Glad I wasnt the only one thinking the Monastery Swiftspear could do something in this build. :3

By far this is the best version of the build for my playstyle. All i gotta do now i solidify a sideboard plan

How does Butcher of the Horde work for you against Abzan matches? I found that 4 cmc+ flyers do really well against them, especially ones running black. However, butcher doesn't have first strike, so it can't trade efficiently with Siege Rhinos or Tarmogoyfs. I suggest a couple of 6/6's in the sideboard like Wurmcoil Engine and/or Inferno Titan.

So far the sideboard seems pretty good. Slaughter Games against Scapeshift, Splinter Twin and Bloom Titan. Blood Moon aganst tron, Scapeshift and Bloom Titan. Combust against abzan and Twin. Hide/Seek? Not too sure why this is in here. And Batterskull could easily be Wurmcoil Engine unless it is for the control match up.

Pretty spot on. Hide\seek to me is ax multiuse wear tear. It also removes opposing wurmcoils without Leaving behind tokens which is nice.

I don't think i can use 6 cost dudes here. My curve just can't support that. I've not had an issue beating bgx though. I just get in fast and overwhelm before they can start the attrition war

You've inspired me to try Mardu midrange in modern. I really like this build :P it'll take a hell of a lot of time getting some of these cards though... Lol, I'll make it budget.

Which ones are you having issues with?

Lol, to be honest, anything much over 5 dollars is hard for me to get. Most of the people I play with do standard, so getting high value modern cards requires buying them, or trading with my store. And they're a store, they want profit :P so half the deck would be hard, but I'll try and make a budget deck, just cause it looks fun :)

If I do ever try it out, it'll be after I finish my mono-red deck. But I threw together a mardu midrange thing for standard, that plays somewhat similar to this in terms of stalling them through early game removal and hand disruption and not letting them stablize, then take over by flooding the board with tokens or a couple big creatures. So comparatively speaking, the decks have similar functionality, though the modern one obviously being far more efficient in what it does.

Brilliant, it's hard finding serious BWR Modern decks in my opinion. Have you constructed this deck and brought it to a tournament?

I also used to run Slaughter Games in my deck. Problem was my opponents would usually have a Shadow of Doubt to counter it. I'm not too sure how much this is a problem to you, but I myself run Extirpate to fix this problem.

I normally only board that in VS Scapeshift and Titanbloom and so far none of them have run either of those. I need to pick up about 12 more cards for this and i'll be all set to take it in to an FNM. see how that fares

What cards do you need?

1 Batterskull

2 Monastery Swiftspear

4 Young Pyromancer

2 Brimaz, King of Oreskos

3 Blood Moon

3 Inquisition of Kozilek

Some of the cheap SB stuff too I'll probs order soon

I have swiftspears and pyromancers

I'd recommend Rakdos Charm over Relic of Progenitus. Perfect for graveyard removal and you get two other handy options, especially being that the last one kills Splinter Twin decks.

I agree to an extent but most of the time you board it in Game 2, maybe kill them if they aren't expecting it. Any game they do see it coming, they simply spawn enough guys to kill you, but not enough for charm to kill them. It becomes semi useless at that point

It destroys artifacts too you know. And if you win game one it wins you the game game 2. Sometimes that damage is enough to kill them as you've most likely already done a fair bit of damage to them.

Talk to anyone who plays twin. They will tell you the first thing they incapacitate out of anyone running RB is that card.

Mmm... I hope I'm not sounding like a nuisance.

If you have the greater life total, then with Twin, any amount of copies that could be produced to be lethal will risk them the game. Even if they're a tiny bit ahead of you, you have both a full set of Lightning Bolt and Lightning Helix, which could end them or stall you a turn after playing the charm. You're likely to even hold potential blockers and removal in your hand, so an exact number may have to be increased further.

Even if you're still not convinced. It works as your graveyard removal at instant speed, and the artifact removal can serve a Cranial Plating removal against affinity.

In my twin matchup I've been boarding out all my Lightning Bolts! actually. they can't kill exarch and burning tbem out is very hard to do. I'll give charm a shout to kill the opposing Batterskull they board in though.

My normal plan goes like -

-4 Bolt

-1 Brimaz

+2 Slaughter Games

+1 Hide/Seek

+2 Combust

It's very hard to react to the combo, trust me. They always wait until they can counter anything you do anyways. Sometimes they just go for it though. More ways of winning is good I guess.

Unless you advocate going full aggro and trying to burn them out before they can combo?