No, you don't want lifegain. Trust me. You. Don't.

Modern* Control Enchantment WB (Orzhov)

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Creature (11)

• 2x Aegis of the Gods
• 4x Alms Beast
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 4x Wall of Shards

Land (19)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 2x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 2x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mountain
• 3x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Windswept Heath
• 2x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (8)

• 2x Ghostly Prison
• 2x Rain of Gore
• 4x Tainted Remedy

Instant (8)

• 4x Beacon of Immortality
• 4x Condemn

Sorcery (7)

• 3x Beseech the Queen
• 2x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 2x Pyroclasm

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Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Suppression Field

Instant (5)

• 2x Devour Flesh
• 3x Mana Tithe

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Wrath of God

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (12)

• 2x Blind Obedience
• 4x Greater Auramancy
• 4x Sphere of Safety
• 2x Starfield of Nyx

Instant (6)

• 2x Heroes' Reunion
• 4x Nature's Claim

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Here, this should make you feel deader.

In case you cannot understand what the hell this deck is trying to do, check out the rules text on Tainted Remedy. Then look at Beacon of Immortality. Yup, that's an insta-win right there.

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CARD BREAKDOWN

WINCONS

• Tainted Remedy: the whole deck becomes pointless without this. Nearly all the other cards give your opponents some amount of life; with this in play, they deal damage instead. It's that simple.

• Beacon of Immortality: if this resolves, it's GG. Period. The opponent's life may be at one, five, twenty, a hundred thousand, whatever - once they get Beacon-Remedy'd, their life becomes exactly zero.

• Alms Beast : with Tainted Remedy in play, you make sure you always get six points of damage through, be it attacking or blocking. Without Tainted Remedy... it's still a 6/6 for 4 mana, which is pretty darn good. Giving blockers lifelink shouldn't be too much of a problem - you have a card that depletes their life all at once, remember?

ENCHANTMENTS

• Greater Auramancy: if you want to Abrupt Decay my Tainted Remedy, you gotta deal with this first...

• Starfield of Nyx: ...and even if you manage to do it, it's coming back next turn anyways. This also turns my enchantments into an army of vicious attackers, which isn't bad at all (boardwipes aside).

• Ghostly Prison: again, what this deck does is stall the game until it hits the sixth land drop and a Beacon of Immortality. And what better way to do it than taxing attackers...

• Blind Obedience: ...and making them enter the battlefield tapped? :)

CREATURES

• Mesa Enchantress: needs no explanation. Really, just look at how many enchantments I'm running.

• Aegis of the Gods: yes, this is Leyline of Sanctity on a stick. It's an enchantment creature, so Greater Auramancy keeps it from dying to removal.

• Wall of Shards: big, cheap and able to fly. You can't ask for much more from a Wall. And I won't even bother explaining why the upkeep cost is actually good to our strategy - by now, you probably already got the hang of it.

OTHER SPELLS

• Idyllic Tutor: fetches stuff I need. Costs more mana than it should, but it's a Modern legal tutor, so that should be expected.

• Condemn: because we don't need Path to Exile when we don't care about other people's life total.

LANDS

• Grove of the Burnwillows: a G/R land in a B/W deck? Yup, because we splash green from the sideboard AND it gives the opponent life! Meaning, it's yet another way to abuse Tainted Remedy!

• Boseijuu, Who Shelters All: you don't want to look like a fool when your Beacon of Immortality gets countered, do you?

SIDEBOARD

• Devour Flesh: against bogles, Geist, Thrun, Emrakul and the like.

• Heroes' Reunion : against burn. Thanks to Tainted Remedy, you may also use this as a burn spell of your own.

• Nature's Claim: against Leyline of Sanctity, Affinity and stuff.

• Wrath of God: against RDW, tokens, Elves, etc.

• Suppression Field: against Liliana, Twin, affinity and so on.

• Mana Tithe: against Back to Nature. Terrible, I know. I guess I just have to accept Back to Nature hoses this deck as hard as a Darksteel dildo and move on with life. ._.

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	31 - 2 Rares 17 - 2 Uncommons 0 - 5 Commons
Cards	53
Avg. CMC	3.09
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