Miracles decklists put themselves on a spectrum, anywhere from Control deck to Prison deck to Midrange deck, and each version utilizes Monastery Mentor very differently. This is primarily due to the fact that Legacy is still in flux, changing and adapting much like newer Magic formats do. Your browser is not supported for this experience.We recommend using Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari. An Honor Walk allows hospital personnel to stand with the family and commemorate the donor. Dig Through Time and Treasure Cruise both had a massive impact on Legacy, and things were still recovering from the banning of the latter when Monastery Mentor entered the scene and people began to experiment with it. )\nWhenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess. It would not take much effort to turn this into a Mardu Shadow deck (which is something I have yet to see) while keeping the Mentor/Pyromancer plan. We are always closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Wilson Hunter likes to use the term 'subgame' in relation to what Monastery Mentor does to a game, in that it forces your opponent into making decisions that they would otherwise not wish to make. Monastery Mentor is a weird sleeper card It's been legal for about a year, but has not yet broken out to the degree that is probably worthy. If we have a Mentor and two Monks already on the battlefield, Cabal Therapy is six extra damage for one mana. Ill be honest: Lets bring back Lightning Bolt is a pretty awful reason to play a deck. Painful Truths, as well as moving away from any themes (Counter-Top, Stoneforge Mystic, Miracles, etc) helped the second. Visit spanishmonastery.com for more information. The lifegain is not trivial, and anything that can get around Chalice of the Void on one is appealing to me as well. Top 20 Counterspells in Magic: The Gathering, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Predictions. Thanks very much for reading, until next time! I am keeping an eye open for possibly finding room for a fourth Probe, but Ive got admit both that I was happy with three copies and that I sideboarded them out a fair bit. How Do You Break Nahiri, Forged in Fury in Commander. Repeal has a lot of synergy with all of the zero-mana artifacts in the deck: you can play the artifact, Repeal it for X=0 to draw a card, and then replay it, generating three prowess triggers in the process. Be sure to let me know on Twitter at @Rappaciousone. I knew I wasnt going to have the bandwidth to play a ton of games, so when I had a chance to play some games with new Team Ultra Pro member Corey Burkhart, I spent a few minutes getting some crazy combo decks out of my system (basically two games each with Oops! What about everything we just said about Force of Will? I never got to make this play, as my matches against Thalia never broke that way, but it is cute. The first of these involves the lack of Counterbalance in this decklist. I really, really want to find a home for Crackling Doom in here. In the above match, Claudio pulls ahead due to the sheer power of Monastery Mentor in an otherwise difficult board state, and his decklist leverages the power of the card extremely well, with copies of Daze to supplement that plan even further. Do you have any sweet Mentor builds youd like to share? Its built for decks that want to go wide, and has the added bonus of shrinking the opposing team. Our three one-mana removal spells put us in Mardu. It would be ignorant to not point out that I am very biased in favor of the card: it's won many matches for me, and I love the feeling of accruing value from it over the course of a game of Magic. 16711 West Dixie Highway In these situations, a control deck such as Miracles will have to bob and weave in order to adapt what it's doing, and how it's leveraging its capabilities. Legacy Mentor decks have the luxury of being able to be built as control decks with Mentor as a win condition because the cantrips and counterspell options are so powerful. Legacy decks may consist of cards from all Magic card sets, any edition of the core set, and all special sets, supplements, and promotional printings released by Wizards of the Coast. Hell never suspect! Fearing the hay carried the disease, the Department of Agriculture broke open the boxes and burned the hay upon the shipments arrival in New York. But 12th-century monasteries are not one of them. The Ancient Spanish Monastery sometimes closes for special events, so call ahead to confirm hours at 305-945-1461. Korlash had been great for me at Regionals in my dedicated Grixis Korlash deck, however, this new deck did not use it quite as well. However, Counterbalance still sees play because it becomes an important game plan within the spectrum of Miracles iterations. This list distills the power of Monastery Mentor into three basic concepts, which can be broken down as follows: The first thing that Monastery Mentor asks of you is planning your cantrip sequences with Mentor in mind. Yes, you read that correctly. Perhaps the second copy should be Gurmag Angler, but Im really into the options Tasigur gives us. It took 23 men and three months to open the boxes (which contained seven tons of nails) and remove the stones. Just trust me on that. During this period, Miracles was not the only deck to leverage Monastery Mentor however. My article on UW Miracles covers more concepts about the Prison versions of the archetype, and the decklist for such a strategy below: This decklist is pretty different from every other decklist I've referenced in this article, from all eras of Legacy, and there's quite a bit to discuss, but I think it might be the decklist that does the best job of highlighting the power of Monastery Mentor. Soulfire Grand Master and Magma Spray (which maybe should be Pillar of Flame, still not sure there) are my hedge against Burn. Purchase everything you need for a draft or purchase bot credits to use on our automated trading bots that are online 24/7. be on the defensive and allow you to eventually accrue value and win anyway. This version of the deck has enough removal