Silent Scepter
Modern Deck Help forum
Posted on Aug. 9, 2020, 1:20 a.m. by OneWinged
Silent Scepter
Modern
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I want to make a hardlock with Silence and Teferi, Time Raveler. I need help to make it more consistent.
Thanks for the feedback, Xica. Truly appreciate it.
I'm very determined to stick with Silence, Teferi and the Scepter. On the other hand, I dont think the 3 are really needed. I think it's worth it to cast Silence without the Scepter on T4 (to lock for a turn, for example), and you can retrieve it with Mystic Sanctuary later if needed.
Nonetheless, this deck lacks consistency and I'm really lost ad to which direction to take to change that.
August 9, 2020 11:07 a.m.
Well, if you lack consistency, adding more card draw would likely help. Being limited to a single playset of Serum Visions is very much not acceptable outside all in aggro and burn.
Isochron Scepter is best when you can combine it with multiple playset of cards that are as good with it as Silence.
Imprinting Lightning Bolt on it, gives you Lightning Strike, which is not only unplayable, but strictly better variants like Incendiary Flow or Incinerate are also unplayable.
For this reason i would either suggest dropping red all together, or doing a large search for effects worth imprinting. You need to look for unique stuff.
As very often this reduces consistency, and bars power cards from seeing play, and getting recognition.
Effects like Silence that have been only printed in a single card, to ensure a deck can't abuse mutliple playsets.
August 9, 2020 11:42 a.m.
Yeah, adding card draw that also synergizes with the Scepter seems like a good path to go. I have searched quite a bit and found some interesting choices: Manamorphose, Hallowed Moonlight, Shadow of Doubt, Azorius Charm.
As for not running red, I could consider that, but Lightning Helix seems so good on the Scepter considering the amount of fetchlands and shocklands. I would need to investigate if running UW is actually more consistent though.
August 9, 2020 12:16 p.m.
Lightning Helix is not that great.
If you imprint it, you need to give up t2, and against most decks its not any better than imprinting bolt.
Its a great card against burn, sadly modern has a lot more decks, whose damage imput doesn't scale linearly with their mana expenditure, and can easily outdamage 3 life gained per turn.
August 9, 2020 1:46 p.m.
Flooremoji says... #7
Reminds me of thoose Possibility Storm lock decks :)
Stick that with Lavinia, Azorius Renegade or Teferi, Time Raveler and you have the same effect.
I think that Imprinting a bolt is fine (see Punishing Fire), and most creature decks will struggle to deal with it.
August 9, 2020 2:15 p.m.
We live in a day where Wild Nacatl, is not the "creature so strong it need a ban", its an insignificantcard that doesn't see play anymore.
Punishing Fire is terribly weak, when it faces card like Gurmag Angler, Bedlam Reveler, Thing in the Ice Flipand the likes.
Xica says... #2
If you want a hard lock with Teferi, Time Raveler i would suggest going into esper colors.
And using targeted discard on opponent's upkeep, if you add Raven's Crime you get a recursive discard.
Thats a 2 card combo, as opposed to the Silence + Teferi, Time Raveler + Isochron Scepter combo, which is very inconsistent thanks to the number of cards it asks you to find in your 60.
August 9, 2020 6:50 a.m.