gruul ponza

Modern* Land Destruction RG (Gruul) RGW (Naya)

profssrchaos19

Creature (18)

• 3x Walking Ballista
• 4x Arbor Elf
• 3x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 4x Tireless Tracker
• 3x Kalonian Hydra

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Land (22)

• 10x Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mountain
• 4x Stomping Ground
• 4x Windswept Heath
• 2x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (10)

• 3x Pillage
• 4x Stone Rain
• 3x Mwonvuli Acid-Moss

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Utopia Sprawl
• 4x Blood Moon

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Sideboard

Artifact (6)

• 2x Relic of Progenitus
• 2x Damping Sphere
• 2x Trinisphere

Creature (2)

• 2x Mistcutter Hydra

Instant (4)

• 2x Autumn's Veil
• 2x Fracturing Gust

Sorcery (3)

• 2x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Shatterstorm

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With the current state of modern there are so many "meta" decks that rely on a specific land base. Could Gruul Ponza become competitive again against so many decks where lands matter? I think so:

It's a basic ponza strat:

• Turn 1: Arbor Elf, Birds of Paradise, or Utopia Sprawl to ramp
• Turn 2 and up: Pillage, Stone Rain, Blood Moon, and Mwonvuli Acid-Moss to stall opponents mana base out until you can play a win-con

What the rest of the deck does:

• Courser of Kruphix a 1 of to help get lands off the top of the library to prevent flooding and help draw into value,
• Tireless Tracker generate clues for card draws and beats
• Walking Ballista a win con that not only benefits from Kalonian Hydra, but you can also pull counters off of Ballista to shoot down threats, preventing someone from going too wide on you
• Kalonian Hydra main win con of the build, blows up really quickly as it doubles it's Power and Toughness every time it is declared an attacker (also hits Tireless Tracker and Walking Ballista with it's ability as long as Tracker has a +1/1 counter)
• Chandra, Torch of Defiance strong card that does everything you want in this kind of deck: card advantage/chip damage, ramp, creature removal, and her ult is a win con.

Sideboard:

• Trinisphere, Damping Sphere to slow down aggro, burn, and prowess strats we may have a bad match up against because they're primarily red decks, which makes Blood Moon completely useless.
• Anger of the Gods for aggro/weenie removal
• Relic of Progenitus for graveyard decks
• Fracturing Gust, which yes, hurts our enchantments too, but too strong of a sideboard card against a lot on the meta right now to pass up...
• Shatterstorm for artifact destruction along with gust
• Autumn's Veil to protect our creatures against control and removal (Primarily Kalonian Hydra and Steel Leaf Champion)
• Mistcutter Hydra Alt win-con against Control heavy decks, plus I do like creatures with haste

Any comments or constructive advice are welcome!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 2 Mythic Rares 26 - 6 Rares 3 - 6 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.47
Tokens	Clue, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance