Neo Bloo (Noxious/Scour Package)

Modern Aggro Combo Competitive Primer RUG (Temur) UR (Izzet)

Tethys

Land (17)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 2x Island
• 3x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 3x Spirebluff Canal
• 2x Steam Vents
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (25)

• 2x Apostle's Blessing
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Manamorphose
• 4x Mutagenic Growth
• 3x Noxious Revival
• 4x Temur Battle Rage
• 4x Thought Scour

Creature (14)

• 2x Bedlam Reveler
• 4x Kiln Fiend
• 4x Monastery Swiftspear
• 4x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Serum Visions

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Bedlam Reveler
• 2x Enigma Drake
• 2x Young Pyromancer

Instant (7)

• 2x Ancient Grudge
• 3x Stubborn Denial
• 2x Vapor Snag

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Blood Moon

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Suicide Bloo, despite making a strong performance in the 2016 MTG World Championship, was generally regarded by most players as little more than a glass cannon; able to combo out in the first few turns for massive damage, or lose the game in a failed attempt to do so. After the ban of Gitaxian Probe, most players simply assumed that the deck was dead.

In truth, Bloo is neither of these things. One of the strengths of the deck has always been its ability to pivot from playing a hyper-aggro strategy to a surprisingly grindy one when the matchup requires it. And thanks to a small, but highly-dedicated player base, not only is the deck alive, but it can now handle grindy matchups better than ever. Both the Black Splash and Green Splash versions of the deck have actually been reporting favorable win ratios against aggro, control, and combo decks alike.

Bloo can still out-race any aggro deck in the meta with the exception of Infect and Cheeri0s, which roughly tie it in speed. It has a devastating post-board against many tri-color decks, which can be easily shut down by Blood Moon, or failing that, outlasted through a combination of virtual and direct card advantage from the low land count / high cantrip count and Bedlam Reveler, respectively.

In fact, in a statistical analysis of nearly 3000 MTGO games, the post-ban version of Suicide Bloo has been managing win rates higher than 70% against many common control and control/combo decks, including Grixis, Valakut Breach, Mardu Nahiri, and Scapeshift, as well as maintaining win rates over 70% against any aggro decks that can't keep up with Bloo's clock, such as Merfolk, Bogles, and Dredge. Heck, with her versatile black splash build, Suicide Bloo creator h0lydiva was reporting a personal win rate exceeding 70% for traditionally difficult midrange decks like Jund.

While the success of novel sideboard splashes is indeed interesting, this particular build utilizes the extremely versatile Noxious Revival + Thought Scour package, and adds one Breeding Pool, which can now fulfill the mana requirements of 11 of the deck's non-blue spells.

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How to use Noxious Revival effectively Show

Noxious Revival serves four purposes in Bloo.

1) Returning Threats. Noxious Revival can be played to return a Kiln Fiend, Thing in the Ice  , or Bedlam Reveler to the top of your library if you need to replay a threat that was targeted with removal, or grab one that was milled to your graveyard by Thought Scour. It is generally played during your upkeep, but may be cast during the opponent's end step if you have an untapped Breeding Pool and want to save two life.

2) Mana Fixing. Noxious allows you to keep one land hands as long as it's a fetch land, which is not a particularly uncommon occurrence with our decks since we run a low land count with a high proportion of fetches. If you need to play a land but do not have one in hand at the start of your turn, you can use Noxious to move one to the top of your library before you draw.

3) Combat Tricks. Noxious allows for instant speed combat tricks when you have a Thought Scour in hand. For instance, let's say you attack with a Kiln Fiend with one land open. Before damage, you could play Mutagenic Growth, cast Noxious Revival targeting Mutagneic, cast Thought Scour on the opponent, then replay the same Mutagenic Growth for a total of 17 damage while expending only one mana.

4) Messing with your opponent's Gameplan. Noxious can interact with cards in your opponent's graveyard in a variety of ways. You can throw their only dredge card back on top of their library, or that Fatal Push they're targeting with Snapcaster Mage. Using Noxious to move fetch lands to the top of their library during their upkeep when you know they are desperately digging for answers is also a lot of fun.

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Gameplay against other aggro decks Show

Sample game with Kiln Fiend as primary threat: Show

T1: Fetch Mountain, Create Monastery Swiftspear, Swing 1
T2: Fetch Breeding Pool, Create Kiln Fiend, Swing 1
T3: No land-- drats, Manamorphose (Red, Blue), Manamorphose (Red, Red) Ooh!--Island off the draw trigger, Play It, Thought Scour, Mutagenic Growth, Temur Battle Rage, Swing 40 (34 of which has trample).

Sample game with Thing in the Ice   as primary threat: Show

T1: Spirebluff Canal, Serum Visions
T2: Fetch Mountain, Thing in The Ice
T3: Fetch Island, Manamorphose (Red, Red), Mutagenic Growth, Noxious Revival targeting Mutagenic Growth, Serum Visions (TITI flips, bounces all opponent's creatures), Replay Mutagenic Growth, Temur Battle Rage, Swing 22

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Against decks that run lots of disruption and removal, obviously things do not typically go this smoothly. The caveat at the end of either of those sample games is "pray that the opponent is not holding a removal spell", or if you're playing intelligently, "don't go all in like that against a deck that runs Fatal Push or Path to Exile when they have Black or White mana open". A deck like Esper Control will usually win Game 1 unless we completely catch them off guard. When played properly, however, we generally crush them with relentless wars of attrition in games 2 and 3. More detail on how to do this in the next section.

