Modern Life Gain and Drain

Modern*

lfritzsche

Land (22)

• 4x Caves of Koilos
• 2x Concealed Courtyard
• 2x Ghost Quarter
• 6x Plains
• 2x Shambling Vent
• 6x Swamp

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Sanguine Bond

Sorcery (11)

• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Pain's Reward
• 3x Rite of Consumption
• 1x Thoughtseize

Instant (4)

• 4x Path to Exile

Artifact (4)

• 4x Tainted Sigil

Creature (16)

• 4x Children of Korlis
• 4x Immolating Souleater
• 4x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 4x Wall of Blood

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Sideboard

Enchantment (8)

• 2x Ixalan's Binding
• 4x Leyline of the Void
• 2x Stony Silence

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pithing Needle

Sorcery (5)

• 4x Duress
• 1x Dusk / Dawn

Instant (1)

• 1x Dash Hopes

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A very interactive and fun Life Gain/Life Drain deck for Modern.

The main goal is to get out Sanguine Bond or Vizkopa Guildmage so that we can start draining our opponent whenever we gain life.

There are lots of ways to gain life and drain our opponent. If our opponent isn't doing enough damage to us on their own, we can always swing in with Immolating Souleater and pump it up to a 10/1 by paying 18 life, then gain all that life back with Children of Korlis or Tainted Sigil. You can also "fling" the pumped up Immolating Souleater at our opponent to finish them on turn three using Rite of Consumption. Dusk / Dawn can clear our enemy's board and give us some late game resilience since it can bring back any of our creatures from the graveyard.

Wall of Blood give us some defense as well as allow us to gain and drain with the other combo pieces. Pain's Reward also let's us drain our own life to draw cards, which can lead to the life gain needed to drain our opponent.

Any suggestions welcome!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 8 Rares 24 - 2 Uncommons 11 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.24