Bloodbraid Marauder vs The World

Modern* Aggro Tempo

Vic5A

Land (18)

• 2x Arid Mesa
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Misty Rainforest
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Thundering Falls
• 3x Wooded Foothills

Instant (18)

• 2x Counterspell
• 2x Eladamri's Call
• 2x Force of Negation
• 4x Incubation / Incongruity
• 4x Manamorphose
• 4x Snapback

Creature (16)

• 4x Architects of Will
• 4x Bloodbraid Marauder
• 4x Street Wraith
• 4x Subtlety

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Crashing Footfalls
• 4x Expressive Iteration

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 2x Endurance
• 2x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Grief
• 1x Magus of the Moon

Instant (5)

• 2x Ertai's Scorn
• 3x Force of Vigor

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Brotherhood's End

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Blood Moon

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Maybeboard

Land (3)

• 1x Forest
• 1x Island
• 1x Mountain

Instant (4)

• 4x Odds / Ends

Creature (8)

• 4x Chancellor of the Annex
• 4x Chancellor of the Tangle

Planeswalker (5)

• 3x Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 2x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

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This is my take on a Crashing Footfalls deck, with the cascade card being Bloodbraid Marauder. The advantage to using Bloodbraid Marauder is that it opens up all 2 CMC cards for use without the risk of hitting them when cascading, while also being able to get Rhino tokens out faster and cheaper.

With only 4 copies in the deck, "free cyclers" such as Manamorphose and Street Wraith help find Bloodbraid Marauder while also putting card types in the graveyard for Bloodbraid Marauder's delirium requirement. I also included cards like Expressive Iteration and Incubation / Incongruity to help find Bloodbraid Marauder (and other useful cards).

The manabase is mostly fetchlands, which help for colour fixing and for getting card types in the graveyard for Bloodbraid Marauder's delirium requirement.

Top Ranked	Achieved #23 position overall 8 months ago Achieved #21 position in Modern 8 months ago Achieved #4 position in Modern Aggro 8 months ago
Date added	9 months
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 6 Mythic Rares 30 - 5 Rares 18 - 4 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Rhino 4/4 G
Folders	decks I think are neat
Based on	Modern Delirium Cascade Z1one MDN