Bant Forcemage

Modern Exalted Haste Primer RGWU

KoenZyx

Creatures (29)

• 4x Noble Hierarch
• 2x Qasali Pridemage
• 4x Strangleroot Geist
• 2x Voice of Resurgence
• 1x Boggart Ram-Gang
• 1x Dungrove Elder
• 2x Geist of Saint Traft
• 1x Groundbreaker
• 3x Primal Forcemage
• 2x Reflector Mage
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Giant Solifuge
• 2x Rafiq of the Many
• 1x Timbermare
• 1x Wingmate Roc
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Lands (24)

• 4x Breeding Pool
• 2x Flooded Strand
• 9x Forest
• 1x Plains
• 4x Temple Garden
• 4x Windswept Heath

Other (7)

• 3x Rancor
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 2x Collected Company
• 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 3x Path to Exile
• 1x Vines of Vastwood
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 2x Qasali Pridemage
• 2x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Selesnya Charm
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Qasali Ambusher
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Gisela, the Broken Blade  ^Meld
• 1x Baneslayer Angel

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Maybeboard

Green (20)

• 1x Nissa, Sage Animist  ^Flip
• 1x Treetop Village
• 1x Avoid Fate
• 1x Primal Bellow
• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Evolution Charm
• 1x Skinshifter
• 1x Tower Defense
• 1x Blanchwood Armor
• 1x Boon Satyr
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Inexorable Blob
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Garruk Relentless  ^Flip
• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Surrak, the Hunt Caller
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts

White (5)

• 1x Banisher Priest
• 1x Clear Shot
• 1x Ajani Steadfast
• 1x Knight of Sursi
• 1x Battlegrace Angel

Blue (1)

• 1x Rapid Hybridization

Red (1)

• 1x Skitterbeam Battalion

Temur (1)

• 1x Savage Knuckleblade

Selesnya (3)

• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Advent of the Wurm

Azorius (1)

• 1x Lavinia of the Tenth

Bant (1)

• 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher

Simic (1)

• 1x Risen Reef

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The Plan

Turn 1:

• Noble Hierarch...

Turn 2:

• Groundbreaker = 7 power
• Strangleroot Geist+Rancor=5 power
• Qasali Pridemage+Rancor on Noble Hierarch = 4 power
• Voice of Resurgence
• Primal Forcemage
• Geist of Saint Traft
• Dungrove Elder

Turn 3:

• Primal Forcemage with Noble Hierarch and Geist of Saint Traft on the board = 3 Power Geist and 7 power Angel
• Groundbreaker+Rancor with Noble Hierarch and Primal Forcemage on the board= 12 power trample
• Collected Company (own first main phase) for Groundbreakers = 12 Power trample
• Rafiq of the Many with creatures on the board=?? damage
• Tamiyo

Now we probably have our opponent down a lot of life but we're starting to run out of cards. Using Life's Legacy on a Groundbreaker is really tempting and using it on a Strangleroot isn't bad, especially if it has a rancor. Exalted lasts until end of turn but Life's Legacy is sorcery speed anyway so we can't draw after discard step...

Greater Good bears (pun intended) consideration. The discard seems way too costly though, not to mention the tempo difference with Life's Legacy. Lifeblood Hydra is bad with CoCo but can just be a good creature on its own and we have the triple green.

Momentous Fall is instant speed so it works with Geist of Saint Traft and it could gain us some life... Twice as much mana though, probably test both Momentous Fall and Life's Legacy.

Let me know in the comments if you have any suggestions.

Ramblings

A second Rafiq of the Many is good but having more options for eldritch evolution (maybe even woodland bellower) would also be good. Maybe go back to a second tireless tracker, though it's a slow play.

• Predator Ooze
• Troll Ascetic
• Boon Satyr
• Courser of Kruphix
• Loxodon Smiter
• Kitchen Finks
• Trygon Predator
• Bounding Krasis
• Elusive Krasis
• Giltspire Avenger (exalted and great life protection)
• Bant Sureblade (strong)

We definitely want Tireless Tracker instead of Knight of the Reliquary. Gets cards back in our hand, grows without tapping. Value.

Eldritch Evolution can get us damage or utility, even better if we can get Woodland Bellower with it.

