IRS

Modern Combo Competitive Death and Taxes GW (Selesnya) Hatebears Land Destruction

Primusfan42

Instant (4)

• 4x Path to Exile

Artifact (3)

• 3x Aether Vial

Creature (30)

• 2x Birds of Paradise
• 2x Eternal Witness
• 4x Flickerwisp
• 4x Judge's Familiar
• 4x Leonin Arbiter
• 4x Noble Hierarch
• 2x Spellskite
• 4x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 2x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 2x Vryn Wingmare

Land (23)

• 3x Forest
• 4x Ghost Quarter
• 5x Plains
• 4x Razorverge Thicket
• 3x Sunpetal Grove
• 4x Temple Garden

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Sideboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Celestial Purge

Enchantment (7)

• 4x Leyline of Sanctity
• 3x Stony Silence

Artifact (5)

• 3x Engineered Explosives
• 2x Grafdigger's Cage

Creature (2)

• 2x Kor Firewalker

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What does everyone need to play spells? Land. This deck focuses on disrupting its opponent's capability to play--and keep--his or her land. Ideally, this deck goes first and plays any land that enters untapped and produces green mana--Forest or Razorverge Thicket for instance--followed by Noble Hierarch or Birds of Paradise. Next would come a Leonin Arbiter cast with mana produced by the 1-drop and the land from before. Then, the land for the turn would come as a Ghost Quarter, immediately destroying the opponent's first land. I have considered running manlands to help finish my crippled enemies, but entering the battlefield tapped can devastate a draw that would otherwise perform seamlessly. Vryn Wingmare helps end the game, but I would love some suggestions that can help push the deck towards a victory rather than just making your opponents cry for a turn or two. The sideboard also needs extensive work. With moderate success, I have played a Bant version of the Thalia duo deck. Instead of the Ghost Quarter + Leonin Arbiter combo, it relied upon a tempo build with creatures like Spell Queller and Reflector Mage to simultaneously disrupt the opponents and drop threats. This deck (IRS) seems to have a lower capacity to consistently shut down the mid-game but can cause significant devastation early in the match. Should I splash blue for the cards mentioned above?

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	36 - 12 Rares 16 - 3 Uncommons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.81