There is a Legacy deck out there somewhere that is going to go
T1 Taiga, Kobolt
T2 Invigorate, Mutagenic Growth, attack, Put nicol Bolas into play tapped and attacking
Though I guess you can replace bolas with The Ur Dragon, bogardan hellkite, etc
This is just an inferior version of Legacy Infect, which is an average deck in Legacy to begin with, but at least has access to blue, thus more better cards for Legacy.
The combo version below actually seems more like Blazing Shoal Infect, which got Blazing Shoal banned from Modern but seems to have pretty much no legs in Legacy:
Turn 1 minion.
Turn 2 scale up, Terror of Mount Velus, win
I like that game plan.
Admittedly, part of Blazing Shoal Infect's power was probably in Inkmoth Nexus's uncounterability.
Also that it didn't require a creature to just sit in play for a turn saying "please don't kill me as I'm all in on this really fragile strategy, and my deck does nothing if you break it up".
The Scale Up plan with this requires just as many moving pieces as killing with a T1 Glistener Elf, so I don't really see it being a thing as Infect is hardly tearing up Modern right now. There is too much interaction for T1 creatures, something that will only increase in a world of Ragavan, and there is even Force of Negation to protect against the combo. The problem with such a deck is there's no plan B, you are a pure glass cannon deck, your deck just completely folds and does nothing if your opponent breaks it up, those decks just don't cut it in Modern anymore.
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Also that it didn't require a creature to just sit in play for a turn saying "please don't kill me as I'm all in on this really fragile strategy, and my deck does nothing if you break it up".
The Scale Up plan with this requires just as many moving pieces as killing with a T1 Glistener Elf, so I don't really see it being a thing as Infect is hardly tearing up Modern right now. There is too much interaction for T1 creatures, something that will only increase in a world of Ragavan, and there is even Force of Negation to protect against the combo. The problem with such a deck is there's no plan B, you are a pure glass cannon deck, your deck just completely folds and does nothing if your opponent breaks it up, those decks just don't cut it in Modern anymore.