Also, casting a kicked Vines of Vastwood in response to your opponent Path to Exile'ing the token feels really, really good.

Oh man that does sound fun. Might need to pick up some Geists haha

Do you think it would still be good in my shell? Rancor+Geist seems really powerful and I'm lacking in that department

Valorous Stance is alright but if board wipes taking out multiple guys is your issue, Presence might be right. Or one of those green spells that regen each of your creatures (can't remember the name). It is interesting because I fear 1-for-1 removal due to my low creature count but you love getting pathed because you just ramp into more creatures.

You might be thinking of Golgari Charm (which i would probably sideboard if i could consistently produce ), or maybe Wrap in Vigor. What i may do instead is replace some of my Fogs and some of my Ajani's Presences with a few Dawn Charm.

Maybe something like this:
1 Ajani's Presence
3 Dawn Charm
2 Dispel (flex spot)
1 Dryad Arbor
3 Geist of Saint Traft
3 Nature's Claim
1 Spell Pierce
1 Temple Garden

Or even maybe this, replacing Spell Pierce with Fog:
1 Ajani's Presence
3 Dawn Charm
2 Dispel (flex spot)
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Fog
3 Geist of Saint Traft
3 Nature's Claim
1 Temple Garden

I think this is a good trade off. Dawn Charm really is perfect for the sideboard. If an opponent boardwipes, 99% of the time they tap out, so i don't mind being left with just one creature and an entire turn to do as i please.

@bromerta: I think that Geist of Saint Traft is even better in your shell than in mine. I may also recommend Invisible Stalker to fill more spaces if you like. You have tons and tons of spells, so you have more ways to effectively push damage through. Since Geist of Saint Traft has built-in hexproof, you can even side out some of your protection to focus on the beatdown.

You have a point I'll test it out. Wow I never thought about Dawn Charm. I thought fog was a little underwhelming but fog, save a guy, or counter a burn/discard spell all on one card sounds very solid out of the board.

Okay, i've made the changes. Now i actually have to go against some semi-decent decks. I am sooooooo tired of playing against kithkin tribal.

Does anyone know of any good free places to playtest Magic online against other people? I currently play on untap, but it is really hard to manage now that they brought along version two. I am also looking for a more competitive environment... I've never once played against a top-tier Jund deck.

I have heard of cockatrice being popular. Personally me and my long distance friends both use the playtest function on here and use the screen cast function on Google+ chat. But you have to be switching it on and off from turn to turn and use the hide hand function

Ahh... that seems a bit unweildy (?). I'm in the process of making a new sandbox platform for playtesting, so hopefully once that goes live, it will be useful.

That sounds sweet. Good luck.

Thank you :) In the meantime, i will continue on untap and hope to face some T1 decks.

I play tier 1 modern on untap. Abzan primarily. Jund is fine for me. Also play various t2 decks at a high level. Skred, for example. Recently I've been playing the new knightfall combo. I've been playing modern for years and play large events regularly.

If you want to hit me up on untap just comment in my wall.

@ChiefBell Much obliged, good sir! :) I think i will do that when i am available.

Never underestimate the awesomeness of spellskites. Since I put them in my sb I have probably sided them in 60-70% of matches. Your deck is a more or less the same as mine minus noble hierarchs still don't have them yet so am not running anything white. I like the deck I like the foils. Mine is almost all foiled out now too hopefully I can full art foil the lands after I open a case of BFZ. Surprised not to see either a wild defiance in the s/b or any might of old krosa in the mb.

I don't actually own any of these cards. The foils, as my deck description states, are only there to indicate cards that i will never get rid of.

I deliberately do not run Might of Old Krosa. This is more midrange than most infect decks, and i am more focused on keeping my creatures alive and flexible than "comboing off" on the second or third turns. This is why i feature three additional creatures and Rancor, and much less true pump.

I just might work in a couple Wild Defiance into the sideboard, maybe in my flex spots. It does excite me that my Mutagenic Growths become +5/+5 pumps, but then again Wild Defiance seems a bit high on the curve... Spellskite does annoy me, but it isn't impossible to deal with; i have won against even mainboarded ones. Usually, when my opponents are busy sideboarding in their Spellskite and removal, i am busy grabbing Geist of Saint Traft anyway, which basically means all my pumps and protections just became Shocks. I like making the opponent choose between letting my Distortion Strike resolve on my Ichorclaw Myr, or paying the two life and becoming that much more vulnerable to my Geist of Saint Trafts Angel token.

i understand adding geist, but there is a reason everyone is suggesting Might of Old Krosa. infect cannot be a midrange deck no matter what. adding geist makes it a little better, but in the end, Might of Old Krosa is a definite +4+4. Groundswell is just too risky.

