Walls with teeth

Modern* Competitive GWU (Bant) Ramp Value Engine

foxinsox

Creature (31)

• 3x Arcades, the Strategist
• 4x Axebane Guardian
• 4x Overgrown Battlement
• 4x Perimeter Captain
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid
• 4x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 4x Wall of Omens
• 3x Wall of Vines

Land (20)

• 4x Forest
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Plains
• 4x Razorverge Thicket
• 4x Temple Garden
• 4x Windswept Heath

Instant (6)

• 4x Chord of Calling
• 2x Collected Company

Enchantment (3)

• 3x High Alert

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Sideboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 2x Remorseful Cleric
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Worship

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Slaughter the Strong

Artifact (1)

• 1x Staff of Domination

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Angelic Wall
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Steel Wall
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Traproot Kami
• 1x Vine Trellis
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Shards

Instant (4)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Collected Company
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Tower Defense

Land (1)

• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Enchantment (1)

• 1x High Alert

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Slaughter the Strong

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UPDATE: Wall of Blossoms is back in Modern! Suddenly this deck got a lot more fun.

Who would have thought walls could provide one of the best ramps available and defence to boot!

Wall up until either Assault Formation turns all of your defence into a brutal offence (made even more brutal with the addition of Akroma's Memorial, Genesis Wave dumps a solid 12 cards onto the playing field by turn 4-5, or, my favourite, Staff of Domination provides you with infinite life, mana and draw with the simple combo of having either Axebane Guardian or Overgrown Battlement plus another 4 walls in play.

This deck is blisteringly fast with 15 mana dorks, and recovers quickly from board wipes with the likes of Collected Company, Genesis Wave, Chord of Calling, Wall of Omens, and Wall of Blossoms. The advantage of walls over elves is also the increased defence which makes your mana dorks much harder to kill.

Post sideboard, there's one of my favourite soft-locks of Primal Command and Eternal Witness which will also provide extra life gain, graveyard hate, and retrieval of key cards depending on the meta. Worship coupled with Sylvan Caryatid is extremely difficult for many decks to deal with. Dragonlord Dromoka is a nightmare for control and is easily retrieved via Primal Command. The final slots are flexible, but Slate of Ancestry fills your hand extremely fast and helps with recovery even more quickly.

Suggestions welcome and help with sideboard would be much appreciated!

Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 7 years ago Achieved #6 position in Modern 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern GWU (Bant) 5 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 11 Rares 20 - 3 Uncommons 7 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.38
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