Bleach army

Modern Mono-White

Seimbalir

Creature (28)

• 2x Blade Splicer
• 3x Eldrazi Displacer
• 4x Flickerwisp
• 4x Giver of Runes
• 4x Leonin Arbiter
• 4x Restoration Angel
• 2x Selfless Spirit
• 4x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Serra the Benevolent

Land (21)

• 1x Eiganjo Castle
• 3x Field of Ruin
• 4x Ghost Quarter
• 11x Plains
• 1x Shefet Dunes
• 1x Tectonic Edge

Artifact (4)

• 4x Aether Vial

Instant (4)

• 4x Path to Exile

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Sideboard

Creature (8)

• 2x Burrenton Forge-Tender
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 2x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 2x Remorseful Cleric

Enchantment (3)

• 2x Stony Silence
• 1x Worship

Artifact (2)

• 2x Damping Sphere

Instant (2)

• 2x Settle the Wreckage

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Emancipation Angel
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Stonecloaker

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Runed Halo

Instant (1)

• 1x Shining Shoal

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Modern hatebear

I love decks that work with a cheap manabase. White hatebears is a fantastic brew that is perfectly representative of the white power : buy time with small creatures possessing annoying abilities while gradually building a strong board, and win through unity.

The spine of this deck is pretty much that of competitive Hatebears, but i added a few unconventional/unique cards that i believe have their place in this strategy.

CREATURES Show

• Thalia, Guardian of Thraben is one of the reasons why the deck is competitive. The taxing effect it provides makes everything much more complicated in modern, where the 4 first turns are decisive. Considering their utility, 4 of them is a absolute necessity, even if they are legendary, because whoever has to deal with them HAS TO deal with them as quickly as possible. Don't expect this fair lady to stay on board for long. Her body is also really nice (aside from the art). Having 2 power with 1st strike so early in the game is a pretty insane cockblocker for many matchups.

• The next one is Leonin Arbiter . The only reason we are playing this dude is because we don't fetch. Hurray for single-color manabase ! His ability is pure hell. Well, more accurately it's pure hell when combined with Path to Exile , Ghost Quarter and the recently printed Field of Ruin which i personnaly enjoy very much. This little creature allows you to inflict a horrifying disruption on your opponents, when played witly. You may destroy lands and exile creatures for a negligeable price, and without any counterparts. Fetchlands become terribly bad cards in your opponent's hands, as well as various other modern-played tutors ( Sylvan Scrying , Expedition Map , Gifts Ungiven , Chord of Calling among others).

He's the other reason why the archetype is viable.

• Thraben Inspector : not especially frightening, this humble card is both elegant and useful in our deck. He's expendable, a Smuggler's Copter enabler, and basically replaces himself by letting us draw a card, instant speed, when needed. It's a fine addition to any mono-white deck and a good representation of how a simple common card can possitively impact a whole archetype.

• Dauntless Bodyguard is a fine 1-drop in a deck like ours. He has a decent body, able to kill a Goblin Guide . Plus, some of our key creatures can use some protection.

• Blade Splicer is powerful for 2 reasons : it brings up 4p/4t for only 3 mana, and offers an other source of first strike, which is a very disuasive ability. Its tokens are colorless, which is a clear advantage in the current metagame (although Kolaghan's Command gets rid of both but hey, can't be perfect). Besides, we have several ways to blink him and generate more golems.

• Flickerwisp is as powerful as he is disturbing. First of all, 3 powers-flying for 3 mana is awesome. Second, his ability is extremely useful in many situations, here are some examples of how to use it :

  Blink one of your own creatures, like Blade Splicer , to get more ETB. Remove for one decisive combat phase an enchantment or artifact that allows your opponent to stay alive ( Ensnaring Bridge , Ghostly Prison , Phyrexian Unlife or Platinum Angel ). If you control a 3-counters Aether Vial , you may flash it to protect one of your permanents from a spell or ability. You can blink a opponent's creature before it can block, after it blocked to prevent damage, or after it attacked. You can also blink one of your creatures and remove it from combat to protect it from damage. You can blink an opponent's LAND before his draw step, effectively removing 1 mana from his mana pool for this turn (since even if he taps the land, he can only play an instant with the mana).

You get the idea : it's a multi-usage tool that is only waiting for your imagination to create new tricks with it.

• Restoration Angel is a "sort-of" Flickerwisp with more board presence, but a little less functions. First of all, she's a nice beater, with a good body that allows her to resist the most comonly played burn spells in modern. She has flying AND flash, which means you can block and/or kill an opponent's creature with her, and attack on the next turn. Finally, her blink ability makes her supremely useful for us since it protects a creature from any single-target spell, triggers ETB immediatly rather than at the end step like Flickerwisp , and all that at instant speed.

