BUG Surgical Purge

Modern

Daniel2410

Creature (8)

• 4x Scavenging Ooze
• 4x Snapcaster Mage

Land (23)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Forest
• 4x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Island
• 3x Overgrown Tomb
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Swamp
• 4x Verdant Catacombs
• 4x Watery Grave

Artifact (4)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 3x Batterskull

Instant (17)

• 3x Abrupt Decay
• 3x Archive Trap
• 2x Cryptic Command *list*
• 3x Extirpate
• 2x Slaughter Pact
• 4x Surgical Extraction

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Serum Visions

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Earwig Squad

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Damnation
• 2x Duress
• 1x Killing Wave

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Grazing Gladehart

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Bitterblossom

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Reap Intellect
• 1x Villainous Wealth

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This is a deck originally thought up by my good friend Kaulin. over the last year we have been collaborating to make this not only incredibly fun to play, but also terrifying to play against! In the Modern format, a large number of decks lose to this one right off the bat: combo decks chief among them. I am working very hard to come up with A sideboard that can finish off aggro and tribal theme decks, as this deck has a lot of trouble facing extreme synergy. The idea here is BUG control. They may think you are starting out slowly, but the goal is to get their win condition out of their hand or deck or off of the battlefield and into their graveyard using any of Archive Trap, Inquisition of Kozilek, or Abrupt Decay. Once this is Achieved, we simply remove the win conditions not only from their graveyard, but also from their hand and deck using either Surgical Extraction or Extirpate. Barring this, we can also use Scavenging Ooze to remove threats such as Emrakul or Griselbrand from the graveyard to prevent them from recurring. I run a playset of Snapcaster Mages for useful recursion of any spells I may want to play again. We run two Cryptic Command as incredibly valuable control, and Serum visions for card draw. Slaughter Pact is ideal creature removal. The win condition in our deck is mainly Batterskull, as it provides a high rate of damage and all-important life gain. The life gain is particularly crucial to this deck as we have a number of Fetch Lands, Shock Lands, and Phyrexian Mana symbols. Other synergy exists in how Ghost quarter allows them to search their library, turning on Archive Trap. I have yet to see many decks that can survive without their crucial elements to help them, so the idea is rather simple.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 4 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 0 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.05
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	Modern