Modern: Thing Ascension

Modern Combo RUW (Jeskai, America) Storm

CaptainKharn

Land (18)

• 4x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Spirebluff Canal
• 2x Steam Vents

Instant (23)

• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Lightning Helix
• 4x Manamorphose
• 3x Remand
• 4x Thought Scour
• 4x Visions of Beyond

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Pyromancer Ascension

Sorcery (10)

• 2x Faithless Looting
• 4x Serum Visions
• 4x Sleight of Hand

Creature (5)

• 1x Bedlam Reveler
• 4x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 2x Blessed Alliance
• 2x Dispel
• 1x Negate
• 3x Path to Exile
• 2x Wear / Tear

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Blood Moon

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Anger of the Gods

Artifact (1)

• 1x Engineered Explosives

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THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

UR Storm has the most cards on the ban list, barring affinity because of the 5 artifact lands. With the ban of our wonderous Gitaxian Probe, all storm players wept. As an archetype, storm has always been the target of hate from WotC seeing as it is one of the most feared mechanics ever. The following deck breakdown is of my Thing Ascension list that I've been playing for almost 7 months (albeit I used to play Gitaxian Probe, RIP in pieces).

First, play this song:

Overview

Thing Ascension was a variant of UR Storm that began popping up in the year leading up to the Probe ban, and while affected by the ban, I personally do not believe the deck is dead. Losing Probe sucks and takes away the hyper explosive start of T3 flipped Thing in the Ice   or active Pyromancer Ascension, but the deck is still quite resilient and powerful.

The deck has two plans in the main deck unlike regular storm: beatdown with a flipped Thing in the Ice   and a Bedlam Reveler or storming out with an active Pyromancer Ascension with a million Lightning Bolts and Lightning Helixes.

How it Works

You cast some spells and do some stuff.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	G
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 8 Rares 11 - 4 Uncommons 18 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.62