Blue Moon [Burning Vengeance Variant]

Modern Blue Moon Control Creatureless RUW (Jeskai, America) UR (Izzet)

L4NC3-7175

Land (21)

• 3x Flooded Strand
• 5x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 2x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 3x Shivan Reef
• 4x Steam Vents
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Blood Moon
• 4x Burning Vengeance

Instant (22)

• 3x Counterflux
• 4x Desperate Ravings
• 4x Izzet Charm
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Mana Leak
• 1x Oona's Grace
• 2x Think Twice

Sorcery (9)

• 4x Faithless Looting
• 1x Flame Jab
• 4x Serum Visions

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Izzet Staticaster

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Intruder Alarm

Artifact (3)

• 1x Damping Matrix
• 1x Ratchet Bomb
• 1x Relic of Progenitus

Instant (9)

• 3x Swan Song
• 2x Swerve
• 4x Wear / Tear

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Bonfire of the Damned

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This deck was created by using a list created by SaffronOlive @ MTGGoldfish (the deck is called "Burning Tibalt") and by fine tuning it by looking at Blue Moon lists and identifying the core of the deck (and more specifically why it was winning, because according to me it shouldn't have...)

This deck functions like a classic Blue Moon list with one MAJOR exception: how it wins. Instead of winning with an amalgamation of vedalken shakles and other random win-cons (Thundermaw Hellkite, Keranos, God of Storms etc.) it wins using the Burning Vengeance engine in combination with an array of Flashback and Retrace cards. I've found the engine enables a strong way to enforce some board control as well as the ability to apply pressure to any deck that stumbles (Tron Variants, Jeskai Control etc.) It also has some added consistency and has a substantially better late game (can go toe-to-toe with some of the grindy-est attrition based decks). Unfortunately the deck now has the MASSIVE weakness of dying to graveyard hate plus pressure OR hexproof effects (Rest in Peace + Leyline of Sanctity is VERY hard to overcome). The sideboard helps a lot with this (Wear / Tear, warranting the white splash). The deck capitalizes off forcing opponents to stumble or brick by using a combination of Blood Moon and permission accompanied with the board control provided by Burning Vengeance. The deck's ability to filter through your cards SO WELL makes the chances of seeing a Blood Moon by turn 4 roughly 47% and the chances of opening with Blood Moon + Permission is about 16%. The deck can buy a lot of time using its large permission suite. The deck is still VERY weak to Bogles (Auras) (worst match-up) and simply demolishes Amulet Bloom (best match-up) [Note: Nevermind, it was banned...]

The deck is still a work in progress, so feel free to comment. Before commenting be aware:

1. The mana base was constructed with budget constraints in mind, but feel free to comment still, I'm always open to suggestions.
2. Snapcaster Mage, Jace, Vryn's Prodigy   and Remand were all excluded for budget reasons, but are all obvious fits.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 years
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 11 - 6 Rares 16 - 8 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.97
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
Folders	Try out