spells to be able to get into the trenches with decks like Humans and Heliod Company. Both the Esper and Jeskai versions of this deck highlight that there is a lot of room to be explored with Mentor shells. All Rights Reserved. All rights reserved. I'm aware that delver-less delver exists but would prefer not to play it for various reasons. Monastery Mentor is not a swiss army knife that beats everything, and this decklist simply serves to deliver the full potential of the card, but it does create a dynamic that forces you to rely on a specific game plan or axis of interaction, more so than most other Miracles decks. Sacramental stone tables. Mentor itself might be one-dimensional compared to having access to CB/B2B, or more countermagic, but you still have the ability to play a "Blue Jund" style of list that allows you to find what you need to stabilize a game. I didnt actually have either in the build I tested against Corey, but seeing them out of his Shardless Sultai deck made them seem pretty attractive. The Monastery, Offices, and Gift Shop are frequently closed due to church activities and private events. Modern was created by Wizards of the Coast in the Spring of 2011 as a response to the increasing popularity of the Legacy format, which although popular proved difficult to access due to the high price of staple cards. London, a mentor and teachers aide in East Ramapo, had produced fashion shows in Rockland County since 1992. Against opponents with removal, some percentage of the time they dont have it. They have to either kill the Mentor before it gets out of hand (often much more difficult to do that it would seem). In the Prison deck extreme, it's used similarly as a lock piece that has relevancy in blue mirrors as well as against combo decks, and is part of the trifecta of prison elements that the deck looks to leverage. I have thought that card was underrated as a Modern staple for a while, and with the current metagame being full of so many beefy creatures for small investments I cannot imagine it is worse now. It didnt pull its weight this time, but Id want to take a good look at the metagame I expect to face and figure out what percentage of my opponents I would want it against. Monastery Mentor: Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Cards from expansions and special sets (like From the Vault, Commander, Duel Decks, etc) are legal in the Legacy format on the date of release of the expansion or special set. I find strategies like this to be truly incredible: Fairly different from Miracles, this decklist utilizes the synergies between Mentor and depleting your opponent of resources and interactive elements against Monastery Mentor rather than accruing fuel on your own. Love control? Heavy wood strongboxes. Jace, Vryns Prodigy needs support, but aspires to take over the game. You'll often times find yourself ahead of cards from your opponent because of the inherent number of 2-for-1 situations that Monastery Mentor creates across the course of the game. Deathrite Shaman is just so insanely flexible and strong in Legacy, being a Birds of Paradise, a two-damage-a-turn clock, meaningful disruption, and even a source of lifegain to help offset the Painful Truths. Card Name: Monastery Mentor Cost: 2W Color: White Card Type: Creature - Human Monk Power/Toughness: 2/2 Card Number: 020/185 Card Text: Prowess (whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Without question my worst sideboard card. 2 Roast. Monastery Mentor has prowess, so it's a threatening presence by itself, but the tokens it produces also have Prowess! This is due to the desire to chain together spells properly and create decision points early and often, through every stage of the game. 2 Feed the Clan. Dragonlair Spider. Lets say they just tapped out for a Shardless Agent, flipping up a Tarmogoyf or something. There are eight other lands that find Tropical or basic Island, but a second Marsh Flats would offer us still just six ways to find those key basic lands. March of the Machine Extended. And it taps for white instead of colorless. I dont think we want four in the maindeck, but some number is definitely correct. Additionally, I was able to protect Tasigur with Karakas on multiple occasions and I even managed to abuse Tasigur by bouncing him the turn I cast him, exiling ten cards and shrinking two Tarmogoyfs! It's also included in a Patreon membership tier!Speaking of Patreon Get early access to what I'm working on plus extra decklists, sideboard guides, and access to my discord via Patreon.Tier 1 comes with a $5 off code to www.toamagic.com so it's basically free!Tier 2 includes a monthly donation league (cheaper than buying a one-of league)Tier 3 includes monthly coaching sessions (cheaper than paying by the hour)#MTG #MTGLegacy #MTGStrixhaven Recently, daibloXSC finished third in a Modern Challenge with a fresh new take on the Esper Mentor archetype. Now, you get to take that threat of the wide board you presented with Mentor, use your cantrips, and setup a Terminus to reset the board back to parity, perhaps even with a backup Monastery Mentor ready to deploy since you're playing 4 of them. Still, a Tropical Island and four Deathrite Shamans was surely enough green mana to at least sideboard the Abrupt Decays. The main rationale at the time was that it died often in game 1's, as Miracles did not naturally have many creatures that traded unfavorably with removal spells at the time (often just Snapcaster Mages, Vendilion Cliques, and Entreat the Angels tokens). Painful Truths is my answer to that dilemma, and those extra three cards have very often been enough. I believe this evaluation is somewhat short-sighted, and people vastly underestimate the ability to pivot between multiple roles in a specific game, and Mentor Miracles can pivot and close a game out exceptionally quickly, while still maintaining and creating multiple interaction points throughout a match. I just made a list of cards I wanted to play with, massaged some numbers until I could fit as many of them as possible, and shuffled it up. I killed Young Pyromancer and friends, Thalia + Mother of Runes, Empty the Warrens tokens, Monastery Mentor tokens, Dark Confidant, True-Name Nemesis and more. