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Modern BRGW Land Destruction RG (Gruul)

DrFunk27

Creature (18)

• 4x Arbor Elf
• 2x Birds of Paradise
• 3x Goblin Dark-Dwellers
• 4x Inferno Titan
• 2x Stormbreath Dragon
• 2x Thragtusk
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll

Land (21)

• 8x Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mountain
• 3x Stomping Ground
• 4x Windswept Heath
• 4x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (7)

• 3x Blood Moon
• 4x Utopia Sprawl

Instant (3)

• 3x Beast Within

Sorcery (11)

• 3x Molten Rain
• 4x Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
• 4x Stone Rain

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 2x Kitchen Finks
• 2x Obstinate Baloth

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Ground Seal

Artifact (3)

• 2x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Pithing Needle

Instant (4)

• 1x Ancient Grudge
• 1x Destructive Revelry
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Nature's Claim

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Firespout

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Choke

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Bonfire of the Damned
• 1x Boom / Bust

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GR Land Destruction in Modern. This deck can drop an Inferno Titan T3. Do YOU enjoy being the only one having fun? Are you tired of having friends? Do you secretly hate life and everything that is good? Well, step right up because THIS deck is for YOU!

Utopia Sprawl

Utopia Sprawl lets this deck exist. Its acceleration, its color fixing, and it doesnt care about Lightning Bolt. Thats the big 3. Without the presence of this card, the deck simply doesnt work, and playing fewer than 4 cannot be correct.

Arbor Elf

The other best accelerator available is Arbor Elf. While Arbor Elf doesnt necessarily provide extra colors like other mana creatures in the format, being able to untap a land with Utopia Sprawl on it is a massive advantage. Having both Elf and Sprawl in your opening hand allows you to sequence a turn-1 Elf into a turn-2 Sprawl, tap and untap the Sprawled land, and now you can cast a 4-drop on turn 2.

Birds of Paradise

Birds of Paradise. The hands where you have a turn-1 play are just so much better than the hands you dont. There are going to be matchups where a hand without a 1-drop are unkeepable as there isnt even a single 2-mana spell in the deck. Not being able to get onto the board until turn 3 is a disaster, but casting a 3-mana spell on turn 2 is fantastic. Birds doesnt actually do much in a deck without Gavony Township or Kessig Wolf Run beyond turn 1, but the power level is high enough to warrant an inclusion.

Blood Moon

When Blood Moon is good, RG Land Destruction is good. In a world where Blood Moon isnt a powerhouse, theres no real reason to be playing this deck. But Blood Moon is fantastic right now and this deck can cast it turn 2 consistently. An opponent on the draw will often lead on a tapped land and then be shut off of playing spells for the rest of the game. Sometimes Im on the draw and they get a basic and permanent into play, but this deck is filled with land destruction to kill that land and ways to buy time against a small number of threats. Sure, they may fetch in response and get their basic, but that brings us to the highlight

Stone Rain

4 copies of Stone Rain. The crown jewel. The number of opponents who had to read this iconic card was pretty crazy to me, but I guess it was more their shock that this was happening than not knowing what a Stone Rain is. A turn-2 Stone Rain on the play cripples many decks, and there are far too many in the format that arent playing enough lands. Targeting basics both before and after Blood Moon helps to lock people out quickly.

Beast Within

It's nice to have the utility catch-all of Beast Within. Killing a land at instant speed against a blue mage who is leaving up a counter is fantastic as now you can untap and resolve a big spell (which for me, several times, was Inferno Titan killing their Beast). This is also one of your best tools at fighting cards like Opposing Planeswalkers, Cranial Plating, enchantments out of Bogles, or Phyrexian Unlife.

Mwonvuli Acid-Moss

Mwonvuli Acid-Moss definitely gets the most readers throughout my playtesting, including judges at my local LGS. As a land destruction spell that also ramps you to Inferno Titan, the Acid-Moss is great. Many games play out the same way thanks to the redundancy in the decka turn-1 accelerator into hopefully turn-2 Blood Moon (but Stone Rain will suffice), turn 3 Acid-Moss, and something huge like Inferno Titan on 4.

Inferno Titan

Inferno Titan is the best top-end in the Modern format for this deck. Its affordable and it cleans up the game entirely. Decks like Abzan Company, Infect, Affinity, etc. all have tons of 1-toughness creatures that a Titan will sweep away, and then hell end the game very quickly on his own. Being bigger than opposing creatures like Tarmogoyf is also a nice sell.

Goblin Dark-Dwellers

The Red Snapcaster mage was the selling point of this deck for me. Being capable of recasting Stone Rains or Molten Rains, along with a slew of SB cards, it's been a great addition to the deck. 4 copies may be too many now that I've included 3 copies of Blood Moon to the deck, but I will play around with the numbers. The stats are nice and Menace comes into play more often than I thought it would. All said I think some number of GDD are good for the deck, but it may be 2. I will continue to test and develop this over time.

Utility Creatures

I loved the creatures in this deck outside of the mana dorks. My final list includes 2 Thragtusk and 2 Stormbreath Dragon. Having a handful of creatures that play well against Lightning Bolt is awesome. Thragtusk has been a great card against all sorts of midrange Jund strategies, but having the acceleration to get it out early enough to have an impact against aggro is great. Obstinate Baloth is a common turn-3 play that definitely hit the battlefield turn 2 more than once. Stormbreath can be great against Lingering Souls, Bolts, Paths, and mainly Nahiri, but I dont think its as critical as the life gain creatures and it would be my first cut if I had to make one from this list.

Thanks for reading and please continue to make recommendations! I sincerely appreciate your thoughts and fellow play-testers are welcome!

Keep slingin' those Stone Rain !

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Top Ranked	Achieved #2 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 2 Mythic Rares 21 - 5 Rares 6 - 8 Uncommons 16 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G
Folders	Sample Modern Meta, Sub $500 tiered deck, Fun deck #1, Alpha Decks, decks, ideas, Build this, Playtest, Modern, Green & Red