Swans and Swords

Modern* Combo RW (Boros) Stoneblade

Lowenstein

Creature (21)

• 3x Bonecrusher Giant
• 3x Charming Prince
• 4x Giver of Runes
• 3x Skyclave Apparition
• 4x Stoneforge Mystic
• 4x Swans of Bryn Argoll

Instant (11)

• 3x Abrade
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Path to Exile

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Anger of the Gods

Land (23)

• 23x Snow-Covered Plains

Artifact (3)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice

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This is an original by me, Lowenstein.

I love the Seismic Assault + Swans of Bryn Argoll combo, and for years I have wanted to make a different Modern deck where Swans of Bryn Argoll could be playable. I have been doing some messing around, and I think this is a good first public draft.

The idea is to control the board and obtain swords until you are able to resolve Swans, and then use more of the other red spells to get crazy value from it. The controlling happens with Lightning Bolt and Path to Exile -type spells, and you get the swords with Stoneforge Mystic . Swans itself is already a 4/3 flyer, and when you give it a sword it is a big hitter.

Sword of Fire and Ice works great with Swans to draw a bunch of cards. Sword of Feast and Famine is actually pretty relevant too with the untapping ability. There are quite a few spells here that cost more than 2 mana, and since I don't run Aether Vial this helps staying on top of things. I also decided to include Batterskull because it is just a solid card that can help a lot, especially with the life gain.

Other card choices:

Anger of the Gods : board wipe that is really good against a good chunk of decks out there. It also draws cards with Swans.

Giver of Runes : protect the homies

Skyclave Apparition : gets rid of other bad things that are bad. Awesome card honestly.

Seasoned Pyromancer : I like the bodies it puts up with the elementals, which provide other outlets for the swords. The card draw is great too.

Spellskite : I think this is interesting. It helps protect and can steal targets against things like Burn, Infect, and Bogles.

I wish I could mainboard Blood Moon , but the double red and double white in a bunch of cards makes it difficult. Also not totally sure out how to sideboard this yet.

Thanks for checking out the deck! Please feel free to leave suggestions :)

Top Ranked	Achieved #12 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #2 position in Modern 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Combo 3 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	U
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 4 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	2.26
Tokens	Illusion */* U, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B