Ugin's Affinity

Modern Affinity Aggro Artifact Construct

Andramalech

Creature (17)

• 4x Frogmyr Enforcer
• 3x Memnite
• 3x Ornithopter
• 4x Sojourner's Companion
• 3x Thought Monitor

Instant (8)

• 4x Not of this World
• 4x Ugin's Binding

Land (20)

• 4x Darksteel Citadel
• 4x Glimmervoid
• 4x Spire of Industry
• 4x Ugin's Labyrinth
• 4x Urza's Saga

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Thoughtcast

Artifact (11)

• 4x Mox Opal
• 4x Simulacrum Synthesizer
• 3x Springleaf Drum

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Kozilek's Unsealing

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Maybeboard

Creature (23)

• 2x Haywire Mite
• 4x Mysterious Egg
• 4x Patchwork Automaton
• 4x Steel Overseer
• 4x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Surge Engine
• 4x Ugin's Conjurant

Artifact (5)

• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Lavaspur Boots
• 1x Lost Jitte
• 1x Nettlecyst
• 1x Shadowspear

Instant (7)

• 1x Flare of Denial
• 3x Force of Negation
• 3x Null Elemental Blast

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This is an Affinity deck that is mostly colorless, with a splash of Blue ({U}). It is an older idea reprised with fresh perspectives.

Archived

This colorless-rooted ({C}) deck has grown into a force to be reckoned with as an Affinity deck, and is meant to win by reducing the cost of our Artifact spells.

Developing New Affinity

A big shift of this deck is going from a landbase of only 8 total, to a rounded standard 20 lands. It used to encompass only Sanctum of Ugin and Darksteel Citadel. We've made room for Ugin's Labyrinth, and Urza's Saga.

Modern Horizons 3 has provided us with a lot of new candidates for Affinity builds, and I'm hoping to make the most use of that as I can, since I seem to remain rooted within Blue ({U}) as a splashed color.

Theme

I saw this shell online while looking for new deck archetypes to explore. The following is my shot at the deck, attempting to be as competitive as possible.

With the printing of Kappa Cannoneer into Modern, I'm hoping to make a splash.

A splash and we're moving on

Following spoiler season I do feel as though Kappa Cannoneer had potential to make a splash, and has for the most part been the LEAST talked about card. Unless I'm missing something major, I'm correct in trying to take a different direction.

Construction

It's Free Real Estate

The concept of this deck was originally rooted as a gimmick, and the actual construction does provide us with a few lands, albeit not many.

The lands of the typical shell include Darksteel Citadel and Sanctum of Ugin.

Each serves to the functions of the deck:

• Increasing artifact count
• Utilizing large creatures for victory.

The Iron Giant Returns

In my iteration I intend to use Urza's Saga in order to create some useful bodies, while fetching my rocks.

(I have since updated the functionality and thematic inspirations of this deck a few times. It's currently super focused on spells costing 7 Mana so that I can abuse fast mana and affinity-based synergies.)

Below I'm detailing the functionality of the deck.

Sideboard

What they asked of us

Typically this shell seeks to hold a lot of weight in what the match-up looks like. For graveyard based decks they have Leyline of the Void and for Storm decks we have Leyline of Sanctity. Response and removal casting (albeit held as needing to be free-cast) slots stuff like Gutshot. If I'm being honest, I didn't like this enough to stick to it.

What we did

A few noted changes from the typical meta that I used:

1. Thought Monitor as a stapled playset in the mainboard to facilitate the sideboard and draw power.
2. Urza's Saga is included because fetching more rocks for more value (such as Mox Tantalite) or going for a Welding Jar, increasing artifact count, etc.
3. My sideboard took free-casting a bit more liberally with the likes of March of Swirling Mist, but the other inclusions pair well with Thought Monitor.

Top Ranked	Achieved #16 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #9 position in Modern 1 year ago Achieved #2 position in Modern Aggro 1 year ago Achieved #2 position in Modern Artifact 1 year ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	10 hours
Exclude colors	WUBRG
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 15 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.70
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C