American Prowess

Modern Competitive Delver Midrange RUW (Jeskai, America) Tempo

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Land (19)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 3x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Inspiring Vantage
• 2x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 3x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Spirebluff Canal
• 2x Steam Vents

Instant (20)

• 2x Boros Charm
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Lightning Helix
• 1x Mana Leak
• 4x Path to Exile
• 4x Remand
• 1x Vapor Snag

Creature (15)

• 4x Delver of Secrets  ^Flip
• 3x Geist of Saint Traft
• 3x Monastery Swiftspear
• 4x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spell Queller

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Forked Bolt
• 4x Serum Visions

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 2x Deflecting Palm
• 2x Dispel
• 1x Electrolyze
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Wear / Tear

Creature (5)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 2x Monastery Mentor
• 2x Soulfire Grand Master

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Stony Silence

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Shatterstorm

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This is my take on a modern Jeskai (WUR) with prowess. So far with casual play this deck is fairly decent. I've made several modifications and am continuing to work on the mana base.

The trick is continuously triggering prowess on Monastery Swiftspear while allowing Delver of Secrets   or Monastery Mentor to add some tokens. Geist of Saint Traft comes in turn 3-4 and soon after spells should help you win. If anyone has any ideas to help me make this a better modern deck, I'm all ears (and eyes). Thanks!

Currently I'm working on fixing my mana base, but the tempo is a fun casual play already.

Wax On, Wax Off

Wax On, Wax Off

Turn 1: Focus on dropping and swing with Monastery Swiftspear or prep a Delver of Secrets   for next turn.

Turn 2: Most instants are there to pump prowess and swing or defend. I stuck with mostly instants for this benefit. Most instants are available to you: Lightning Bolt, Path to Exile, Lightning Helix, and Remand. Facilitate flipping the Delver with Serum Visions while triggering prowess. Recently added Gitaxian Probe and Vapor Snag to complete the necessities for Delver and tempo control. Snapcaster Mage is there for any spell to call back.

Turn 3: Most if not all spells should be cast for pumping prowess to swing/defend and also have Electrolyze for some damage and draw a card. Monastery Mentor and Geist of Saint Traft are the two finishers for tokens and beatdown.

Turn 4-7+: A nice defense and major player is Distortion Strike + Geist of Saint Traft . Utilize speed and cunning to enter combat and pump prowess. Attack and defend accordingly to achieve victory.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Distortion Strike + Geist of Saint Traft
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 4 Mythic Rares 20 - 5 Rares 19 - 4 Uncommons 14 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.56
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Monk 1/1 W
Folders	1v1, Others Modern Deck, cool modern, 5. Inspirations, Prowess is a Thing Now, RUW (Jeskai, America), MTG decks, Prowess, Modern, Deck Ideas