I will be playing Humans in the coming Grand Prix Hong Kong 2018. On what would be the reason for that final deck choice is due to the presence of Combo archetypes in the Modern format. The deck is somewhat resilient in stopping off these decks from going off with their combo.

What my issue currently though is the time to review and playtest the matchups with the Tier 1 decks in the current metagame. I remembered the last time I played the decks was last April in a Friday Night Magic held at Critical Hit in Atria. A lot has changed especially in the recent major Modern tournaments. The last Pro Tour 25th Anniversary in which the format was Team Trios saw the emergence of the BRVine deck that has explosive openings. It somewhat has copied the speed of the Vengevine deck in Legacy at the time Survival of the Fittest was still legal. It is another deck that can overpower the Combo archetypes as well as the Humans deck. It would matter on the good sideboard setup.

As of this posting, I have just made a few viewing of the MTGO streams of the pros that are using the deck. I then have talked with Ramon to schedule a gauntlet playtest and a good thing is that we have agreed to have it this coming Saturday evening. DURP classes for the first semester is just starting and so there is still no hectic assignment and study of the report just yet.

I have also talked with the store owner of Nth Dimension to hold a Modern FNM on Friday though we are still gathering the participants.

I am hoping this weekend will be a productive playtest of the deck and also to learn a lot with the popular matchups. The final decklist to be posted soon.

Until the next post.