Melira Pod (aka Junk Midrange with some combos)

Modern BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Infinite Combo Midrange Toolbox

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Creature (27)

• 2x Archangel of Thune
• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cartel Aristocrat
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 4x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 2x Murderous Redcap
• 2x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Ranger of Eos
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Spike Feeder
• 2x Viscera Seer
• 3x Voice of Resurgence

Land (23)

• 3x Forest
• 3x Gavony Township
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 4x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 4x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Artifact (4)

• 4x Birthing Pod

Instant (6)

• 3x Abrupt Decay
• 3x Chord of Calling

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Sideboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 2x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Orzhov Pontiff
• 1x Sin Collector
• 2x Skylasher
• 1x Slum Reaper

Land (2)

• 2x Ghost Quarter

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 2x Thoughtseize

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Melira Pod, my take on the deck. I started with Sam Pardee's list and then made a few modifications for my own play style and local metagame. A few notes:

1) I need to get a Linvala. Great card, great in this deck, probably worth maindeck but if not then definitely sideboard.

2) Cartel Aristocrat gives you a sac outlet at 2 CMC, which I've found helpful many times in trying to combo off with Birthing Pod.

3) As I allude to in the title, this is just a GWB (Junk) midrange deck that happens to have some combos. People get too concerned about stopping you from combo-ing off, and then you just win by attacking with Kitchen Finks and Voice of Resurgence tokens. This is an incredibly resilient deck; I've won games from positions that looked hopeless, including having Liliana of the Veil ultimate me twice in the same game, and a UWR control deck with 12 lands in play, having cast Path to Exile twice and flashed back both with Snapcaster.

4) If you ever play with this deck, be sure you know your pod chains, and keep them in mind when you sideboard. I once screwed up a pod activation because it turned out there was nothing left in my deck at 4 CMC, after the cards in my hand, in play, and those I sided out. Whoops.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 2 Mythic Rares 40 - 5 Rares 9 - 7 Uncommons 4 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.76
Tokens	Elemental */* GW
Folders	Modern