SWORD CRABS

Modern Mill Mono-Blue Tempo

Isbjornar

Instant (20)

• 4x Archive Trap
• 4x Archmage's Charm
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 2x Force of Negation
• 2x Mana Leak
• 1x Spell Snare
• 2x Surgical Extraction
• 4x Visions of Beyond

Land (22)

• 4x Field of Ruin
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 11x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Polluted Delta

Creature (16)

• 4x Faerie Seer
• 4x Hedron Crab
• 4x Jace's Phantasm
• 4x Spellstutter Sprite

Artifact (2)

• 2x Sword of Body and Mind

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Sideboard

Instant (13)

• 2x Ceremonious Rejection
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 3x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Redirect
• 2x Surgical Extraction
• 2x Vapor Snag

Creature (1)

• 1x Vendilion Clique

Artifact (1)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage

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a bit of a wacky idea i built in high school and have been optimising since. this is not a competitive deck but it is a lot of fun and when piloted properly can win matches against tier 1 decks. the basic idea is to apply pressure on multiple fronts; life total and mill. this can cause opponents to become confused about which to defend against and make a misplay, which is fatal against tempo strategies in general.

since the addition of force of negation the strategy has become significantly stronger. when you are tapped low on turn 4 after equipping a sword it helps protect the creature holding it from removal, and in post sideboard games, protects the sword itself from artifact hate your opponent tries to play while you are tapped out.

to make it a little more budget friendly, expensive lands can be swapped for islands, v clique swapped for another copy of a sideboard card, force of negation swapped for Disrupting Shoal and surgical swapped for Faerie Macabre

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WBRG
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 8 Rares 13 - 3 Uncommons 11 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.03
Tokens	Human 2/2 G, Wolf 2/2 G