MTG Salvation

Yesterday, I was reading the non-tiered Modern deck threads here, and came across the one for BW Midrange, Deadguy Ale. One build used Abyssal Persecutor, that awesome demon everyone wants to love, and broke it with Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim. It sparked my imagination. What other undercosted and overpowered beaters with substantial drawbacks are waiting to be broken? Some quick Gatherer work led me to the Ravnica "Hunted" cycle, and UB clearly had the two most relevant. First thought was, how do I deal with the tokens? Torpor Orb was obvious. Anger of the Gods not immediately so. The deck sort of put itself together. The concept is simple. Either you resolve an orb and then play a creature or two, or you play a creature or two and then boardwipe. Protect your beaters for the win.



I recently got a suggestion to try Ratchet Bomb. That would allow me to go Dimir instead of Grixis, and the mana base wins for it. Here's that list.

Geek Fortress' modern stream on Wednesday featured a deck called "Hunted Sultai" that was pretty hilariously awesome. It played Hunted Phantasm, Hunted Troll, and Forbidden Orchard to make the little tokens and then used Illness in the Ranks and Leyline of Singularity to get rid of the tokens. Blood Artist plus Hunted beats generally closed out the games.

I would stay as far away from the leyline as humanly possible. It's just so bad a card if you don't have the hunted cards. It does so little against everything else. Ratchet bomb is pretty great. Engineered Explosives is a pretty awesome card right now also. Both prey on death shadow and coco decks. The next best choice is torpor orb.