BW Tokens

Modern Tokens WB (Orzhov)

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2 drop (13)

• 4x Auriok Champion
• 2x Bitterblossom
• 2x Hidden Stockpile
• 4x Intangible Virtue
• 1x Zealous Persecution

1 drop (11)

• 1x Bone Shards
• 1x Fatal Push
• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 3x Prismatic Ending
• 1x Secure the Wastes
• 2x Thoughtseize

0 drop (23)

• 1x Castle Ardenvale
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 3x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 2x Flooded Strand
• 2x Godless Shrine
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 4x Marsh Flats
• 3x Plains
• 3x Silent Clearing
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Vault of the Archangel

3 drop (6)

• 1x Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 4x Lingering Souls

4 drop (3)

• 3x Sorin, Solemn Visitor

6 drop (4)

• 4x Spectral Procession

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Sideboard

3 drop (2)

• 2x Ashiok, Dream Render

2 drop (11)

• 2x Damn
• 2x Fracture
• 2x Rest in Peace
• 1x Runed Halo
• 3x Stony Silence
• 1x Void Mirror

1 drop (1)

• 1x Duress

0 drop (1)

• 1x Engineered Explosives

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[Description outdated]

My version of BW Tokens. The deck is awesome and my record is around 65%W. I would like to start some statistics about it, will probably in the future.

BW tokens is a deck that is somewhat dependent on each different meta. While the core of the deck is pretty much fixed, many card choices will be different from other builds you might see. There is actually not a "correct" version of the deck and, as it is quite difficult to perfectly tune it to your meta diversity (constantly changing), the deck is under continuous modifications.

My version is focused on a more control-based version, mainly because I believe it is the shell where the deck can offer its full potential and because I feel more identified with this kind of play-style.

The deck is pretty capable of handling with somewhat ease many tier 1 and 2 decks such as affinity, jund, junk, storm, death's shadow, grixis, control... It suffers a bit more against aggressive decks, and we really need to pull out a great performance against decks like tron or valakut strategies.

Core

Things you don't want to miss in your deck:

23 Lands (only three taplands between Shambling Vent and Windbrisk Heights

4 Lingering Souls

4 Raise the Alarm / Bitterblossom

3 Sorin, Solemn Visitor (2 min) / Gideon, Ally of Zendikar / Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

6 Inquisition of Kozilek + Thoughtseize

4 Path to Exile

2 Fatal Push

4 Intangible Virtue

Total of 50 cards -> 10 Flex Spots.

Tune to your meta

Depending on how your meta shapes, the deck presents some variations, within the 7 flex spots resulting from the previous core assumption:

CONTROL

Disruption and grindy strategies shine here.

• You want more Bitterblossoms than Raise the Alarm or Start / Finish.

• Consider increasing hand disruption effects like 2 extra Thoughtseize, Duress (for example in control+aggro metas), Collective Brutality.

• Anguished Unmaking if Tron is a portion of the control meta as well.

• Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and Liliana of the Veil are your friends here.

• The 24th land could be useful here.

AGGRO

Removal, Lifegain, and chump-blocks.

• You want more Raise the Alarm or Start / Finish than Bitterblossoms.

• Consider increasing creature disruption effects like extra Fatal Push, Collective Brutality, Blessed Alliance.

• Lifegain is always helpful: Timely Reinforcements or Blessed Alliance if you have few slots and Auriok Champion if you can afford 3-4 slots (playing her in the late game does nothing, and her lifegain spreads in several turns).

• Zealous Persecution to wipe boards and race.

COMBO

Somehow in the middle between control and aggro.

• You want more Raise the Alarm than Start / Finish or Bitterblossoms.

• Consider increasing hand disruption effects like 2 extra Thoughtseize, Duress (for example in control+aggro metas), Collective Brutality.

• Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and Liliana of the Veil are your friends here.

• Zealous Persecution to race.

My Shell of choice

Currently, I am implementing History of Benalia in the deck. Before this, I faced many times games where our disruption was on point, but we were lacking finishers. In an attempt to stream-line the deck to make it more consistent, I found that this card to be a powerhouse. Something opponents have to deal with, or die to. So far I am extremely satisfied with it, so it will stick around for a little longer.

After all this thought, the plan for the flex spots is:

• The 24th land, a Ghost Quarter, to deal with problematic manabases.

• 2 Collective Brutality to answer a bit of everything while being able to make profit of those Thoughtseizes you draw against burn...

• 1 Zealous Persecution to answer the creature-heavy meta. Also helps speeding up the clock. This card is at its best in our deck.

• 4 Bitterblossom, because the card is just too good to pass. Best win-con in the deck.

