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After Fate Reforged rotated out, I still really enjoyed my favorite standard deck The Blue Thingies which was all about keeping your opponent clueless to what you have face down. It took me a while to consider converting the deck to Modern, but now I wanted to give it a shot! I'm not entirely familiar with the format in terms of best choice of cards (kill spells, land base, board wipes, etc.) so please feel free to suggest any replacements!
After a big makeover of this deck, I have no come to realize how to 'manipulate' face down creatures. With the power of modern, we have access to cards that literally force a face down card to flip face up. This is achieved through blinking.
The Way of the Morph/Manifest
Morph and Manifest create a unique strategy in Magic. They continue the feeling of wanting to know what's in your opponent's hand by bringing it to the battlefield with a colorless "bear". At the most, you can flip a friendly Deathmist Raptor for it's megamorph cost after your opponent has declared blockers and surprise them with a 4/4 Lean Clean Raptorsmashing Machine! You also could do the same to the morph creature that has been blocked by a pesky beef-cake Tarmogoyf that really is giving you anxiety, only for you opponent watch it's precious beefosaurus-rex get beefosaurus-REKT (Wizards take the hint! We need a morphing T-rex since we have a raptor) by a little 1/1 Ruthless Ripper. This deck will turn friends into enemies; Slivers have nothing on how d!ckish this deck can be. Allow me to make some notable cards and combos...
D!ckish Cards and Combos
Whisperwood Elemental and Mastery of the Unseen
Both create the staple combo that makes this deck thrive: manifest the top card of your library. This means EVERYTHING in this deck. Manifesting mimics the deceit of morph, but bumps it to the next level. Any card can and will be manifested, which creates more 2/2 face down creatures. So which card will your opponent burn? A 2/2 that is a Forest underneath? A 2/2 that is a Wrath of God which puts it in the graveyard for us to pick up? Or a 2/2 that is the wee Ruthless Ripper? Manifest is the key ability in this deck.
Mastery of the Unseen is an absolutely amazing card. This deck creates a lot of creatures! So when one flips up (and there will be more than one that will flip), you gain life for each creature you control! Wow! Just simply great utility! And even better with this card, you can spend to manifest! which gives you another creature to flip over to heal you again. Sure having multiple of these on the field doesn't benefit the second ability (may I add that not tapping for this ability simply breaks this card in this deck), but having 4 of these enchantments at the same time will create some serious life gain!
Whisperwood Elemental is the #1 creature in this deck, the true MVP (sorry mom), the peanut butter to this deck's jelly, OR the jelly to this deck's peanut butter! For (sure a little spendy), you get a 4/4 that poops out 2/2 creatures on your end steps! Even better, you can sacrifice WITHOUT TAPPING, to literally grant board wipe protection... A little foreshadow why there are 3 Wrath of Gods... AND with this sac ability, who cares if your opponent wastes a kill spell on it? Just sac it in response! Who cares if an Olivia Voldaren is about to take control of your vampire elemental? Just sac it in response! Who cares if someone is about to bounce it? Just sac it in response... or not. You could just cast it again. Then sac it in response!
Alright, now that the manifest friends have been "mentioned" (even though it was about the length of a short essay), time to get to the manifest combos!
Another thing to keep in mind, manifest also gives morph cards an additional mana cost to flip back over.
Ruthless Ripper It already has a pretty cool morph cost to flip it, but by the time Whisperwood hits the battlefield and has been manifesting for a while, you could end up in a situation where you no longer have a black card in your hand! Well with the manifest giving this Goyf-hole Ripper a true cost of , your 2/2 could finally become something greater (or lesser since it will become a 1/1... for now... Ha HA! Foreshadowing again)!
Flagstones of Trokair Well the greatest artists have had their true genius recognized until after death, the same is true for this ill-fated land. As a 2/2 creature, it strives to chump block a beef-cake. Board wiping will now grant a free Plains, specifically a Prairie Stream!
With all these face down permanents entering the battlefield, there are more combinations that go with face down permanents. Ha HA! You activated my trap card!
Trail of Mystery You really did activate my trap card with this enchantment! Combat trick and utility. With every unblocked face down card, flip it over to have it gain +2/+2! Now the poor 1/1 Goyf-hole Ripper stands a chance against those pesky Modern Bear Decks! Every time a morphed creature is played face down: search for a basic land! Guess what? Our MVP does a great job getting us lands! MANIFESTED CARD ENTERS THE BATTLEFIELD: search for a basic land! If you do not like the concept of removing your lands from your deck and "seeding" your deck, I'm sorry, but this deck is not for you... You ABSOLUTELY WILL go through every flipping (pun again) land you own in this deck! And you know what you will do? YOU WILL DISCARD ALL OF THEM! This deck has NO PROBLEM against any Mill deck. What better than ALL THREE OLD ZENDIKAR ELDRAZI to stand up against your opponent?! YEAH, wanna mill me? How about annihilator 6? Yay! Emrakul is legal in modern again! Yay! And who cares if you manifest them? YOU BETTER NOT DARE TELL ME YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MANA TO CAST THEM! Okay, okay. Even if you can't afford to flip them, there are... Other ways to get these Titans into action. Heh heh heh. I can't wait.
