Grixis Taker

Modern*

SenorButtcat

Land (23)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 2x Bloodstained Mire
• 2x Island
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 3x Steam Vents
• 4x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Watery Grave

Instant (18)

• 3x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Dispel
• 2x Fatal Push
• 2x Kolaghan's Command
• 3x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Mana Leak
• 3x Remand
• 1x Spell Snare
• 2x Terminate

Creature (8)

• 4x Hostage Taker
• 4x Snapcaster Mage

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Ancestral Vision
• 3x Serum Visions

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Impact Tremors

Artifact (3)

• 3x Altar of the Brood

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Counterflux
• 2x Countersquall
• 1x Dispel

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Architect of Thought

Artifact (2)

• 2x Dragon's Claw

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Collective Brutality
• 2x Thoughtseize

Creature (1)

• 1x Grave Titan

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Leyline of the Void

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This is a speculative deck based on the spoiled card Hostage Taker. This combo is rather evasive seeing as both payoff cards don't require targets to function and are both cheap enough to be played during heavy tempo turns and Hostage Taker can be used in conjunction with Snapcaster Mage to aid in stalling the board and has a decent amount of synergy with Kolaghan's Command and Cryptic Command.

Hostage Taker 2UB

Creature - Human Pirate

When Hostage Taker enters the battlefield, exile target artifact or creature until Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast that spell.

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THE COMBO

This combo is rather simple. With either Altar of the Brood or Impact Tremors out, Hostage Taker enters the battlefield and targets itself with the trigger. Hostage Taker is exiled and immediately re-enters to target itself once more, ad infinitum...

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 4 Mythic Rares 38 - 6 Rares 12 - 4 Uncommons 7 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.09
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B