https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/tags/modern/Recent content in Modern on Bolt the Bird!Hugo 0.161.1enhttps://www.bolt-the-bird.com/posts/domain-zoo-now-what/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:19:34 +0200https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/posts/domain-zoo-now-what/<p>Last year I had a great time at the <a href="https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/posts/relic-fest-2025/">Modern tournament</a> of <a href="https://www.relictcgtour.com/">Relic Fest</a>, so I&rsquo;ve decided to go again this year. I figured it would be worth showing up with a more competitive deck and having a shot at winning more rounds than last year (I won just one out of 8) and to keep growing in the format.</p> <p>Over the past few months I&rsquo;ve put a good chunk of my MTG budget toward building a meta deck, specifically: Domain Zoo. At its core, Domain Zoo is an <em>aggro</em> deck with a mana base that tries to have all 5 basic land types (<a href="https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Domain">domain</a>) in play as early as possible, and plays very efficient creatures (high power, low cost) that take advantage of that synergy.</p>https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/posts/relic-fest-2025/Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:57:41 +0100https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/posts/relic-fest-2025/<h2 id="thursday">Thursday</h2> <p>We arrived in Labège, on the outskirts of Toulouse, on Thursday at around 4pm and, once we had settled into the hotel (there were already people playing Magic in the reception area), we took a walk around <a href="https://diagora-congres.com/diagora-congress-center/">Diagora</a> to soak in the atmosphere. The Agora, which is the space reserved for Relic Fest, is divided into two areas: the roughly 500 m² hall, where the bar was and, at the back, the artists&rsquo; area; and the main room, a huge square space with an organizer booth in the middle where crowds gathered on all four sides, flipping through binders and playmats, evaluating cards and negotiating trades, or simply admiring some of the most powerful cards in the game.</p>