Blink and You’re Dead

Modern Blink Casual Cleric Combo Control Exile Lifegain Soul Sisters WUB (Esper)

keizerbuns

Land (23)

• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Island
• 2x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 4x Obscura Storefront
• 5x Plains
• 2x Raffine's Tower
• 3x Sunlit Marsh
• 2x Swamp

Creature (28)

• 4x Charming Prince
• 2x Deputy of Detention
• 4x Inquisitor Exarch
• 3x Professor of Symbology
• 4x Skemfar Shadowsage
• 4x Soulherder
• 2x Suture Priest
• 3x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 2x Wall of Omens

Instant (6)

• 2x Eerie Interlude
• 4x Ephemerate

Artifact (3)

• 3x Panharmonicon

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Sideboard

Sorcery (15)

• 2x Academic Probation
• 3x Environmental Sciences
• 2x Introduction to Prophecy
• 2x Mercurial Transformation
• 4x Reduce to Memory
• 2x Teachings of the Archaics

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Maybeboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Esper Charm
• 1x Obscura Charm

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Creature (2)

• 2x Inspiring Overseer

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Virtue of Knowledge

Artifact (1)

• 1x Maskwood Nexus

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I saw the card Inquisitor Exarch and got inspired to make a life gain/drain blink deck around it. The goal of the deck is to get out either Inquisitor Exarch, or preferably Skemfar Shadowsage once you get enough Clerics on the board, and start blinking them to make your opponents lose life repeatedly. And since both Inquisitor and Shadowsage give you the option to either gain life or make an opponent lose life, I figured why not do both? So I added Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose so that my life gain turns into my opponent's life drain.

This deck isn't really meant to be competitive, especially not with this mana base. I wanted to keep the price of this deck relatively low and just make a fun casual deck to play with my casual play group so I used mostly inexpensive cards, save for a few that I thought had good synergy with the core of the deck and would be really fun to play with. All of the lands I have in this deck that are over $1 are lands I either already owned or are lands that I had other colors of within the same cycle of dual/tri lands and traded in for the Esper colors.

All of that being said though, if you have any comments or ideas on how to improve the deck, I'd love to hear it! Thanks in advance :D

Top Ranked	Achieved #2 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Casual 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Combo 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Control 1 year ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 4 Rares 17 - 6 Uncommons 10 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.57
Tokens	Spirit 3/2 RW
Folders	Idee future, effimero