We Modern Now

Unfortunately, there are no weekly Legacy events here in Jacksonville. Despite buying some Legacy cards on MTGO, I prefer paper Magic to MTGO enough that I'm willing to play Modern FNM. Here are some of the decks I've been playing:

UW Midrange, 7/27/18
Creature Spells (16) 4x Wall of Omens 4x Kitchen Finks 2x Vendilion Clique 4x Restoration Angel 1x Dragonlord Ojutai 1x Lyra Dawnbringer	Noncreature Spells (19) 4x Spell Snare 4x Path to Exile 2x Remand 1x Negate 1x Blessed Alliance 2x Detention Sphere 3x Cryptic Command 2x Supreme Verdict
Lands (25) 4x Flooded Strand 2x Hallowed Fountain 3x Island 3x Plains 4x Celestial Colonnade 3x Mystic Gate 1x Eiganjo Castle 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge 4x Field of Ruin	SB: 2x Damping Sphere SB: 2x Rest in Peace SB: 2x Stony Silence SB: 2x Runed Halo SB: 2x Dispel SB: 2x Disenchant SB: 1x Celestial Purge SB: 1x Negate SB: 1x Supreme Verdict

UW Midrange has become one of my favorite Modern archetypes. The manabase and sideboard cards are great, and the Resto/Finks/Wall team does SO much work. This take is heavily based on Yuuya Watanabe's list from Worlds in 2015. UW has been quite successful in Modern recently in the form of hard control builds with Terminus, but I find that style much less appealing.

Zoo, 8/15/18
Creature Spells (27) 4x Noble Hierarch 4x Wild Nacatl 4x Tarmogoyf 2x Qasali Pridemage 2x Scavenging Ooze 4x Knight of the Reliquary 3x Loxodon Smiter 4x Bloodbraid Elf	Noncreature Spells (11) 4x Path to Exile 4x Lightning Bolt 2x Lightning Helix 1x Domri Rade
Lands (22) 4x Windswept Heath 4x Wooded Foothills 2x Arid Mesa 1x Temple Garden 2x Stomping Ground 2x Sacred Foundry 2x Forest 1x Plains 1x Horizon Canopy 1x Stirring Wildwood 1x Ghost Quarter 1x Kessig Wolf Run	SB: 3x Molten Rain SB: 2x Grafdigger's Cage SB: 2x Fiery Justice SB: 2x Kitchen Finks SB: 2x Stony Silence SB: 2x Gaddock Teeg SB: 1x Ancient Grudge SB: 1x Sword of Light and Shadow

I always find myself coming back to Big Zoo in Modern. It just plays efficient, reasonably powerful cards and is capable presenting a quick clock, which are valuable attributes in this format. The unbanning of Bloodbraid Elf was great news for Zoo, but it has yet to put up many strong results. I think the deck isn't played very much as its on the more expensive side and isn't perceived as being good.

Liege Junk, 7/31/18
Creature Spells (27) 4x Noble Hierarch 4x Birds of Paradise 4x Voice of Resurgence 2x Qasali Pridemage 2x Scavenging Ooze 4x Loxodon Smiter 4x Siege Rhino 3x Wilt-Leaf Liege	Noncreature Spells (10) 4x Path to Exile 2x Thoughtseize 4x Lingering Souls
Lands (23) 4x Windswept Heath 4x Verdant Catacombs 1x Marsh Flats 1x Temple Garden 1x Overgrown Tomb 1x Godless Shrine 3x Forest 1x Plains 1x Swamp 3x Razorverge Thicket 3x Gavony Township	SB: 2x Damping Sphere SB: 2x Rest in Peace SB: 2x Thoughtseize SB: 2x Stony Silence SB: 2x Gaddock Teeg SB: 2x Blessed Alliance SB: 1x Maelstrom Pulse SB: 1x Thrun, the Last Troll SB: 1x Sword of War and Peace

This deck has very polarized matchups and probably isn't very good overall.  However, I continue to play it solely due to the fact that Wilt-Leaf Liege is one of my favorite cards, and I don't really have another deck to play it in.