While I imagine that any deck playing As Foretold , Mission Briefing , and suspend spells will be light on creatures, the ability to play a free sweeper off your As Foretold is still some serious value. Transmute for 0 lets you find a Vision or Living End whenever you need it. These cards all play incredibly well in a Taking Turns shell! Time Walk effects are a great way to find the spells you need and to build up counters on your As Foretold.
One of the sweetest things you can do with all of these cards is to then combo Snapcaster Mage with Mission Briefing. Taking Turns is one of the sweetest decks in Modern, and it looks like Guilds of Ravnica has provided a sweet new tool to add yet another dimension to the deck! Skip to content. Creatures 2 x Snapcaster Mage.
Buy This List. Scavenging Ooze stops the Sword of the Meek half of the Thopter Foundry combo, and it should prove useful against the upcoming increase in Snapcaster Mage. The Modern version of Shardless Sultai must give up its namesake, Shardless Agent , and the ability to cascade into Ancestral Vision , but Snapcaster Mage will do just fine in the role of card advantage-generating creature.
Night of Souls' Betrayal is a fantastic permanent solution to Thopter Foundry , and it's oppressive against creature decks like Infect and even Affinity.
Golgari Charm is another card that can sweep all Thopter Token s. Thrun, the Last Troll hasn't seen play in a while, but it remains one of the finest ways to beat control decks that rely on counterspells and removal. Control decks haven't had a ton of success in Modern, and gaining access to Ancestral Vision will do a lot to make them viable.
Control has had to learn to exist without high-quality card draw, and the most successful approach has been Jeskai, which has access the the most efficient creature removal in the format, Lightning Bolt and Path to Exile. It has fallen out of favor, however, and was mostly absent from the metagame last year. Ancestral Vision is right at home in a deck heavy with cheap disruption spells, so it will breathe new life into Jeskai Control.
Maybe the disruption red provides isn't necessary. Ancestral Vision is not so well-suited in this role, because these decks ideally cast a creature on turn one to start the pressure early. That being said, Ancestral Vision is powerful enough that it could make up for its slow speed.
Here's my update with Ancestral Vision :. Ancestral Vision isn't as fast as Treasure Cruise , so this deck is more oriented towards the late game and grinding.
Goblin Guide drawing the opponent lands gives them card advantage right back, so I don't believe it's ideal here. I like the idea of Grim Lavamancer , which uses the graveyard that Treasure Cruise is no longer feeding off. Grim Lavamancer is at its best over a long game where it has time to operate, and it's a control card in the early game that helps buy time to reach the late game, so it's a great fit here.
Ancestral Vision will sit well with Thing in the Ice , which has received a lot of hype as blue's best new tool in Modern. It's similar to Tarmogoyf in that it's a robust creature, and it's like Young Pyromancer because it benefits from many spells being cast.
Blue decks splash colors in part because blue creatures are weak, and other colors provide better options. Tarmogoyf has long-been jokingly referred to as the best blue creature in Magic. Actually being blue, Thing in the Ice offers the potential for a deck without a splash.
If one color will get the job one, then playing more only reduces consistency. Here's how a mono-blue Thing in the Ice deck might look:. Bitterblossom and Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle were banned at Modern's inception, and since being unbanned they've each added depth to the Format without causing any imbalances. Ancestral Vision is a card with much deeper implications, and it's going to change the way blue Modern decks are built going forward.
I hope I've shed some light on how Ancestral Vision can be used in Modern, and inspired some ideas of your own.
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