MODERN: IZZET TWIDDLE STORM

COMPETICON MODERN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Ayala Circuit, Makati City

22 October 2022

Izzet Twiddle Combo

Main deck

2 Twiddle

4 Dream's Grip

4 Psychic Puppetry

4 Peer Through Depths 

4 Reach Through Mists

4 Ideas Unbound

4 Serum Visions

4 Sleight of Hand

3 Impulse

1 Echoing Truth

1 Grapeshot

2 Past in Flames

1 Underworld Breach

1 Merchant Scroll 

2 Vizier of Tumbling Sands 

4 Lotus Field 

4 Misty Rainforest

2 Polluted Delta

2 Lonely Sandbar

4 Island

1 Steam Vents

1 Breeding Pool

1 Otawara, Soaring City

Sideboard 

2 Defense Grid

4 Aria of Flame

3 Lightning Bolt

1 Engineered Explosives

1 Echoing Truth

1 Wipe Away

3 Veil of Summer 

Match-ups

RD 1  5c Rhino W

RD 2  5c Rhino D

RD 3  5c Rhino W

RD 4  RB Scam L

RD 5  Calibrated Blast deck W

RD 6  Creativity D

Veil of Summers and Defense Grids were my last-minute additions to the deck. I originally had Force of Negations, Gigadrowses, and an Empty the Warrens. But they felt weak against today's meta. Good thing I made the switch because these cards helped me win against my first three opponents. They (rhinos) have Teferi, Time Ravelers and counter spells. I have grids and veils.

Most Izzet Twiddle modern combo deck has three Past in Flames in their sixty. Some, instead of Past in Flames, use Underworld Breach. I enlisted two sorceries and one enchantment. And it worked perfectly fine. I remember that I had this situation wherein my available mana then was three blue and one red. If the red enchantment was a Past in Flames, I could have lost that one. 

There were games where Leyline Binding tried to remove my red enchantment. I simply responded to it by summoning all the Twiddle effects from the graveyard to generate more mana to my advantage.  

I won all game-ones except one, RB Scam. This was because it has a main deck graveyard hate on-stick, Dauthi, Voidwalker. I cannot ignite the loop. 

Wipe Away was the only card that I did not use from my fifteen. If ever I will use this high-octave deck again, I'll probably replace this with Empty the Warrens, maybe. 

I committed one error: I forgot the discard three cards.  

Conclusion: Deck is very good in today's meta. I'd highly recommend to those players who have it to give Twiddle combo a try. 

Thank you for reading. 

Paeng_4983 

By the way, big thanks to JB for convincing me to play Twiddle Storm. (^_^)