Blood Bridge

Modern Burn Control Red Deck Wins

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Instant (15)

• 4x Desperate Ritual
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 3x Magma Jet
• 4x Pyretic Ritual

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Anger of the Gods

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Blood Moon

Artifact (6)

• 4x Ensnaring Bridge
• 2x Relic of Progenitus

Planeswalker (6)

• 3x Chandra, Pyromaster
• 3x Koth of the Hammer

Creature (7)

• 3x Magus of the Moon
• 4x Simian Spirit Guide

Land (20)

• 20x Mountain

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Sideboard

Instant (2)

• 2x Rending Volley

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 2x Roast
• 2x Shattering Spree
• 1x Vandalblast

Artifact (7)

• 2x Damping Matrix
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 4x Witchbane Orb

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Tormenting Voice

Artifact (2)

• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Orbs of Warding

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Blood Bridge, based on an idea from Saffron Olive.

Two of the worst hate cards in Modern magic, Blood Moon and Ensnaring Bridge, now as a 4 of for more flavor!

The goal is fairly straightforward: Slam a Blood Moon down on T1 and prepare for possible saltiness. The deck is built to do this often on T1, and regularly on T2.

T1 Play: Mountain, exile Simian Spirit Guide for , Pyretic Ritual or Desperate Ritual, Blood Moon.

T2 Play: Mountain, go, maybe Lightning Bolt their first creature. T2 Mountain, either Ritual, and Blood Moon.

In-Depth Look

Looking at the top decks of the meta, most decks don't run more than 2-3 basic lands with the plan to fetch them out should a Blood Moon become an issue on T3+. Slamming that Blood Moon down on T1 though negates this option and makes it very hard to catch up against. At this point, the bet is on that you can finish them off with a Koth emblem/burn faster than they can get through their deck to find any of these basics. Granted, some decks fair fine (Affinity/Merfolk/etc) because of being mono-colored or running mana rocks.

Plan B against these mono-colored decks is Ensnaring Bridge instead of Moon. For a deck like Merfolk that runs a lot of Lord effects, it actually helps make the Bridge go live faster because of all the pump their creatures get. Once Bridge is live, we can kill their creatures with bolts/koth emblems to secure the battlefield and then burn our opponents out.

Probably the worst matchup to face though is a deck that doesn't care about either Blood Moon or Bridge, and that's Burn. Naya Burn (featuring Atarka's Command and Boros Charm) is somewhat turned off by Blood Moon, but they pack plenty of other burn with Lightning Bolt/ Rift Bolt /Skullcrack and others. While a difficult match, it's not entirely impossible.

Deck Tech

Creatures

Magus of the Moon: Blood Moons five, six, and seven. More susceptible to removal, still hard to deal with on T1. While it can attack, I've never swung out with them.

Simian Spirit Guide: Mana enabler for the T1 Blood Moon, it can be hard cast late game for defense, almost never used for attack.

Instants and Sorceries

Desperate Ritual: Mana acceleration to drop a T1 Blood Moon effect or an Ensnaring Bridge. Can also be used to get into a fast planeswalker, though this play is obviously not as good.

Pyretic Ritual: Same use as Desperate Ritual.

Lightning Bolt: Good old bolts. Used to kill their creatures or go to the dome for 3 damage.

Magma Jet: Strictly better than Shock, the ability to Scry 2 and do to damage for 2 mana is pretty good, and that scry helps us find the cards we need depending on board state.Anger of the Gods: While there are other board wiping effects, 3 damage for 3 mana is pretty good, but the ability to exile the creatures can be fairly relevant against recursive decks.

Artifacts and Enchantments

Relic of Progenitus: With graveyard decks still seeing play, this is a nice tool to remove things from the graveyard slowly, or remove all things from the graveyard and draw a card.

Ensnaring Bridge:The card creature decks hate. With all the ritual effects, it is fairly easy to go to 0 cards in hand quite rapidly and make it so no one gets to attack. It does effect everyone so any creatures we have (or 4/4 Mountains off Koth) can't attack either.

Blood Moon: The card I love to hate. Getting this down on T1/T2 against a lot of the decks in the meta pretty much means GG. A lot of decks don't run a ton of basics and plan to fetch for basics against blood moons. Dropping this so early pretty much negates getting any basic lands of fetches and having to play around it from the beginning. While not insurmountable, it's fairly damning.

Planeswalkers

Chandra, Pyromaster : Almost always using her for her 0 ability to thin through the deck to find Koth or other useful spells. Her +1 is good crowd control for 1 toughness creatures, and can potentially ping an opponent to death. Her -7 is good with the burn in the deck, but almost never get to see it because of using her 0 mostly.

Koth of the Hammer: Koth? In Modern? Yes. His emblem is the goal here, getting that out and sitting behind a Blood Moon or a Bridge means we get to ping players/creatures all day. His +1 can be moderately useful for damage if no bridge is out. his -2 is also useful to accelerate and drop both him and a blood moon or a bridge together.

Sideboard

Anger of the Gods: Extra wipe against creature feature decks

Damping Matrix: Useful against decks like Affinity, or creature feature decks that use a lot of utility creatures. Basically, the Stony Silence that this deck can run.

Peak Eruption : Generally useful with Blood Moon as now all non-basics are mountains, this is specifically in here for the Burn/Twin matchup as they tend to run a fair amount of basics.

Relic of Progenitus: An extra copy for grave recursion decks.

Rending Volley : Useful against control (looking at you U/W Emeria), the ability to instant kill a white/blue creature is also good against twin decks to kill a Pestermite or Deceiver Exarch before they go off.

Roast: Generally good removal vs. midrange decks. Can usually kill off a 'Goyf before it gets too big.

Shattering Spree: Artifact removal that can be copied. Good vs. Affinity, also helps reign in other decks that use Artifacts as their combo pieces.

Vandalblast: Originally 3 of, now 1 of and 2 Sprees. The overload cost is a bit costlier than casting and copying Spree a few times, but its ability to get around hexproof is nice (should that become a problem).

Still testing and tweaking this deck, any suggestions/insights greatly appreciated!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 9 - 7 Rares 13 - 8 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.58
Folders	Current Modern Decks, BB, Fart Smelling Teenage Sister, Ideas, modern worthy decks