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of $ 2.82. What 4 Mentors mean is not "aggression" but rather, "decisions." document.write( (new Date()).getFullYear()) Copyright MTGO Traders. Besides, its easy to randomly manascrew people in this format sometimes. We ended up going with a split to hedge, but in retrospect, Marsh Flats was much better for me. Monastery Mentor is beloved by many, and while it has succeeded in Legacy, the card hasnt quite had its day in the sun in Modern. We practice what St. Benedict taught his monks: All who present themselves are to be welcomed., The Gardens and Chapel of the Ancient Spanish Monastery offera traditional setting for your most sacred celebration.. Sheldon Menery isn't done making Commander decks based on March of the Machine. Chief among these is one of the tenets of a control deck: stabilization. Copyright 2020 Star City Games. It sounds funny, but when youre working with limited time to make decisions, sometimes the best strategy is to give yourself room to tune your deck over the course of the tournament. I play a Magic the Gathering Online Legacy league with Esper Monastery Mentor Control! Similarly the addition of another eligible target tips the scales in favor of Claim. Its not the perfect choice for this slot, but Dark Confidant felt risky and vulnerable and I was not confident that I could reliably cast Sign in Blood, even if the latter does have the upside of being able to dome the opponent. The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery. Its not just that Jace has the same name as the Mind Sculptor, although that is a part of it. The Ancient Spanish Monastery sometimes closes for special events, so call ahead to confirm hours at 305-945-1461. Check out all the new cards from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, previewed on Thursday, 6/1, Take a journey to Lonely Mountain to awaken the last great dragon. Now, the structures are studied by everyone from artists to historians to writers to architects. Here's an example decklist: The Prison versions of the deck primarily lean on Back to Basics, Counterbalance, and Monastery Mentor to create a trifecta of difficult permanents, each of which covers a different facet of Legacy. I have also squeezed in a one-of Crackling Doom on the off-chance that it is what this style of deck needs, but the rest are in the sideboard for matchups like TitanShift. It turns out that sometimes the easy answer is the best one, so I updated Callum \"WhiteFaces\" Smith's Esper Mentor deck from right after the Oko ban with some sweet new Strixhaven cards and got right to work.Decklist: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3989035#paperTry this deck yourself with the Cardhoarder loan program: https://www.cardhoarder.com/0:00 Intro0:35 Deck Tech4:41 Round 120:15 Round 240:41 Round 31:18:21 Round 41:43:32 Round 52:16:43 Final ThoughtsBusiness inquiries: boshnrollstream@gmail.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/BoshNRollTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/BoshNRollPodcast: https://www.TheEternalGloryPodcast.comWant me to try YOUR favorite deck? 2.75 tix. We would love to greet you and share with you our love for this unique and amazing place and the community that calls it home. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess onto the battlefield. Check out all the new cards from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, previewed on Friday, 6/2. Owen Turtenwalds Twitter feed is basically chronicling his slow descent into madness, but its also a fountain of brilliant insights. Due to the 4 Mentors, Preordain also shines more compared to Portent because the setup of Terminus is less integral to stabilizing the board (as we'll discuss in the next section). Sure, some of the more fun (and popular) decks I have made come from established ideas that I twisted (probably for the worse) to suit my own preferences and style. Short on time? Ravens Crime is an interesting consideration as a spell we can repeatedly cast, but the impact is a little low. Cabal Therapy giving us two spells for only a single mana can actually lead to some really sweet turns where we actually untap with a Mentor. Monastery Mentor is among the most powerful stabilization tools in a match of Magic, because it can move from gumming up a board to overpowering the board in an extremely short time-span. As it turned out, I was actually very happy with the 2 + 1 mix of Painful Truths and would probably do it again. It took 19 months to ship and reassemble the Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery at a cost of $1.5 million. Legacy; Standard; Historic; Alchemy; MORE SCG. That's where the rest of your strategy comes in, and that's why the spectrum of Miracles decks exists in the first place. Get his ideas for building around nine copies of Nazgl from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. That hes slightly cheaper isnt a big deal, but I drew a lot of extra cards over the course of the weekend, which had a big impact. Monastery Mentor, Creature human monk, designed by Magali Villeneuve first released in Jan, 2015 in the set Fate Reforged and was printed exactly in 9 different ways. It cannot afford to use its cantrips to generate value out of Counterbalance as the cantrips are necessary to either stabilize the game or generate value out of the 4 Monastery Mentors. Cabal Therapy has a particularly awesome interaction with Monastery Mentor. This deck is a Modern interpretation that uses Monastery Mentor and Young Pyromancer to create board presence, but it has a potent draw engine and alternative card-advantage attrition plan with Pyromancer Ascension. It might not help me go wide, but that isnt always the best plan. The card was terrific for me, and I would not have minded a second if we found the room. Most of my preparation for #GPSeaTac consisted of discussions with Team Ultra Pro, some of whom had the bandwidth to play some Legacy in the