Ramunap Excavator lets us play lands from our graveyard, which allows us to sacrifice a land each turn without losing resources. ![]() ![]() Bitterblossom gives us a 1/1 token each turn that we can sacrifice to Braids, as long as we stack our triggers correctly. So, how do we keep Braids, Cabal Minion on the battlefield without losing all of our permanents and eventually being forced to sacrifice Braids itself? Here, we have a few plans. Our opponent will (hopefully) have to sacrifice a land on their upkeep, and as long as we can find permanents to feed to Braids to keep it on the battlefield, we should be able to lock our opponent out of the game, at least until they find a way to remove Braids. ![]() A Turn 1 Arbor Elf into Turn 2 land plus Utopia Sprawl allows us to play Braids, Cabal Minion on Turn 2, which is the most explosive thing our deck can do. On Turn 2, our opponent will only have one or two lands and hopefully not much else, which means Braids, Cabal Minion should be eating away a land each turn and keeping our opponent without enough mana to do much of anything, which is where Braids is at its best.Īrbor Elf and Utopia Sprawl are the fastest way to ramp to four mana in Modern. A Turn 2 Braids can be almost unbeatable for some decks. Eventually, I decided that the most broken thing we could do with Braids, Cabal Minion is to try to get it onto the battlefield as quickly as possible. I almost played a mono-black aggro Braids deck, but it turned out that if we won, it was mostly by beating down with Bloodghasts, Gravecrawlers, and Bitterblossom tokens because Braids coming down on Turn 4 is a bit too slow. When Braids, Cabal Minion won the poll, I considered a few ways of building around the legend. What are the odds of winning with Braids, Cabal Minion in Modern? Let's get to the video and find out in today's Against the Odds then, we'll talk more about the deck!Ī quick reminder: if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to the MTGGoldfish YouTube channel. Oh yeah, if our opponent doesn't scoop in frustration with no lands to our Braids lock, we have another Modern Horizons 2 card I've been wanting to play with as our finisher in Titania, Protector of Argoth, which is sneakily synergistic with Braids, Cabal Minion, giving us 5/3 Elemental tokens if we sacrifice a land to our namesake Minion. As such, we're heading to Modern today to see if we can get some wins (preferably of the flawless variety) by making our opponent sacrifice all of their permanents to Braids! Of course, Braids, Cabal Minion is symmetrical, so we have to sacrifice something each turn too, but we have some interesting ways to break this symmetry. ![]() Last week, after several near misses, Braids, Cabal Minion finally came in first on our Against the Odds poll. Welcome to episode 296 of Against the Odds.
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