RUG infect

Modern

gcocksucker

Land (19)

• 2x Breeding Pool
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 2x Forest
• 4x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 4x Windswept Heath
• 4x Wooded Foothills

Instant (21)

• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 2x Become Immense
• 3x Blossoming Defense
• 4x Might of Old Krosa
• 1x Peek
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 4x Thought Scour
• 4x Vines of Vastwood

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Assault Strobe
• 1x Distortion Strike
• 4x Serum Visions
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Creature (12)

• 4x Blighted Agent
• 4x Glistener Elf
• 4x Noble Hierarch

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Sideboard

Instant (26)

• 2x Ancient Grudge
• 2x Back to Nature
• 1x Dismember
• 4x Dispel
• 2x Echoing Truth
• 2x Electrickery
• 4x Feed the Clan
• 2x Gut Shot
• 3x Nature's Claim
• 2x Path to Exile
• 1x Piracy Charm
• 1x Spell Pierce

Land (2)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Temple Garden

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Distortion Strike

Artifact (5)

• 3x Grafdigger's Cage
• 2x Pithing Needle

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Sylvan Scrying

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I enjoy playing questionable magic cards, but with the printing of Fatal Push I find that playing these magic cards is not as easy as it used to be. For example, Mutagenic Growth and other pump spells are just straight bad against the current meta removal spell, so instead of the standard straight forward aggressive infect I have taken inspiration from the legacy version of infect and gone for a more combo-centric style. Here I substitute Berserk + Invigorate with Become Immense + Temur Battle Rage with slightly different creature protection spells and interaction main deck because the counterspells legal in modern cost more than zero mana. I am on the fence as to whether or not the red splash is the most optimal color addition to combat the boogie man that is Grixis Death's Shadow. I know for a fact that this aggressive-combo deck is not the best kind of infect deck to beat Fatal Push. I have seen some other slower infect decks that act like a BG Rock style deck that would be much more effective against those match-ups which one is likely to encounter in competitive play. This deck is for those who still want to play Glistener Elf regardless of how poorly it interacts with Fatal Push or any other removal spell.

The sideboard are all available cards for me that seem like actual possible sideboard cards. The Sylvan Scrying in the maybeboard is to possibly replace the Traverse the Ulvenwald which I am currently testing out. Traverse seems loose because it needs delirium to be strictly better than scrying. Otherwise it's pretty much just a Lay of the Land , which does not fit the deck and would not be good enough for competitive modern play.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Become Immense + Temur Battle Rage
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 6 Rares 14 - 11 Uncommons 22 - 18 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.37