weeks leading up to the event. However, it was not immediately obvious that this card would see Legacy play, and many experts of the format immediately dismissed this creature because "it just dies to Lightning Bolt" initially. Lets just put it this way: when you play Korlash in your Five-Color Control deck you end up with a lot more Watery Graves and Blood Crypts than you would normally play, resulting in a lot of pain and not enough of the right colors. Sensei's Divining Top was banned and this shakeup would change the format quite a bit. Goblin Dark-Dwellers would be worth a look as a 3/3 for 2RR, but as it stands, it might be a bridge too far. Immerse yourself in Florida's performing arts history at some of the state's most historic theaters and venues. Bennie Smith is ready to ride with the Nine into his next Commander game! Im not sure. The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery This should not generally be your primary plan, but it is a reasonable factor to consider when you know you have far too little time to be confident in your maindeck. The Ancient Spanish Monastery is the oldest European-built structure in the western hemisphere. And it can bounce the opponents creatures! This format consists of the most recent "Core Set" and the two most recent "Block" releases. Ive recently started to get into legacy and wanted to know if there was a monastery mentor style deck out there. I will be battling in a PPTQ this weekend, possibly with one of these decks, so fingers are firmly crossed. Get his ideas for building around nine copies of Nazgl from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. Hearst -- as anyone whos been to his castle in California knows -- was a lover of European culture and history. Check out each new card from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, previewed on Wednesday, 5/31! Affording you more options in a game of Magic is powerful, and it is up to you on what to do with those decision points. The congregation of St. Bernard de Clairvaux is reflective of Miami -- a mix of Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. pmtg1. Spot removal is good against these cards only when they havent started to propagate themselves, at which point you win the game very quickly. Monastery Mentor is also a combo with Terminus. Chase Carroll's all-Secret Lair Commander deck is the best kind of work in progress. By Force is a solid replacement here, and I also like Smash to Smithereens, if only for the flavor text on the FNM promo. This list still plays the general Miracles game plan, and that game plan eventually involves winning. All these zero-mana spells happen to be artifacts, which power Emry, Lurker of the Loch the main value engine in this build. I started sideboarding out the Korlashes every game and managed to go 7-1 in the Constructed portion despite having a bad maindeck and bad manabase all of the time. Monastery Mentor and Young Pyromancer both enable Of One Mind a card that has serious potential, but hasnt found a solid home quite yet. The Leading Cause of Mismatched Games in Commander, Five Magic Sets Worth Cracking for Commander Staples, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth sealed, March of the Machine: Aftermath Commander Set Review. Playing eight cards that actively want us to cast spells makes it less worrying to leave up two mana in an aggressive deck, and it can double as a combat trick with Monastery Mentor in the mix. 4 Emry, Lurker of the Loch4 Erayo, Soratami Ascendant1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den4 Monastery Mentor1 Spellskite1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang, 3 Unearth4 Repeal3 Thought Scour1 Aether Spellbomb2 Engineered Explosives4 Mishras Bauble4 Mox Amber1 Soul-Guide Lantern, 4 Flooded Strand1 Godless Shrine1 Hallowed Fountain1 Minamo, School at Waters Edge4 Polluted Delta1 Silent Clearing2 Snow-Covered Island1 Snow-Covered Plains1 Snow-Covered Swamp2 Waterlogged Grove1 Watery Grave, 1 Spellskite2 Soul-Guide Lantern3 Aether Gust4 Fatal Push1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor4 Thoughtseize. Shaheen Soorani shares his Best-of-One control secrets for MTG Arena, including his post-banning Azorius Control list. To clarify, it is a nonbo in the sense that it's a creature that creates a singular wide board state, and Terminusing your own board is most definitely a non-bo and feels pretty bad, but consider the following: Harkening back to the previous example, it's your Mentor against your opponent's True-Name Nemesis. Thank you very much for reading this entirely too long rant about the ins and outs of Monastery Mentor. Carved ceilings, columns and arches. It has often come down for four mana and drawn me three cards without having to discard while also providing a threat that laughs off Fatal Push. With the inclusion of Accumulated Knowledge, a source of card advantage that we can balance our sequencing around (unlike Predict), this list leverages the sheer amount of cards and interaction points to pull ahead of the opponent. This also includes Planechase and Commander format legal cards that are used in their respective format. $0.91 Card is Out of Stock: As it stands, this deck almost never wants to jam a Young Pyromancer on turn 2 or a Monastery Mentor on turn 3. We play our fourth land and cast Monastery Mentor. This is also the reason why, unlike most Miracles lists you see these days, we are running the full 12 cantrip slots, and the supplemental cantrip of choice is the full 4 Preordain over any copies of Portent. In his final hour, London was escorted by family and community on an Honor Walk as organ donation surgery was planned. We play our fourth land and cast Monastery Mentor. Let's say they just tapped out for a Shardless Agent, flipping up a Tarmogoyf or something. Copyright The Ancient Spanish Monastery. Check out all the new cards from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, previewed on Thursday, 6/1, Take a journey to Lonely Mountain to awaken the last great dragon. Each spell cast will not only grow the ranks of token army, but it will also temporarily grow the size of each individual member. