Episode 61: Heliod Combo: Modern Spike Feeding

We take a dive into Heliod Company Combo in Modern. How it works, what we learned, and how annoying it is to play on Magic Online!

The Break Down: NRG Indianapolis
The Dive Down: Infinite Life and Infinite Misclicks
The Wind Down: Manners, Schmanners

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Timestamps:
2:40 - Housekeeping
5:54 - The Break Down begins - The NRG Pioneer Trial
26:12 - The NRG Modern Trial
36:40 - The Dive Down begins - Heliod Company Combo
38:40 - What the deck is trying to do
40:15 - Infinite life combos
48:08 - Infinite mana and damage
54:48 - The tutors
1:03:46 - The ramp
1:09:05 - Strategies playing the deck
1:23:08 - Using the sideboard
1:26:42 - Playing against Heliod Combo
1:30:30 - What we liked about the deck
1:33:34 - Troubles we had playing the deck
1:41:33 - The Wind Down - Magic Online Combo Etiquette
1:49:58 - Closing out

Links from this week's episode:
NRG Pioneer Trial: http://articles.nerdragegaming.com/decklists-archive/pioneer-nrg-series-trial-february-15-2020/
NRG Modern Trial: http://articles.nerdragegaming.com/decklists-archive/modern-nrg-series-trial-february-16-2020/
Heliod w/ Anafenza: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2784654#paper
Heliod w/ Infinite Mana: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2758766#paper

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