King of Cowards

Modern Attrition Competitive Midrange RBW (Mardu) Soul Sisters Value Engine

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Land (22)

• 4x Arid Mesa
• 3x Blood Crypt
• 4x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 4x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 2x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Swamp

Creature (21)

• 4x Corpse Knight
• 4x Lunarch Veteran  ^Flip
• 4x Norin the Wary
• 3x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 4x Seasoned Pyromancer
• 2x Soul's Attendant

Instant (6)

• 2x Fatal Push
• 4x Lightning Bolt

Enchantment (7)

• 4x Bitterblossom
• 3x Impact Tremors

Artifact (4)

• 4x Genesis Chamber

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 3x Terminate
• 3x Wear / Tear

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Ghostly Prison
• 2x Stony Silence

Creature (4)

• 4x Auriok Champion

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Maybeboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Fury
• 1x Militia Bugler
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Solitude
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Wall of Omens

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Hidden Stockpile

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Lingering Souls

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I have a purely RW version of the deck and want to experiment with black.

At it's heart this is a midrange synergy deck looking to grind out value through ETB effects. The aim is usually to kill with incremental damage from impact tremor style effects while keeping ourselves alive with Soul's Attendant. Norin the Wary and Bitterblossom are here to help make sure we have a consistent flow of triggers for our value engines. It can help to view this as a combo deck where the combo is any 4 non-land permanents as at that point you should be generating an overwhelming amount of advantage.

This deck is being tuned as I play it more and more. But I like to get lots of tests between changes to make sure that my data is good. That said I do have several Ideas about future changes. Specifically I want to add in some amount of Ranger-Captain of Eos, probably 3. They are there to mainly to grab norin but can also can grab a lunarch if we already have the king himself.

Tips & Tricks: Norin is the best card bar none and should be played T1 pretty much without exception. The risk of losing him to a discard spell or Counterspell massively outweighs any possible gains from a T1 Soul's Attendant. Norin can attack and will trigger himself, which is great if you are trying to hold up your mana for later. If you have any cards that trigger off of ETBs and have the ability to play Norin and something else, it's often the best plan to cast Norin first. You will still get the ETB trigger for the new card at end of turn but you will get an additional trigger for anything already out. However if you were planning on swinging with anything, it again becomes better to play Norin last.

I would appreciate any feedback. Specifically as i'm in mardu I have access to the best removal cards in the game and am having trouble figuring out exactly what mix of them I want to include.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 6 Rares 14 - 6 Uncommons 9 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.84
Tokens	Elemental 1/1 R, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Myr 1/1 C
Folders	mdn, steezy