Trinket, Merfolk, Altar, Spy

Modern BUG (Sultai) UBRG

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Land (21)

• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 2x Breeding Pool
• 2x Darkslick Shores
• 4x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 4x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 2x Watery Grave

Creature (14)

• 4x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 3x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 3x Mirran Spy
• 3x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage

Instant (5)

• 3x Metallic Rebuke
• 2x Spell Pierce

Artifact (13)

• 3x Altar of the Brood
• 3x Arcum's Astrolabe
• 3x Mishra's Bauble
• 4x Mox Amber

Sorcery (7)

• 3x Neoform
• 4x Unearth

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Sideboard

Artifact (6)

• 1x Executioner's Capsule
• 2x Navigator's Compass
• 2x Pithing Needle
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Instant (6)

• 2x Ceremonious Rejection
• 3x Nature's Claim
• 1x Spell Snare

Creature (2)

• 2x Fulminator Mage

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 3x Glaze Fiend
• 3x Riddlesmith
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer

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The latest in Emry fashion, I've designed a deck that's resilient and fun to pilot.

Tinker, Merfolk, Altar, Spy

Combo

Emry+Mirran Spy+Any 0 cost Artifact=infinite permanent ETB triggers for Altar of the Brood (Mox Amber does require a duplicate to abuse the legendary rule). This is possible as early as turn 2 with the nut draw.

Also, you can throw in Sai to create infinite 1/1s; if you have infinite mana from Mox Ambers, you can then draw your library to find Altar or just wait it out and swing.

This isn't anything new; people like me were brewing this combo (usually with Jeskai Ascendancy) the day Emry got spoiled. The reason THIS version is different is resiliency and consistency.

Resiliency

Unearth helps our combo pieces stay where we want em: on the battlefield. You can also use it to get back creatures you've Neoformed to maintain a board (or neoform again!)

Consistency

Finally, we have Neoform. We turn our Jaces   and Snapcasters into any combo piece: we hit Emry and Mirran Spy at 3 mana, and also find Trinket Mage, who in turn finds any artifact we need.

There are some CRAZY fun lines of play with Unearth into Snapcaster into neoform into anything, and do it again with Jace's -3.

Sideboard

I almost always take Nature's Claim to hit our opponent's graveyard hate or Damping Spheres. It's also nifty against burn -- blow up an artifact you don't need (or can bring back with Emry anyway!) To gain a whopping 4 life!

I'm also testing Navigator's Compass for burn. Compass into Nature's Claim into Emry into Snapcaster--> to gain 14 life feels pretty decent.

The rest is relatively self-explanatory -- a little graveyard hate, a little land destruction, a couple Pithing Needles. The sideboard is real flexible and currently NOT optimized.

Maybeboard

I'm toying with the idea of Glaze Fiend as an alternate win con (damage instead of mill) and because I don't own Snapcasters yet

Alternatively, Riddlesmith gives more looting power and fills the budget 2-drop slot.

And, silly me, I forgot the Urza existed. He'd be a smooth neoform from trinket mage so that it isn't a dead card. Not sure yet what to cut.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	R
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 4 Rares 6 - 5 Uncommons 14 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.62
Tokens	Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy