Modern Thopter Foundry Primer: Back in Black

Modern* Artifact Combo Competitive Control WU (Azorius)

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Land (26)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 2x Celestial Colonnade
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 3x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Inventors' Fair
• 4x Island
• 3x Plains
• 2x Polluted Delta
• 3x Swamp
• 2x Watery Grave

Artifact (6)

• 3x Sword of the Meek
• 3x Thopter Foundry

Instant (14)

• 2x Cryptic Command *list*
• 3x Esper Charm
• 1x Logic Knot
• 2x Mana Leak
• 3x Path to Exile
• 3x Remand

Sorcery (14)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Serum Visions
• 3x Supreme Verdict
• 3x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 2x Wurmcoil Engine

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Gideon Jura
• 2x Tezzeret the Seeker

Artifact (4)

• 2x Pithing Needle
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of War and Peace

Instant (6)

• 4x Disenchant
• 2x Dispel

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All hail the Sword of Combo Kills

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Welcome, one and all, to my very favorite pet deck: Thopter Sword. For those of you who don't know, this deck hinges on getting incremental advantage out of the pseudo infinite combo between Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry . Now, let's get down and dirty with it...

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Why This Deck?

I'm personally biased toward draw-go control style decks, and this combo lets me do whatever I want with the excess mana I have at the end of the opponent's turn. I chose Azorious colors, originally, because they are honestly the best control options out there, giving you access to the best of sideboard cards and very efficient removal with a downside that will only matter marginally in the early stages of the game. However, cards like Esper Charm and Thoughtseize are too juicy in a combo/control deck to pass up.

The Control

Here we have it, the bread and butter of the deck, our control options...
Mana Leak: A great counter early, but gets kinda bad the later we go, only a three of, may actually go down in number.
Remand: Only the most salt making of tempo cards. Give them back their toy, draw a card, sounds like a lot of fun...for you.
Path to Exile: What White is all about, getting rid of things, like, rid, as in never to return...ever.
Cryptic Command: Awwwww, baby! Look at all the options, I could just put your lands back in your hands and counter your things and tap your attackers, and draw cards. Precisely all the cards.
Supreme Verdict: There's no way your creatures are getting out from under this, barring a Boros Charm, but, hey, who even runs those using that mode anyway?
Esper Charm: This card is perfect, in the absolute form. End of the opponent's turn, Divination, Upkeep Mind Rot and main deck Disenchant all rolled into one sweet card.
Inquisition of Kozilek + Thoughtseize : They serve the same purpose, rip apart the opponent's hand, or at least remove their removal and/or threats.

Card Advantage

Serum Visions: While not technically card advantage, it is selection, which is, more or less, also what we want to see in a control deck.
Esper Charm: See above.

Wombo Combo

Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry : Duh.

This deck is very much a work in progress, and I am thanking Worth so hard right now for giving me my murder Sword for the combo back. Any comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcome, cheers!

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Top Ranked	Achieved #14 position overall 9 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry Inquisition of Kozilek + Thoughtseize
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 7 Mythic Rares 24 - 2 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.97
Tokens	Thopter 1/1 U, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
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