• Selfless Spirit is one powerfull card. As a creature-based deck, and with overall small toughness values, our banes among sorcery spells are numerous. Pyroclasm , Anger of the Gods , Wrath of God , Supreme Verdict , Kozilek's Return and Oblivion Stone are almost always an immediate lose for us. This spirit is obviously here to prevent that. Aside from being a good addition to our beaters, he doesn't suffer from Thalia, Guardian of Thraben 's tax, and can even be played at instant speed when Aether Vial allows it. It's a real life saver and a good friend for any creature-based deck.

• Mirran Crusader : blocks and gets through Angler, DS, Tarmo, Rhino, Flayer, Tasigur, Fatal push, Beast within... yep, that's relevant.

• Sublime Archangel is my secret weapon, personal addition to the deck, and is here for one sole purpose : SMASHING. In some playtests, one weakness of the deck is the decision that must be made between power and defense, or how to finish off a resilient opponent. This lady is the biggest damage addition i could think of for the deck. This angel brings immediate and overwhelming threat, while still letting you defend your board very well. Just how many creatures are too important to attack with ? Thalia, Guardian of Thraben is strong in early, but definitely weak after turn 4 if the opponent managed to get through the taxes. Thraben Inspector is only a blocker, so is Blade Splicer , no one expects them to do anything more than what is written on the card. Put it simply : our creatures have interesting effects, but are weak as hell. Sublime Archangel solves this problem. Using only one of our many flyers, attacking for an insane amount of damage while keeping a strong defending board becomes our strategy for victory. And usualy, when the lady angel decends, the clock for our opponent is 2 turns. Worst case scenario, the angel MUST be dealt with, more than any other of our creatures, and it must be dealt with before we declare attackers, giving us the option to attack with only one, or many creatures. In any situation, we win.

OTHER SPELLS Show

The Hatebears strategy is mostly based on creatures, but there are a few non-creature spells that are absolutely necessary or extremely advantageous for us.

• Aether Vial is of course one of the most powerful cards in the deck. Uncounterable creatures, mana saving while still profiting ETB is already broken, but add the Flash aspect of the ability and you have yourself the best possible turn-1 drop. Vial a Leonin Arbiter in response to a fecthland activation. Vial in a Flickerwisp as described above, or a Thalia, Heretic Cathar is response to a creature cast, which will then enter the battlefield tapped.

• Path to Exile is a must for any white deck, even only splashing the color. In hatebear however, it is absolutely unfair, because of Leonin Arbiter and Aven Mindcensor . Exile creatures for 1 mana, and the other guy gets NOTHING !

• Smuggler's Copter is very interesting for us in several ways. First of all, it's a 3/3 flyer that can attack as soon as turn 3, which is very powerful. He can be activated by creatures that, otherwise, would stand there doing nothing. Im talking of course of Thraben Inspector and card:Blade spicer, whose miserable 1 power gets to become a 3. The drawing can of course get us through a full-land hand, but also get us rid of unnecessary card:Aether vials. And on top of that, its activation counts towards the mass Exhaltation that Sublime Archangel grants to your board. The angel + the copter alone = 5 damages on the turn the angel arrives. Just saying.

SIDEBOARD Show

• Blessed Alliance helps us through burn, infect, potentially affinity, death's shadows and Boggles. That's a... good card.

• Burrenton Forge-Tender is a funny little creature, able to block annoying stuff like Goblin Guide very early. I haven't had the occasion to really play with it yet, but i believe its main purposes are to deal with Anger of the Gods , Pyroclasm and Lightning Storm . Also it will counter this final burn spell that might otherwise kill you. Which is very fine.

• Grafdigger's Cage will be played against Snapcaster Mage , Goryo's Vengeance , Collected Company and Chord of Calling .

• Relic of Progenitus : it's cheap, powerful, and replaces itself. An excellent card in many decks.

• Rest in Peace : i know i have relics, but playing white means playing rest in peace.

• Settle the Wreckage : also known as Wrath to exile, just use it with a leonin or a mindcensor. It's not fair.

• Stony Silence : better get rid of your card:Aether vials when siding them in. They pretty much lock up Tron, Affinity, Lantern, Krak-clan and give merfolk a hard time.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 9 Rares 17 - 6 Uncommons
Cards	58
Avg. CMC	2.22
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Emblem Serra the Benevolent, Phyrexian Golem 3/3 C
Folders	Modern archetypes