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. If we really want to maximize Mentor in Modern, well need to try a different method. pmtg1. Copyright document.write(new Date().getFullYear())2021 VISIT FLORIDA. I wouldnt want the second, but Tom wonders if it should be main. All told, this might be the stronger way to go with the deck. Imagine yourself facing down a single True-Name Nemesis and you deploy a Mentor with a pierce and an additional spell up. All we need now is a way to, you know, win. Shattering Spree is another mistake. In Legacy, a 1/1 Prowess creature is a legit threat that needs to be dealt with in a lot of situations. Then we cast Cabal Therapy and make a 1/1. Miracles eventually rose from the ashes, and with it, so did Monastery Mentor, though its usage is quite different. Both of these plans are married together by the suite of cheap spells, including eight free spells, and 12 1-mana draw spells to . This list was a request from Patreon subscriber Jeremy who wanted to see my take on Esper Control in Legacy. At the time, however, there was a serious hoof-and-mouth outbreak in Spain. I get why people only play three sometimes, I really do. daibloXSC played an incredibly lean version of Esper Mentor that looks almost like a combo deck compared to its Legacy counterpart, and they were rewarded for it. One advantage to Jace was the ability to bounce it, if needed, prior to flipping. See how he built around Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos. You might wonder why it isnt Terminate, and you would have a point, but I think Terminate should be in another slotnamely, that of Rakdos Charm. I think Monastery Mentor is one of the coolest tools added to Legacy's arsenal since I've started playing the format, and there are numerous other decks and archetypes that dip their toes into the card for effects they would otherwise not have access to. You may use any printing of a card that has an appearance in a standard legal set. Mentor first started out as a sideboard card for Legacy Miracles. Well, if you draw two Force of Wills against someone where its not good, you actually only pay the price half as much since you can always pitch one to the other. Monastery Mentor makes its money when youre able to keep a constant flow of cards rolling in. Even today, it's often misunderstood as simply a finisher for Legacy control decks, such as Miracles, while leveraging this card to its fullest depth is even now not fully explored. Lotus Path Djinn. All rights reserved.Magic: The Gathering and its respective properties are copyright Wizards of the Coast. Spell Pierce and Force of Negation give you a little bit of stack interaction to protect your high-value creatures. You better believe he respect the possibility of an Ashcoat Bear for the rest of the match! We see various decklists like Wilson Hunter's adapted Mentor Miracles list and they feature Mentor in very high numbers: This list is very similar to Claudio's decklist, in that it leverages the mid-game power of Monastery Mentor very heavily, but adapted a bit with the new technology of Predict as the main source of card advantage to create pocket-sized subgames that allow you to pull ahead. All rights reserved. After the hay was burned, they put the stones back in the boxes -- but not the matching ones. Though I did not adhere to the aforementioned card's flavor text, I believe my understanding of the card deepened quite a bit in writing and planning for this piece. We feel that these grounds dont belong only to us, Mansfield says. It wont help against a Path to Exile, but not much does. People did not want to play a creature that was essentially a lightning rod for removal in game ones. Sperling insisted Spell Pierce was what we actually wanted thanks to the tempo advantage it would often provide. Fortunately, I attacked for 80 on the following turn. The lack of Snapcaster Mage is a negative for the deck concept. The traditional home for it has typically been a Jeskai control/miracles shell. | Contact Us. Cards like Monastery Mentor do exceptionally well when the average spell cmc of your deck is relatively low. The ability to find basic Swamp is just extremely important, both against Wasteland and Blood Moon where it can ensure that Deathrite Shaman is a live card, which can let you actually cast your spells, not to mention letting you cast Abrupt Decay if needed. Monastery Mentor is even more powerful than Young Pyromancer. The singleton might be wrong, but its a good start for testing. People joked about me just playing my Standard deck in Modern, but my experiences with Monastery Mentor at #GPINDY really did provide the foundation for the deck I played in Seattle. When we were settling on the mix of fetchlands, we obviously wanted four Polluted Deltas and four Flooded Strands but the last couple was a tougher puzzle. Whether it is countermagic, removal, or Mentor, your inherent versatility allows you to pick and choose what you need at any given moment. Gitaxian Probe and Cabal Therapy help increase the chances that we know if the coast is clear or not. I've been wanting to write about the card for many years. Official blog for Card Kingdom, delivering Magic: The Gathering cards and supplies from Seattle to the world since 1999. Really, Cedric? play into another game plan you have available to you. As always, Ill see you all next week stay safe! Your selection allows you to find what you need, and instead of picking and choosing your hammers, you have a single, very specific hammer. Still no. However, I believe many of the best strategies within Legacy are decks that have a single, cognizant game plan and exist to propel the game state based on that game plan. The tranquil property is popular with local artists and has become a sought-after wedding spot. Thus, I believe the one-dimensional game plan of this Miracles list is a feature, not a bug, and it can morph its game plan into whatever it needs based on a matchup. I drew it a lot, but it didnt do much to change the outcome of games. March of