• 1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar as a 1-of. He is a board-state in a card. He is our Bitterblossom + Intangible Virtue in a stick: creates tokens, pumps them, and is able to generate a clock by himself. He does everything. I wouldn't mind running more than 1, but his lack of interaction with the opponent settles him to 1 copy. I am comfortable like this, and the deck feels more balanced.

• 3rd Sorin, Solemn Visitor. In my opinion, and after trying it a lot. This Sorin is slightly better in our deck. Also, having 3 copies increases consistency.

• 4 History of Benalia to muscle up the deck and add aggression to the deck. Modern is fast and we need more pressure to win difficult matchups.

Sideboard Plan

• 3x Stony Silence: Modern staple. Or you run 3 or none, in my opinion. Independently from how many decks in your meta are worth this card, is something we want to nail turn 2, thus, 3 is the way to go. Great against affinity, eldrazi tron, normal tron (mainly on the play), ad nauseam, tezzeretor, lantern control...

• 2x Disenchant: Main reason for this: Ensnaring Bridge. We don't board this card in many times against artifact decks like eldrazi tron or regular tron, but still, it is extremely necessary for those cases. Also great against affinity, ad nauseam (putting them to -5 lives and afterward destroying their Phyrexian Unlife for the win). Sundering Growth is also a consideration, but the double white is not worth the extra token when we also play colorless sources and Blood Moon is out there.

• 2x Rest in Peace: Another modern staple (thank God we play white). Anything using the GY will suffer from this. Other options are Nihil Spellsbomb or Relic of Progenitus, but, IMO, this card is just waaaaay more powerful. Impacts the game since it enters the battlefield and locks many opponents out of the game. It is our Blood Moon of choice. True it hoses our own Lingering Souls, but if we are bringing this in, is because the opponent will suffer way more than us from this inclusion.

• 3x Surgical Extraction: allows for some crazy turn 1 activations (after hand disruption). Extirpate might have an edge against responsive decks (that could also often be the case if we make a timely use of Surgical Extraction, though). Anyway, extra pieces of GY hate AND combo hate. Combined with the huge discard package we have in the main, the cards are much better than Stain the Mind effects because they don't target the opponent and are faster to activate. Also, hitting a tron land after we Ghost Quarter it feels incredibly powerful.

• 2x Collective Brutality to complete the playset in the 75. Great against almost anything in modern. It is here mainly to help against burn (we have a ton of lifeloss in the main) and company decks. Also pairs up great with the fact that Bant creatures decks can bring in some copies of Worship. The drain mode becomes crucial here.

• 1x Zealous Persecution: For creature matchups. Acts both as early one-sided sweeper, and as combat trick to make opp blocks end up terribly for them. If there is a deck where this card could see play, this is the one. Also useful to just race sometimes, adding some power to the table can ruin opp's math for combat.

• 1x Wrath of God + 1x Damnation: As counter-intuitive as it sounds, these cards are awesome. We just need to stall the first turns (something we are very good at with chumpblockers and spot-removal) and wait until they fed up of blowing spirits and display all their creature power at once. Then wrath the board and there you go, easy GG. Our capability to rebuild is much higher than any other creature deck, so when properly used, it doesn't hurt blowing some tokens. Also great agaisnt hexproof and protection creatures. One of each because Meddling Mage is a thing.

With this configuration, we have packs of 5 cards for the most relevant archetypes:

• Combo: 2 Collective Brutality + 3 Surgical Extraction
• Aggro: 2 Collective Brutality + 3 Wrath Effects
• Artifacts: 3 Stony Silence + 2 Disenchant
• Graveyard: 2 Rest in Peace + 3 Surgical Extraction
• Control: 2 Collective Brutality + 3 Surgical Extraction
• Midrange: have you guys seen our mainboard? come on... no need for this here

Possibles (placeholders) Show

This section is where I store my arguments for some cards to be used in the SB. I swap them depending on the current meta I am facing.

• 2x Blessed Alliance: Great card to bring in against burn, eldrazi tron, aggresive decks, infect, bogles. Escalating, just as with Collective Brutality, gives the versatility that this decks aims for. The fact that we can play this at instant speed gives it the edge over other options, IMO.

• 1x Aven Mindcensor: Nice 1-of that helps us against combo decks and puts up a clock as well. It also improves tron, valakut, and amulet match-ups, which are pretty bad, so always welcome. Flash is huge and tilts mane opponents, as they really dont expect much EOT interaction from our side.

