckless Bushwhacker 3 Hooting Mandrills 3 Myr Superion 4 Gather the Pack 4 Commune with the Gods I've played...

Embracing disbelief Amongst players, a lot of common misconceptions regarding the Modern-Format are wide-spread. I’m at no means a pro-level player, but my highly-controversial opinions are well-funded. Indeed I do not know what is probably the best deck, the hottest tech or either the best play in any given situation.  But I know what things surely do not work – and how many traps there are to fall into. In this article  I want to clarify 3 common misconceptions that are well-accepted and wide-spread amongst players. First – Sideboard Hosers I wrote about this issue a couple of times (starting to begin stale), but this time somehow a little bit more exhaustive. Sideboard Hosers are those Cards that are able to put the game away in itself. Either Blood Moon against Junk Midrange, Stony Silence against Affinity or Mirran Crusader vs. Grixis Death’s Shadow.  If they got to work, they put in a lot of work. If not the next couple of turns are ...