the Machine Extended Foil. Scan this QR code to download the app now. Many feet." Illustrated by Brian Valeza 2/2 legal standard legal historic legal pioneer legal explorer legal modern 2 Modern Decks That Highlight Monastery Mentor. Would I play Containment Priest again? The sideboard is not exactly where I want it to be, but Bedlam Reveler has done solid work so far. Chris Lansdell puts his brewing prowess to work on the three-mana Monk maker ahead of SCG Richmond! Many Modern decks right now are light on removal, drastically increasing the chance that youre able to untap with Mentor. However, the card is still 3/4 mana worth of investment that may not line up well against whatever our opponents are doing. Yes, I know it blows up an artifact. The question is what to cut for it, given that we currently do not even have Terminate. When they returned, they asked the architects to use that style, Mansfield says. Stop it. This would normally not be a good idea, as you are still a Terminus deck. I had been working on a Teachings Grixis Korlash deck that sideboarded in Tarmogoyf in key matchups. All original content herein is Copyright 2023 Minhajul Hoq and Max Gilmore.No portion of this website may be used without expressed written consent. This Esper version completely forgoes the cheap Modern counterspells like Mana Leak, which are frankly underpowered. "One path. The sideboard of daibloXSCs version gives them the option to transform the deck into a control strategy. This is a perfect example of how a subgame dictated by Monastery Mentor puts your opponent between a rock and a hard place: Four copies of Monastery Mentor does not necessitate aggression, but instead gives you options, and options in the hands of savvy player are dangerous indeed. Instead, daibloXSC has chosen to maximize Mentors power by including the full four copies of the card, while also fitting as many playable zero-mana spells into the deck as possible. Learn more in ourCookie Noticeand ourPrivacy Policy. Now let's fast forward a few years; Dig Through Time has been banned, but Miracles continues to rise as various innovations (such as Predict) make their way into decklists as methods of playing over the top of midrange blue mirrors. Hello! Monastery Mentor has a history in Legacy as being one of the most powerful cards in cantrip-control strategies ever since it was printed in Fate Reforged. Heres what I started with for my Magic Online testing: Boros Charm has been surprisingly good. And when they came back, they finished up the already Romanesque cloisters in a Gothic style! There is nothing wrong with realizing your mistake and doing the best you can from that position! All Riptide Laboratory was extremely good in Extended, and this one doesnt cost mana to use. See how they've updated the list with new releases! Instead, they wanted the second Snapcaster Mage, and I had to admit, the Mage looked impressive when Sperling and I played two games of the mirror. Councils Judgment also exiles, which is a small point, but its helpful against Delve, Grim Lavamancer, Eternal Witness and more. Ive sometimes wondered why Monastery Mentor just wasnt getting there in Modern. It took only a couple games to make it clear that Painful Truths was exactly the card I was looking for. Cabal Therapy has a particularly awesome interaction with Monastery Mentor. And the nationalities represented here include Polish, Iranian, French and Haitian. Misty Rainforest can find Tropical Island and basic Island, whereas Marsh Flats can find Scrublands, basic Plains and basic Swamp. Firstly, there's a psychological/preference element to it. One thing I have not understood about Modern is that Monastery Mentor and Young Pyromancer have yet to really take hold of the format. . Against such opponents, the Mentor completely takes over and ends the game in just a couple turns, generally without much investment. New ideas are basically only possible with new cards, and you sometimes stumble on something that someone else has already tried. Several other archetypes were experimenting with the card, though most centered around the combination of Gitaxian Probe and Cabal Therapy. This includes how it utilizes its cantrips. In terms of stabilizing, Mentor just creates awkward points that places the game on a razor's edge. I love the card and wanted to try it in my starting list, especially because I wanted additional ways to get those last few points of damage through against Deaths Shadow decks. Thought Scour synergizes with Emry, Unearth, and Tasigur all cards that care about having a stocked graveyard. As always, thanks for stopping by, and until next timeBrew On! Star City Comics & Games 5728 Williamson Rd NW Roanoke . Everything about the Ancient Spanish Monastery says medieval. Lanterns on the garden paths. That certainly hasnt stopped players from trying to build shells that take advantage of the army in a can monk, but none of those shells have really had staying power. This includes how it utilizes Monastery Mentor, if at all. Even though the True-Name Nemesis will deal uncontested damage over the course of the game, Mentor will be able to muscle past it eventually for way more than lethal in most situations. In game 1, it operates along an axis that leverages Monastery Mentor at its fullest, and all resources are spent doing two things: stabilizing, and Mentoring. Its only a matter of time. Because Dixie Highway was at the time the only way to get from Miami to the Keys, Edgemon and Moss figured the road would make the Cloisters a major draw, says Gregory Mansfield, who ministers to the congregation at the attached St. Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church. It doesnt take much to convince Patrick Chapin to sleeve up Jace, the Mind Sculptor in Legacy, and his recent experiences in other formats led him to Jaces door by way of Monastery Mentor and Deathrite Shaman with a decklist that definitely has to be checked out before your next event! Reddit, Inc. 2023. The thing to highlight here is that Miracles, even now, often boards out some number of clunky elements and transforms into a very lean, low to the ground deck in most post board situations. $ 3.00. Rights Reserved. We think of our sacred space as a giftsomething bequeathed to us by our forebears but a gift we know we are called to share with others. I just didnt draw it when it mattered. I originally had a third Cabal Therapy and two Thoughtseize, but that was largely to try and support Jace, Vryns Prodigy. Visit spanishmonastery.com for more information. Tom strongly advocated three sweepers and making it a mix, to give us the most options while making us harder to play around. When I made my first draft, I was using a couple of Vindicates since I didnt want to play a second basic Plains and destroying Blood Moon is an important ability. The latter, in particular, are fascinated to find two architectural styles. Playing black and white loudly suggests that we at least consider Lingering Souls, and I think we have a good case to include it here too. When everything resolves, their Abrupt Decay or Plow on our Mentor works, but now we are up two 1/1 Prowess creatures without having to spend more mana or cards. Back in 2007, I brought a Mystical Teachings deck with Tarmogoyfs to the national championships (which, in those days, was one big tournament). Statues and fountains. Actually getting to untap with three Prowess creatures usually means were threatening to deal twenty or more in one hit. Similar to the pre-Top ban version of Esper Mentor, this list attacks your opponent from multiple angles and utilizes Mentor to close the door quickly after depleting the opponent of those resources that interact with the card. We wont be having that problem. Preordain allows you to do that since you get the card draw immediately rather than being delayed by half a turn. Deck Guide: Legacy Esper Mentor By Rich Cali / February 27, 2021 The Legacy metagame has changed drastically over the past few weeks with Oko and Astrolabe banned, with Esper Mentor taking some top spots. I was a big fan of the Tasigur, and would not mind a second copy at all. These are various special releases that feature selected highlights throughout Magic's history. Copyright 2020 Star City Games. We practice what St. Benedict taught his monks: "All who present themselves are to be welcomed.". All rights reserved. We are probably never giving anything double strike (barring a whole lot of prowess triggers), but the other two modes are more than enough for me. We also got to see the evolution of a rogue Hollow One deck in Modern with the addition of everyones favorite forgotten hasty Plant, Vengevine. Chase Carroll's all-Secret Lair Commander deck is the best kind of work in progress. During the tournament, I lost most of my Game Ones; however, I realized how unplayable my deck was by the second round despite getting lucky in the first. Thats fine, but we already have Monastery Mentor and Jace, the Mind Sculptor for that, and they do a better job (in this list, anyway). Monastery Mentor is beloved by many, and while it has succeeded in Legacy, the card hasn't quite had its day in the sun in Modern. But, it's not like Monastery Mentor can only go in Jeskai In W/U Heroic, you can actually protect the Mentor very easily and let loose with a rapid flurry of noncreature spells in the same turn. Post-Ban Miracles has transitioned between many different decklists and even archetypes, but no consensus stock list has truly been arrived at. Monastery Mentor had overperformed by a lot, and I didnt even have access to Brainstorm, Ponder, Gitaxian Probe, and Force of Will! However, theres no way Im playing less than four in the 75, so cutting one from the main still costs us a sideboard slot. We are rarely going to have enough red mana to matter against Affinity, and it does nothing to help us out of a Chalice on one. The sideboard cards are so good for decks like this that its hard to justify losing one for a very marginal upgrade to the maindeck (if you even believe it to be an upgrade, which I currently do not). The damage is fine too. With the Lingering Souls and the burn spells we can run, creature-based damage is not going to need to do as much work. The card is threatening against the vast majority of the field and that is why you see it being favored over the other options in this list. $0.20 (U) . The main utility in this list, however, is to protect us from key opposing legends. Discussion on Magic: the Gathering's Legacy (Type 1.5) format, decks, cards, tournaments, etc. So, how did this piece of medieval Spain get to Miami? $0.54 (R) Commander: 119 . 16711 West Dixie Highway. Bennie Smith is ready to ride with the Nine into his next Commander game! Walk inside the gate to these beautiful green grounds, filled with gardens, walkways and statues, and the monastery doesnt seem out of place at all; its in splendid harmony with its surroundings. Stained glass. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess. We are happy to begin a gradual re-opening of Holy Name Monastery to our friends for Mass and retreats. It took 11 years to build and was occupied by monks for the next 700 years. It is kind of hurt by people boarding against Monastery Mentor and Deathrite Shaman and thus randomly having answers for it. That said, Karakas is in a different league than most non-basic lands. It also featured Korlash, Heir to Blackblade. The omission of Zealous Persecution from this list is a crime I am struggling to explain. Additionally, because of Force of Will, its easier to protect Mentor from removal spells, which also drives the need for more copies down. Mardu Control decks have been starting to see some success, mostly trying to win the long game with Nahiri, the Harbinger and other value-accumulating planeswalkers. Ultimately, Ive come to the conclusion that players try too hard to model their Modern Mentor decks after Legacy decks, but simply dont have the proper tools to succeed in the format. Why would you put Shardless Agent in your deck and hope for incredible luck to hit Ancestral Visions when you can just play Painful Truths?, Owen Turtenwald, via his social media team. Terminate also