Murklight Phoenix

Modern Flying Island Scry UR (Izzet)

Sterben14999

Land (17)

• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Spirebluff Canal
• 4x Steam Vents

Instant (20)

• 4x Consider
• 4x Izzet Charm
• 2x Lightning Axe
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 4x Thought Scour

Creature (11)

• 4x Arclight Phoenix
• 4x Ledger Shredder
• 3x Murktide Regent

Sorcery (12)

• 4x Expressive Iteration
• 4x Preordain
• 4x Serum Visions

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Cast into the Fire
• 2x Force of Negation
• 2x Nix
• 2x Stern Scolding

Creature (4)

• 2x Crackling Drake
• 2x Subtlety

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Blood Moon

Artifact (3)

• 2x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Engineered Explosives

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Maybeboard

Instant (8)

• 4x Faithful Mending
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Mystical Dispute
• 2x Path to Exile

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Alpine Moon
• 2x Dress Down

Artifact (1)

• 1x Unlicensed Hearse

Creature (4)

• 1x Fury
• 2x Geist of Saint Traft
• 1x Solitude

Sorcery (3)

• 2x Mishra's Command
• 1x Shatterstorm

Land (7)

• 2x Flooded Strand
• 3x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Plains

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Teferi, Time Raveler

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Bringing Arclight Phoenix back into Modern. Taking out the delirium shell of Izzet Murktide and replacing it with some of the original Phoenix pieces allows you to avoid some of the hate directed towards Ragavan and DRC such as Wrenn and Six. Ledger Shredder has proven to be a potent threat, as well as an easy way to cycle through your deck and get those phoenixes in the graveyard or set up for a big turn 4 Murktide Regent. This version of Murktide is far more resilient with the recursion of phoenixes while maintaining its late game power and ability to play through graveyard hate. As for the sideboard, Crackling Drake provides an additional way to fight through graveyard disruption. Force of Negation and Subtlety are excellent free counters for noncreatures and creatures respectively. Explosives will help you keep the board clean against tricky to deal with creatures, enchantments, or artifacts. Nix is a great counter to a variety of powerful cards in the meta such as the evoked MH2 Elementals (Fury, Grief, Solitude, Endurance, and Subtlety), Force of Negation, and the free spells cast off cascade, Chalice will give you additional ways to deal with the cascade decks. Cast into Fire and Blood Moon will help you slow down Tron decks enough to push you over the edge. Stern Scolding is an additional way to counter problem early creatures like Ragavan or Orcish Bowmasters. In the maybe board you'll see a possible Jeskai shell and sideboard pieces that I have considered messing around with but having put to much thought into yet. I believe this list could be well positioned in the current meta but unfortunately am unable to test the deck due to the cost of building it. If you decide to try it out I'd love to hear from you on how your matches went, you can message me on Twitter Sterben14999

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 4 Mythic Rares 18 - 6 Rares 18 - 4 Uncommons 14 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.98