Setting Swans on Fire

Modern*

Captainblackjon

Creature (7)

• 2x Snapcaster Mage
• 4x Swans of Bryn Argoll *list*
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ajani Vengeant

Land (23)

• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 6x Island
• 3x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 2x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls

Artifact (2)

• 2x Isochron Scepter

Instant (19)

• 1x Harvest Pyre
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Lightning Helix
• 2x Mana Leak
• 2x Path to Exile
• 3x Remand
• 2x Spell Snare
• 1x Stubborn Denial

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Anger of the Gods
• 4x Serum Visions
• 2x Void Snare

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Spellskite

Enchantment (3)

• 2x Blood Moon
• 1x Stony Silence

Artifact (2)

• 2x Engineered Explosives

Instant (8)

• 2x Celestial Purge
• 1x Counterflux
• 2x Guttural Response
• 1x Rending Volley
• 2x Wear / Tear

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This deck is still in the prototype stage, I haven't been able to do a lot of testing due to time constraints. I'll do my best to provide a brief overview of card choices and what the deck is trying to do.

MAIN

This is basically a Jeskai control deck, that takes advantage of Swans of Bryn Argoll to draw a lot of cards. The goal is to out tempo your opponent, and then kill them with some combination of burn spells/creatures. List of card choices below:

Swans of Bryn Argoll - The card this whole deck is built around. It's a 4/3 flying creature with a cool ability.

Anger of the Gods - Acts as a sweeper against aggro decks, and lets you draw 3 cards if you have a swans out.

Void Snare - There are lots of non-land permanents out there that cause a lot of grief, and mess up our tempo. This card helps defend against an early Blood Moon, and Planeswalkers.

Harvest Pyre - Lets us exile cards from the graveyard to refill our hand.

Isochron Scepter - Makes cards like Remand, Mana Leak, and Lightning Helix repeatable for any 2 open mana.

Celestial Colonnade - Because sometimes you need a 4/4 with flying and vigilance!

SIDEBOARD

This is pretty straight forward, but let me know if you have any questions. I do want to say one thing about Blood Moon:

Blood Moon - Basically for the tron matchups only. This hurts us early game, if we cant fetch out basic lands first. I suppose Sowing Salt could work also, I'll have to test it out.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 8 Rares 20 - 7 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.95