4-Bird Ponza(ish)

Modern Midrange RG (Gruul)

clayperce

Land (21)

• 8x Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mountain
• 3x Stomping Ground
• 4x Windswept Heath
• 4x Wooded Foothills

Mana Disruption (7)

• 4x Blood Moon
• 3x Trinisphere

Versatile Threats (11)

• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 2x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 2x Inferno Titan
• 2x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
• 4x Tireless Tracker

Ramp (12)

• 4x Arbor Elf
• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 4x Utopia Sprawl

Utility (9)

• 3x Kitchen Finks
• 3x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 3x Scavenging Ooze

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 1x Abrade
• 2x Ancient Grudge
• 3x Anger of the Gods
• 2x Beast Within
• 3x Bloodbraid Elf
• 1x Choke
• 3x Lightning Bolt

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A Ponza(ish) deck which uses chump-blockers as its Tempo play instead of Land Destruction. Highlights include ...

• 2x more Birds of Paradise than usual, for the best chance of a T2 3-drop. Here's a thread with more details.
• Nissa, Voice of Zendikar, to make all those dorks better.
• Kitchen Finks and Pia and Kiran Nalaar, because they're both amazing with Nissa. For example, using a +1/+1 counter from Nissa to 'reset' a Finks-with-Persist is often visibly demoralizing to opponents. And curving Nissa into P&K can easily give us 10 Power on T3 (e.g., 2/2 Elf Druid, 1/2 Plant, 3/3 Human Artificer, and 2x 2/2 Thopters).
• Scavenging Ooze and Trinisphere in the main, "preboarded" as a meta call. Lightning Bolt or Abrade are also solid options for these slots.
• Bloodbraid Elf in the side, since it's a non-bo with Trinisphere.
• No Land Destruction at all (well, unless we count Beast Within), since it's quite poor in the current meta. Here's a thread with more details.

It's very easy to splash White (even with Blood Moon), but there are some tough trade-offs ...

• 1x Kessig Wolf Run and 1x Forest → 1x Plains and 1x Temple Garden. Wolf Run is very good in this build (because of the extra Birds).
• 1x Abrade and 2x Ancient Grudge → 3x Stony Silence. Stony is fantastic in many match-ups, but it can't kill Artifact Creatures. Plus, it's a non-bo with Tireless Tracker.
• 3x Anger of the Gods → 3x Fiery Justice. Both cards are superb, so the 'correct' choice is probably just a meta call.
• 3x Scavenging Ooze → 3x Rest in Peace. RIP is GREAT, but it's a non-bo with Kitchen Finks.

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Shout-outs to everyone on the Ponza subreddit and the Ponza group on Facebook.

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Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 3 Rares 3 - 7 Uncommons 8 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.64
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Plant 0/1 G, Thopter 1/1 C
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