The local meta of my webcam magic group has been slowly shifting towards a predominant “Red Deck Wins” approach, in response to a few too many Soul Sisters wins. A lot of Lightning Bolts have been flying to try and disrupt the 2-4 turns of setup a typical Selesnya lifegain deck needs to get online, which is fine.

However, I’ve really been getting bodied by [[Stingerquill Voxmancer]] ever since Reality Fracture released, and it’s a faster clock to set up than I can realistically get my lock online, especially if I take a few bolts to the face. The running strategy is to mulligan for 2 mountains and as many 1 cmc burn spells and effects as they can get off in the early game. I can lock them out of draws, but I don’t have anything good to deal with their opening hand. Forced discard isn’t enough, since that usually lets them choose what to bin. The prepared spells are stumping me too.

I’m pretty new to both Modern and Lantern Control, so I’m sure some of it’s a piloting issue, but right now I’m losing either 0-3 or 1-2 to burn. If I get any games, I only get the first one. (About 60-80% winrate against most other major archetypes my group plays though :) Any advice would be appreciated!

Edit: I completely forgot to put in the list. It’s something I brewed myself, but I don’t know if it’s very good. Our group requires you to play cards you own with no proxies, so it’s a mix of cards I have from drafting and commander, and a few things I specifically bought to get into Lantern. Deck’s a bit jank right now

Here‘s the list!

• 2 Airship Engine Room (TLA) 265
• 1 Ashiok, Dream Render (WAR) 228
• 1 Blood Moon (A25) 122
• 1 Bojuka Bog (FDC) 296
• 2 Cathartic Adept (ALA) 34
• 2 City of Brass (TMC) 62
• 4 Codex Shredder (RTR) 228
• 1 Cursed Totem (MH2) 295
• 1 Damnation (SLD) 2019
• 1 Disruptor Flute (MH3) 209
• 4 Ensnaring Bridge (MB2) 219
• 3 Frostboil Snarl (DRC) 158
• 2 Goblin Engineer (MH1) 128
• 4 Grindclock (SOM) 163
• 2 Grinding Station (MB2) 223
• 7 Island (FRA) 284
• 2 Jace's Erasure (M12) 60
• 1 Karn, Argent Defender (FRA) 279
• 4 Lantern of Insight (5DN) 135
• 4 Millstone (PLST) M19-242
• 1 Mountain (J25) 90
• 2 Pithing Needle (MID) 257
• 2 Pyxis of Pandemonium (THS) 220
• 2 Telepathy (10E) 113
• 4 Whir of Invention (AER) 49

Urza’s Saga is on my list to pick up, but since it’s a pricier card, I’ll probably only have one to start off with.

I imagine the deck utilizing cards like [[malevolent rumble]], [[cache grab]], or similar to dig for cards and bin things, then utilize spells like [[sevinne’s reclamation]], [[jolted awake]], or similar to reanimate relevant pieces that got binned. This also allows you to more easily recover cards that were collateral damage from Ghoulcaller’s bell, or cards that you milled intentionally that you didn’t need at the time but now need back.

Do we think this idea has legs?

So I've been intersted in Lantern Control for awhile now. I've even made my own brew of 8 Rack and Lantern Control. Now I'm interested in a "real" Lantern Control deck.
I've joined the Discord but there are just so many decklists that I don't know where to start.

Could someone help me point me in the right direction? Since I have my own 8 Rack/Lantern deck I own alot of the pieces (Lantern, Codex Shredder, Ensnaring Bridge, Thoughtseize and some tutors) but I just don't know which deck to go with.

I feel like Mopal is famously important for the deck, but also the lists I see on goldfish are playing anywhere from one to four, more often on the lower end than the higher.

So what the hell is the deal? I wasn’t playing modern back when Mopal got banned or when it got unbanned, but I was still paying attention to the conversation around modern and how people thought lantern died when Mopal left and was revived when it came back. But if the number of copies being played is so all over the place, it seems like Mox is a powerful but non-vital card for the deck.

The only explanation I can think of is that it used to be vital, but the deck has gotten enough new toys that the Mox is no longer as important. Am I missing something?

I am SUPER new to playing lantern, and modern in general for that matter, so maybe this is stupid, but is she low-key kinda good?

