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You dont want give to your opponent a basic land in a Blood moon deck. I you want a removal with "exile" condition, i suggest you Anguished Unmaking. I put 2 in my deck to improve the Tron mu and works fine, and the card helps 2 remove random enchantments and other permanents.

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Risk Factor is not great in Mardu. It usually ends up being a three mana burn spell and we do not have a fast enough clock to capitalize on it. Opponents are almost never going to let us draw. Also, what do we cut to run a 3 cmc card?

What is Kambal, Consul of Allocation sided in for?

Storm, Lantern, KCI. Worth bringing in against Control, too, sometimes, as an additional threat that's a "must answer".

4-0 tonight with 10 people showing up. Defeated jeskai miracles 2-1, valakut 2-0, infect 2-1 and Jund 2-1(played it out even though we agreed on a prize split). Kambal put in work against infect. Put my opponent to 5 when he tried to finish and I had double bolt for the win. I think I’m going to drop the one explosives for a second anger of the gods and probably drop the two spellbombs and rakdos charm for three leylines for the gp next weekend. Also, hazoret and blood moon were key in taking down valakut.

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What is Kambal, Consul of Allocation sided in for?

additionally to the aforementioned burn (!), the mirror matchup, eggs/cheerios and other spellheavy decks. Its my favourite sideabord card

So after some playtesting i came up with this list:



I am not yet sure about the Rabblemasters in the sideboard. I imagine they are nice to have against control, tron and slow decks in general when we are the aggro deck.
Blessed Alliance is in there due to Geist of Saint Traft PTSD. I lost too many times to that card.
Explosives Seems like a nice catch-all card and is basically a staple in 3 Color decks to me.

You could not pay me to remove Kambal from my 75. I used to be a skeptic, then had a night where I boarded it in for every match (Burn x2, Lantern, Mardu). I'm a believer.

#KambalForPresident #MakeOrzhovGreatAgain

Went 2-2 the other day. 2-0 against Affinity, 2-1 against Burn (Kambal and CB were obviously great), 0-2 against Eldrazi and Taxes (this must be a really bad matchup for us, our removal lines up poorly and they tax our spells with Thalia), 0-2 against Elves, got totally run over both games. Hazoret mainboard felt pretty good.

1-2 tonight. 10-12 people. Defeated harden scales. My opponent didn’t draw any green mana to play any of the three harden scales in his hand. Lost 0-2 to jeskai miracles. Mulled to 4 game 1 and 5 game 2. Lost 0-2 to dredge. Game 2 got hit by three creeping chills and a conflagrate that my blood moon helped him cast! He dredged over his basic forest so he’d have been stuck if not for the conflagrate.

What are people's thoughts on Nahiri? I'm on a Hazoret and three Blood Moons main, but I could see changing one of those for Nahiri if she performs well.

Also, sideboard for me right now:
2 EE
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Wear/Tear
2 Damping Spheres
2 Kambal
1 Goblin Rabblemaster

The one Rabblemaster feels a littleness odd, and I'm not sure if the Spheres are necessary for any matchup except to gain a few points against Tron. Any thoughts?

I used to run a single Lily of the Veil. Always felt clunky. Not sure about Nahiri or last hope. The deck already grinds really well, and I enjoy the closing power of Hazoret. That being said, Last hope is an amazing wincon if you protect her and she gets back revelers while filling the yard. And Nahiri is like an extra half of a faithless looting every turn, or a way to blow up Leyline and RiP... so maybe? I haven't tried out either one yet

my opponent only had two mishra's factory on the battlefield but with a different picture.

Errr, Mishra's Factory is not modern legal? I assume you mean two tron pieces?

Hazoret has a lot more of sinergy with the deck than pw's imo.

Well, I played in the main event of GP Atlanta to a 2-4 finish. Lost to burn 1-2, defeated 8 whack 2-1(I think), taking turns 2-1, lost 0-2 to jeskai miracles and lost to valakut 1-2. Game 2 against miracles my opponent has turn 2 RiP and I hard cast a bedlam reveler. That’s about all I can say about how that game went. Against valakut, game 1 I didn’t really know what I was up against because I IoK and see bolt and rec sage. He never saw any ramp spells. Game 2 I lost to carnage tyrant. I even expressed my confusion to my opponent about what he was playing. Game 3 all the valakut stuff showed up like search for tomorrow and tribe elder. I boarded in molten rain for game two because I thought it was just a G/R midrange deck. I had a feeling it was valakut because of cinder glad but wasn’t sure til game 3. All in all, I had some fun and interesting games. Especially against taking turns and 8 whack. Very edge of the seat kind of games.

Did you all see the Mardu deck that was on coverage this weekend?

Experimental Frenzy, Arclight Phoenixes, tons of Planeswalkers. Looked rad but clunky as hell. What do you all think?


Edit: Credit goes to Roope Metsas. It's his list taken from the WotC website.

0 copies of K Command is by far the most surprising thing about this list, but I guess it doesn't really gel with the arclight/ frenzy package.

2-1 tonight. 10 people showed up. Defeated mono green tron 2-1. Game 3 hazoret off the top after my opponent plays karn and takes Dreadbore out of my hand. Lost w/b token with hidden stock pile. Defeated humans 2-0. Not a bad night.

After some risk assessment I'm pretty locked in to play mardu this weekend at regionals.

This is my current list https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1451590#paper

Some oddities:

21 lands. The additional land has made the mana seem quite a bit more consistent. Hazoret is much more castable as are things like blood moon and Kambal when they matter most.

No molten rains or fulminators in the board. Tron is an awful matchup as you all already know. The only ways I've ever beaten it have been turn 2 pyro turn 3 moon and turn 3 moon turn 4 rabblemaster. Land destruction has only ever delayed the inevitable for me so I figure I should use those slots for other matchups and just hope to draw like a beast if I run into Tron.

I'm liking the mainboard and the sideboard feels solid, but perhaps it could be tuned a little more. Any alterations you all might suggest (other than LD or leylines since I don't own them/think they're kind of a trap)?

@Popcornpasta The list looks great. The only change I would make is to cut the damnation for another Anger/Spellbomb/Surgical. Damnation is pretty clunky and your graveyard hate package seems a little light.