Much Abrew: Waste Not Storm (Modern)

by SaffronOlive // Sep 24, 2018

Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Much Abrew About Nothing. Last week during our Instant Deck Techs, our spicy Modern combo list Waste Not Storm came out on top. As such, we're heading to Modern this week to see if we can use Waste Not as a game-ending combo piece in a deck that's looking to storm off and win in one big turn by making a ton of Zombie tokens. The trick to the deck is to make sure that we're not just making our opponent discard cards to trigger Waste Not but also making them draw cards too, so they always have something to discard. How practical is the plan of storming off with Waste Not in Modern? Let's get to the video and find out; then, we'll talk more about the deck!

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Much Abrew: Waste Not Storm (Modern)

Discussion

As for the record, we ended up going 3-2, which is pretty reasonable for a very off-the-radar deck.

The best part of the deck is the power of Waste Not itself. While not quite as efficient as traditional Storm, if we untap with a Waste Not on the battlefield, it is pretty easy to play through a big chunk of our deck and make a ton of mana and a million Zombie tokens all in one big turn to win the game.

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Heading into the matches, I was a bit worried about finding Waste Not, since our deck doesn't really do anything without the namesake enchantment on the battlefield. The good news is that after playing the deck a bunch, I found this really isn't a problem. The combination of Faithless Looting and Burning Inquiry is great for helping us churn through our deck and find Waste Not with some consistency.

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As far as the rest of the deck, the core cards are Burning Inquiry and Wistful Thinking, since these cards allow us to generate Waste Not triggers even when our opponent is empty handed by forcing them to draw cards (and then discard them). Burning Inquiry is the best of the bunch, and even if we can't get a Storm kill, being able to Burning Inquiry and then Snapcaster Mage to flash back Burning Inquiry often generates enough value to win us the game.

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While in general I liked the deck, two things specifically drove me crazy in our matches. First, we often ran into a bottleneck on non-black mana. When we combo off with Waste Not, we often end up with 10 or even 20 black mana floating but some blue or red cards that we want to cast. Passing and letting the mana go to waste is painful. One possible solution would be to add Manamorphose to the deck, as a way to turn some of our black Waste Not mana into whatever color of mana we need.

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Conclusion

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