He describes it as a midrange deck, in which making a combo goes a bit to the underground. Year 2018, a Japanese player known as Jundilion on Magic Online, began to obtain positive results with 《Living End》 by adapting it in a different way. 《Living End》 could still beat other creature decks but it was not the best time to play this deck, obviously. Decks like Humans and Spirits began to stand out and they were very good against 《Living End》 deck because of hate-bears in the form of 《Meddling Mage》 and 《Spell Queller》. How could this happen? It was clear that at the moment Dregde became very popular among Modern players and everyone wanted to play graveyard-hates. 1) There were so many graveyard-hates, 2) Decks with hate-bears like 5C Humans and Bant Spirits were too popular. 《Simian Spirit Guide》became a mandatory staple, providing a necessary speed and facilitating many matchups because it allows us to play a turn before 《Fulminator Mage》, 《Beast Within》 and even a 《Violent Outburst》 or 《Demonic Dread》.ĭuring 2017-2018 《Living End》 suffered from some problems. Two months later, he did update his list and sneaked into top 32 at the Grand Prix Houston 2010.įrom this list we highlight the incorporation of 《Horror of the Broken Lands》, best Cyclable creature of cost one and also the most aggressive one that we can get to cast, being able to have an attack value of six to eight easily (Cycling other cards, of course). In 2010, Travis Woo invented the deck and made top 4 in the Grand Prix Oakland 2010, in a format dominated by archetypes such as 《Hypergenesis》, 《Dark Depths》 and infernal Thopter/Sword Combo, and even then, the deck was successful. The History of 《Living End》 in the Past Decade We must always be intelligent which to cast of all we have in hand and once we start that plan, we have to be cautious when attacking with them, since the creatures of your opponents can block yours and we must remember in every moment that later we will have to deal with them again if at some point we decide to combo, since they will return next to ours to the battlefield.Ĭalm down, with experience and effort you can get everything and when you get to that point, this deck is simply masterful. At first, it may seem crazy but over time you will realize that you can even win the games. Furthermore, sometimes, our best plan is to start casting our creatures from the hand paying their mana cost, yes, costs three / five / six. 《Fulminator Mage》 and 《Beast Within》 are going to be key pieces to make our way up to that moment.