Hardened Constrictor (Golgari Counters)

Modern BG (Golgari) Counters Midrange

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Land (21)

• 4x Blooming Marsh
• 2x Forest
• 3x Ghost Quarter
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Swamp
• 2x Treetop Village
• 4x Verdant Catacombs

Creature (17)

• 4x Grim Flayer
• 4x Scavenging Ooze
• 3x Tireless Tracker
• 2x Walking Ballista
• 4x Winding Constrictor

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Hardened Scales

Instant (7)

• 4x Abrupt Decay
• 3x Fatal Push

Sorcery (7)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 3x Thoughtseize

Planeswalker (4)

• 4x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

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Sideboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Surgical Extraction

Artifact (3)

• 3x Grafdigger's Cage

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Liliana, the Last Hope

Sorcery (3)

• 2x Claim / Fame
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse

Creature (1)

• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Seal of Primordium

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Hey everybody, this is the Golgari installment for my dual color deck series. My inspiration for this deck was when Aether Revolt was spoiled and I got a look at the card Winding Constrictor (which has been dubbed as a Hardened Scales on legs or on a stick, whichever one you prefer), and since it's so good in standard I thought it would be great in a modern deck focused on +1/+1 counters. It actually ends up being quite similar to the BG Midrange or Rock decks that are pretty common in moder, but there is also a lot of synergy between your +1/+1 cards.

The Cooks:

• Hardened Scales: 1 mana for more counters, hell yeah.
• Winding Constrictor: It's copies 5-8 of Hardened Scales, except it's on a body and costs 1 more mana.
• Nissa, Voice of Zendikar : Spreads counters to all of your guys, gives you free chump blockers, and card draw. Perfect.

The Fatties:

• Tireless Tracker: This card generates enough value on it's own to be worth an inclusion and it gets to be pretty crazy with one of your counter buffing engines on the field.
• Scavenging Ooze: There are a lot of graveyard strategies in modern, and the Ooze is one of the perfect main-deck answers because of how much utility it offers.
• Grim Flayer: There is no direct +1/+1 counter synergy with this card in particular, but it comes with trample which is incredibly valuable because you have many other methods of putting +1/+1 counters on it from cards like Nissa. Also the ability to filter through the top cards of your deck is so incredibly powerful.
• Walking Ballista: This card starts off with counters base, so there is some automatic synergy there, but also you can stack it up to some absurd numbers and then just nuke your opponent with it's ability.

Words of Wisdom:

Now just like with any other creature based deck, control will destroy you 9 out of 10 times. You do have some methods of interacting with your stuff in the grave and some instant defense in the board which will make it less difficult, but it is never easy to fight against someone who just counters anything the moment it's played no matter what you do. However, against everybody else you should be fine, and if you board properly then you will be a force to be reckoned with. Also, if you have the money and want to make the deck semi-competetive then you could throw in a few Doubling Season, and if you feel inclined then please gimme one of those +1 votes.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #58 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 3 Mythic Rares 29 - 5 Rares 16 - 3 Uncommons 0 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.72
Tokens	Clue, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Plant 0/1 G, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	10 Guild Modern Decks, Counters, Decks I can dig, possible use, Modern Brews, Interesting ideas, Zombie Builds, Modern inspiration, vou fazer G/B golgari, Black/Green