When you look at modern Affinity, you usually see a colorless deck that is designed to play very cheap creatures (Memnite and Ornithopter) that are designed to hit early. What if I told you this Affinity deck is fairly slow (for modern, at least), is technically 3 colors, and uses lots of ramp? Yeah. This Affinity deck is different.
This deck is designed to play ramping artifacts to play a very cheap
Metalwork Colossus, and next turn, play
Phyresis and
Slip Through Space on it. A 10/10 infect unblockable is swinging at your face. I think you are dead.
This is modern, so we are obviously going to run signets. I am running:
4 Orzhov Signet
3 Dimir Signet
These provide mana inside our colors.
As for the other ramp, I chose:
4 Hedron Archive
2 Darksteel Ingot
Hedron Archive makes our colossus cost 4 less and ramps us for 2. Also provides emergency card draw. Darksteel Ingot is indestructible ramp. Nothing else needs to be said about that.
This deck is low on creatures, however I wanted to run something other than just
Metalwork Colossus. So here are my creatures:
4 Metalwork Colossus, obviously
3 Tidehollow Sculler
Tidehollow Sculler is actually very helpful in this deck. For one, its a creature, so...yeah. But it also is hand disruption, an artifact (doesn't count for the the Colossus, but does count for Cranial Plating), and a chump-blocker, if we really need one.
As with almost all of my combo decks, we run a somewhat-large amount of removal. I am running
4 Fatal Push
3 Mortify
1 Utter End
Fatal Push is an incredibly good piece of modern removal. Unfortunately, a playset doubles the price of the deck. For a budget replacement I would put in Go for the Throat. Mortify is very important for this deck. It can get rid of both creatures and enchantments (I'm looking at you, Solemnity). Utter End...self-explanatory.
The other cards in this deck are:
3 Slip Through Space
2 Cranial Plating
Ever wonder why we run Dimir Signet over the other black signets? So we can cast the only blue card in the deck, of course! Slip Through Space turns our 10/10 infect unblockable...and draws us a card! Very good for this deck. Cranial Plating, which is actually played in regular modern affinity, is an alternative win con for us, believe it or not.
Attach
Cranial Plating to a
Tidehollow Sculler and have another artifact out. If they have no creatures, that is a 4 turn clock. Put
Phyresis on it for a 2 turn clock. (And have 5 more artifacts out to turn it into a 1 turn clock :D).
The Sideboard consists of:
4 Lingering Souls, more blockers if we need them.3 Lost Legacy, get rid of their win con.3 Disenchant, Artifact/Solemnity removal.2 Darksteel Ingot, incase they have artifact removal.1 Mortify, more removal.1 Slip Through Space, if we need to give our creature unblockable.1 Tidehollow Sculler, more hand distruption.
This deck rounds out to about $60 ($30 without the Fatal Push). How do you like it? How could I make it not 97% casual, according to TappedOut?
This deck is labeled as both Esper and Orzhov because we only have a total of 3 blue cards.