• 1x Pithing Needle: Extremely versatile piece of sidetech. Mainly against problematic planeswalkers like Ugin, the Spirit Dragon or Jace, Architect of Thought. Also useful against the Ad Nauseam deck to hose Lightning Storm as well as any of their artifacts. Endbringer or Eldrazi Displacer.

• 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad in replacement of the 3rd Sorin, Solemn Visitor. The former is clearly worse in this deck, but since the PW rule changed, having them both on the battlefield seems too powerful to pass. At the moment, trying him as a 1-of. Setting an anthem without dying and ticking up to create lifelinkers is great. Less stable than Gideon, less powerful than the good Sorin, but somewhere in the middle. As I said already many times, the name of this deck is "versatility".

• 1 Cast Out: it offers versatility and maindeck answer to anything pesky our opponent is doing (looking at you Ensnaring Bridge). Being able to cycle it for as little as 1 mana is huge.

• 2x Auriok Champion: Very well-positioned in the current meta, the champion is great against aggro and black/red based decks. She conflicts a bit with the mana we intend to have for Liliana of the Veil, but is relatively easy to work around that problem. If we get to stick her early in the game against any kind of aggro strategy, we are heavily favoured.

• 1x Basilisk Collar: Recursive threat that works wonders against big creatures and resilient creature decks. Complements greatly out Bitterblossom lifeloss and lets us transform our chump blocks into lethal threats. Not excellent in synergy with Stony Silence, but the benefits are greater than the disadvantages (just like Lingering Souls and Rest in Peace).

• 2x Nihil Spellbomb: Anything using the GY will suffer with this. I am trying it now over Rest in Peace because of the card advantage, since my meta is not so GY focused but grindier decks are present. It doesn't hose our own Lingering Souls or Start / Finish. Some people advocate that 3 pieces of GY hate are the way to go, and I agree with that, so we also include...

• 3x Damping Sphere: This card got me real hyped when it was first spoiled. Good against Tron, Storm, KCI, Amulet Titan, Living end and Bloodbraid Elf shenanigans, Eldrazi, Hollow One and any other deck trying to go off very hard on a single turn. Not that we should bring it in in all these matchups, but hey, the cards replaced [c]Stony Silence[/c] for me (after a very thorough trade-off) so it must be good.

• 2x Stony Silence: I used to say that this card should be a 3-of or a none-of because we really wat to nail it t2. Great against affinity, eldrazi tron, normal tron (mainly on the play), ad nauseam, tezzeretor, lantern control... My mind hasn't changed, only, we got this:

• 2x Damping Sphere: This card got me real hyped when it was first spoiled. Ruins Tron, Storm, Living end and Bloodbraid Elf shenanigans, Eldrazi, Hollow One and any other deck trying to go off very hard on a single turn. With this, we can afford to run only 2 Stony Silences in my opinion.

• 2x Runed Halo: This card is dangerous to have because there are many MU's where one could think, yeah, I could bring it in. However, it takes knowledge and good thinking to apply it correctly. It basicly gives us air against combo decks and valakut variants. Also great in the Etron MU stopping their Reality Smashers and their Thought-Knot Seers (we don't draw a card either). I use to bring it in also against burn for eidolon, and can act as a trick against creature decks featuring many 4-ofs like Zoo.

Things that I have tried already

Some cards I have tested and (currently) disregarded.

• Blessed Alliance (in the main): It is just meh in many matchups. I can see its use but, at this moment, I prefer Fatal Push. In the SB, we would be talking about a different thing.

• Timely Reinforcements: Just too easy to shut down with a Skullcrack. They see it coming from miles away.

• Leyline of the Meek: not good enough, and also pumps foe's tokens.

• Smuggler's Copter: Not for this build, goes against the idea of Intangible Virtue.

• Sram's Expertise: Awesome value but horrible as topdeck when empty handed (something relatively frequent). Also, vanilla tokens are awful (although they survive Eugene -X). Goes against Lili's mana cost, but could lets you cast her for free (but is that situation arises not so frequently, statistically speaking).

• Call to the Feast: IMO closer to see play than Sram's Expertise, but still slightly worse than Spectral Procession.

Future Additions

Nothing planned.

Tournaments

GP Stockholm: Deck used. Report in the description.

16.10.18 FNM: 3-1 Jund, Mardu, 4c Scapeshift. Izzet ascension.

23.10.18 FNM: 3-1 Storm, Ensoul Blast, Izzet ascension. UW spirits.

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Date added	7 years
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 2 Mythic Rares 25 - 8 Rares 22 - 4 Uncommons 1 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.46
Tokens	Emblem Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Human 1/1 W, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB, Vampire 2/2 B, Warrior 1/1 W
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