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Modern Competitive Control Midrange UBR (Grixis)

Adameus2012

Creature (13)

• 4x Delver of Secrets  ^Flip
• 3x Grim Lavamancer
• 3x Monastery Swiftspear
• 3x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip

Land (19)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 3x Bloodstained Mire
• 2x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 3x Polluted Delta
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (15)

• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 3x Remand
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 2x Terminate
• 2x Vapor Snag

Sorcery (13)

• 4x Faithless Looting
• 3x Gitaxian Probe
• 2x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Serum Visions

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 2x Spellskite

Instant (8)

• 2x Ancient Grudge
• 2x Disperse
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 2x Spell Snare
• 1x Vapor Snag

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Duress
• 1x Pyroclasm

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Bedlam Reveler
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Street Wraith

Land (1)

• 1x Cavern of Souls

Artifact (1)

• 1x Mishra's Bauble

Instant (3)

• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Virulent Swipe

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Despise
• 1x Distortion Strike
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Languish
• 1x Sleight of Hand

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So this began as a deck looking for a home for Thing in the Ice  , but soon realized multiple synergies in other cards. After a bunch of tinkering with different configurations, I chose this as my starting point. I made immediate notice of the effect that Thing in the Ice has when it transforms, and figured there were some pretty good horror creatures to pop in there. I came across Phyrexian Obliterator and knew it needed to be in here, which also completely (and excitingly) sealed the deal for the inclusion of Skin Invasion   . In many situations, the two together are almost downright broken. Imagine slapping Skin Invasion down on an opposing Tasigur, and forcing them to swing it into the maw of Obliterator... Chomp!!! oh, not only does your Tasigur die, but I get a 3/4 from the same single red mana that basically killed it. Oh, also you sacrifice 4 more permanents. Could be pretty solid?? Spellskite is a horror and a great card. Often I would see this going in replacing the lone Hunted Horror in matchups where it is bad. I enjoyed the "Potential" to be able to have a line of play something like-Turn 1: drop or fetch out Blood Crypt, play Monastery Swiftspear, swing 1, pass.Turn 2: drop or fetch Watery Grave, play Thing in the Ice  , play a Gitaxian Probe and Mutagenic Growth (targeting Swiftspear) swing 5 with Swiftspear and also pull 2 Ice counters off of thing. Pass Turn.Turn 3: Play a black producing land (great time for Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth) and drop Hunted Horror, then use remaining mana for a Lightning Bolt. play any other Phyrexian mana spell and pull the last 2 counters off of Thing in the Ice, and now (unless they had a Horror creature in play), they are staring at a 7/7 trampler, a 7/8 fatty, and with probably nothing to block. Rest of the game should wrap up soon.

Would very much like to tune this deck to where it maybe viable to run in an upcoming PPTQ in a few months, so any suggestions are appreciated and all are at least considered.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 years
Splash colors	G
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 6 Rares 21 - 5 Uncommons 13 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.32