More white decks or a more aggressive meta are necessary to let it see play. Also effective against Splinter Twin! Prison fails the Abrupt Decay test and white's general lack of play keeps this stuck in the occasional sideboard. Ghostly PrisonĪ huge trump against Merfolk, BW Tokens, or any hyper-aggressive creature swarm decks. Its flexibility gives it value but not enough to see anything other than niche play. Rakdos CharmĪll three of its abilities are extremely relevant in the current meta, but it suffers from being red/black, which usually relegates it to Jund or Grixis decks that don't need any of the modes. Five mana is too much and too slow for this effect in Modern. Outside of delve creatures, this sweeper kills most Modern threats, and is almost a direct “counter” to Collected Company at instant speed, but is sadly hampered by its casting cost and competition from Choice of Damnations.

Unfortunately for this Standard all-star, instant speed and putting creatures into play is much better than once-a-turn into hand. Honorable Mentions Domri RadeĪ great planeswalker that costs three (the magic number), but is limited to creature heavy decks in Gruul colors which probably just want to be running Collected Company. I'm going to break down the five cards I found that are not seeing enough play and what, if any, archetype they could fit into. In my search for underplayed and underutilized cards, I've stumbled onto a few that I believe should be seeing some play, but are perhaps missing a deck for them to fit into.

In my testing these last two weeks I've been combing through Gatherer for every card legal in Modern. I'm taking a break from my Primer series this week to focus more on specific cards (as well as I'm using my testing time to zero in on a deck for the World Magic Cup Qualifier this weekend!).

Mtg shadow of doubt on fetch land