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Expertise

Modern

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I suppose it's technically a control combo deck. Control with restore balance and boom bust. dig with

Card explanations:

-Creatures- 8

4x Greater Gargadon: Synergy with Boom/Bust and Restore Balance. Big Beefy body, for Entering.

4x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: The best. Top Dog. Entering target is all.

-Spells- 30

4x Restore Balance: Destroy all lands, Everybody discards all their cards, and sacrifices all their creatures. Completely resets a board. Starts the game over. Except you have a few artifact lands. And they don't. Hopefully

4x Faithless Looting: The deck needed some draw of any variety. Lowering your hand count actually helps restore balance. But all things considered this card doesn't do as much as maybe i would like.

2x Serum Visions: Needed another cheap draw spell. This one helps see if there is a creature on top to set up entering

4x Bust: A little ld never hurt. Blowing up a couple lands early with a mana rock or 2 out puts you way ahead.

4x Brain in a Jar: The bread and butter here. Can cast restore balance with the right help. Faithless looting t3, into a breaking the entering or bust t4

4x Entering: Combo Kill. Can drop a permanent emrakul on t3 off Kari Zev Expertise, or t4 off brain in the jar or the other expertise.

2x Kari Zev's Expertise: This one is the best one, but also the only one that needs a condition. Which is why it only gets 2 spots. Minimize dead cards

3x Sram's Expertise: I don't know which other expertise I want. For now i'm splitting them 3 and 3.

3x Yahenni's Expertise: Same Idea. This one is a bit of a sweeper. The other makes some bodies. Sram's can be a bit awkward into a restore balance. But nothing is perfect.

-Artifacts- 11

4x Fieldmist Borderpost: Blue White Border Post. It's just a mana rock for 1.

4x Mistvein Borderpost: Blue Black Border Post. It's Just a mana rock for 1.

3x Veinfire Borderpost: Red Black Border Post. It's Just a mana rock for 1.

-Lands- 11

1x Arid Mesa: The mana base is super loose. Just tossed it together. good enough to work atm.

1x Scalding Tarn: Same

2x Bloodstained Mire: Same

2x Swamp: Have to play basics for borderposts

2x Mountain: Same

2x Plains: Same

1x Island: Same

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I have decided that the expertise cards, while good in their own right, do not need to be overdone. They each have thier own limitations and i'd like to mitigate that. Thus Their numbers are going to be dropping.

Spell pierce has been good. Boom/Bust needs to be treated as a gotcha and not a plan A type spell, so it is being reduced to 1. Likewise, restore balance is getting cut to 3, since it takes a bit to setup appropriately.

Moving forward I want to keep testing out more situation countermagic. But i also need more card draw without serum visions. In comes izzet charm. Pretty much everything. Kills early death's shadow. Kills delver. COunters nonsense and is faithless looting 4-6.

in Summation: -1 Boom/Bust -1 Faithless Looting -1 Sram's Expertise

+3 Izzet Charm

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Date added 7 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is not Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

6 - 3 Mythic Rares

27 - 2 Rares

3 - 6 Uncommons

16 - 4 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 5.04
Tokens Bird 1/1 W, Servo 1/1 C
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