Shall we Ascend?

Modern* Combo Competitive RUW (Jeskai, America)

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Land (18)

• 2x Faerie Conclave
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 3x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 2x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls

Instant (23)

• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Path to Exile
• 4x Peek
• 4x Remand
• 4x Thought Scour
• 1x View from Above
• 2x Visions of Beyond

Enchantment (7)

• 4x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 3x Pyromancer Ascension

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Serum Visions
• 4x Sleight of Hand

Creature (4)

• 4x Fatestitcher

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Sideboard

Instant (12)

• 1x Dispel
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 2x Mission Briefing
• 2x Ravenous Trap
• 2x Sudden Shock
• 2x Swan Song
• 2x Wear / Tear

Creature (5)

• 2x Monastery Mentor
• 3x Young Pyromancer

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Timely Reinforcements

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Firemind's Research

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Maybeboard

Instant (34)

• 1x Blessed Alliance
• 4x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Failure / Comply
• 1x Gut Shot
• 1x Hindering Light
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Logic Knot
• 4x Manamorphose
• 2x Noxious Revival
• 4x Opt
• 4x Quicken
• 3x Shadow of the Grave
• 1x Sprout Swarm
• 1x Squelch
• 1x Surgical Extraction
• 1x Worldly Counsel

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 4x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Ideas Unbound
• 1x Magmatic Insight
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Nagging Thoughts
• 1x Scarscale Ritual
• 1x Shattering Spree

Land (3)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Plains
• 1x Seachrome Coast

Artifact (3)

• 2x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Smuggler's Copter

Enchantment (16)

• 3x Harness the Storm
• 4x Leyline of Sanctity
• 2x Monastery Siege
• 3x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 2x Spreading Seas
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Wind Zendikon

Creature (11)

• 1x Bedlam Reveler
• 1x Izzet Staticaster
• 4x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Storm Entity
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid

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Nils Gutierrez von Porat's innovative list from GP Bologna 2016 with slight SB and mana base alterations a la Sam Pardee and myself.

The combo works like so:

Fatestitcher + Jeskai Ascendancy + Cantrips.

Ideally, you will be able to chain cantrips into each other while generating enough mana with either Fatestitcher or Faerie Conclave by way of Jeskai Ascendancy triggers. Using 19 1cc cantrips is what makes this deck able to 'combo off' rather consistently.

There are a few other versions of this deck which function a little differently but ultimately produce the same effect.

'Sprouting Ascendancy' loops continuous Sprout Swarms using Jeskai Ascendancy with Young Pyromancer. Casting Swarm with buyback produces two more tokens (when Pyromancer is on board) and untaps all your creatures (when Ascendancy is on board) allowing the process to continue for infinite tokens, buffs, and looting.

'Ascendancy Dredge' is an interesting animal which relies on retrace spells like Raven's Crime and Flame Jab, along with Life from the Loam and/or Dakmor Salvage, to control your opponent's hand and burn them out.

I'm contemplating fusing one of these two versions with the traditional Fatestitcher combo instead of the 'baby storm' package I have with the Pyromancer Ascension. If I were to swap the Ascension for Swarm, and maindeck the Young Pyromancer token strategy over the Fatestitchers, the deck would function similarly with the multiple game plans but might receive a slight power boost.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Fatestitcher + Jeskai Ascendancy
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 2 Mythic Rares 27 - 8 Rares 19 - 11 Uncommons 12 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.67
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Elemental 1/1 R, Monk 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	Modern, Modern, Deck Ideas, All Things Ascendancy