Mitosis

Modern* GWU (Bant)

DomriKade

Land (23)

• 1x Field of Ruin
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 4x Glacial Fortress
• 3x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Island
• 3x Plains
• 4x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Serum Visions

Instant (13)

• 2x Blessed Alliance
• 4x Opt
• 3x Path to Exile
• 4x Remand

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Phyrexian Unlife
• 4x Solemnity

Creature (10)

• 4x Chronozoa
• 4x Kitchen Finks
• 2x Snapcaster Mage

Artifact (4)

• 3x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Blasting Station

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Sideboard

Artifact (4)

• 2x Damping Sphere
• 2x Pithing Needle

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Leyline of Sanctity

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Fragmentize

Instant (4)

• 2x Celestial Purge
• 2x Negate

Creature (1)

• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage

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Maybeboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Jinxed Idol

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Idyllic Tutor

Instant (2)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Settle the Wreckage

Creature (1)

• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip

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One of my favorite elements of playing Magic is watching people read new and unfamiliar cards. This deck offers a few opportunities to do so, with a surprisingly positive win-rate in testing thus far. Mitosis has quickly become my favorite deck to play. Hopefully you get some enjoyment from it as well. Edit: 2nd edition

The Combo (and other, lesser combos) Show

My love for the unusual and underplayed led me to this bulk-bin rare from Planar Chaos. Upon discovering its interaction with Solemnity I did some quick digging to see what sweet decks others had brewed with this idea. I was surprised to find that there really weren't any that did what I thought they should. So, I did what any of you would do - I set about building it myself.

Our ideal setup is Blasting Station + Chronozoa + Solemnity . We can replace some number of these pieces with others from the deck - I'll try to cover them in brief here. At its worst, Chronozoa functions as a Phantom Monster , blocking creatures and taking removal. At best, it's a resilient threat that multiplies on destruction to yield an arbitrarily number of its own copies. Altar of Demetia is our cheapest colorless sacrifice outlet, allowing for a possible 2, 3, 4 curve into a turn-5 win. Blasting Station provides the instant win through damage unless the opponent has hexproof. Generally, several thousand amoebas will get the job done so I've Opt ed for a 3-1 split between the two sacrifice outlets.

With Solemnity , we have two other combos naturally built in. Kitchen Finks + Solemnity nets as much life as you'd like (by multiples of 2 anyway) when fueled by a sacrifice outlet. The same damage combo is possible here with Blasting Station as well. Finally, Phyrexian Unlife + Solemnity creates a soft lock, preventing us from losing based on life total. These two combos are surprisingly good at forcing early concessions from unprepared decks.

Creatures (or 'Why Chronozoa?') Show

As the centerpiece of the deck, Chronozoa is an irreplaceable 4-of. While any creature with persist combos with Blasting Station + Solemnity , this is the only one that generates more of itself through the process. There are also few better feelings that watching your opponent scoop to a Chronozoa .

Kitchen Finks pulls double duty. It sustains your early game against aggressive decks while occasionally winning the game through netting obscene amounts of life or acting as makeshift Blasting Station fodder.

Snapcaster Mage supports the 'Turbo Xerox' plan to recur our Opt s, Serum Visions es and countermagic while also acting as an Ambush Viper when necessary. These may be dropped off based on testing, possibly for something like Search for Azcanta  , Thing in the Ice   or, most successfully, Silence .

Non-Creature Spells Show

I've selected the method of combo collection that some refer to as 'Turbo Xerox' - playing as many 1-2 mana cantrips as possible in an effort to mitigate mana flood/screw and maximize card selection. Serum Visions is still one of the best options for deep digging thanks to the scry 2. Opt allows us to act on the opponent's turn and keep up our interactive spells like Path to Exile , Remand , or Blessed Alliance . Blessed Alliance can be swapped out of the main deck based on metagame and preference but I've found that 4 Remand is almost always correct.

Solemnity is the most important card in the deck. It's a 4-of and the lynchpin of how the deck functions. Phyrexian Unlife is more gravy than meat here. It's best use is in conjunction with Solemnity for a damage lock but it will buy you a turn or two against some decks without it.

Mana Base (or 'Why I'm Not Playing Celestial Colonnade') Show

Pretty straight-forward, really. The deck wants to be playing quickly and efficiently, doing something every turn. To that end, lands entering tapped is typically an incredible detriment for us - hence, no Celestial Colonnade . We're not hard control (though we do benefit from a longer game) and we can lose to faster starts, making interaction on the first turns incredibly valuable. I'm currently only running 3 Hallowed Fountain to account for a local meta that really enjoys Blood Moon and based on the fact that we don't need dual lands most of the time. Plus, Kitchen Finks is our most mana-intensive card (or arguably Glen Elendra Archmage post-board) and you'll almost always be able to play it with only one dual land. Field of Ruin helps answer Tron assemblies and opposing creature lands from Affinity or UW Control.

Known Weaknesses (and Brief Sideboard Responses) Show

With any combo deck, there's value in surprise. In a deck like this that relies so heavily on Solemnity , it can be easy for the opponent to dismantle the key pieces of your setup. Without Solemnity we're playing a light control deck that's trying to beat down with 3/3 fliers. We're quite weak to discard spells (8-Rack in particular is a nightmare) and land destruction can keep us off of our critical 3- and 4-mana plays. Leyline of Sanctity is a critical add that hopes to shore up some of the weakness to decks running Thoughtsieze and Inquisition of Kozilek . Celestial Purge is an aggressive hedge on my part against Liliana of the Veil , a threat that's almost impossible for us to win through.

A number of regular White sideboard pieces are pretty good against Kitchen Finks specifically. We're not interested in playing Rest in Peace or Grafdigger's Cage for two reasons: it shuts down our combo and we're generally favored against the decks these would hinder anyway. It's also important to remember that Stony Silence prevents us from using Altar of Dementia or Blasting Station . Fabricate answers most artifact threats at a low cost and Pithing Needle is still a great versatile answer. Damping Sphere is the most recent addition to the board, helping against Tron, Storm and other spell-based combo decks.

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Changelog 052818 MD: -1 Supreme Verdict // +1 Kitchen Finks SB: -1 Dispel, -1 Forsake the Worldly, -1 Glen Elendra Archmage, -2 Settle the Wreckage // +1 Leyline of Sanctity, +2 Damping Sphere, +2 Fragmentize 081519 MD: -3 Spawning Pit // +3 Altar of Dementia

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Phyrexian Unlife + Solemnity Kitchen Finks + Solemnity Blasting Station + Chronozoa + Solemnity Blasting Station + Solemnity
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	33 - 7 Rares 16 - 4 Uncommons 4 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.22