Episode 98: Auditing Modern Mono-White Taxes

We spend this week looking at an up-and-coming deck in Modern: Mono-White Taxes. We spend some time looking at the history of Taxes decks, how this deck works, and if we think it's actually that good. Before that we breeze through some Modern Challenge and Qualifier results from Magic Online. The Break Down: Challenging Tournaments The Dive Down: Challenging Sandwiches The Dive Down, cont: Challenging Playpatterns Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown" Timestamps: 2:36 - Housekeeping 7:26 - The Break Down begins 16:01 - Meta takeaways 19:45 - The Dive Down begins - Auditing Mono-White Taxes 21:45 - Why do people want this deck to work? 28:14 - The older Modern Taxes decks 35:10 - Why Death & Taxes is back 40:55 - The general anatomy of D&T 45:23 - Our initial takes 51:45 - The one-drops 57:30 - The two-drops 1:08:20 - The three-drops 1:25:00 - Land destruction 1:30:15 - How to play with Stoneforge Mystic and the equipment 1:38:34 - Sideboarding 1:39:43 - Is Taxes good? Links from this week's episode: The Modern Qualifier: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-champs-12223552#paper Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12223585#paper Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12223580#paper Mono-White Taxes: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3519870#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown