Sage of Taking Turns

Modern Combo Counters GU (Simic)

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Instant (13)

• 3x Bioshift
• 3x Blossoming Defense
• 3x Lead by Example
• 4x Solidarity of Heroes

Enchantment (7)

• 3x Forced Adaptation
• 4x Hardened Scales

Land (20)

• 5x Forest
• 7x Island
• 4x Llanowar Reborn
• 4x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Artful Dodge

Creature (12)

• 4x Hero of Leina Tower
• 4x Meletis Astronomer
• 4x Sage of Hours

Artifact (4)

• 4x Isochron Scepter

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Sideboard

Instant (11)

• 2x Fog
• 3x Gigadrowse
• 3x Mana Leak
• 3x Nature's Claim

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Spreading Seas

Artifact (2)

• 2x Relic of Progenitus

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Taking Turns on a budget.This is a deck that aims to take as many extra turns as possible, without spending 800 dollars. Your deck is essentially building up to a combo that would make Storm players accuse you of playing Solitaire.

The deck is built on a single card: Sage of Hours. It's a nice card that gets bigger with +1/+1 counters as you target it, and can give you an extra turn for every 5 counters you remove from it. Your main plan thus becomes to make your Sage as big as possible, and as fast as possible. Lead by Example gives it 2 counters when you target it, along with any other creature you have out on the field. Forced Adaptation gives you a counter when you target your sage, and an extra counter at the beginning of your turns. Solidarity of Heroes give you double plus one counters, and can target other Creatures if you pay for it. Hardened Scales puts your counter generation into overdrive. Suddenly, your Lead by Example gives you 4 counters by itself.

Although the deck is built around Sage of Hours, your two other main components are Hero of Leina Tower and Isochron's Scepter. Hero of Leina Tower is your main win condition. She can become huge with her Heroic ability and ends your games when you sneak damage in with her with Artful Dodge (which also trigger her Heroic). A fun thing to do is to grow your Hero, attack with her, and then Bioshift her counters to your Sage of Hours so you can take the same turn again. Isochron's Scepter is your main combo enabler. it gives you +1/+1 counters every turn if you Imprint a Lead by Example. It doubles your counters if you Imprint a Solidarity of Heroes. And doing things every turn is a lot if you have infinite turns.

Please note that this is not a deck that wil go 5-0 at your FNM. I built this one mostly for Johnny Players who want to take turns on a budget with an interesting card. That being said, it is a hilarious deck and it's pretty unique in how it works. Have fun playing with it and let me know what you think.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 16 - 0 Rares 15 - 2 Uncommons 13 - 13 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.48