Flash Ponza

Modern Control GU (Simic)

clayperce

Land (21)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 3x Breeding Pool
• 7x Forest
• 1x Island
• 4x Misty Rainforest
• 3x Windswept Heath
• 2x Wooded Foothills

Disruptive Threats (14)

• 2x Bounding Krasis
• 2x Kiora, Master of the Depths
• 2x Nimble Obstructionist
• 4x Snapcaster Mage
• 2x Torrential Gearhulk
• 2x Vendilion Clique

Disruption (15)

• 4x Boomerang
• 4x Cryptic Command
• 3x Disallow
• 4x Repudiate / Replicate

Ramp (10)

• 4x Arbor Elf
• 2x Noble Hierarch
• 4x Utopia Sprawl

---

Sideboard

Other (15)

• 2x Beast Within
• 2x Grafdigger's Cage
• 2x Kitchen Finks
• 2x Naturalize
• 2x Nature's Claim
• 2x Scavenging Ooze
• 3x Trinisphere

---

Maybeboard

Other Cards Under Consideration (11)

• 1x Ambush Viper
• 1x Ceremonious Rejection
• 1x Dream Eater
• 1x Fleetfeather Cockatrice
• 1x Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements
• 1x Redirect
• 1x Shadow of Doubt
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Walking Ballista

---

Welcome to my latest Ponza(ish) deck: A Flash version built around Repudiate / Replicate .

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and suggestions, either here or over on the Thoughts on UG Control thread !

WHY REPUDIATE / REPLICATE ?

• Opponent activates a Fetchland? Well, for just 2 Green mana, a Repudiate in response means they destroy a land and go down a life ... for nothing :-D
• Opponent transforms a Thing in the Ice? Repudiate the triggered ability and our team stays on the field.
• Opponent wants to make us sac' a creature with Lili, put a Terminus on top with Jace, or ultimate whatever random Planeswalker they have? Repudiate the activated ability and we've totally turned the game around.
• Opponent tries to Modular a ton of +1/+1 counters onto their attacking Inkmoth Nexus, wipe our board with an Oblivion Stone, Equip a Batterskull, Crew a Smuggler's Copter, etc, etc, etc? Repudiate gives us answers (or at least options) we never had in 'normal' Ponza.

Keeping two mana up is a VERY real cost though in a tap-out deck like Ponza, so I shifted to Flash creatures and Instant-speed effects.

NOTES:

• I know it's not REALLY Ponza, since it doesn't have any Burn. Whatever. :-D
• Torrential Gearhulk can target the Repudiate half of Repudiate / Replicate in the graveyard, and then we can cast the Replicate half. Here's a write-up on MagicJudges.org that explains why.

SHOUT OUTS TO ...

• Michael Neilson, whose Mono-G Control deck first introduced me to Repudiate / Replicate .
• Rob McKenzie, who helped me brainstorm on the deck (here and here).

Top Ranked	Achieved #40 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #7 position in Modern 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 7 Rares 2 - 4 Uncommons 12 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.49
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Emblem Kiora, Master of the Depths, Octopus 8/8 U
Folders	>> Modern Archive <<