El, Ell n Elly Mardu Scam

Modern Creature Cheat Elementals Evoke Kaheera, the Orphanguard Midrange RBW (Mardu) Tempo Theme/Gimmick

DMFF

Land (21)

• 3x Arid Mesa
• 2x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 2x Blood Crypt
• 2x Bloodstained Mire
• 2x Cavern of Souls
• 2x Godless Shrine
• 2x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Swamp

Instant (20)

• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Not Dead After All
• 4x Reprieve
• 4x Scout's Warning
• 4x Undying Malice

Creature (17)

• 4x Flamekin Harbinger
• 4x Fury
• 3x Grief
• 3x Incandescent Soulstoke
• 3x Solitude

Companion (1)

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Vindicate

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 2x Anguished Unmaking
• 2x Fracture
• 2x Surgical Extraction

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Damn

Creature (3)

• 1x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Kaheera, the Orphanguard
• 1x Shinewend

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Leyline of Sanctity
• 2x Stony Silence

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Whistle

El, Ell n Elly!

Whistling continues

• Elly: "Today's scam includes this new cat, Kaheera, the Orphanguard, we found in the junkyard. We just charge people to look at it's beauty and just look how rare it looks! People will pay all their quarters just to see it!"

• El: "I dunno, Elly. Sarah might tell Mom if she knows that I have a cat. Sarah tell Mom is bad for El!"

• Ell: "I concur with El. I also cannot house the cat as my parents would definitely not approve. Additionally, we found this feline in the junkyard of all places. Highly unsanitary!"

• Elly: "Can it Double L. I don't need to hear all that smart stuff, I can keep the cat. Besides, he's cool and is gonna make us some quarters! We'll be swimming in jawbreakers by the end of today! We'll charge to look at it, to ride it, to pet it! They won't even know what hit 'em! Here, El. You put on this Fury Costume and we'll scare everyone towards the cat! Then, we'll make it look like the cat beats you, El! Sometimes I scare myself with my genius!"

The scam proceeds to make the whole cul-de-sac a chaotic mess of Elementals.

Deck Tech Show

Welcome to the deck tech section, all memes aside! With a bit of "out-of-the-box" thinking, we have made the scam-style deck even more annoying to deal with. Leaning heavily into Evoke and Elemental Tribal, this deck is bonkers. Here's the breakdown.

How the Deck Works

As stated at the beginning of this deck tech, this deck leans more heavily into the Evoke and Elemental Tribal strategies that "Scam" decks already kind of form a shell for. All of the MH2 Evoke Creatures are Elementals, so it makes sense to lean into tribal a bit. The typical reanimation spells are also found here to get extra ETBs out of all of our Evokers.

• Flamekin Harbinger can search for any of our Evokers and put them on top of our Library. While that may seem middling, this deck can get around this using creative cards and card draw.
• Incandescent Soulstoke is a lord for Elementals that can also cheat some of our Evokers into play at instant speed if we don't have the right cards to Evoke with.
• Fury, Grief & Solitude make up our Evoke creature suite. All 3 are useful to have and provide field/hand control while having the ability to contribute to field presence.

Why Companion?

Working as both a "scam" flavor & function win, we have Kaheera, the Orphanguard. This card is a lord for our Elemental Strategy that can be brought into our hand whenever we need it, as long as we have the mana to do so. This will help edge out any "mirror matches" against Rakdos Scam. On top of that, a large portion of the playerbase irrationally hates this mechanic, so it is more likely to lead to misplays on their part. So it's the ultimate scam!

Supporting Spells

Having {W} available means a ton of utility that otherwise would be unavailable to the deck. Let's start with the most important White Spell in the deck:

• Scout's Warning is a sleeper that I feel many have overlooked. This card may be a cantrip, but it also allows us to Evoke Fury & Grief at instant speed on our opponent's turn. This will absolutely catch your opponent off guard as most decks do not have this available to them. Couple this with one of the reanimation spells on an Evoker and you have massive removal on your opponent's turn with the added benefit of field presence that will be ready to swing on your turn! This also works well with Flamekin Harbinger during your opponent's End Phase so you can get the Elemental you need during your Draw Step.
• Painful Truths is a singleton as we want to see this later on in the game. Since we are a 3-color deck, this is the best 3 card draw available in Modern for the CMC.
• Reprieve is literally a better Remand in white. Keep opponents off tempo while propelling yourself forward with card draw.
• Vindicate is here mainly as a way to deal with just about anything we need to remove, including lands!

Top Ranked	Achieved #8 position overall 2 months ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Creature Cheat 1 month ago
Date added	3 months
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 12 Rares 8 - 2 Uncommons 8 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.31
Tokens	Wicked
Folders	Modern Memes, Modern for under $1k, Modern Anti-Meta Decks, Other People's stuff I like