Skinshifter is good with haste, especially if we have the primal forcemage out. We just need to decide on what we're using for the haste. Generator Servant? Surrak?

Adding in Melira and/or Kitchen Finks might actually be good if we have the room to combo a little or we need some persist/lifegain.

Avg. CMC might be too high, 2 is kind of the sweet spot for quick and interactive decks(right?). The ramp and being aggro means we can get away with a little more but this is becoming a house of cards. (No pun intended... -cringe-)

Groundbreaker on turn 2 but that might be aggro to the point of insanity. Groundbreakers "require" evolution charms, that doesn't make me very happy. Feels like I'm giving my opponent a 2 for 0. Going with 1 Groundbreaker for corner cases.

Storage Matrix into Timbermare might be really really good. It violates defences. Might be something for another deck.

Get more Dungrove Elders?? GET MORE DUNGROVE ELDERS!!! They are what we need against burn and control decks. We could also take some removal out of the sideboard for creatures that can't be countered, also hexproof if possible.

• T1 Noble Hierarch
• T2 Training Grounds and Fleecemane Lion
• T3 activate Fleecemane Lion?

Search for Tomorrow might be even better than Noble Hierarch. We don't get the creature but we get a basic land which (if our deck is resilient) is far more useful. Nvm, Evolution Charm

FNM records 2020 (or even earlier)

FNM 1

• 0-2 Against Snapcaster Burn with Darkdwellers and Ancestral Recall (Dungrove Elder would have been good, I tapped down my own creatures with Timbermare when there was absolutely no need, stupid)
• 2-0 Against Chord of Calling ('nuff said)
• 2-1 Against upgraded March of the Multitudes (We could have used some more trample and card draw but mostly fine)

Sublime Archangel and Unflinching Courage underperformed. Sublime Archangel severely lacks haste and we don't need a lot of lifegain, we might not even need any. Sphinx's Revelation didn't get a fair chance because it wasn't in my hand most of the time but it feels a little too slow now.

Someone pointed out we should just be running CoCo, technically correct...

• OUT: 1 Sublime Archangel, 1 Unflinching Courage, 1 Sphinx's Revelation, 1 Advent of the Wurm, 2 Knight of the Reliquary
• IN: 1 Groundbreaker, 1 Evolution Charm, 2 Collected Company, 2 Tireless Tracker

FNM 2

Got destroyed by a flicker deck, still vexing.

FNM 3

Matches: 3-0 VICTORY!!!

• 1st Game: 2-1 Got a little lucky against a white-black deck with spirits, lilianas and sorins.
• 2nd Game: 2-0 Beat red-blue control (no goblin darkdwellers this time)
• 3rd Game: 2-0 Outpaced blue-green infect by holding on to a path to exile and playing creatures.

Board got wiped in the second game, predator ooze would have been great.

Bant Build {W}{U}{G}

2020 (or even earlier) build Show

2x Collected Company 1x Eldritch Evolution 3x Rancor 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher

Lands 4x Windswept Heath 4x Temple Garden 2x Flooded Strand 9x Forest 1x Plains 4x Breeding Pool

Creatures 1x Timbermare f 1x Tireless Tracker 2x Voice of Resurgence 1x Wingmate Roc 1x Woodland Bellower 2x Geist of Saint Traft 1x Giant Solifuge 1x Groundbreaker 4x Noble Hierarch 3x Primal Forcemage 2x Qasali Pridemage 2x Rafiq of the Many 2x Reflector Mage 4x Strangleroot Geist 1x Boggart Ram-Gang 1x Dungrove Elder

Naya Build {W}{G}{R}

No more Geist of Saint Traft, Reflector Mage, Rafiq of the Many, and Noble Hierarch won't make us {R}

Temur Build {U}{G}{R}

Noble Hierarch won't make us {R}

No more Geist of Saint Traft, Reflector Mage, Rafiq of the Many, and Noble Hierarch won't make us {R}

No more vQasali Pridemage, Voice of Resurgence, Wingmate Roc

Skitterbeam Battalion makes 3 trample haste guys which would all get +2/+2 for each Primal Forcemage we have on the board.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 2 Mythic Rares 30 - 4 Rares 13 - 6 Uncommons 2 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.72
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 3/4 W, Clue, Elemental */* GW, Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance
Folders	WINRAR