Shenanigans (poss. T1 win)

Modern Aggro Combo Competitive Five Color Theme/Gimmick

ManaTitheGuy

Creature (14)

• 1x Death's Shadow
• 3x Kiln Fiend
• 4x Monastery Swiftspear
• 4x Simian Spirit Guide
• 2x Stormchaser Mage

Land (17)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 2x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Forest
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Polluted Delta
• 2x Steam Vents
• 2x Stomping Ground
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

Instant (18)

• 2x Apostle's Blessing
• 2x Crimson Wisps
• 4x Manamorphose
• 4x Mutagenic Growth
• 2x Vines of Vastwood
• 4x Viridescent Wisps

Sorcery (11)

• 2x Assault Strobe
• 3x Distortion Strike
• 4x Gitaxian Probe
• 2x Slip Through Space

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Sideboard

Instant (9)

• 3x Dispel
• 3x Lightning Bolt
• 3x Tainted Strike

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Grapeshot
• 3x Pyroclasm

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 2x Blistercoil Weird
• 1x Nivmagus Elemental
• 1x Wee Dragonauts

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Clout of the Dominus

Artifact (1)

• 1x Paradise Mantle

Instant (11)

• 1x Aphotic Wisps
• 1x Bandage
• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Expedite
• 2x Gut Shot
• 1x Peek
• 1x Quicken
• 1x Remand
• 2x Spell Snare

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First off many thanks to Minelia5 & znosher for their deck submissions THE MINEFIELD (OF TURN 1 WINS)! SOOO FUN & KABLAMO! - Win before they can even play a land respectively . So Check them out!! I was looking to build a prowess / Wee Dragonauts deck when I came across their decks.

Possible T1 Win Show

A possible turn 1 win would look something like this:

Opening Hand: Mountain, Monastery Swiftspear, x2Simian Spirit Guide, 2x Manamorphose, and Mutagenic Growth.

T1: Mountain, play Monastery Swiftspear, Pitch 2 Simian Spirit Guide and play Manamorphose float a and draw a card, play second Manamorphose float the same. Hopefully you have drawn into either a Distortion Strike, or Apostle's Blessing. Play your Tainted Strike, Mutagenic Growth & one of your evasion spells and easily swing for the kill.No Tainted Strike? Assault Strobe fits the bill nicely as well.

Other awesome interactions Show

I am going to tinker around with this interesting interaction:Blistercoil Weird+Paradise Mantle, Along with Nivmagus Elemental can make for some ridiculous fun. With equipped weird, tap for mana play a spell untap give +1/+1 and eat the spell with nivmagus, repeat. Ideally you would maybe play a couple Manamorphose if possible at the end to keep it going and not eat them, to get the draw.

And there is always the potential for strom in this deck as well. Many of the games I played with the old version, my opponent would start ticking up a storm counter. But I never had storm cards.

Deck history & progression Show

I play-tested the decks and knew I could build on on already great basis.

Here's what I initially noticed.

1) Creatures: There weren't enough creatures. The original decks were modeled around infect, which generally has no mid-late game staying power.

2) Pro anything: There was no significant creature protection or evasion. The original builds were very susceptible to removal and chump block.

3) Dead cards: I found more often than not Chancellor of the Tangle was taking up at least 3 valuable card slots (if you were lucky enough to draw him in opening hand). But most of the time it was 4 slots..

I have gone through 3 builds to get to this, through real-life play-testing. The original build I went up against a couple friends with very competitive decks and I started tweaking from there.The first (original) build if you didn't combo out on turns 1-3 you were dead. And cards like Collected Company could put a quick stop to your potentially devastating 1 man swing.

From there I added in Apostle's Blessing and Distortion Strike to keep my beastly attack going through to my opponent. I almost never drew Chancellor of the Tangle opening hand, so he went bye-bye.. weeping

Realizing that any removal deck could easily stall this deck out I went on the hunt for another creature. My friend suggested Delver of Secrets  . With all those spells, why not?? Potential for a 3/2 flyer on turn 2 for seemed logical.

Old FNM play-testing Show

6/4/2015 Modern tournament with that build went as follows. Finished deck while waiting for pairings, and no sideboard yet.

1st match: W/R Battalion - Won 2-1. Lost first hand, I forgot to use delvers ability, was fetching the wrong lands it was a mess of bad plays.

2nd match: Elves - lost 1-2. No chump blockers, chord, and collected were too much for 1-2 creatures on the field. In my defense I had one complete crap hand.

3rd match: Jund - lost 0-2. Lightning bolt, Liliana, and abrupt decay just ruined my day over and over.

4th match: G/B/U infect - Won 2-1. My deck though similar proved superior.

I did notice that a sub-optimal opening hand is not the death of this build. You can sit back and drop lands, use defensive spells to protect yourself until you're in a good position to drop the bomb. I will type out some scenarios after I have played this out more.

I love what Nivmagus Elemental does with another prowess card in the field. Once you cast your spells you can gobble up any non-relevant spells on the stack and get a 2fur1...

Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 3 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 12 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.44
Folders	Cool decks, Lol, Modern