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Modern* BG (Golgari) GU (Simic) GW (Selesnya) Reanimator WB (Orzhov)

ChiefWannaHacka

Creature (10)

• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
• 4x Snapcaster Mage

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Liliana of the Veil

Land (25)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 2x Breeding Pool
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 3x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 3x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (9)

• 2x Abrupt Decay
• 4x Gifts Ungiven
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 2x Path to Exile

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 2x Lingering Souls
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Pull from the Deep
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 2x Thoughtseize
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Wrath of God

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Meddling Mage
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Stony Silence

Artifact (1)

• 1x Batterskull

Instant (2)

• 1x Dismember
• 1x Nature's Claim

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Gifts Ungiven is one of the cards in magic that I believe can define a higher level of gameplay. Designing a deck to use and properly abuse it is a task unto itself, and forcing your opponent to interact with your deck in such an unusual way is a lot of fun.

Now playing control is a hard thing to do when your meta is filled with rogue decks and shifts every week XD, but Gifts Ungiven allows you to find the pieces that you need when you need them. Game 1 you can go for the Unburial Rites + Fatty. After you play game 1 you can board in answers or change your gameplan, knowing you have the gifts engine to support you. With that I present my take on this style deck. Running as a mid-range deck that uses Gifts Ungiven to basically let my opponent choose how to die.

The beauty of this is the amount of functional similarity between cards, so some cards serve the same role.

Creatures

• Deathrite Shaman A powerhouse at utilizing the GY.

• Snapcaster Mage, Eternal Witness, Tidehollow Sculler, Great creatures, but they also makes gifts piles harder to deal with for Opp's.

• Wurmcoil Engine and Sun Titan Great targets for a Gifts pile, or just to draw.

Reanimation Targets

• Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite Shuts down Aggro.

• Iona, Shield of Emeria Shuts down 1 or 2 color decks.

Spells

• Liliana of the Veil Needs an answer or she'll get out of hand real quick.

• Gifts Ungiven The engine of the deck, giving you not only card advantage, but card quality as well.

• Merchant Scroll Basically more copies of Gifts

• Unburial Rites The card that brought Gifts back onto the modern scene.

• Lingering Souls Serves to make expendable blockers, though they play nice with Batterskull.

• Life from the Loam and Raven's Crime Together are a hand destroying engine easily abused in this deck. They also allow me to use lands as discard fodder or draws with Trade Routes or reuse Ghost Quarter and Tectonic Edge.

• Maelstrom Pulse, Detention Sphere, Abrupt Decay, and Path to Exile are all versatile removal spells.

• Noxious Revival Just good utility

Sideboard

• Aven Mindcensor comes in for Tron or Scapeshift decks.

• Batterskull Really nice if I need to speed up game 2.

• Beast Within Hits a large number of problem targets for a measly 3/3 Beast.

• Dismember A versatile kill spell.

• Duress Helps against Combo.

• Echoing Truth For those consistent 4-of-everything decks, like Affinity..

• Griselbrand Catch all reanimation target when the other 2 don't help.

• Hurkyl's Recall Comes in for affinity.

• Mindbreak Trap for Storm hate.

• Nature's Claim Low cost removal for problem targets like Blood Moon.

• Pithing Needle Stops a nice amount of abilities

• ,Silence Has a nice tempo swing

• Shadow of Doubt Comes in to help with Scapeshift or Combo decks.

• Thrun, the Last Troll Says suck it to RWU Control and Fish, if I get him early.

• Wheel of Sun and Moon Comes in for GY hate.

All in all I hope you guys are pulled to playtest this, and I'd love everyone's thoughts and criticisms!

Date added	11 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 3 Mythic Rares 38 - 4 Rares 11 - 1 Uncommons 1 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.71
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Spirit 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Good decks