@bah-bammmm: I understand; however, Groundswell has proven its worth to me personally time and time again. I do periodic tests with Might of Old Krosa, but each time, its lack of flexibility as far as casting times has proven it to be inferior to Groundswell when it comes to my particular build coupled with my particular play style. Might of Old Krosa may be a definite +4/+4 during my main phase only, but Groundswell is a definite +4/+4 in my builds whenever i need it – even on my opponent's turn when i am blocking a lethal Primeval Titan, on my declare blockers step when i cast it on my unblocked Glistener Elf to get around an opposing Tarmogoyf, or on my end step to save my Inkmoth Nexus from a Lightning Helix.

If you like to use Might of Old Krosa, then that is your choice, and i respect that. A lot of people use it in place of Groundswell, and i know i am a minority. However, if you wish to convince me to use it myself, then prove its worth to me! Please do not merely say that it is better; give me specific situations in which the lack of dependence on a landfall trigger is worth sacrificing flexibility in timing.

I feel like you should cut out your white splash altogether. Less colors = more consistency, and Geist doesn't really help you with your gameplan.

One card I'm surprised you don't have in your 75 is Wild Defiance. It makes your creatures burn-proof, and it makes your pump spells stupid.

I also feel like you could move Myr to the sideboard and main more cheap countermagic for protection.

You want situations in which might of old krosa is better? Just do a search online and look at every infect deck that has EVER won a top 8 in a huge even. How many copies do you see EVERY Single infect deck run? 2-3? No 4 in every one. I mean ground swell is baller run 4 of each. The end game of infect should always be aggro face rape. Go 4 might 4 swell it's really about winning this turn. Find out what your up against and fill your sb with an alternate strategy but remember you are not playing mono black control infect your playing simic super fast aggro infect. Maybe your play style dictates your deck choices but your not the creator of infect and probably have not even piloted it in any pro tours. I'm not trying to sound like a dick or anything just trying to drive it home that infect is a well established tier1 glass cannon. I really like some of your ideas but there is a lot of people who have played this deck successfully and from their experience I derived that you should always use a super power card over a sub par situational card.

i would consider dropping a basic forest for a Dryad Arbor, for 2 reasons. reason 1 is that it gives you built in protection from liliana, as well as an alternative attacker to use maindeck instead of hierarch

Now, on to addressing the constructive criticism i have received.

@fuster – I know that the white splash creates inconsistency issues; this is why i sideboard Temple Garden, so the main deck is solely . Really, the whole splash for was to allow for Geist of Saint Traft sideboard. After that, well... all of the goodies were open to me, and i just couldn't resist. I only have 13 white sources after sideboarding (7 fetches, 4 Noble Hierarchs, Temple Garden, Gemstone Mine)... and this is quite low. So i've done my best to limit my splash. If you can think of good replacenemts for Dawn Charm and Ajani's Presence, then i would be more than happy to hear them!

Also, Geist of Saint Traft doesn't contribute to my infect strategy at all. It does allow me to just beat them to death if i need to, though. It is really common for opponents to side in Dismember and Spellskite against me. Geist of Saint Traft allows me to effectively punish my opponents for wasting so much life on their shocklands and removal. It's a surprise strategy that is surprisingly effective, and i think i will keep it. You should try playtesting it!

@lordmalphas – I agree that Dryad Arbor is an amazing card. However, when i mainboarded it, i realized i kept running into it way too often. The land creature does not produce mana the turn it comes into play (!); my deck sadly cannot afford such a huge loss of tempo. Against Liliana of the Veil, i typically have multiple creatures; i run 19 creatures mainboard (counting Inkmoth Nexus), so i can usually survive one or even two sac effects. I don't need it as a backup beater G1, because my strategy G1 is infect; however, i will sideboard it because it is useful in every situation you proposed. Again, if it produced mana the turn it came into play, i would immediately mainboard it like you suggested!

Like I mentioned already, try replacing Dawn Charm and Ajani's Presence with Wild Defiance. This should be somewhere in your 75, and I'd go as far as to suggest maindecking this card if you need to.

@fuster I think i will take you up on that. Maybe not replacing Dawn Charm, but Wild Defiance really is good in here.