Deathmist Raptor Friend. Gentleraptor. Philosoraptor. And Face-Smasheraptor. He has replaced the old rats of my standard deck because this friend loves to keep coming back! With each manifested or morphed creature that turns faced up, this lovable raptor can return to the battlefield at INSTANT SPEED! Like before our beef-cake friend Tarmogoyf is swinging for like infinity/infinity and we don't have any Goyf-hole Rippers manifested. Flip a Grim Haruspex for , and Rap that Goyf! And then we get to draw a card from our friend dying with honor. Thanks raptor friend! You gave us card advantage!
And thanks Grim Haruspex for being such a great utility card!
Den Protector is also on the list for utility! It is all sorts of epic! It has a cheap megamorph (only and it gets a +1/+1 counter), it has a very aggressive ability when face up, it has graveyard retrieval, and last, it is raptor-friendly (Friend-friendly). this card has been suggested by demonicgrizzly
It's Time for the #1 D!ckish Combo
Ghastly Conscription + Wrath of God
After clearing everyone's armies, bring back the biggest graveyard as manifested zombies! Your aggressive friends will hate you! Bonus points if you finally play their stupid Tarmogoyf and slap them around with it! You know what's even better? Sacrificing your Whisperwood Elemental before board wiping to pretty much replace your army. So everyone else lost their army and is looking at your pile 2/2's. Congratulations, you have literally achieved the greatest feeling possible in Magic. Winning? Who cares. At this point, you already know the game is yours.
Now... The reason why The Blue Thingies was my favorite standard deck? Because the idea of manifesting a creature face down and surprising your opponent with it later is such a sneaky strategy... Especially with "kool" creatures. Hint. Hint.
It's Time for the #2 D!ckish Combo
That's right! There's more than just one now! The power of BLINKING HAS BEEN DISCOVERED! Thank you lagotripha you have opened my eyes! I won't "blink" after this anymore! Haaaaa... haa. hm. Well here we go:
Manifest + Emrakul, the Aeons Torn/Kozilek, Butcher of Truth/Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre/Akroma, Angel of Fury + Eerie Interlude
Funny thing is about this combo? All FOUR of them could be manifested. With Eerie Interlude all FOUR of them will turn face up! Sure you won't be able to draw with Kozilek, take a turn with Emrakul, nor destroy with Ulamog, but you'll still get the smashing power they are feared of!
Now further more on Eerie Interlude: You can target all manifested creatures no matter what they are when faced up! As they re-enter the battlefield, all lands will become lands, all enchantments will be on the battlefield, all permanents will return to the battlefield faced up! The downside is that as soon as any face down permanent leaves the battlefield, it must be turned face up. So if I did blink a non-permanent, it would turn face up, and then would be unable to "return" to the battlefield. So all blink instants and sorcerys stay in exile.
That's it! You've learned how to be the jerk at the table that ISN'T using the Sliver deck! Sure you now have Eldrazi cheated into play, but that the fun in life; finding the loophole.
Problem cards and this deck's solutions!
This card screws over manifest! So Anguished Unmaking and any other artifact hate is suggested.
With the cage screwing with manifest, this artifact screws with morph when X equals .
Solution #1: don't morph anything face down, not that big of a deal!
Solution #2: Anguished Unmaking it (or other artifact hate)!
Solution #3: put your own Chalice of the Void onto the battlefield first at X equals , that way if your opponent even tries to play their chalice, it will get countered! HA! Take that and your stupid chalice! wait...
This one is a real pain because it sees a lot of play. That's why the sideboard has A LOT of answers for it.
Solution #1: Scavenging Ooze the creature in the graveyard being targeted! This play will be better played when the ooze is manifested (flip in response to Surgical Extraction being cast, then eat the creature being targeted).
Solution #2: Viscera Seer - sacrifice a manifested creature that shuffles graveyard into library when it enters to graveyard. These creatures are the three old Eldrazi Titans. If you can't flip them, sacrifice them (sacrifice a god-like creature?)!
Solution #3: Use one of the above solutions to avoid the extraction (or don't, whatever floats your goat). Then proceed to cast a Surgical Extraction on theirs that has just landed into their graveyard. That'll teach them not to use such a cheap card! Yeah! Hypocrisy!
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| Date added | 8 years |
| Last updated | 3 years |
| Exclude colors | R |
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| Legality | This deck is Pioneer legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 18 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 3 Rares 4 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 4.54 |
| Tokens | Clue, Energy Reserve, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Soldier 1/1 W w/ Lifelink |
| Folders | Modern, Modern maybe, Favoritter, Too much for my wallet, Manifest |
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