While cheap tutor effects usually incentivize maximizing consistency and making your deck more narrow-focused, expensive tutors like Chord of Calling have an opposite effect where they encourage you to play situational, yet highly impactful one-offs, aka “silver bullets”.
While I love convoke in general, Chord of Calling specifically fits it so well as a creature tutor effect allows you to play different kinds of creatures and create distinct gameplay patterns that are otherwise unreplicable in your average constructed deck. The flavor of convoke is incredible in the context of a creature deck, and it’s the right way to “cheat” mana as there’s a big upfront cost to casting multiple creatures, and creatures are generally easy to handle with removal spells. I simply just love the card – I think it’s one of my favorite designs in Magic. In that vein, one of my favorite archetypes in Modern has always been the Chord of Calling decks. While the games may sometimes feel like two ships passing in the night, the gameplay pattern of consistently being able to execute your deck’s gameplan is one that people with beloved pet decks very much appreciate. Within this large spectrum of archetypes, everyone can find a deck that fits their personality, and I have always loved talking to Modern players who are passionate about their pet deck and feel that it closely resembles their identity as a Magic player. I enjoy the wide variety of decks that exist, which is precisely possible only because the format doesn’t have the universal, well-rounded answers that Legacy has, like Daze, Wasteland and Force of Will, which keeps many archetypes in check. Although people often criticize the one-dimensional nature of gameplay, I have always been a big advocate of the format.
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