Land (24)
Sorcery (13)
Enchantment (4)
Artifact (7)
Creature (4)
Planeswalker (4)
Instant (4)
Sideboard
Planeswalker (1)
The Deck
This is my new brew build around the spicy combo Witch's Oven + Cauldron Familiar which fits like a glove in a pox build. The goal is to grind my opponents out by an onslaught of Smallpox , cat/oven drain, and discard to ultimately strip them of all of their resources.
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Witch's Oven mitigates the liability of having multiple Bitterblossom in play without fear of accidental self-kill since I can just exchange a faerie token with a food token to gain 3 life.
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Infernal Tutor is great in this deck with how fast I can get hellbent in this deck. It finds the missing cat/oven combo piece or any card for the given situation.
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Collective Brutality buys me extra time with the drain ability if I am running low on life before I can find a Witch's Oven .
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Since I'm aggressively using my life as a resource via Smallpox , Thoughtseize , and Bitterblossom , the cat-oven combo helps mitigate the life loss.
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Ensnaring Bridge blanks aggro strategies, synergizes with all of my 1 power creatures, and lets me sit back on draining my opponent to death wtih cat/oven combo.
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Castle Locthwain works well with a discard theme and give us legs in the mid to late game.
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Blinkmoth Nexus 's evasive ability is great against opposing planeswalkers or getting that few last point of damage through and is also another food for the oven to cook.
Synergies/Combos
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Cauldron Familiar + Witch's Oven = Sacrifice cat with oven to create a food token and sac token to bring back cat once per turn. Multiple ovens are beneficial with a cat in play as you can activate it multiple times a turn. Conversely, having multiple cats and one oven doesn't change the activation more than once unfortunately.
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Bitterblossom + Witch's Oven = Off set any life loss by exchanging a faerie token with a food token.
Footnotes
I honestly think that this deck has legs in modern and obviously needs some tweaking and playtesting as the meta continues to evolve post faithless looting and hogaak ban. Discard works well against combo and bridge is just an unfair card which bricks almost every deck that depends on aggro to win. Whirza deck is a pretty tough matchup due to how resilient and consistent the deck is. The thopter/sword combo is pretty much unbreakable pre-sideboard. Major weakness is chalice/KTGC decks which essentially shuts down half my deck with chalice on 1. Jund can give us some trouble with their interaction and discard before we can stabilize or establish our engine. Burn feels like a bad matchup too since it might be too late for me to stablize if they manage to burn us out quickly.
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Revision 4 See all
(5 years ago)
| +1 | Dispossess | side |
| +1 | Fatal Push | main |
| +1 | Field of Ruin | main |
| -1 | Nihil Spellbomb | side |
| -1 | Silent Clearing | main |
| +1 | Swamp | main |
| -1 | Thoughtseize | main |
| -1 | Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth | main |
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| Date added | 5 years |
| Last updated | 5 years |
| Key combos | |
| Legality | This deck is Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 14 - 1 Mythic Rares 16 - 12 Rares 16 - 2 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 1.69 |
| Tokens | Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Food, Zombie 2/2 B |
| Folders | My Modern Brews, Modern decks to try, Great Ideas, Competitive Decks, Modern Decks, Modern, Great deck ideas, Modern, Interesting Ideas, Mono Black |
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