Squirrel Evolution

Modern* BGW (Abzan, Junk) GW (Selesnya) GWUB Jank

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Land (21)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 3x Horizon Canopy
• 2x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 2x Razorverge Thicket
• 2x Temple Garden
• 3x Verdant Catacombs
• 4x Windswept Heath

Creature (22)

• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 3x Deep Forest Hermit
• 2x Eternal Witness
• 4x Giver of Runes
• 3x Kitchen Finks
• 2x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 2x Plague Engineer
• 1x Yarok, the Desecrated

Instant (10)

• 4x Ephemerate
• 4x Path to Exile
• 2x Vines of Vastwood

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• 2x Vraska, Golgari Queen

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Eldritch Evolution

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 4x Veil of Summer

Artifact (3)

• 3x Damping Sphere

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Rest in Peace
• 2x Stony Silence

Creature (2)

• 2x Kor Firewalker

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Burrenton Forge-Tender
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Scavenging Ooze

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Postmortem Lunge

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Using Eldritch Evolution to get Deep Forest Hermit out as quick as possible and smash face with some squirrels. The basic idea is:

• Turn 1 : land, dork
• Turn 2 : land, 3-drop
• Turn 3 : land, evolution the 3-drop into Deep Forest Hermit

There's 4x Kitchen Finks since it's best 3-drop to Evolution, but all the other 3-drop creatures have good ETB value so they're all good targets for the 4x Ephemerate (when not casting it on the hermit to make a million squirrels).

Vraska, Golgari Queen provides something in the 4 CMC slot for mid-late game grinding. At her worst she's an Abrupt Decay , which is pretty relevant in the current meta hitting things like Ensnaring Bridge . She can also tick up on a squirrel to provide card advantage as well as some extra life gain (in case the 4x finks aren't enough).

I'm currently trying out a single Yarok, the Desecrated because you can never have too many squirrels, but that can be cut for the 4th Deep Forest Hermit and the Breeding Pool for a 3rd Razorverge Thicket to stick to 3 colors.

Top Ranked	Achieved #21 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 6 Rares 9 - 9 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.28
Tokens	Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Squirrel 1/1 G
Folders	Modern, Jank, Reference