has a case to make for one of those slots. Why is Sway of the Stars Banned in Commander? We could change that by playing some number of Gut Shot and Mishras Bauble in the deck, but I think thats a bit too all-in and/or a different deck that we can talk about later. At that point, I was ready to get down to business. Cruise would be better because of the high-end cases where you pay one mana, but drawing three cards was exactly the effect I was looking for in this world of cheap one-for-one interaction. Now this sort of list leverages Mentor very differently, and tries to accent how good Monastery Mentor is with 'simply playing Magic' and interacting with your opponent. Please click on the button in the photo above for an updated schedule of operating hours. If a spell has multiple types, and one of those types is creature (such as an artifact creature . Patrick talks about the massive amounts of damage that Monastery Mentor is capable of doing in a short period of time. These were just some of the enemy creatures I bounced over the course of the weekend, every single one of which won me at least one game I would have otherwise lost. In an effort to break the parity and get damage in past your Mentor, they decide to overcommit and deploy a Delver of Secrets and a Gurmag Angler, hoping to overload your cantrip evaluation and muscle past the Mentor for those last few points of damage. It was immediately obvious that Monastery Mentor and Painful Truths were great, which were the only two really exotic card choices I was into. This list was a request from Patreon subscriber Jeremy who wanted to s. Early and often decision points presented to the opponent is something most Miracles decks can't truly accomplish, and Mentor, unlike the other parts of the "prison trifecta" can't be handled or ignored by subsets of matchups. effective. Then, I'll be analyzing what it takes to utilize Monastery Mentor to its fullest and why it's often still very misunderstood. The reason behind it is that this decklist looks at each and every slot, and has full control on how it will utilize its cards. He was 100% correct, particularly against Hymn to Tourach, Counterbalance, Show and Tell, and Jace, the Mind Sculptor. Photo Courtesy of Wizards of the Coast and Adam Styborski. The first thing to note is that, like most Legacy lists, this one plays fewer than four copies of Monastery Mentor. We freely and generously open our lives and monastery to others in hospitality as we place ourselves in service to God and the larger community. With Mentor in play, you can redeploy the Top to generate a 1/1 monk with Prowess. Fate Reforged: Monastery Mentor. Monastery mentor has been extremely good in vintage and seems strong enough for legacy. That said, I do love the combination of Gitaxian Probe with Cabal Therapy. Keeping them alive is a challenge in a format defined by its cheap removal (the same removal we are playing, of course), but we are not lacking in ways to get our threats back again. Playing three Gitaxian Probes may seem crazy to some, but it actually is one of those cards that can sometimes be a liability to draw two of. I also want to get some experience with the card and determine how effective it actually is. In this article, I'm going to be diving into various decklists, each of which leverage Monastery Mentor a bit differently. We are going to do the running over. I will say, however, that the glut of countermagic in this list compared to most Miracles lists will often create windows to deploy your Mentor and ride it to victory. For example, I am almost possible someone has tried this particular idea before, as it seems to build itself, but I would bet nobody else got to it the way I did: watching Cedric Phillips talk about Deaths Shadow and how nobody plays Lightning Bolt any more. We turn now to daibloXSCs Modern Mentor deck, which contains some clear analogs to Legacy Mentor as well as some marked differences. To illustrate the differences between this version of the deck and previous ones weve seen in Modern, lets compare the deck to its Legacy counterpart. Pro Tip! Sure enough, in the following game, he missed on Delver of Secrets once and had it gobbled up by the Priest (despite Envelop and Spell Pierce in hand). About Us; Careers; Retail Location. Scratch that; its completely awful. 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor1 Narset, Parter of Veils1 Teferi, Time Raveler, 2 Dreadhorde Arcanist2 Monastery Mentor1 Snapcaster Mage1 Sprite Dragon, 4 Ponder1 Preordain3 Terminus4 Accumulated Knowledge4 Brainstorm2 Force of Negation4 Force of Will1 Lightning Bolt2 Pyroblast1 Stifle3 Swords to Plowshares2 Arcums Astrolabe, 4 Flooded Strand1 Mystic Sanctuary4 Scalding Tarn2 Snow-Covered Island1 Snow-Covered Mountain1 Snow-Covered Plains2 Tundra2 Volcanic Island3 Wasteland, 3 Aria of Flame1 Containment Priest1 Engineered Explosives1 Felidar Retreat1 Izzet Staticaster2 Null Rod2 Pyroblast2 Surgical Extraction2 Wear // Tear. Normally I wouldnt recommend this, however, I kind of just had a feeling I could get him with it, at some point when he attacked me with two Grim Lavamancers in Game One. You're still a Miracles deck, and you're a pile of interaction, card selection, and sledgehammers. If we played any sweeper main it would be the one, but Im not super warm on that. Monastery Mentor Set: Fate Reforged Mana Cost: Card Type: Creature - Human Monk Description: Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) I wouldnt be surprised if the frequency of opponents with Karakas makes the 1-1 split better. In Legacy, a 1/1 Prowess creature is a legit threat that needs to be dealt with in a lot of situations. What always strikes me when looking at Modern is how I get inspired for a brew from the most random things. This comment made a lot of sense to me, particularly when I thought about how many times I Treasure Cruised for three mana. Im sure some of the numbers are going to change, and card choices could be different, but if you like this style of deck, I would start somewhere close to here. 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