Mardu Twisted Sisters

Modern Competitive Lifegain Midrange RBW (Mardu) Soul Sisters

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Land (20)

• 2x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 2x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 2x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 2x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Sunbaked Canyon
• 1x Swamp

Creature (18)

• 2x Ajani's Pridemate
• 2x Auriok Champion
• 4x Dark Confidant
• 1x Norin the Wary
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 2x Ranger of Eos
• 3x Soul Warden
• 3x Soul's Attendant

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Bitterblossom

Sorcery (10)

• 2x Damn
• 3x Lingering Souls
• 2x Return to the Ranks
• 3x Thoughtseize

Instant (6)

• 4x Kolaghan's Command
• 2x Path to Exile

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ajani, Strength of the Pride

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Sideboard

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Leyline of Sanctity
• 2x Leyline of the Void
• 2x Stony Silence

Creature (4)

• 2x Auriok Champion
• 2x Spellskite

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Damn
• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek

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We are all familiar with soul sisters, right? You've got the lovely Soul Warden, Soul's Attendant, and Auriok Champion that start off the core of the deck. You want things entering the battlefield frequently to build up a buffer between you and your opponent, and wait out the game until you're ready to end it. Typically the sisters are in a mono-white lifegain shell (with Serra Ascendants and Archangel of Thune) or red and white agro (with Norin the Wary and Champion of the Parish) and supposedly Soul Sisters used to be a black/white deck as well. In my opinion neither option is suitable for the modern metagame so we have to ask ourselves: What does a competitive deck need?

Card advantage? Recursion? Interaction? creature and noncreature threats? sustainability?

Well, if you combine the best of Soul Sisters Past, you get a deck that has all of the above! Mardu Soul Sisters gives you a versatile deck. we're talking a midrange deck inside of a token deck inside of a lifegain deck. Everything serves a purpose and I'm going to explain why each color matters.

White:

White is the core of soul sisters. It gives you your set up cards such as Soul Warden + Soul's Attendant , your pay off cards such as Ajani's Pridemate, and your long game cards such as Path to Exile, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and Ranger of Eos to help you stay in the game after your early turns. Finally, once your opponent has thought that they handled all your pesky little 1/1s, you get to hit them with a Return to the Ranks and watch any hope they have disappear before your eyes. Sideboard options are limitless but some of the essentials that white gives are Leyline of Sanctity to combat discard and storm, kataki, war's mage for affinity, and Wear / Tear for all types of threats.

Red:

Red gives you arguably the least but the most. It opens up your sideboard options so you can be flexible when you need to, but mainboard it's primary contribution is the combo of Norin the Wary + Purphoros, God of the Forge to eventually kill your opponent. Of course it features in the mana cost of another all-star kolaghon's command but we'll cover that in the next section Sideboard highlights include artifact hate options and lightning bolt if you need flexible removal for your local meta. My current meta doesn't call for me to use the red splash all too much, but for a while Huatli, Warrior Poet had a SB slot.

Black:

First of all you can just read the text on Thoughtseize. This is the color i hadn't tried with Soul Sisters before and oh my goodness is it worth it. Black brings some MAJOR threats that with burry your opponent quickly in the form of Bitterblossom and Dark Confidant, opens your removal suite up to include Fatal Push and an unsuspecting key player: Kolaghon's Command. This card warrants it's price tag without a question. The ability to shock your opponent/creature AND/OR bring a creature back to your hand AND/OR make your opponent discard AND/OR kill an artifact is insane. Especially when Ensnaring Bridge just shuts your down, this card is incredibly helpful in almost any situation. Lastly black gives you access to one of the most pesky cards to deal with in modern: Lingering Souls. Being able to dump these guys out then keeping them in your graveyard until after a board wipe is one of the strongest parts of this deck. It bounces back from losing everything very quickly. Sideboard highlights for black that I use are Surgical Extraction to fight storm, Leyline of the Void to stop dredge and control decks that use their graveyard.

This deck has the removal to keep aggressive decks like death shadow and Affinity at bay, grindy and flexible enough to work out wins against control and lanturn, and wide enough to take down most anything your opponent want's to throw your way. In my experience, the hardest match up is Tron variants because the manabase doesnt really let room in for Ghost Quarter but that's remediable with Crumble to Dust which is more expensive but more effective at neutering tron.

I hope you see what this deck is capable of! It's already putting up results online for me and while this is an EXPENSIVE paper soul sister deck it's competing so well i am very tempted to give it a shot. Thanks for reading! Hope you thumb me ;)

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 months
Key combos	Soul Warden + Soul's Attendant
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 2 Mythic Rares 28 - 10 Rares 7 - 3 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.12
Tokens	Ajani's Pridemate, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 W
Folders	Deck Ideas, cool modern decks, Decks I like, zzInspiration (not own)