Heliod-Ballista Companion

Modern Artifact Combo Control Legendary Matters WU (Azorius) Zirda, the Dawnwaker

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Land (22)

• 4x Flooded Strand
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 6x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 3x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Plains
• 2x Urza's Saga

Planeswalker (5)

• 3x Karn, the Great Creator
• 2x Teferi, Time Raveler

Artifact (6)

• 4x Mishra's Bauble
• 2x Mox Amber

Creature (12)

• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 3x Giver of Runes
• 3x Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 3x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 2x Walking Ballista

Instant (11)

• 3x Counterspell
• 4x Force of Negation
• 2x Path to Exile
• 2x Spell Pierce

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Serum Visions

Companion (1)

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Sideboard

Artifact (7)

• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Scourglass
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Witchbane Orb

Creature (4)

• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Instant (4)

• 2x Dovin's Veto
• 2x Faith's Shield

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Giant Killer
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Subtlety

Land (1)

• 1x Celestial Colonnade

Artifact (1)

• 1x Damping Sphere

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Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Walking Ballista combo featuring Karn, the Great Creator . You can side in Dovin's Veto and/or Faith's Shield for additional protection for the combo. Force of Negation is great as always.

There is a lot of card draw in this deck so finding a Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Walking Ballista should be fairly easy. There is also a Walking Ballista in the sideboard because then Karn, the Great Creator can get it. Urza's Saga can also tutor for Walking Ballista .

If you can't get your combo kill, then you can use big mana from Urza, Lord High Artificer to grab your companion from the sideboard and then play it immediately. Your companion can make a creature you opponent controls not be able to block a big Walking Ballista or Urza token. You can also pull your Wurmcoil Engine or Memnarch from the sideboard with Karn, the Great Creator and try attacking with those. Scourglass and Ensnaring Bridge can also jank people out and you can win that way.

Memnarch in the Karn wishboard is just a bootleg replacement for Mycosynth Lattice because it is banned in modern.

For those that don't know, the cute thing with Karn and Memnarch is that you can use Memnarch to turn your opponent's permanents into artifacts and then those permanents can't use any of their activated abilities because of Karn's static ability. It almost feels like turning things into elks with Oko, Thief of Crowns and you can also steal your opponent's board like Oko pretty quickly with Memnarch by using the big mana from Urza, Lord High Artificer or by reducing the cost of the abilities with Zirda, the Dawnwaker .

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 2 Mythic Rares 26 - 7 Rares 13 - 6 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.87
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	Creative AND Good, Modern Ideas