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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Freeform | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic Brawl | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Flare of Denial
Instant
You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
capwner on
Grixis Cruel Control
5 months ago
Looks at Modern Grixis control deck:
Expecting frogs, murktide, the usual b.s.
Actually no, it's a classic pure control deck with JTMS and Cruel Ultimatum and the only creatures are Snapcasters
It's beautiful, bless your withered grixismage soul. Only suggestion I'd make would be to consider the newer Thundertrap Trainer/Flare of Denial package because the bodies this gives make for nice padding against the aggro decks. But I wouldn't fault you for keeping this list preserved in a more classic state
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Neoform Fleshcrafter Oculus
6 months ago
Got my best result tonight at 2&1, even after several mulligans
Flare of Denial is quite helpful.
Match I lost was to the new Ugin (Eugene). Didn't have a Flare.
Round 3 lost game 1 to mill deck. Sideboarded Gaea's Blessing and it did the trick for the next 2 games.
Progress.
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Neoform Fleshcrafter Oculus
6 months ago
Added a 1-drop and have settled on Faerie Seer for now.
Can help to find the cards I need early, and later to be sacked to Flare of Denial to further protect Abhorrent Oculus if i dont have Essence Flux or to counter a big threat from my opponent.
Presenting lethal on T5 more consistently.
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Neoform Fleshcrafter Oculus
7 months ago
Scooped a 2nd Flare of Denial today along with 4 Naga Fleshcrafter and 2 Breeding Pool
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Ready to go for first tourney with the new list tomorrow. Wish me luck.
Still open to any and all suggestions that can make this better. Thanks.
kamarupa on
Neoform Fleshcrafter Oculus
7 months ago
Ya, Consider is probably the spell I would choose to swap/cut first. I'd probably opt for 2xFlare of Denial and 2xReality Shift, but that, I think is more of a personal preference call than a true judgement of which disruption spells are truly best.
Xica on
Gleeful Reveler 2024 dec
10 months ago
The idea with the deck was to play cards that cannot be efficiently answered. If opponent spends 3-4 mana to clean up tokens generated from my spell costing thats enough of a win for me, to be worth it.
Thats why you can observe an utter lack of creatures without relevant triggered abilities in the deck. Bedlam Reveler is a "draw 3" card that dodges Force of Negation, which sometimes also endd up becoming a sizeable attacker - but thats just a bonus. Same goes for Clockwork Percussionist. Its mainly there to act as copies 5, 6, 7, 8 of Experimental Synthesizer
...well sweepers aint bad, as opponent tapping out for a sweeper means no Flare of Denial, and allows me to deal damage directly to face.
And well leyline of combustion is much more than just "possible tech against bowmasters, lava dart, W6".
For decks that can burn out the opponent, its one of the most universal hatecards.
It hits lots of combo decks, and pretty much all non-counterspell interactons.
Good against mill.
Good against targeted discard
Good against prowess, burn, phoenix
Often deals significant damage to unexpected players running Mishra's Bauble
Protect from opposing land destruction in eldrazi decks
Punishes activation of lotsa walkers
Creates downsides for enchantment based removal spells
Andramalech on
Infect 2025 (UG)
11 months ago
Ah yes, the time-honored tradition of building infect in modern; i've tried many times and it always looks very similar to what you have here. GeminiSpartanX makes a fantastic point about wanting some access to protection for super cheap. If price is an issue, then I understand why you wouldn't use something like Flare of Denial or Force of Negation. Good luck at your FNM and I recommend that you invest in some non-zero copies of Mirrex for the mainboard.