Mardu Lose the game but don't

Modern Casual Combo Control RBW (Mardu)

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Land (24)

• 2x Blood Crypt
• 4x Godless Shrine
• 4x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 2x Sacred Foundry
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Smoldering Marsh
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (20)

• 4x Ad Nauseam
• 4x Angel's Grace
• 4x Glorious End
• 1x Lightning Storm
• 4x Pact of Negation
• 3x Slaughter Pact

Artifact (4)

• 4x Ensnaring Bridge

Creature (3)

• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 2x Simian Spirit Guide

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Demonic Pact
• 4x Lich's Mastery

Planeswalker (3)

• 3x Gideon of the Trials

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Sideboard

Enchantment (4)

• 3x Blood Moon
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Vandalblast

Artifact (5)

• 2x Pithing Needle
• 3x Relic of Progenitus

Instant (4)

• 4x Negate

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This deck aims to not lose. You stop losing by playing Angels Grace, Lich's Mastery and Gideon of the Trials. Then you do things that make you lose, then dont.

You control your oppponent throughout the game by using slaughter pact, pact of negation, as well as glorious end. You also use Ensnaring bridge to avoid getting domed too hard by creatures you are unable to remove such as Death's Shadow.

You win Ad Nauseam + Lightning Storm. By putting a buttload of lands into the storm, you kill your opponent. Simian Spirit Guides are there to help you get the combo kill with only 1 open mana.

Or, you use Laboratory Maniac and Ad Nauseam to draw your entire deck and win through that. You would then play Glorious End to Time Walk and win that way.

Once you combo off with Ad Nauseam, you can keep up free counterspells and Glorious End to protect your final win cons, be that Lightning Storm or Lab Maniac.

If all else fails, you can always try to beat down your opponent with Gideon of the Trials in creature mode, and using Slaughter Pacts and Pact of Negation to protect him. Glorious End can also give you the final push for damage if need be.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 6 Rares 2 - 5 Uncommons 2 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Emblem Gideon of the Trials