Counter Measures 3.0

Modern* Counters GU (Simic)

Jordensmash

Creature (26)

• 2x Gyre Sage
• 3x Incubation Druid
• 4x Jadelight Ranger
• 2x Kalonian Hydra
• 2x Llanowar Elves
• 4x Merfolk Branchwalker
• 2x Noble Hierarch
• 3x Verdurous Gearhulk
• 4x Wildgrowth Walker

Land (22)

• 4x Breeding Pool
• 7x Forest
• 4x Hinterland Harbor
• 5x Island
• 2x Misty Rainforest

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

Instant (4)

• 2x Negate
• 2x Spell Pierce

Enchantment (7)

• 3x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 4x Hardened Scales

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 2x Cackling Counterpart
• 2x Negate

Artifact (7)

• 4x Relic of Progenitus
• 3x Whispersilk Cloak

Creature (4)

• 1x Mistcutter Hydra
• 3x Scavenging Ooze

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Maybeboard

Instant (4)

• 4x Heroic Intervention

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Simic +1/+1 counters for modern. Revolves around the the explore package and Hardened Scales .

Incubation Druid , Gyre Sage , Noble Hierarch , and Llanowar Elves are all around to help us ramp into our bigger threats while we can hopefully distract our opponent with a Wildgrowth Walker that can get pretty massive from our explore creatures and Hardened Scales on board.

Once we have some decent dorks and lands accumulated we are looking to close out with Verdurous Gearhulk , Kalonian Hydra , or a flipped Hadana's Climb  .

Somewhat slow starting deck that can easily stabilize around turn 4 or 5 with some very pumped creatures.

Sideboard is in no way firm. Scavenging Ooze and Relic of Progenitus because of the amount of Dredge decks in my meta plus they are both key against Phoenix and Drakes. Cackling Counterpart can be very useful whether you're targeting Jadelight Ranger for value making a copy of one of the bigger threats. Whispersilk Cloak lets us play around Red Deck Wins and all the Phoenix/Drakes decks floating around.

Side note: Noble Hierarch could easily be swapped for something more budget friendly. The benefit vs other dorks is that the Hierarch draws more removal (hopefully keeping it off our bigger threats) and also can confuse the opponent thinking we are playing 5c humans turn one.

Enjoy!

Top Ranked	Achieved #41 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 6 Rares 8 - 3 Uncommons 6 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.34
Tokens	Copy Clone, Plant 0/1 G