Super Friendly Death Cloud

Modern BG (Golgari) Ramp Superfriends

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Land (22)

• 2x Dakmor Salvage
• 5x Forest
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 4x Verdant Catacombs
• 3x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Utopia Sprawl

Sorcery (11)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Death Cloud
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 2x Damnation

Creature (10)

• 4x Arbor Elf
• 4x Kitchen Finks
• 2x Thragtusk

Planeswalker (8)

• 4x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 2x Liliana Vess
• 2x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Instant (5)

• 3x Fatal Push
• 2x Abrupt Decay

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Sideboard

Artifact (5)

• 3x Nihil Spellbomb
• 2x Bow of Nylea

Creature (4)

• 4x Scavenging Ooze

Instant (3)

• 3x Naturalize

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Curse of Death's Hold

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Maybeboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Strangleroot Geist
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Liliana, Waker of the Dead
• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Instant (7)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 2x Dismember
• 2x Ravenous Trap

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Collective Brutality
• 1x Haunting Echoes

Artifact (5)

• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Firewild Borderpost
• 1x Mistvein Borderpost
• 1x Veinfire Borderpost
• 1x Wildfield Borderpost

Land (2)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

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A deck based on casting a massive Death Cloud which leaves us better than our opponents, ramping with the Arbor Elf + Utopia Sprawl package

1. Forest or Overgrown Tomb + Arbor Elf

2. Play any green source, ensuring that we have at least one forest available to us. We play Utopia Sprawl (usually naming black) on to a forest, generate 4 mana, casting a Garruk Wildspeaker. We're in value town now, boys.

3. Pick our poison - with the mana available to us, we can cast anything from our deck on turn 3.

Fantastic turn 3 options

• Casting a Death Cloud for {X}={5}, and let Garruk win the game for us (More often than not, we can cast for less, f.x. {X}={3}, wiping out the opponents board presence, while leaving a little more of our own)
• Ob Nixilis Reignited is just a powerhouse
• Thragtusk is the beast that it is
• As for Vraska, Golgari Queen and Vraska the Unseen, I don't get the appeal. They get me ahead when I'm already ahead or don't really help when I am behind. I must be misplaying them, but I don't see how they are good.

When we're not in dream land, we have some early game options with Inquisition of Kozilek, Strangleroot Geist (I'm testing these two at the moment) and Kitchen Finks (which conveniently survives Death Cloud), and spot removal like Abrupt Decay, Fatal Push and a turn 4 sweeper in Damnation. (And that artwork...)

Save up the pocket money for these

• Fetches always help to ensure more ways to hit a forest (I'm borrowing these at the moment)
• Liliana of the Veil in the 3 drop slow allows us to upgrade some other slots, e.g. replace Liliana Vess

Vs aggro:

• Bow of Nylea + Kitchen Finks to consistently regenerate Kitchen Finks removing the -1/-1 counter
• Spot Removal with Fatal Push and Abrupt Decay. I'm also considering Assassin's Trophy, but I don't know how significant the ramping effect is. I'm erring on the side of "not too bad", but still, I need to think abotu this.
• If we can survive to Thragtusk, then this is an excellent option
• Damnation for decks looking to go wide
• Inquisition of Kozilek to preempt some of the more gnarly cards. Maybe there should be made space for this in the main board?

I've had Land Destruction in the deck too with Rain of Tears and Mwonvuli Acid-Moss to meld Ponza-like strategies in as piloted by Brian Dubois. Great vs control, but was 8 dead cards vs aggro

Reference material as I look to round out the deck:

• https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=19847&d=328144&f=MO
• https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/against-the-odds-tergrid-death-cloud-modern
• https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/deck-creation-modern/563125-death-cloud
• https://strategy.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/mtg/channelmagic-videos/channel-calebd-modern-mono-black-death-cloud/
• https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/daily-deck/modern-death-cloud-2015-05-29
• https://strategy.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/mtg/channelmagic-articles/deck-of-the-day-death-cloud-modern/

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	W
Key combos	Arbor Elf + Utopia Sprawl Bow of Nylea + Kitchen Finks
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 9 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.63
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited
Folders	Modern