Art-Infect

Modern* Game_of_Cones

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Lands + A.D. addition —March 19, 2020

I’ll be upgrading Art-Infect this evening with 2x Inkmoth Nexus and an Abrupt Decay - that ought to pump it up in general!

Kjartan says... #1

Generally, you don't want to include non-infect beaters in an infect dek, and vise versa.

Also, Squeeze isn't modern legal.

August 8, 2018 4:10 a.m.

Game_of_Cones says... #2

Thanks for viewing & comments, Kjartan. Help is always welcome.... Of course, I did notice the one illegal card here, and was kind of hoping that whoever was first to take a curious look would maybe also have a suggestion for a modern legal Squeeze replacement. I will try a different route for this now.

As for the non-infect artifact creatures, I'm thinking of one-shot B. Colossus substitute(s) with Tainted Strike, and I do have a 2nd T.S. I could add if it turns out to be a viable strategy....

August 8, 2018 11:44 a.m.

Kjartan says... #3

There is currently no modern card that can replace Squeeze effectively, sorry.

As for Blightsteel Colossus. It's a really bad card. There are some decks that can support it. Mainly in Legacy and Vintage, but as a stand alone card, it's worse than any single card currently in your deck.

And as for the Tainted Strike plan. Again, there are decks that can support the card, but overall, it's not that good. If you draw your infect cards, it's weak, if you draw your non-infect cards, it's weak, you have to draw the perfect combination of the two before Tainted Strike becomes good.

Playing a Tainted Strike strategy, is really just the extention of the problem you already have. You will still have two stretegies, directly contradicting eachother, you will just now have a card that turns the one part of you stretegy into the other for a turn.

This Video is really not up-to date, (Especially price-vise), but I think it explains decently well how to make a good budget infect: How to Pioson

If fast and furious is not your playstyle, you could turn this into some sort of proliferate deck, perhaps.

August 8, 2018 1:14 p.m.

Game_of_Cones says... #4

Thanks again! Guess I will doing quite a bit of tinkering w/ this one. Definitely will check out the video you posted ASAP, and considering taking the "beaters" out in favor of unblockable stuff like Traitor's Clutch and Whispersilk Cloak.... also, Swan Song has been suggested as a good counterspell option.

August 8, 2018 1:37 p.m.

Check out my infect build for suggestions.

November 22, 2019 9:12 p.m.