The Dark Arts

Modern Competitive Control Infinite Combo

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Land (24)

• 2x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 2x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 2x Watery Grave

Instant (18)

• 3x Counterspell
• 1x Counterspell
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 2x Lightning Helix
• 2x Lightning Helix
• 4x Remand
• 2x Silence

Artifact (2)

• 2x Isochron Scepter

Creature (14)

• 3x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 4x Nethergoyf
• 2x Restoration Angel
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 4x Snapcaster Mage

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 2x Spellskite

Instant (6)

• 2x Counterflux
• 2x Surgical Extraction
• 2x Terminate

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Leyline of Sanctity

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Thoughtseize

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 2x Corridor Monitor
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 2x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Malfegor
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Land (2)

• 1x Restless Fortress
• 1x Restless Reef

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Damnation

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Authority of the Consuls

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Pretty easy to run deck. You use Remand, Counterspell, Thoughtseize and Silence to shut down your opponent's moves, then use cards like Lightning Bolt and Lightning Helix to pick off creatures. Stall until you can drop Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Restoration Angel for the infinite combo or use Nethergoyf(s) to beat them down. Plus Snapcaster Mage can be re-activated by either Restoration Angel or Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker giving you plenty of versatility. Added black to normal Jeskai control to give access to additional removal, Surgical Extraction as a stall technique or potential deck crippler, Liliana of the Veil as a devastating planeswalker and Nethergoyf as an effective blocker and attacker.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 months
Exclude colors	G
Splash colors	B
Key combos	Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Restoration Angel
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 1 Mythic Rares 29 - 12 Rares 8 - 2 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	2.11
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	Control, Modern