Hello.
Welcome to my Temur Coat Decklist. As you may know, it gets cold out in Temur territory, and this deck keeps our wild friends nice and warm in a nice coat of molten metal. We then proceed to blow them up.
This deck uses Liquimetal Coating in conjunction with artifact removal to provide consistent removal.
Im looking into purchasing this decklist, and am myself very new to modern as a format. Please feel free to give advice, and to take my justifications below as my thoughts rather than my advice.
The Mainboard
Liquimetal Coating allows other cards that target artifacts to target any permanent.
Birds of Paradise and Simian Spirit Guide constitute the mana acceleration for this deck. This deck wants to blow up a land by turn two, and both the Guide and the Birds enable that.
Ancient Grudge, Oxidize, Shattering Spree, and Tel-Jilad Justice are our main removal spells for the deck. Each comes with its own niche of use. Oxidize and Shattering spree are the most consistent removal options we have on turn two (Shattering spree trades instant-speed for the ability to deal with affinity decks more effectively). Grudge and Justice are a little slower, but give us further reach through grudges flashback or justices scry.
Eternal Witness allows us to get back destruction spells in order to reload, or bring back a liquimetal coating if needed. The extra body also helps with blocking, liliana, etc.
Trygon Predator and Glissa Sunseeker allow for long-term artifact removal, providing what is a complete lockdown under best-case scenarios (able to perfectly match land drops), or consistent removal at worst.
Muddle the Mixture is our primary tutor mechanic in the deck. It searches for Liquimetal Coating and a good suite of removal spells if you already have coating. It also lets you protect yourself from big instant/sorcery spells (your permanent destruction should hopefully be enough to deal with planeswalkers, so muddle's inability to counter them should be okay). In future edits of this build I plan on tweaking the mana base to make the UU a little easier to find.
Remand and Lightning Bolt are staples for this decks colors, and give a little extra wiggle room for if you really cant find Liquimetal Coating.
The land selection for this deck was designed to be inexpensive. I will cover some less budget-oriented options later under the Maybeboard.
The Sideboard
Anger of the Gods and Ratchet Bomb are very effective against decks that go wide. Tokens decks in particular can be devastating to this deck, as its removal suite simply cannot keep up. Ratchet Bomb and Anger of the Gods fix that for us. Remand should probably go in these matchups, as the tempo loss isnt as big a deal for these decks.
Relic of Progenitus goes in against decks with any sort of graveyard interaction. Good for removing snapcaster targets, reanimator targets, etc. This should probably go in place of Eternal Witness, as the card draw can extend our reach a little bit just like eternal witness, and the two abilities do not synergize well.
Viridian Corrupter gives us artifact removal on a stick. This is useful if you need more creatures to sacrifice to the likes of Liliana, etc.
Shattering Blow goes in against any sort of indestructible permanents (or staples like Kitchen Finks) that are causing problems. Darksteel Citadel in particular can be problematic, and since Shattering Spree is so effective against affinity, shattering blow can help us clean up in place of Tel-Jilad Justice or Ancient Grudge.
Splinter excels at ending games against mono-colored decks. Its four-mana cost is too prohibitive against many decks, however, so it doesnt really fit in our mainboard. Splinter is also excellent at removing key combo pieces like Kitchen Finks or Murderous Redcap.
Maybeboard
These cards are expensive, and frankly out of my budget for a long time. They would be excellent additions to the deck, but are too cost-prohibitive for people like me.
Snapcaster Mage gives the benefits of Ancient Grudge to every instant or sorcery in your deck. Lightning Bolt + Snapcaster Mage
is extraordinarily viable.
Spellskite is a potent sideboard option when your opponent is expected to have artifact hate (which is often.) Its also excellent at disrupting decks like Infect, and can save creatures from a Lightning Bolt or Path to Exile.
The lands can be replaced as your budget allows, but Raging Ravine in particular stands out over its cheaper cousin used in my list, Lumbering Falls.
Thanks for reading through!
I hope you enjoyed this decklist. Liquimetal Coating has never really been viable in Modern, and with this list, I hope to make something at least workable for FNM. Please do give me suggestions.
