Counters on Counters

Modern BRG (Jund) Casual Counters Ramp

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Lands (22)

• 2x Evolving Wilds
• 10x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 3x Mountain
• 3x Swamp
• 3x Wooded Foothills

Ramp (10)

• 4x Gyre Sage
• 3x Llanowar Elves
• 3x Rosheen Meanderer

Counters (12)

• 2x Corpsejack Menace
• 4x Hardened Scales
• 2x Kalonian Hydra
• 3x Renegade Krasis
• 1x Verdurous Gearhulk

Utility (5)

• 2x Inspiring Call
• 2x Nettle Sentinel
• 1x Scavenging Ooze

X Force (8)

• 2x Hungering Hydra
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 4x Savageborn Hydra
• 1x Vastwood Hydra

X Spells (3)

• 3x Banefire

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Scalable hydras generated from some ramp, lots of counter acceleration, looking for (moderately) budgeted suggestions.

Ideal plays:

1. Forest and Llanowar Elves
2. Forest, Gyre Sage, and Hardened Scales
3. Land, Nettle Sentinel evolves Gyre Sage (+2), Hardened Scales, Rosheen Meanderer evolves Gyre Sage (now +5)
4. If we hit all our land drops, that should give us potentially 14 mana for X spells (10 regular). With that, using 4 mana for Corpsejack Menace is a net gain, as it essentially cuts X spells in half. Now we can play Primordial Hydra for 10(8/8), 2× Hardened Scales adds 2 (10/10), and Corpsejack Menace doubles it (20/20 with Trample)!
5. Next upkeep Primordial Hydra gets counters doubled (40/40), +2 from Scales (42/42), then those 22 counters get doubled from Corpsejack. Suddenly you are swinging for game with a 64/64 Trampler :)

That would be an insane sequence though, here's a much more probable start.

1. Hardened Scales
2. Gyre Sage
3. Renegade Krasis which evolves Gyre Sage +2
4. Rosheen Meanderer evolves Gyre Sage again (+4), evolves Renegade Krasis (+2), who's ability boosts Gyre Sage again (now +6). With Gyre's 6 mana, lay down a 6/6 Hungering Hydra which, you guessed it, triggers Renegade +4 now and boosts Gyre yet again (up to +8).
5. Now we have 15-17 mana depending on land drops, and we can lay down a 14/14 to 16/16 double striking Savageborn Hydra which will evolve everything again to drop something even bigger next turn. At this point we have a 13/14, 9/8, 4/4, 10/10, and 14/14+ making up the board presence.

Top Ranked	Achieved #42 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Splash colors	BR
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 8 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.26
Folders	Best Decks, Deck i like, Green Decks, Modern