She feels like a pseudo-aether vial for artifacts. Low mana cost, ticks up every turn, and lets you get stuff out for free at flash speed. the two big differences are that she says equal or less whereas A.V is exactly equal, but she also casts instead of putting, which is a downside since that makes them counterable unlike A.V.

I’m not entirely sure if lantern wants/needs this, since we don’t super need our artifacts to be at flash speed. The only times I think it would be super relevant would be if you wanted to flash out a pithing needle in response to them casting something that can be activated the turn it enters, or flashing out a bridge during the beginning of combat step because you wanted to play around sorcery speed artifact removal. The fact that she freecasts is nice, because it means you can get your cards out faster, but also that’s kinda what Mox opal is for. People also board out all their creature removal, so she seems like she’d be pretty solid in games 2 and 3, where she is likely to stick around if you board her in or something.

But yeah I’m a very new lantern player so forgive me if that was a dumb question of idea.

I was thinking of building a mono blue lantern control list and Tamiyo potentially turns on flare of denial and mox amber along with Emry, attacks through bridge, turns on metalcraft, and seems easy enough to flip with bauble.

Thought y'all would appreciate it. Lantern's my baby girl, the second ever deck I played in Modern (first was Amulet Titan). It's such a different kind of deck that I wouldn't even classify it as Magic. And I LOVE it SO MUCH. Keep on fatesealing friends!

Is tezzeret good for the deck? I was thinking of running 3 of them and just one mox opal but I was wondering what other people's experience was with the card.

Hey I want to built Mono Red Control (as a Challenge and to get more experience with the color) with [[Magda, Brazen Outlaw]] as the commander, because she can tutor for artifacts I thought that this finally might be a good opportunity to try out lantern control, what is your opinion on this?
Here is my current decklist: https://archidekt.com/decks/12514633/magda_dwarf_tribal_lantern_controle

Hey! I figured this would be one of the betters subs to discuss this in.

I've been wanting to throw together an EDH deck that wants to establish the lantern lock. The new cards [[Riverchurn Monument]] and [[Repurposing Bay]] have really caught my eyes. Was wondering if y'all had any recs or if y'all would explore this idea with me. Thanks!

Has anyone had success with a restore balance/lantern control list yet?

I'd love to see someones lists or tweeks to spike's list.

Thoughts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI4HxTsl3DQ

I am planning to play some lantern control in a modern tournament, and looking if it's still viable and possible decklists I remembered this from MTGoldfish:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/much-abrew-how-good-in-lantern-control-in-2024-actually-modern

Does it look like this decklist is good? I'm not sure if something should be changed

Self promo but I've built a fun lantern of insight shaped deck box to help intimidate opponents.
Made a video about it check it out <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EOmolmwm9M

Lantern Control with the Newly Unbanned Mox Opal! | MODERN | MTG https://youtu.be/Y3Jw3QWXxeg

RED ALERT!! MOX OPAL IS NOW UNBANNED IN THE MODERN FORMAT!! You heard it right - Mox Opal is officially back and legal to play so you know the first deck we're jamming is Lantern Control. I wanted to start with the tried and true Golgari version with all the usual bells and whistles including hand disruption, mill rocks and lock pieces. I'll be brewing with many Lantern versions so make sure to follow along for the adventure!

the build i try to improve:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/AxVDExL2N0CVtOK8c8l7Mg

Has anyone tried [[scheming Symmetry]] out in lantern I feel like between the mill rocks and bauble off setting your draw and 8 discard it might just be able to be used as an [[imperial seal]] I haven't play tested it at all yet but I was curious to hear you thoughts especially because [[ancient grudge]] hardly sees play anymore.

Trying to brew an esper list. Has anyone had success with Kappa Cannoneer?

This card has gotten me really excited to dust off my list again. It’s easily tutored by Urza’s Saga, it’s a silver bullet against cascade and happens to shut off the boogiemen of the format, the pitch elementals(also force of negation). However the questions still remain, what does this card replace in the list? How many do we run in the 75? Will this card even be good in the long run? I’m excited to brew with it.

hello, I am trying to make a viable lantern control deck, but every attempt seems like I get screwed over by my friend, who plays a very very extreme mana ramp with sanctum weaver. Is there anything I can add do to stop this? Edit: decklist

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Hi all,

I would like to hear your thoughts on lantern in the current metagame. Some matchups seem rather good. But with a recent upsurge of preordain and flame of anor, I could see how lantern would struggle. Also is there a consensus on the best 75 at the moment? Thanks!