4 decks in 1

Modern Artifact Combo Control Gifts Ungiven Theme/Gimmick WUB (Esper)

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Land (104)

• 2x Academy Ruins
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 4x Celestial Colonnade
• 4x Creeping Tar Pit
• 4x Darksteel Citadel
• 4x Faerie Conclave
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 4x Ghost Quarter
• 2x Godless Shrine
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 4x Prairie Stream
• 2x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 18x Snow-Covered Island
• 19x Snow-Covered Plains
• 9x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 4x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Tectonic Edge
• 4x Tolaria West
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 2x Watery Grave

Creature (1)

• 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria

Artifact (28)

• 2x Aether Spellbomb
• 4x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 4x Expedition Map
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 4x Norn's Annex
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 2x Sword of the Meek
• 4x Thopter Foundry
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Welding Jar
• 1x Witchbane Orb

Enchantment (13)

• 4x Battle of Wits
• 1x Form of the Dragon
• 4x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Night of Souls' Betrayal
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Solemnity

Planeswalker (16)

• 4x Liliana Vess
• 4x Narset Transcendent
• 4x Sorin, Solemn Visitor
• 4x Tezzeret the Seeker

Instant (37)

• 4x Clutch of the Undercity
• 4x Dissolve
• 4x Gifts Ungiven
• 4x Mana Leak
• 4x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 4x Path to Exile
• 3x Raise the Alarm
• 4x Remand
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 4x Whir of Invention

Sorcery (41)

• 4x Brainspoil
• 4x Devastation Tide
• 4x Diabolic Tutor
• 4x Enduring Ideal
• 4x Idyllic Tutor
• 4x Lingering Souls
• 4x Polymorph
• 4x Supreme Verdict
• 4x Terminus
• 4x Timely Reinforcements
• 1x Unburial Rites

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

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Theory of this deck:

In heart, this is a Battle of Wits deck. This style of deck has never been competitve, and most likely never will be, for two reasons:

1. Having a 200+ card deck with 1 win condition isn't very reliable, and running 200 tutors is really slow.

2. You need to be able to sleeve your deck, since you're running expensive cards (I doubt a double sleeve would be possible), but you also need to be able to shuffle your deck at a pace that doesn't stall the game.

So, since I was running 240 cards, I figured why not add a few more decks? So this mashed in some reanimator/polymorph/tezzerator. Why these choices, you ask? Gifts decks like to run 1 creature, either Iona, Shield of Emeria or Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. However, they do run a singleton and drawing that card can make the deck hard to win. When you run 240 cards, and 1 Iona, you have a 400% less of a chance of drawing your card. This allows us to easily add this style of deck. Now, 4 Gifts Ungiven isn't many, so as an alternate way of getting Iona in play is with Polymorph. We don't have too many token generators, but after some testing it's a fairly reliable win condition in it's own so I did keep it. The fourth addition is a tezzerator deck. That's because you can run your sideboard INSIDE your mainboard as long as its made out of trinkets. Tezzeret the Seeker is great for tutoring small artifacts so I can run 1 ofs for various situations while still having access to them in Game 1.

This deck's reliability isn't as bad as it looks. 60 x 4 = 240. That means if I ran 4 of 1 card, it's like I'm running a singleton 60 card deck. That's honestly better than you might think. With cards doing similar effects, and enough interaction to slow the game down, I believe this deck can actually win, not to mention the suprise factor of the deck.

Win Conditions:

Iona, Shield of Emeria + Polymorph

Gifts Ungiven fetching Iona, Shield of Emeria + Unburial Rites

Battle of Wits

Alternate Win Conditions:

Celestial Colonnade + Creeping Tar Pit

Lingering Souls

Ways to fetch said win conditions:

Clutch of the Undercity

Brainspoil

Tolaria West

Idyllic Tutor

Diabolic Tutor

Liliana Vess

Slow the game down with:

Ensnaring Bridge

Ghostly Prison

Norn's Annex

Remand

Fetch these with said tutors along with:

Tezzeret the Seeker

Mystical Teachings

Get rid of Flooding with:

Scrying Sheets

Narset Transcendent

Get all of our utility lands with Expedition Map and said tutors.

Hate on Meta:

Twin Torpor Orb Pithing Needle Norn's Annex Night of Souls' Betrayal Ghostly Prison

Scapeshift: Hope for the best

Junk Night of Souls' Betrayal Bojuka Bog Torpor Orb

This is definitely a Work In Progress, all suggestions are welcome and highly appreciated! :D

Date added	9 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Iona, Shield of Emeria + Polymorph Iona, Shield of Emeria + Unburial Rites Celestial Colonnade + Creeping Tar Pit
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 1 Mythic Rares 87 - 0 Rares 62 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	240
Avg. CMC	3.44
Tokens	Emblem Narset Transcendent, Emblem Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Thopter 1/1 U, Vampire 2/2 B
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