As someone who knows nothing about modern, I would run
pillage as it is more versatile, but from my understanding, artifacts arent too prevalent in modern. I mean there is no guarantee you will see one each game. Either there are 10 Rtifacts or there are 0. And apparently two damage is a lot in modern, while also destroying their best land. Just think if you kill a
shock land, that's 4 damage.
I would think
stone rain is better for modern, though is land destruction viable? I feel like 3 mana is too slow for that. Maybe if you go first, it would be useful.