Scroll-less Scepter

Modern Control Five Color Mono-Blue Theme/Gimmick

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Instant (23)

• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Bound / Determined
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 2x Deprive
• 1x Far / Away
• 3x Lightning Helix
• 3x Mana Leak
• 4x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Odds / Ends
• 1x Reality Shift
• 3x Remand
• 1x Research / Development

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Hoofprints of the Stag

Artifact (5)

• 4x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Ratchet Bomb

Creature (6)

• 1x Guile
• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 4x Painter's Servant

Land (25)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 2x Ghost Quarter
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 5x Island
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 3x Steam Vents
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 2x Tolaria West
• 1x Watery Grave

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Sideboard

Instant (11)

• 1x Disrupting Shoal
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 2x Gainsay
• 1x Hide / Seek
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Pull from Eternity
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 2x Rest for the Weary
• 1x Trickbind

Artifact (1)

• 1x Ratchet Bomb

Creature (3)

• 3x Phyrexian Metamorph

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Boomerang

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Scroll and Scepter has dropped the scrolls :(

A deck that abuses Isochron Scepter for fun and profit. Muddle the Mixture tutors for any of the instants except Pull from Eternity in either main or side, or for an artifact (scepter, bomb, servant). Research/Development provides on-the-fly sideboarding options. Painter's Servant + Oona is nicely synergistic, and if you can stick a blue Servant, Gainsay reads "Counter target spell."

Because Isochron Scepter only requires the CMC of the card imprinted to be 2 or less, it's entirely legal to imprint split cards like Research/Development (which has two separate CMCs: 2 and 5) and cast the side that costs more using the Scepter. This lets us abuse the larger side of any/all of the split cards.

Known weaknesses: 8Rack is almost unwinnable for S&S at this time. RG Tron is a tossup: if you either have a blitzy opening hand or a Boomerang + Scepter opening, or if they have a slow/bad hand in general, you win; if they have a turn 3 Karn you can't counter or get Emrakul, you lose. U Tron is similar to RG Tron, except worse, since they can interact with the countermagic. Not an auto-lose, but a very, very hard matchup. Soul Sisters will probably take you to time in g1 on modo if you aren't an extremely fast actor.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 8 Rares 14 - 4 Uncommons 9 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.74
Tokens	Elemental 3/1 R, Elemental 4/4 W, Faerie Rogue 1/1 UB, Manifest 2/2 C