D̷I̶V̸I̶N̶E̶ ̸I̵R̸R̶E̵F̶E̶R̷E̷N̵C̷E[BANTBLADE 9.0]

Modern* Artifact Competitive GWU (Bant) Snow Stoneblade Tempo

Dr_Jay

Land (21)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 3x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 3x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Spara's Headquarters
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 3x Windswept Heath

Creature (19)

• 3x Esper Sentinel
• 4x Ice-Fang Coatl
• 1x Lion Sash
• 4x Noble Hierarch
• 2x Spell Queller
• 4x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Dress Down

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Prismatic Ending

Artifact (3)

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

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 4x Teferi, Time Raveler

Instant (6)

• 3x Counterspell
• 3x Force of Negation

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 2x Endurance
• 2x Kataki, War's Wage
• 2x Sanctifier en-Vec
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets

Instant (7)

• 3x Blossoming Calm
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 3x March of Otherworldly Light

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Reflector Mage
• 1x Scavenging Ooze

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Rule of Law

Instant (1)

• 1x Flusterstorm

Artifact (1)

• 1x Torpor Orb

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In the End, I Reserve the Right to be Last.

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THE DECK DESCRIPTION IS BEING UPDATED FOR THE NEW OVERHAUL

Why Bantblade?

There's a few reasons as to why I still keep this deck pinned after 6 or 7 years--I love playing it. It's been through a whole host of iterations, each with its own restrictions, and every time it has felt just barely out of reach from getting there. I've put it through the wringer, tested, compared, worked with others, and I've come to find what makes the deck work--and what makes it not work. Bantblade is Bantblade because it uses each of the colors to achieve a tempo-control gameplan: white produces the most efficient answers and most disruptive interaction, green presents both an acceleration angle and a value angle, and blue rounds out with the pressure valves that allows a deck to spend turn 2 playing a 1/2 in a format like modern. The various colors do cross over with eachother, but I find this gameplan works best with this set of colors, each playing a vital role. Of course, there do exist other angles--users like elpokitolama and Spotred have found more success with Esper lists in the past, though some don't even continue to be blade lists, but this is the deck that appeals to my player sensibilities.

Well, how do I play this deck then?

For starters, you have to answer the age-old question: who's the beatdown? This deck plays wildly different depending on which side of the table you're on. If you're the beatdown, your goal is to abuse your mana advantage, through your dorks and the ability to use Force on their turn, in order to get one threat to stick. This can be a Batterskull, this can be a Teferi, Time Raveler, this can be a resolved Shardless Agent, this can be a Toski, Bearer of Secrets--once one's on the field, the card advantage, disruption, and/or clock they present should keep the opponent on the backfoot whilst you race to victory.

If you're on the backfoot to start, however, your strategy becomes using your mana and card advantage to trade even or down until you can stabilize with something akin to a Batterskull or juicy Shardless Agent. Path to Exile giving them a land, Teferi, Time Raveler being played, bouncing, and dying, Ice-Fang Coatl eating an attacker early or later with some snow lands, feel free to gain a turn at the cost of a card or some temporary tempo. The goal is essentially to stay in it long enough for a few haymakers to pull over the game with card draw, lifegain, and disruption, at which point the match is set.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #9 position overall 9 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Artifact 3 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	BR
Splash colors	WUG
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 3 Mythic Rares 45 - 8 Rares 7 - 4 Uncommons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.26
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	modern competitive ideas, Modern, concept modern, Favs, jkjjhh, modern, Modern, Modern Decks, Modern-Midrage, Cool Modern Ideas