The Mardu Midrange Machine

Modern Competitive Lifegain Midrange RBW (Mardu) Suicide Black Tokens

NerdPounder

Land (22)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 4x Bloodstained Mire
• 2x Concealed Courtyard
• 2x Godless Shrine
• 4x Marsh Flats
• 2x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 3x Shambling Vent
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Vault of the Archangel

Instant (10)

• 2x Fatal Push
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 2x Lightning Helix
• 3x Path to Exile
• 2x Terminate

Sorcery (11)

• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Lingering Souls
• 4x Thoughtseize

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Bitterblossom

Creature (11)

• 4x Dark Confidant
• 4x Glory-Bound Initiate
• 1x Hazoret the Fervent
• 2x Seeker of the Way

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ajani Vengeant
• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 2x Liliana of the Veil

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Sideboard

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Collective Brutality
• 1x Crumble to Dust
• 1x Shatterstorm

Instant (2)

• 2x Surgical Extraction

Enchantment (6)

• 3x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rule of Law
• 2x Stony Silence

Creature (3)

• 2x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

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So the game plan with this deck is to come at our opponent from multiple angles with quality Mardu midrange cards. Start with early discard from Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek. Then we typically try to deploy a threat on turn two, be it Bitterblossom, Bob, or Glory-Bound Initiate. We have a suite of removal to help us wipe away creatures our opponents play, and can play really powerful but expensive cards in the late game like Lingering Souls, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, Goblin Rabblemaster, Liliana of the Veil, and Gideon, Ally of Zendikar. We use our life total as a resource with cards like Bob, Bitterblossom, Thoughtseize and our fetch lands, but we plan to restore it later in the game with our lifegain sources from Vault of the Archangel, Shambling Vent, Glory-Bound Initiate, Lightning Helix, Blessed Alliance, and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet. All in all a solid deck I think, probably still needs some fine tuning and such but I think this deck shows potential versus a lot of the tier decks in the format.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 4 Mythic Rares 30 - 8 Rares 11 - 3 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.03
Tokens	Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B