A modern Wildfire deck built to take control of the game by t4 or t5 and win through beats with bees.
Wildfire is a cool card that "disadvantages" both players by basically destroying all their lands and creatures. In this deck, we use cards like Boros Reckoner and Swans of Bryn Argoll to gain advantage off of the damage dealt by Wildfire in order to make the effect unequal. Boros Reckoner can kill the creature that would normally stick around after the boardwipe or just deal damage to your opponent's face. Soulfire Grand Master gains 4 life for each creature on the battlefield that Wildfire deals damage to. The best creature for this is Hornet Nest, which leaves behind 4 Insect Tokens after the Wildfire. Now, neither player basically has any lands, and you have 4 1/1 Flyers.
To get to Wildfire on t4, we need to ramp. Birds of Paradise is fine, but dies to the sweeping effect of the card. Since it is a t1 ramp option, it is in the list. We want stuff that sticks to the board, like artifact ramp or ramping lands themselves. In this case, Farseek is a card that can search out any of our shock lands t2 for almost perfect fixing and good ramp. Explosive Vegetation along with either of these ramp spells lets us hit 7 mana t4, a perfect number for a backup Wildfire or the card itself.
Once you have some value down and the right amount of mana, Wildfire, Destructive Force, and Blasphemous Act all can wipe the board asymmetrically. At worst, these spells can act as reset points for you to rebuild and try to start a new game (Soulfire Grand Master really helps with this due to its lifegain).
The rest of the deck just round out the deck and add some depth. Lightning Bolt is a removal spell. Roast is another removal spell that can be used on a Hornet Nest to get some tokens to win the game after your opponent loses resources or with any of the "damage matters" creatures. Mutavault can stick around after a board wipe in order to grind out a win.
Swans of Bryn Argoll is a recent edition that is possibly the best card in the deck. It survives all your boardwipes as a 4 power flyer and draws you cards at the same time. Blasphemous Act turns into a one sided boardwipe + draw 13 cards. It dodges Bolt and "Push" too, two of the biggest removal spells in modern.
I need help with a sideboard since the options are tight. This is a mostly budget deck since I already own the manabase for it, so I'm looking for some good tech out of board that won't cost my kidney. This deck is real fun and grindy to play and I want to build it for some local tournaments. Thanks!
