The Hunter (GW control/midrange)

Modern

Captain_Rendezvous

Creature (12)

• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 4x Blade Splicer
• 4x Hero of Bladehold

Planeswalker (6)

• 2x Elspeth Tirel
• 2x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 2x Gideon Jura

Land (24)

• 4x Forest
• 4x Plains
• 4x Razorverge Thicket
• 4x Stirring Wildwood
• 4x Sunpetal Grove
• 4x Tectonic Edge

Artifact (4)

• 2x Batterskull
• 2x Sword of Feast and Famine

Instant (3)

• 3x Dismember

Sorcery (14)

• 4x Day of Judgment
• 4x Explore
• 4x Rampant Growth
• 2x Timely Reinforcements

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 3x Acidic Slime
• 2x Thrun, the Last Troll

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Oblivion Ring

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sword of War and Peace

Instant (4)

• 2x Beast Within
• 2x Demystify

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I hear casting Hero of Bladehold; Garruk, Primal Hunter; Gideon Jura; or Elspeth Tirel on turn three is pretty good. That was the basic thought that started this deck. So, we began working on a GW control decklist. After playing with it, it's somewhat of a control/midrage hybrid (with actually a pretty explosive early game). So I'm not completely sure what to classify it as. Regardless, it's quite strong against almost all the field right now. It can race aggro, it is faster (but has just as strong threats) as control, and has the necessary tools to dismantle combo. The consistence of the deck is pretty high, too. But the list is probably not completely perfected. We've been thinking about trying a Karn the Liberated into the list and maybe about upping the land count to 25 (especially if we add Karn).

Date added	13 years
Last updated	13 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 3 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 9 - 7 Uncommons 8 - 2 Commons
Cards	63
Avg. CMC	3.21
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Phyrexian Golem 3/3 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Wurm 6/6 G
Folders	M12 Standard