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'Manaless' Affinity

Modern Affinity Aggro Artifact Construct Counters

Andramalech

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I saw this shell online while looking for new deck archetypes to explore. The following is my shot at the deck, attempting to be as competitive as possible.

It's Free Real Estate

The concept of this deck was originally rooted as a gimmick, and the actual construction does provide us with a few lands, albeit not many.

The lands of the typical shell include Darksteel Citadel and Sanctum of Ugin.

Each serves to the functions of the deck:

  • Increasing artifact count
  • Utilizing large creatures for victory.

The Iron Giant Returns

In my iteration I intend to use Urza's Saga in order to create some useful bodies, while fetching my rocks.

Below I'm detailing the functionality of the deck.

What they asked of us

Typically this shell seeks to hold a lot of weight in what the match-up looks like. For graveyard based decks they have Leyline of the Void and for Storm decks we have Leyline of Sanctity. Response and removal casting (albeit held as needing to be free-cast) slots stuff like Gutshot. If I'm being honest, I didn't like this enough to stick to it.

What we did

A few noted changes from the typical meta that I used:

  1. Thought Monitor as a stapled playset in the mainboard to facilitate the sideboard and draw power.
  2. Urza's Saga is included because fetching more rocks for more value (such as Mox Tantalite) or going for a Welding Jar, increasing artifact count, etc.
  3. My sideboard took free-casting a bit more liberally with the likes of March of Swirling Mist, but the other inclusions pair well with Thought Monitor.

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Preemptive update prior to MOM (2023) — March 4, 2023
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Reviewed a lot or lists online regarding variants for this build, and have some commentary to the build as I have piloted it:

  1. Fringe slots like Horned Helm and Cranial Plating are valuable but overall hurt the consistency of the deck too much to justify their inclusion.

  2. Continuing on the above point, cards at mana value or higher are often too expensive for me to consistently cast without some mechanical involvement to reduce spell costs.

(i.e.; Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter would functionally be better than Patchwork Automaton but for the purposes of casting costs, we went with the latter.)

As such, I won't be removing All is Dust but I believe a 1/1 split for AoD between mainboard/sideboard. It's the only spell within my list that just don't have a way to really reduce the cost enough to justify its usage.

  1. Then, I am increasing my count of Not of this World to 3 in the mainboard. That valuable counter-for-free-type spell keeps coming up just in time for me to clutch a match.

Other commentary:

I really miss Mox Opal.

Inb4 Inspiring Statuary could help me cast things a bit easier but I will continue to workshop my build until I'm more confident in the execution.

Any commentary or advice is still welcome!

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Casual

97% Competitive

Revision 7 See all

(3 months ago)

-2 Not of this World main
+2 Not of this World main
Top Ranked
  • Achieved #16 position overall 1 year ago
  • Achieved #9 position in Modern 1 year ago
  • Achieved #2 position in Modern Aggro 1 year ago
  • Achieved #2 position in Modern Artifact 1 year ago
Date added 1 year
Last updated 1 month
Exclude colors WUBRG
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)

7 - 3 Mythic Rares

13 - 11 Rares

27 - 0 Uncommons

13 - 0 Commons
Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.67
Tokens Construct 0/0 C
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