Last week, I picked up a friend, and we headed up to Costa Mesa, California from my home in San Diego for a Modern PTQ. I ended up playing a Green/White Tokens list, and through six rounds I ended up finishing with two wins and four losses. However, I learned several things about the deck in time to prepare for this week's event at my local gane store.
1) My green was absolutely garbage against most of the field: The only green in the deck was for Gaddock Teeg and Gavony Township, which proved near-useless in every major matchup.
2) Splinter Twin was a real problem: Some of this comes back to Green being no good, but I had no answers to a deck just holding back their counterspells to defend their win conditions. It ended up proving problematic, as I managed to escape with a win against a bad Twin player, but a good player in later rounds simply picked me apart.
With those two major points to think on, I packed up, took my two prize packs, and headed home to prepare for the next week. I ended up cutting green for black, and settling on this 75:
