Heartless Scales

Modern* BG (Golgari) Budget Casual Combo

dmage105

Creature (23)

• 4x Corpsejack Menace
• 2x Forgotten Ancient
• 3x Phantom Nantuko
• 4x Protean Hydra
• 4x Spincrusher
• 4x Tuskguard Captain
• 2x Undergrowth Champion

Land (21)

• 8x Forest
• 4x Jungle Hollow
• 4x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 5x Swamp

Enchantment (10)

• 4x Hardened Scales
• 4x Heartless Summoning
• 2x Retribution of the Ancients

Instant (3)

• 3x Putrefy

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Essence Harvest

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Battlefront Krushok
• 2x Cytoplast Root-Kin
• 2x Scourge of Skola Vale

Artifact (6)

• 3x Ring of Kalonia
• 3x Ring of Xathrid

Instant (3)

• 3x Savage Summoning

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Maybeboard

Creature (47)

• 1x Ashling the Pilgrim
• 2x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Borborygmos
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 3x Desecration Demon
• 1x Disowned Ancestor
• 1x Experiment One
• 4x Flame-Wreathed Phoenix
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Mer-Ek Nightblade
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 2x Nessian Wilds Ravager
• 2x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 2x Outland Colossus
• 1x Perilous Myr
• 1x Preyseizer Dragon
• 4x Pyreheart Wolf
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Shrike Harpy
• 1x Slitherhead
• 3x Slumbering Dragon
• 1x Spike Breeder
• 2x Spiritmonger
• 2x Sporeback Troll
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x Thrill-Kill Assassin
• 1x Thromok the Insatiable
• 1x Thunder Brute
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Witchstalker

Land (8)

• 2x Bloodfell Caves
• 4x Savage Lands
• 2x Temple of Malice

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Alpha Authority
• 1x Forced Adaptation
• 3x Illness in the Ranks
• 2x Ion Storm
• 2x Mighty Emergence
• 1x Ooze Flux
• 2x Ordeal of Nylea
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Rite of Passage
• 1x Shape of the Wiitigo
• 2x Skeletal Grimace

Artifact (13)

• 4x Energy Chamber
• 4x Power Conduit
• 1x Sigil of Distinction
• 4x Swiftfoot Boots

Instant (11)

• 3x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 2x Golgari Charm
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 3x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Solidarity of Heroes

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Barrage of Boulders
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Blessings of Nature
• 3x Firespout
• 4x Flesh / Blood

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This deck aims to exploit the advantages of Heartless Summoning with Hardened Scales, Corpsejack Menace and a whole bunch of +1/+1 counters.

It feels a little slow right now, and I may put in the Spincrushers to add some defense early on.

I'm not sure what to do with the sideboard. Right now it's mainly cards I was interested in putting into the deck. I'm looking for cards to adapt my strategy to different playstyles.

This one is mostly for casual play, and I'm trying to keep it budget.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks for checking it out!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 5 Rares 11 - 9 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.44