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Damn crabs!

Early game I sit on removal and/or I mill myself with Hedron crabs and Phantasmal Images copying the crabs....crabs everywhere!

The plan is to continue keeping the board under control in the midgame...Abrupt Decay, Lightning Bolt, Detention Sphere and Terminate all help me deal with (potential) threats along the way. Fleshbag Marauder comes in to force sacs and chump block if req'd. I've found that its nice to be able to kill my own Phantasmal Image off once it's been played as a copy of a Hedron Crab and the Marauders do that very well.

Raven's Crime provides some back up discard too. Life from the Loam+Raven's Crime+Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth gives me a wonderful discard engine. It gives me a nice tool in the control matchup.

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite stops aggro in its tracks. Iona, Shield of Emeria does the same against mono colored decks. RDW in particular. I hate RDW!!!!

Gifts Ungiven helps me find what I need. Now. It's great for forcing opponents to over think stuff; pick your poison kind of thing.

Finally, in the late game I Unburial Rites a Sun Titan to get lots of Sun Titans...Hasted...followed by a bunch of Fleshbag Marauders who mess up their board state. Odds are I win at this point.

I would greatly appreciate help with my sideboard, I foresee Blood Moon and graveyard hate hosing me. I'm contemplating using the sideboard to switch more to a control deck. Thoughts?? I feel like the deck is a little soft to aggro too. This is mostly unfounded due to minimal testing in duels but I don't like blocking with Hedron Crabs when they're so important to my strategy and so I'm left with Lotus Cobra and Phantasmal Image as blockers...could be worse I guess.

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So I brought this deck to our Wednesday Night Magic tournament that happens every once in awhile.

I found the deck to potentially be very strong, timely Thoughtseizes and turn 1/2 Hedron Crabs make a world of a difference.

Game 1: 0-2 vs Boros Aggro

The guy chained too many threats back to back to back and I couldn't keep up. Didn't see a Gifts Ungiven. In the second game, I drew into Iona Turn four when I was ready for a Gifts and I was fucked.

Game 2: 0-2 vs Fae.

Game one I didn't have an answer maindecked for a swarm of Bitterblossom tokens. Game two I boarded in an answer, and then took the Bitterblossoms with Thoughtseize...duh. So of course I drew two copies of Pyroclasm I had boarded in out of my (slightly adapted) sideboard.

Game 3: 2-0, some Azorius Heroic homebrew...the guy was pretty new. It wasn't really fair.

Game 4: 2-1, Hexproof. Fleshbag Marauders made a world of difference. He kept recurring all his enchantments and beating face, and I kept making him sac everything. In Game 3 I was down to 1 life when I won the game. This was a fun game.

I decided I need to add Faithless Looting to feed my graveyard even more. This comes at the expense of some interaction though, so I'll see how that goes.

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(6 years ago)

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+1 Izzet Charm main
Date added 11 years
Last updated 6 years
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

7 - 8 Mythic Rares

34 - 5 Rares

13 - 1 Uncommons

4 - 1 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.63
Tokens Copy Clone
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