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Modern BG (Golgari) BGW (Abzan, Junk) BRGW Competitive Devotion Midrange Rock

TheSimikBOat

Land (23)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 2x Godless Shrine
• 4x Marsh Flats
• 2x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Polluted Delta
• 2x Shambling Vent
• 2x Swamp
• 2x Twilight Mire
• 2x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 4x Verdant Catacombs

Creature (16)

• 3x Geralf's Messenger
• 4x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Flayer
• 4x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 4x Tarmogoyf

Planeswalker (4)

• 3x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Artifact (2)

• 2x Mishra's Bauble

Sorcery (11)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 3x Lingering Souls
• 2x Maelstrom Pulse
• 2x Thoughtseize

Instant (4)

• 2x Assassin's Trophy
• 2x Fatal Push

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 3x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 2x Plague Engineer

Instant (2)

• 2x Veil of Summer

Enchantment (5)

• 2x Rest in Peace
• 3x Stony Silence

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Damnation

Artifact (1)

• 1x Engineered Explosives

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Can by the devotion-to-black a strategy to play in abzan?

Many days ago I saw an obiterator devotion deck that uses white, then I thought: "I can try to do a Rock deck that uses the Gray Merchant of Asphodel strategy". I saw different versions of the monoblack devotion deck and different versions of The Rock deck (including Jund, Abzan and Sultai), and I got the conclusion that this idea was not so far-fetched, since previously there where old vesions of Jund that they used Geralf's Messenger . In the end, after several ideas, I decided to do abzan because the white contributes Lingering Souls ; on the other hand, red only gave me removals like Lightning Bolt and Kolaghan's Command (becaue Bloodbraid Elf don't work with Phyrexian Obliterator ), and blue only Snapcaster Mage (that would not help me much, because this deck did not use as many spells as other versions of The Rock). Also, the white contributes good cards for the sideboard like Stony Silence .

I hope you like this deck!

Top Ranked	Achieved #58 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Midrange 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 4 Mythic Rares 26 - 9 Rares 11 - 2 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.54
Tokens	Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Spirit 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Abzan