Mardu Bikes (Cycling)

Modern Competitive Cycling RBW (Mardu)

biglou666

Land (17)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 4x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 2x Blood Crypt
• 4x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 2x Sunbaked Canyon
• 1x Swamp

Creature (31)

• 4x Drannith Stinger
• 4x Flameblade Adept
• 4x Flourishing Fox
• 4x Hollow One
• 3x Seasoned Pyromancer
• 4x Street Wraith
• 4x Viashino Sandsprinter
• 4x Vile Manifestation

Sorcery (10)

• 2x Edge of Autumn
• 4x Go for Blood
• 4x Unearth

Instant (2)

• 2x Djeru's Renunciation

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 2x Kaya's Guile
• 2x Kolaghan's Command
• 2x Scarab Feast

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Alpine Moon

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Prismatic Ending

Artifact (2)

• 2x Engineered Explosives

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1x Irencrag Pyromancer

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An original cycling deck that I’ve been brewing up for modern. I’ve tried a similar deck based around racing to zenith flare but it was a bit too slow and clunky.

I thought I’d try a different take, and rely more on making a board presence of cheap creatures, and it turns out there are enough good 1-2 mana creatures with cycling synergy to try this concept out.

The deck ends up presenting as a fairly aggressive leaning deck, not lightning fast, but instead tries to maintain an advantageous board state by all of our creatures being surprisingly large for their mana costs.

Unearth is also a boon to the deck, as all of your creatures are easy to get to the yard, and it’s great to be able to choose from many strong creatures for 1 mana.

I’ll play test the deck and keep it updated, for now I want to try and optimise it, by adjusting the mana base, and maybe add a small removal suite accordingly. All suggestions welcome.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	G
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 8 Rares 16 - 4 Uncommons 20 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.44
Tokens	Elemental 1/1 R, Spirit 1/1 WB