Mardu Stoneblade

Modern Midrange RBW (Mardu) Stoneblade

King_Pikmin

Land (22)

• 4x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 2x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 4x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Shambling Vent
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 2x Swamp

Instant (12)

• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 2x Kolaghan's Command
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 2x Lightning Helix
• 3x Path to Exile

Sorcery (10)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 3x Lingering Souls
• 3x Thoughtseize

Creature (12)

• 3x Dark Confidant
• 2x Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 4x Stoneforge Mystic
• 3x Tidehollow Sculler

Artifact (2)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Liliana of the Veil

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Sideboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Sword of Sinew and Steel

Creature (2)

• 2x Fulminator Mage

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ashiok, Dream Render

Instant (4)

• 2x Abrade
• 2x Surgical Extraction

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Alpine Moon

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Angrath's Rampage
• 2x Collective Brutality

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Premise

• Strip opponent of cards with hand attack (inquisition, thoughtseize, sculler, veil)
• Play cards that excel in reduced board/hand states (stoneforge, arcanist, souls)
• Souls works well with equipment
• Between removal and hand attack, lots of targets for arcanist
• Red provides pressure along with the disruption from hand attack, allowing you to attack decks like tron
• Access to kolaghan's for fighting other stoneblade decks and recycling important creatures

Why fire and ice mainboard?

There's a lot of debate of which sword to maindeck. A common sentiment is that feast and famine is better in modern, while fire and ice is win more. I think it is very shell-dependent. A deck like UWx stoneblade can use feast and famine well by countering the opponent's ability to build up card advantage, and untaps lands to let you play out the many cards you have in hand. However, in a BWx shell focused heavily on stripping both players' resources, fire and ice will be much better by letting you pull ahead with card draw. Additionally, as a red deck, fire and ice can close games very quickly along other aggressive creatures and bolt effects.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	UG
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 2 Mythic Rares 26 - 8 Rares 19 - 3 Uncommons 0 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.95
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB