Modern Gateway

Modern

chasebaccus13

Land (24)

• 3x Dragonskull Summit
• 3x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 4x Island
• 3x Mountain
• 2x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp
• 2x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Creature (10)

• 2x Griselbrand
• 2x Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  ^Flip
• 4x Tidehollow Strix
• 2x Wurmcoil Engine

Artifact (6)

• 2x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 3x Thran Temporal Gateway

Instant (5)

• 2x Fatal Push
• 3x Terminate

Planeswalker (7)

• 1x Garruk, Apex Predator
• 2x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
• 2x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
• 2x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Anger of the Gods
• 2x Fabricate
• 4x Serum Visions

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Pet project of mine. I was always fascinated with Thran Temporal Gateway ever since I saw the leak of it and I wanted to create a deck that could take advantage of it. What I ended up coming up with is an interesting artifact/planeswalker based deck with a nice little Nicol Bolas theme mixed in. To begin with the Tidehollow Strixes hold the line in the early game and make sure we have solid chump blockers to fend off any creature based threats alongside Nicol Bolas, The Ravager who also does a good job at disrupting the hands of our opponents. Following that we move into Fabricating/Tezzereting into Thran Temporal Gateway assuming we don't draw it naturally beforehand. In addition to fetching the gateway both Fabricate and Tezzeret give us a way to fetch Wurmcoil Engine -- the workhorse of the deck, least when it comes to creatures. With both Lifelink and Deathtouch, the engine can bring us back from the brink and ensure we survive the midgame and well into the late. Accompanying the engine is Griselbrand whose combination of Lifelink and his active ability let us refuel if necessary though it is scarcely necessary assuming the deck survives past turn 5 or so. Finally, the various Nicol Bolas planeswalkers allow us to take the endgame and never give it back. Also Garruk, Apex Predator is here. He's off color, but he'll never be cast without the help of gateway so that's of little relevance and his deathtouching beasts can be a huge boon in holding the line.

So that's it. There are little changes that could be made depending upon the user's preference but this is the version I'm comfortable with at the moment.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.56
Tokens	Beast 3/3 B, Emblem Garruk, Apex Predator, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink