Got a Monk in the Trunk

Modern Budget Control Tempo Tokens WUB (Esper)

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Land (22)

• 2x Caves of Koilos
• 2x Field of Ruin
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 3x Island
• 3x Nimbus Maze
• 3x Plains
• 3x Prairie Stream
• 2x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp

Instant (13)

• 1x Dismember
• 1x Fatal Push
• 2x Mana Leak
• 4x Opt
• 4x Raise the Alarm
• 1x Remand

Artifact (4)

• 4x Smuggler's Copter

Sorcery (10)

• 4x Lingering Souls
• 4x Serum Visions
• 2x Shared Discovery

Enchantment (7)

• 3x Journey to Nowhere
• 4x Myth Realized

Creature (4)

• 4x Monastery Mentor

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 2x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Ceremonious Rejection
• 2x Echoing Truth
• 2x Negate
• 1x Spell Pierce

Artifact (5)

• 3x Nihil Spellbomb
• 2x Pithing Needle

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Stony Silence

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Slaughter Pact

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Collective Brutality

Creature (1)

• 1x Lyra Dawnbringer

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Make a bunch of monkies and kill your opponent :D

So I basically took Seth, ProbablyBetterKnownAsSaffronOlive's idea in his budget UW monks deck, and ran with it. It is still semi budget as of right now, and in the future I plan to update the land base, sideboard, switch Mana Leaks for Remands, Journey to Nowheres for Path to Exiles, Shared Discoverys for Ancestral Visions, and maybe a few other cards.

For now, we have four types of cards (other than lands) at work here:

The Beaters

The beaters consist of Monastery Mentor, who is a game winning, monk making, value town engine. His lil friend Myth Realized wants to come down on turn 1, and sit there growing and growing while you go about drawing cards and killing things. Their favorite ride, The Looter Scooter, helps us churn through our deck, and our lil token friends love taking it for a spin all the time.

The Buddies

Now, our lil buddies have many uses in this deck, but the dream comes from casting them with a beater of the field, the value will make you lose your mind. Raise the Alarm is a nice, instant speed, value package that we can keep up along with a Mana Leak or Dismember. Lingering Souls is probably the best token making card in existance, as it's played in almost any deck with both B and W. These cards can flood the field fast, take over the game, or gum up the board at almost any time.

The Control

Some removal spells in Fatal Push and Dismember work for cheap, instant speed removal that triggers both our Myth Realized and Monastery Mentor for both surprise blockers and, well, death. Journey to Nowhere also triggers everything with out being instant speed, dodges things like Collective Brutality and makes sure to exile pesky creatures that deal with graveyard shenanigans or death triggers.

The Draw

The true fuel for our value engines is cantrips. In Serum Visions we have arguably the best cantrip in modern, allowing us to dig through our deck 3 cards while still being budget friendly. The new Opt is nice because it is instant speed, so can be used to mess up combat math or dig for an answer at any time. Finally, since we are still budget, Ancestral Visions is currently Shared Discovery because with four lil tokens, it's basically Ancestral Recall at sorcery speed, letting us refill our hand. And if Monastery Mentor is on the field, it really is like tapping 3 creatures because we get a free monk!

End game is flood the board and beat face with these Monks, tokens, and monk tokens that no one will expect.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 4 Rares 16 - 1 Uncommons 12 - 10 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.84
Tokens	Monk 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W