Kellen Pastore
kellenpastore.bsky.social
Kellen Pastore
@kellenpastore.bsky.social
Philly Sports fan, and washed Magic player.

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Lost in Top 8 of the Modern Super with UGb Free Spells. Deck continues to feel great, with a major exception for Affinity. Found with Flux Riddler you are better with FoN than Flare, might go to 3 FoN, 2 Flare split moving forward.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Tried out egadd2894 Flux UG. Went 4-0 in the prelim, though one win was a timeout in a close game 3. Riddler is very strong, and playing them solves some issues of dealing with opposing riddlers. I think UG is the best deck in Modern, unsure how to best build it.
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
4-0 in a Prelim with UGb in Modern. Deck continues to be fairly solid to me, just sort of need to not die the first 2 turns and then you usually are doing great things. Need to have better plans in a couple matchups, but think this deck is quite good.
November 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Lost in Top 8 of the Modern Challenge with UGb. Deck feels great in some matchups, and quite poor against Affinity. First time playing it, so might not be approaching every matchup correctly. Seems generally viable to me though.
November 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
So, keep in mind I left a Jackal at home. You should play 4, but Quantum Riddler also very good.
October 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Went 8-2 across two leagues with Mono White Cats, losing only to Cat Variants. Deck felt consistent, the CA in the deck made Chrome Mox basically free. Think Thalia is meh, will probably try Ranger Captain instead in the future. Also want like 1-2 Fair cards in the board, maybe Thraben Charm.
September 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Won the game with so many hats on Kaisa.
August 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This Mentor GP comp is completely broke. I Contested it in this lobby, and we went 1-2. I actually think Kobuko is the broken unit, he does too much damage and CC with 4 Mentor. The other carry can be GP or Yasuo, GP preferred. Should be Easy LP. #TFT
August 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Enjoyed the Ichiko Aoba concert tonight. Enjoy her music, and find her live performances to be extremely engaging. If you enjoy Guitar Music highly recommend checking her out.
May 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Currently 13-5 with the Mono Red Hollow One Challenge list, with Unholy Heat added. Deck is fast, and resilient as long as you keep most of your GY. Don't like how it lines up into breach though, and the SB is bad. Feels like a fun Tier 2 deck, can't recommend with Breach legal.
February 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Three more elimination drafts, Trophy, 0-1, Trophy. The removal in this format is mostly meh, Lightning Strike and Ride's End seem to be the best to me. As such I think Combat Tricks are better than normal, such as Bestow Greatness. Helps push through the giant blockers in the format.
February 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Split, won, and split the three Elimination Queues I played today. Feels like the Raceways, especially Amonkhet, are strong enough to support primarily one color decks in this format. Has also felt like having the biggest dude matters in most games, not sure how to best draft considering that yet.
February 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
5-0 in a league, 4-3 in a challenge with this list. Might want to go down slightly on recruiter, haven't decided exactly how to replace it. Pretty convinced this deck dislikes mulligans, and so Aether Vial doesn't fit too well.
February 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
3-1 in a Prelim with Vialess BW, lost only to Ramp. Also went 3-3 in a challenge. Basic idea is that Wrath of the Skies comes in all of the time, so Vial bad post board, and cutting it increases white count game 1. Been fine so far, but not enough matches to really say.
January 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM