War of the Dead

Modern* Combo RUW (Jeskai, America)

metalmagic

Creature (20)

• 4x Blade Splicer
• 4x Chancellor of the Forge
• 2x Civilized Scholar  ^Flip
• 4x Geist-Honored Monk
• 2x Master Splicer
• 4x Merfolk Looter

Land (24)

• 2x Buried Ruin
• 2x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Glacial Fortress
• 5x Island
• 2x Plains
• 4x Seachrome Coast
• 4x Sulfur Falls

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Warstorm Surge

Artifact (7)

• 3x Grimoire of the Dead
• 4x Sphere of the Suns

Instant (6)

• 4x Forbidden Alchemy
• 2x Mana Leak

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Deck built for nys by request! This is my first deck in a planned series of requested decks, so I hope it appeals to whom it was made, and to those who might want me to give a shot at making a new 'unique' deck for you!

This deck is based around Grimoire of the Dead. There were VERY many paths I could have chosen to go with this deck. It fits extremely well into a Solar Flare build; it would do its job in a UG build that also plans to use the creatures in the grave for other cards such as Splinterfright and Boneyard Wurm as beaters before the Grimoire goes off; but I chose another unplayed card to combo with. Warstorm Surge. This two card combo is almost always going to guarantee a victory, and even if one of the two pieces is destroyed, the other half should still be enough to win it.

This is not meant to be competitive immediately, or probably ever, but it is a unique deck built to shown that there exist uses for the most widely unplayed cards out there. The rest of the decks in this series will follow a similar theme and pattern.

One last-minute change I made was using Geist-Honored Monk over Precursor Golem. I believe it will help in many ways. Fliers are good. It won't get my other golems killed should one of them be targeted for death. All I need in the grave are 2 Monks and any 1 other creature for the combo to deal more damage than having 2 Precursors in the grave.

Date added	13 years
Last updated	12 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.78
Tokens	Goblin 1/1 R, Phyrexian Golem 3/3 C, Spirit 1/1 W