Blue Ones

Modern Combo Tempo WU (Azorius)

DrFmeat

Creature (33)

• 4x Grand Architect
• 4x Judge's Familiar
• 4x Martyr of Frost
• 4x Mausoleum Wanderer
• 4x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 4x Sky Hussar
• 4x Spiketail Hatchling
• 4x Walking Ballista

Land (19)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 5x Island
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 3x Seachrome Coast

Instant (4)

• 2x Cryptic Command *list*
• 2x Mana Leak

Artifact (4)

• 4x Aether Vial

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 2x Auriok Champion
• 1x Harbinger of the Tides
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Selfless Spirit

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Spreading Seas

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Exhaustion

Artifact (3)

• 3x Grafdigger's Cage

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Maybeboard

Creature (18)

• 4x Cursecatcher
• 2x Drogskol Captain
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 4x Siren Stormtamer
• 4x Spell Queller
• 2x Spellstutter Sprite
• 1x Sundering Titan

Instant (7)

• 2x Disrupting Shoal
• 2x Snapback
• 3x Spell Snare

Land (2)

• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Shelldock Isle

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Blue Ones, a.k.a. Sky Hussies

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Converting Greg Hatch's Mono-blue Martyr to Modern!

The goal is to disrupt our opponent's game using the soft counter creatures: Judge's Familiar, Mausoleum Wanderer, Martyr of Frost, and Spiketail Hatchling. Aether Vial helps us power these creatures out and hold up mana for Mana Leak or Martyr of Frost. Dies to Chalice of the Void on 1 unless we already have a Vial out.

Meanwhile, we are gaining card advantage off our draw engines, Ninja of the Deep Hours, and Sky Hussar. This let's us generate a lot of chumpers while continuing to draw cards and keep our opponents off spells.

Finally, we have a quasi combo finish with Grand Architect to make our flyers larger and potentially kill with beatdowns, OR to make a very large Walking Ballista to control the board, chaingun our opponent's creatures down, or just kill the opponent directly. Pili-Pala is an infinite mana combo with Grand Architect that also therefore gives us an infinite damage combo with Walking Ballista to still beat infinite mana decks.

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Board Plan

Post board we further try to disrupt our opponents' game plans (Note: this analysis is done before playtesting, deck is very early draft):

Death's Shadow::

• Auriok Champion - dodges all their removal and blocks Death's Shadow forever. Soft counters beat Temur Battle Rage
• Harbinger of the Tides - play a tempo game with them while drawing far more cards than them to out-draw their hand rips.
• Kira, Great Glass-Spinner - make their removal more difficult and open up their spells to our soft counters

Red Deck::

• Auriok Champion - Obviously, hoping that card draw and soft counters win out the game.

Eldrazi Tron::

• Spreading Seas - keep them off mana
• Exhaustion - time walk after they've played a threat, give us time to draw cards/chumpers/counters
• Harbinger of the Tides - more tempo game

Classic Urza Tron::

• Spreading Seas - similar game plan as Eldrazi, but with less of a creature focus keep them off mana
• Exhaustion - time walk after they've played a threat, give us time to draw cards/chumpers/counters
• Hokori, Dust Drinker - keep them off mana long-term and beat them via Aether Vial

UW Control/Midrange::

• Kira, Great Glass-Spinner - make removal difficult
• Selfless Spirit - beat a sweeper
• Hokori, Dust Drinker - keep them off mana long-term, make their counters worse and beat them via Aether Vial

Lantern ... may be unwinnable as we aren't boarding in any artifact hate. We do at least have a combo kill without attacking with Walking Ballista

Dredge::

• Grafdigger's Cage for their GY
• Auriok Champion goes toe to toe with their creature recursion and also blocks Bloodghast and Prized Amalgam

UR Storm::

• Exhaustion hopefully buys turns and turns on our soft counters enough to draw into our hard counters
• Grafdigger's Cage makes them combo off only from their hand

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Feedback much appreciated!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	32 - 9 Rares 12 - 2 Uncommons 11 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.10