Winding Scales

Modern BG (Golgari) Budget Casual Counters Theme/Gimmick

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Creature (28)

• 3x Birds of Paradise
• 2x Corpsejack Menace
• 3x Cytoplast Root-Kin
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 2x Kitchen Finks
• 2x Narnam Renegade
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 2x Scavenging Ooze
• 4x Tireless Tracker
• 3x Walking Ballista
• 4x Winding Constrictor

Land (21)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 4x Blooming Marsh
• 3x Forest
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 3x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Polluted Delta
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Instant (3)

• 3x Fatal Push

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Hardened Scales

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 3x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Fatal Push
• 3x Feed the Clan
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 2x Surgical Extraction

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Collective Brutality
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse

Creature (2)

• 2x Mistcutter Hydra

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Retribution of the Ancients

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Maybeboard

Land (9)

• 1x Gavony Township
• 2x Godless Shrine
• 4x Razorverge Thicket
• 2x Temple Garden

Instant (5)

• 2x Condemn
• 3x Dromoka's Command

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The simultaneous effects of Winding Constrictor/Hardened Scales and Heartless Summoning open doors for a number of synergies that would otherwise be unavailable. Specifically, cards like Corpsejack Menace and Cytoplast Root-Kin become powerful 2-drops which, in combination with the likes of Walking Ballista, drive value through the roof. Constructive Criticism is appreciated.

Edit: Momentarily replaced Heartless Summoning with 2x Kitchen Finks as well as an additional copy of Gyre Sage and Hangarback Walker. Too often I found myself in a top deck situation where I draw Heartless Summoning, not to mention it kills Birds of Paradise more often than I care to admit. Moving forward, I might add in other mana dorks (as people mentioned below). Time will tell.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 10 Rares 14 - 2 Uncommons 0 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.00
Tokens	Clue, Plant 0/1 G, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	normal, Golgari