Modern Benevolence

Modern Attrition Competitive Control Flash Flying FNM Goodstuff RUW (Jeskai, America) Vigilance

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Land (24)

• 4x Arid Mesa
• 2x Celestial Colonnade
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 2x Raugrin Triome
• 2x Sacred Foundry
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Steam Vents

Instant (20)

• 4x Consider
• 2x Counterspell
• 2x Fire / Ice
• 2x Force of Negation
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 2x March of Otherworldly Light
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 2x Vapor Snag

Creature (11)

• 2x Brazen Borrower
• 4x Mantis Rider
• 2x Snapcaster Mage
• 2x Subtlety
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Prismatic Ending

Planeswalker (3)

• 3x Serra the Benevolent

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Archmage's Charm
• 2x Hallowed Moonlight
• 2x Mystical Dispute
• 2x Path to Exile

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Alpine Moon
• 2x Rest in Peace
• 2x Stony Silence

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Cleansing Wildfire

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Preordain

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This deck is built around Serra the Benevolent and showcasing her abilities. The deck primarily uses creatures with Flying to get value from Serra's +2; but I also wanted to utilize Flash with relevant effects to keep the opponent off balance and to try to keep as much mana open as possible for interaction while still applying pressure with creatures.

{U}{W}{R} Deck Details {U}{W}{R}

Colors:

• {W}

Excellent array of removal and great sideboard hate cards.

• {U}

The premier color for Countermagic and great card advantage/economy.

• {R}

Gives access to Burn spells which are versitile for either more removal or being a clock. "End of turn: Bolt Snap Bolt" followed by an attack can bring the opponents life total down by 8 seemingly out of nowhere. This color also enables interaction with opponents lands.

Creatures:

Initially this was intended to be more of a Tempo styled deck and had more creatures but these creatures remain in the decklist because they give great value for maintaining control over the game as well as introducing my own bodies to attack/block with.

• Snapcaster Mage: This helps in the war of attrition going into the late game by getting value from spells in the graveyard.

• Mantis Rider: This s just a beatstick for applying pressure; its colouring allows for being pitch fodder for March of Otherworldly Light/Force of Negation/Subtlety. For awhile I was running Spell Queller but I found when it would get removed I would just become overwhelmed; so I became frustrated with it and am trying something else.

• Subtlety: This is the other half of Force of Negation. The ability to return a threat to the top/bottom of the opponents deck without paying any mana is amazing; or just be a flying beater.

• Brazen Borrower: Overall just good value; bounce a permanent for {1}{U} then when the time is right it can be Flashed in on the opponents turn and provide a 3/1 Flyer.

• Vendilion Clique: Target the opponent to gather info on potentially getting rid of a threat or target yourself and get rid of a dead card and hopefully draw into something more relevant. Can be Flashed in on the opponents turn and provide a 3/1 Flyer.

Noncreature Spells:

• Consider: Just a cantrip to dig through the deck. This is chosen over Serum Visions because its an Instant and its chosen over Opt because it can also fuel the graveyard for Snapcaster Mage and feel like a pseudo-Draw 2.

• Prismatic Ending Basically just universal extra removal. 3 CMC/MV can hit a lot of relevant targets in the Modern Format {0} can hit Chalice of the Void/Engineered Explosives, {1} can hit Aether Vial/Amulet of Vigor, {2} can hit Wrenn and Six/Tarmogoyf {3} can hit Teferi, Time Raveler/Heliod, Sun-Crowned ect. ect.

• Vapor Snag: Helps with Tempo and kills tokens.

• March of Otherworldly Light Not exactly Prismatic Ending but it can hit Urza's Saga and be cast at INSTANT speed which can certainly be relevant for killing combo pieces like Venerated Rotpriest/Colossus Hammer.

• Fire / Ice: Great utility spell. Can snipe a Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer or tap a land to slow the opponent and draw a card.

• Lightning Bolt: Still a relevant removal spell or extra damage for closing out games.

• Spell Pierce: Really great in the early game and against those tight on mana. Allows for countering Wrenn and Six when on the draw; its just really good.

• Counterspell: Finally Modern Horizons 2 gave us access to this spell; no more nonsense with Logic Knot or the like just a 2CMC/MV nonconditional hard counter.

• Force of Negation: The Modern formats version of Force of Will; although not as strong being able to counter non creature spells without paying mana can be game changing.

Lands:

• Celestial Colonnade: Can be both a surprise extra body to keep Serra's emblem online in a pinch; or just an outright win condition to swing in for damage. Plus I just like the subtle flavor of a secret Serra Angel on a land.

• Raugrin Triome fetchable perfect mana in the early game and can be cycled away if needed.

• Shocks/Fetches: Color fixing.

• Basics: Targets to search for Blood Moon matchups.

Sideboard:

This whole section is kinda just in flux... My local meta has a lot of established and powerful decks like Affinity, Eldrazi Tron, Burn, Ponza, Goblins, {UR} Prowess, Cascade Crashing Footfalls/Living End.... heck even Bogles show up sometimes... its really kinda all over the place but I'd say Affinity and Cascade are probably the decks to beat for the most part.

When I stop going to the LGS for long periods of time; I like to check out MTG Top 8 to see what decks are currently performing in the Modern format.

• Path to Exile: This is here for the creatures with higher toughness that Lightning Bolt cant efficiently kill and higher CMC/MV that are too inefficient for Prismatic Ending/March of Otherworldly Light like Murktide Regent/Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Land Hate

• Alpine Moon: Faster and less punitive than Blood Moon but can still Turn off the scary lands like infect/tron/valakut lands or Field of the Dead when it inevitably returns.

• Cleansing Wildfire: Outright blow up a land like Ziatora's Proving Ground/Raugrin Triome to combat Domain decks or just blow up infect/tron/valakut lands and draw a card.

Artifact Hate

• Stony Silence: Stops them from equipping/activating Cranial Plating/Springleaf Drum and such.

Graveyard Hate

• Rest in Peace: Turn off the graveyard centric strategies... granted it makes my own Snapcaster Mage worthless it can be worth it when facing off against reanimator/delirium/delve/dredge ect. ect.

Creature Cheat Hate

• Hallowed Moonlight: This is hear to answer Living End/Crashing Footfalls, Goryo's Vengeance/Persist, Indomitable Creativity/Polymorph/Transmogrify, Nahiri, the Harbinger/Collected Company, Aether Vial/Elvish Piper and annoy Flicker/Blink decks.

Serra Lore:

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Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #10 position in Modern 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Flying 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Goodstuff 1 year ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	7 months
Exclude colors	BG
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 2 Mythic Rares 26 - 7 Rares 6 - 4 Uncommons 12 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.19
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Emblem Serra the Benevolent
Folders	Modern