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How to beat control decks with Suicide Bloo Show

This section is under construction Show

Here, have a look at my BW Tokens build while you're waiting.

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Other Suicide Bloo Builds Show

The initial post-ban brews Show

|| UR Peek/X -- Many players tried substituting in Peek to fill the space lost by Gitaxian Probe, often with a combination of countermagic, Vapor Snag, or additional Sleight of Hand in the mainboard. Some have had considerable success with these builds, and they continue to remain viable versions of the deck.

|| UR Noxious/Sleight -- This is a lower utility, higher consistency version of the build I am running. There is nothing inherently wrong with running Sleight of Hand in place of Thought Scour, but most dedicated users have found that the sleight benefit (pun intended) to consistency does not outweigh the value and versatility that Thought Scour brings to the deck.

|| URb Sideboard Black Splash -- This build is pretty similar to the one I am running, albeit with a Watery Grave instead of a Breeding Pool and a killer sideboard Tech. It was developed by Suicide Bloo creator h0lydiva primarily to improve matchup favorability against GBx decks, but also proved to be very strong against decks like Grixis Delver and Death's Shadow variants. The build runs 2-4x Fatal Push, 0-2x Terminate, and 1-2x Chandra, Torch of Defiance all in the sideboard on top of the usual sideboard staples of Blood Moon and an extra Reveler. The mainboard is nearly identical to mine plus or minus 1-2 cards based on personal preference and local meta. This build is probably the most versatile of Suicide Bloo decks, with the ability to transform into variants that are highly tailored for specific matchups, while retaining the ability to be just as explosive as the original archetype when it needs to be. It is not without its faults though, such as extra life loss on average from the land base (and by extension, the requirement that all phyrexian spells be shocked in) and removal cards becoming dead weight once you resolve Blood Moon.

|| URb Snapcaster Black Splash
Since the rise of Shadow Jund and other Death's Shadow varients, the Modern Meta has become increasingly hostile to Bloo. Because of this, some variants are being tested that splash black for sideboard removal techs and run Snapcaster Mage mainboard in place of Revelers, which are moved over to the side. I won't go into this build in much detail here because it is so new, but here is one example for reference.

|| URG Protection -- This build goes full Temur, with up to two (but generally one) Green-producing shock lands and typically a full playset of Blossoming Defense. I have also seen some builds that additionally run 1-2 Vines of Vastwood. This may be a sensible approach for metas that are loaded to the brim with removal, but it necessarily means that the deck can not run Thought Scour (can't risk milling your only -producing land) or Blood Moon, appreciably lowers the number of cantrips in the deck, and slows down the casting of Bedlam Reveler. This significantly impacts the post-board gameplan against a variety of decks, and by extension, alters matchup favorability. This deck type is definitely viable, but differs strategically so much from the core build that it has arguably become a Kiln Fiend aggro deck in its own right, rather than a version of Bloo.

|| URB Tainted Assault -- This build goes full Grixis to support a mainboard playset of Tainted Strike and multiple copies of Assault Strobe, primarily for alternate and additional ways to combo for a single, lethal attack. Like the URG Protection build, this variant differs enough from the Suicide Bloo core to arguably be considered a separate type of Kiln Fiend aggro deck. Although it has some advantages, this build necessarily loses some degree of resiliency and consistency by dropping some of the utility and organizational cards run by most other builds. It has a lot of ways to pull off Turn 3 wins but is especially susceptible to removal and disruption, a trait that can be pretty problematic in the current Modern meta.

Graveyard Bloo and Shadow Bloo Show

Neo Bloo: Graveyard Fueled

This is a major revision of the traditional Bloo core currently being tested. It ditches Kiln Fiend altogether in favor of Amonkhet creatures and nearly reverses the strategy of traditional Bloo, rapidly filling up its graveyard with instants and sorceries in order to create large threats that are more resilient to removal. It is more durable than traditional Bloo, but less explosive. While it is likely stronger in some metas, the loss of speed is problematic against certain fast aggro decks. Check it out, and upvotes are appreciated!

Neo Bloo: Graveyard Fueled

Neo Bloo Shadow

Loaded with Phyrexian spells and a very greedy mana base, the new Grixis version of Neo Bloo makes for an optimal platform for Death's Shadow. This build runs Turn 1 hand disruption and a playset of Death's Shadow while still retaining all of the elements that allow the deck to out-race nearly every deck in the meta. The fact that the disruption spells not only slow the opponent and deprive them of spot removal, but also give us the information to know when (and when not) to go for the deck's combos is a huge plus. 12 cantrips, a low land count, and Bedlam Revelers provide both the direct and virtual card advantage to maintain a strong late game, and with four additional large threats on board, this deck is a major force to be reckoned with.

Neo Bloo Shadow

Bloo 3.1 Show

The creator of the original Suicide Bloo deck has returned with a new build that promises to deliver stronger results than any since the banning of Gitaxian Probe and printing of Fatal Push. Further testing remains to verify its full potential, but this is an exciting time for Bloo players.

Bloo 3.1

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Work in Progress

Top Ranked	Achieved #31 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 4 Rares 15 - 9 Uncommons 18 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.74
Tokens	Elemental 1/1 R
Folders	Aggro Decks, Combo Decks, Competitive Modern Decks, Modern Deck Ideas, BUY THIS!, Modern, POTENTIAL, Interesting Modern Decks, Competitive, modern
Based on	UR Battle Rage (Suicide Bloo Mod) Tethys MDN