Nivmartyr v2

Modern* Combo RUW (Jeskai, America) Tempo

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Creature (30)

• 4x Faerie Seer
• 2x Martyr of Frost
• 2x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 4x Nivmagus Elemental
• 4x Sage of Epityr
• 2x Siren Stormtamer
• 4x Sky Hussar
• 4x Spellstutter Sprite
• 4x Voidmage Prodigy

Land (16)

• 4x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 10x Island
• 1x Polluted Delta

Artifact (2)

• 2x Aether Vial

Instant (12)

• 4x Disrupting Shoal
• 4x Flusterstorm
• 4x Force of Negation

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Sideboard

Enchantment (6)

• 3x Curious Obsession
• 3x Sea's Claim

Creature (3)

• 3x Mistcaller

Instant (3)

• 3x Hurkyl's Recall

Artifact (3)

• 3x Vedalken Shackles

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An updated list leveraging the power of Nivmagus Elemental in a Sky Hussar shell. Based on a mixture of the Travis Woo Vial Wizards list from 2014, Greg Hatch's infamous Mono-U Martyr list from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkwLJjBGzEE , and my own flair and ideas from seasonal updates. One of my major takeaways has been the self-sacrifices one-drops that counter instants/sorceries are good but not necessarily the best. The printing of Faerie Seer has provided a clear path to improvement for the deck. The Ninja of the Deep Hours plan is kept since its great against the low creature decks, but it takes a back seat since it's not good in creature slogs and is more to supplement the Hussar plan.

In this version, white is cut for the most part to facilitate a more stable mana base and reduced susceptibility to mana screw. While Aether Vial is good, this list wants to run fewer of them and play lower to the ground to make the low land count work while using Faerie Seer and Sage of Epityr with fetchlands as deck manipulation. Voidmage Prodigy is an interesting bit of tech borrowed from the Vial Wizards list which works surprisingly well with twenty wizards in the deck and a bunch of random nerds sitting around to tap.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	28 - 9 Rares 6 - 3 Uncommons 16 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.95
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C