There Will Come Soft Rains ($30 Affinity)

Modern 8-Rack Affinity Aggro Budget Four Color Theme/Gimmick

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Creature (25)

• 4x Bomat Courier
• 4x Court Homunculus
• 4x Frogmite
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 4x Memnite
• 4x Ornithopter
• 4x Signal Pest

Land (17)

• 2x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 4x Contested War Zone
• 4x Darksteel Citadel
• 2x Island
• 4x Spire of Industry

Artifact (7)

• 4x Servo Schematic
• 3x Springleaf Drum

Instant (4)

• 1x Dispatch
• 3x Foul-Tongue Shriek

Sorcery (7)

• 4x Kuldotha Rebirth
• 3x Thoughtcast

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Sideboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Dispatch
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 2x Wear / Tear

Artifact (1)

• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Creature (4)

• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 3x Salvage Titan

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Whipflare

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Ensoul Artifact

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Vault Skirge
• 1x Venerated Loxodon

Land (1)

• 1x Cloudcrest Lake

Instant (4)

• 1x Galvanic Blast
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Shrapnel Blast
• 1x Stubborn Denial

Artifact (2)

• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Smuggler's Copter

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"Today is August 5, 2026..." Show

"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire,

Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one

Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,

If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn

Would scarcely know that we were gone."

| Ray Bradbury, a Mirran Prophet

Do you want to play an Affinity deck that uses actual Affinity cards and doesn't hurt your wallet? Do you like swarming the board with creatures and dropping your entire hand by turn 3!? Well, do I have the deck for you!

Invade Mirrodin and annihilate your enemies in the name of New Phyrexia with this budget Affinity deck! First, flood the board with low cost creatures, Frogmite, and Kuldotha Rebirth, then use Signal Pest, Contested War Zone, and Foul-Tongue Shriek to buff/drain the opponent out of the game! When your opponents bring in sweepers Game 2, side in Ensoul Artifact and Salvage Titan in place of Kuldotha Rebirth and Foul-Tongue Shriek for a surprise beatstick ambush!

Other Card Choices

In the Main Show

Note: Servo Schematic/Servo Exhibition, Springleaf Drum, and Thoughtcast are flex spots

• Cranial Plating - It may lower the power of Kuldotha Rebirth and Foul-Tongue Shriek, but only a little. I left it out of the deck posted above because I wanted to post the more extreme end of the deck; the version most focused around flooding the board with creatures, that is. Beware, though, occasionally you end up with no artifacts on the board due to Kuldotha Rebirth and various cards with affinity for artifacts stuck in hand

• Galvanic Blast - I chose Dispatch over this because I like Dispatch and it's a bit easier to get white mana with the lands, but you can play it. It's personal preference.

• Shrapnel Blast - There may be too much sacrifice cards if you play this, but you could if you went full aggro/burn and cut and , would be the way to go there. I'd play Galvanic Blast over this otherwise.

• Smuggler's Copter - Playing Copter would mark a shift from all-out aggro to extremely aggressive midrange (there's a thin line between them, but it's a line nonetheless); along with Galvanic Blasts and Cranial Platings, this deck could be made into more of a traditional Affinity list. Though if you cut the token makers to create room, you'd also have to replace the Contested War Zones since they're bad without them.

• Vault Skirge - Not sure why this is towards the bottom of the list, but if you're itching for some life gain you can play it in place of a 1-drop (recommended: Bomat Courier) or Servo Schematic/Servo Exhibition. It's much better with Cranial Plating though, so it would probably be best to just play it in the more traditional Affinity list mentioned above.

• Venerated Loxodon - It was released recently so I haven't tested it at all (I haven't been paying attention to the new sets) but it could be quite good.

In the Sideboard Show

You should tune the sideboard to your local meta. If there's lots of aggro, play more Whipflares and Dispatches; if there are lots of graveyard decks, play more Tormod's Crypts; etc. Here are some other sideboard suggestions.

Heroic Intervention - If you run into lots of control and stuff, this card is your best friend. Put in 2. You'll need a more 5-color friendly mana base to play it though. (see how to make one in the Upgrades section below(it's not that hard))

Phyrexian Revoker - If you run into lots of Superfriends or something, this card is your best friend. Play 2.

Stubborn Denial - Idk, it seems like it would be good with the Ensoul Artifacts and Salvage Titans. Haven't tested it.

Ethersworn Canonist - If you need tech against decks like Phoenix and Storm, this is your card.

Suggested Upgrades

Lands Show

Glimmervoids in place of the pain lands if you have any; if not, other rainbow lands are good too (Mana Confluence)

2 Seachrome Coast, 2 Inspiring Vantage/Spirebluff Canal, 1 Darkslick Shores/Concealed Courtyard/Blackcleave Cliffs in place of the pain lands

Since they reprinted shocks in the new Ravnica sets you can play those as well in the pain land slots if you have a few floating around, though the pain lands may actually be better in terms of life management. Personal preference.

Any other upgrades that I can mention here would be redundant since it would end up looking like a normal competitive Affinity deck; so, there you go. That's the goal! Finito.

Top Ranked	Achieved #6 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 4 Rares 24 - 9 Uncommons 18 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.47
Tokens	Goblin 1/1 R, Servo 1/1 C
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