Perfect Spear

Modern* Counterspell Goodstuff Midrange Prowess RUG (Temur) Tempo

Andramalech

Land (20)

• 2x Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 2x Mountain
• 2x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 4x Steam Vents
• 2x Stomping Ground
• 4x Wooded Foothills

Instant (24)

• 4x Demand Answers
• 4x Manamorphose
• 4x Royal Treatment
• 4x Serpentine Ambush
• 4x Stubborn Denial
• 4x Temur Battle Rage

Creature (12)

• 4x Blazing Rootwalla
• 4x Elusive Otter
• 4x Monastery Swiftspear

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Scale Up

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Sideboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 3x Soul-Scar Mage
• 2x Subtlety

Instant (6)

• 3x Force of Negation
• 3x Force of Vigor

Artifact (1)

• 1x Chalice of the Void

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Maybeboard

Creature (16)

• 4x Delver of Secrets  ^Flip
• 4x Haywire Mite
• 4x Seasoned Pyromancer
• 4x Storm Entity

Instant (8)

• 4x Gather Courage
• 4x Tamiyo's Safekeeping

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A Temur ({U}{R}{G}) colored deck built around the perfect Tempo player, Monastery Swiftspear.

Theme

A beautiful fight on our hands

This build utilizes combat tricks and the Prowess mechanic to pull off splashy and smashy wins.

The Serpent Otter Smash

This idea came to me when I saw the printing of Elusive Otter and I really happen to like it's adaptability; you get to drop a reliable body early and reinforce your board presence later on. All of this with Prowess stapled to it.

Previously I was familiar with Scale Up and it's applicability when used in Infect decks. I'm adapting that type of combat trick alongside something very similar called Serpentine Ambush.

The core mechanic of the deck is something that can come onto the field turn 1, perform a tremendous feat on turn 2, and really sink the inevitable on turn 3.

Construction

Draw

• Demand Answers provides a chosen discard mechanic to facilitate Dead cards, or i.e. put a Blazing Rootwalla onto the field. It's a grabbing synergy that can be capitalized on well.

• Manamorphose is pivotal to our play because of the free mana back in colors we need, alongside a draw to replace itself in hand.

• Honorable Mention goes to Preordain because it's recently (2023) been unbanned in Modern.

Counter

• The mainboard choice for counterspell is Stubborn Denial because it works well for its pace. Early game counterspell that eats additional resource, late game guarantee the counterspell for one mana.

• Our sideboard option is Force of Negation because it's simply the most affective choice.

Removal

I didn't really detail any mainboard removal due to the fact that Fury was banned (2023). I'm thinking that Anger of the Gods is an idea, but in reality I probably need something more spot removal.

• Subtlety exists, and does its job well right alongside its other Evoke Elemental brethren.

• Have also strongly considered the following, and will detail in the maybeboard:

• Haywire Mite

• Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	WB
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 7 Mythic Rares 22 - 8 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.40
Tokens	On an Adventure, Royal