In my opinion, Grief is the one card that truly makes Living End viable right now.įorce of Negation operates similarly, protecting you from most graveyard hate, Chalice of the Void, 3-mana Teferi, and so on. Grief cannot be hardcast, but is enabled by drawn copies of Living End (which are otherwise useless), Street Wraith, Architects of Will, and other Griefs.

The deck today runs the full four copies of both Grief and Force of Negation, both of which can be operated with zero mana and don’t interfere with the cascade plan. However, what most people don’t realise about modern builds of Living End is that it is also highly disruptive. The Living End will both wipe the opponent’s board and bring all of your cycled fatties back from the graveyard. The basic idea of the deck is to cycle a bunch of cheap cyclers like Striped Riverwinder and Curator of Mysteries in the first two turns, then cast either Violent Outburst or Shardless Agent to cascade into Living End as early as turn 3. I happen to be all three of those, so you can probably imagine how hyped I am on this deck.

Limited players who like beating down with weird commons.Absolute degenerates who would otherwise be playing Dredge.Many other decks tend to trade Force of Will for more proactive cards against Delver, but you can't afford that luxury - Meltdown is pretty much game over unless you've managed to resolve a Cannoneer.Modern Living End appeals to 3 different kinds of players: The main cards that this deck usually comes up against you are Pyroblast/ Red Elemental Blast, Abrade, and the most complicated, Meltdown. Your main threats are generally immune to Lightning Bolt - Turtle, Sai, and Saga tokens, and you can usually play around Daze. About the sideboard, as I mentioned earlier, it's a deck that can suffer a lot against the hate dedicated to it, some might be brutal like Null Rod, Serenity, Seeds of Innocence, Collector Ouphe and Meltdown, so there will be situations where you will have to side against your opponent's side and often not put all your eggs in one basket, so you don't lose everything at once.Īnd as for Force of Negation, you need to be careful when removing too many blue cards when bringing them to the main deck and having difficulty having cards to pay the alternative cost.īelow is a guide against the main decks of the format:

Legacy dredge sideboard guide