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.

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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

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