Sideboard


Finding value in reverse opportunity cost.

The deck separates loosely into three parts;

  • The Living End part, which consists of all the living end staples e.g. cycling creatures, cascade spells, and Living ends themselves.

  • The Bring to Light part, which consists of the Bring to Lights and the things to get with them. Targets for Bring to Light, in rough order of usefulness are as follows. Thragtusk, Obzedat, Supreme Verdict, Gifts Ungiven, Living End, a cascade spell, Maelstrom Pulse, and any of the cycling creatures with CMC < 6. Obviously this is situational, and the strength of Bring to Light is being able to get the most useful thing at any given time.

  • The Gifts Ungiven Part, this is the Gifts ungiven and the piles we expect to dump. The classic Creature + Unburial Rites allows us to rieanimate anything from our deck. This includes an Iona, and any other creature we need. We can also use Gifts to shove two creatures in the graveyard with the intent of casting Living End soon after. This deck uses (Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Restoration Angel) to do infinite damage.

Overall this deck plays like a normal Living End deck that hurts itself more because of the aggressive land base. However it gains many more options then a classic Living End deck because we have more room. In addition, running 90 cards makes it less likely that we will draw our Living End's, which is one of the worst things that can happen to Living End.

The Sideboard is a little Jank. Basically because it's a 90-card deck, we can't realistically expect to draw things we sideboard in, so instead the way to make the sideboard highly effective is to, when we assume the winning with Living End will be very hard, side OUT the Living End's, and side 2 CMC 'silver bullets', which we hope will work well enough to let us survive until we can start hard casting our creatures. An explanation of our choices is as follows;

  • Kataki, War's Wage and Stony Silence come in against affinaty

  • Aegis of the Gods come in against decks that want to target you (like Ad Nauseum and red deck win variants)

  • Ratchet Bomb comes in against tokens (Possibly not worth it, haven't had a chance to test this choice yet)

  • Rest in Peace comes in against decks that are more unfair with the graveyard then us (Dredge, Grislebrand variants, gifts reianimator)

  • Kor Firewalker's come in against red deck variants (With the Aegis)

Pale Recluse, Igneous Pouncer, and Shreikmaw are used to keep our numbers right (for example if we take out three Living Ends for two Rest in Peace we need a third card to go in)

There are many other 2 CMC silver bullets that might do better in some of these slots, like Melira, Sylvok Outcast against infect.

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Date added 7 years
Last updated 1 year
Legality

This deck is not Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

3 - 2 Mythic Rares

38 - 4 Rares

13 - 6 Uncommons

31 - 3 Commons

Cards 90
Avg. CMC 4.62
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone
Folders Modern
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