Level the Battlefield [Budget]

Modern Artifact Budget Control Land Destruction RG (Gruul)

EpsilonOblivion

Creature (23)

• 2x Acidic Slime
• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 4x Llanowar Elves
• 3x Manic Vandal
• 4x Myr Landshaper
• 2x Rust Tick
• 4x Torch Fiend

Land (20)

• 10x Forest
• 10x Mountain

Artifact (8)

• 4x Liquimetal Coating
• 4x Voltaic Key

Instant (12)

• 4x Ancient Grudge
• 4x Naturalize
• 4x Smelt

Sorcery (7)

• 3x Nature's Spiral
• 4x Splinter

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Reclamation Sage

Instant (2)

• 2x Destructive Revelry

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Shattering Spree

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This is a Gruul deck with artifacts that focuses on denying your opponent all of their lands and removing the remaining usable cards.

This goal is achieved mostly by using Liquimetal Coating/ Myr Landshaper and cards like Naturalize, Smelt , Ancient Grudge, and so on to destroy/deny your opponent use of lands/permanents. Another nice combo is using Myr Landshaper + Splinter or Liquimetal Coating + Splinter to remove all of a certain basic land type from their game. Voltaic Key allows for multiple uses of Liquimetal Coating or Myr Landshaper each turn, therefore giving you more destruction potential. Liquimetal Coating + Rust Tick gives you the option that, in the event you don't have any means of removal at the moment, you can at least keep whatever you want to remove tapped until you can remove it.

While you probably won't be able to to deny them the ability to play things from turn 1, you should be able to catch up fairly quickly a few turns later and start a nasty path of destruction. My rule of thumb is to mulligan if I don't have an Elvish Mystic or Llanowar Elves and at least one Forest in my starting hand.

Nature's Spiral will allow for some recovery if you need a Liquimetal Coating or Torch Fiend back from the grave.

I think that about covers it all. If you have any suggestions/recommendations/questions, please feel free to let me know/ask! Thanks for checking out my deck!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Liquimetal Coating + Splinter Myr Landshaper + Splinter
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 0 Uncommons 27 - 0 Commons
Cards	70
Avg. CMC	2.14
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