Soldiers and Taxes v2

Modern Artifact Death and Taxes GWU (Bant) Tempo

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Creature (32)

• 2x Dryad Militant
• 4x Esper Sentinel
• 2x Etched Champion
• 1x Fairgrounds Patrol
• 4x Icatian Javelineers
• 3x Lavabrink Venturer
• 2x Preeminent Captain
• 1x Sungold Sentinel
• 3x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 4x Thraben Inspector
• 3x Tithe Taker
• 2x Unsettled Mariner

Land (20)

• 4x Cavern of Souls
• 2x Field of Ruin
• 2x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 8x Snow-Covered Plains
• 2x Tectonic Edge

Artifact (8)

• 4x Aether Vial
• 4x Pyre of Heroes

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Sideboard

Creature (14)

• 3x Brutal Cathar  ^Flip
• 2x Cathar Commando
• 2x Jotun Grunt
• 2x Keen-Eared Sentry
• 3x Kor Firewalker
• 2x Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

Artifact (1)

• 1x Thorn of Amethyst

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Aerial Responder
• 1x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
• 1x Gideon's Lawkeeper
• 1x Solitude

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Worship

Land (1)

• 1x Forbidding Watchtower

Artifact (2)

• 2x Icon of Ancestry

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SOLDIERS... the tribe you maybe weren't thinking about. There are a surprising amount of moving parts to this mono-white weenie deck.

You are attacking the opponent's lands with your lands, taxing them with many different creatures, hosing a variety of different strategies randomly with Dryad Militant, Cavern of Souls, and Lavabrink Venturer and then just tons of grinding power with Pyre of Heroes and Icon of Ancestry, and finally throw in some card draw too with the Thraben Inspector clue tokens and Esper Sentinel.

The opponent will be very annoyed trying to deal with Etched Champion and/or Lavabrink Venturer in addition to tax effects like Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and Unsettled Mariner. Do I realise we have no blue mana and are playing 2 Unsettled Mariner and 2 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade in the sideboard? Yep! But with Cavern of Souls, Preeminent Captain, and Pyre of Heroes we can play them easily enough.

I bet you were never thinking in your entire Magic: the Gathering journey "Wow. This is the PERFECT Icatian Javelineers deck." Well, this is it. Play it, throw the javelin counter at something annoying like Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, then sac it to Pyre of Heroes and grab an Unsettled Mariner or something. Thraben Inspector and Tithe Taker are also great because they leave stuff behind even after they have been sacrificed.

The only thing I am not too sure on with the deck is you could cut the Icon of Ancestry, a land, and a creature for 4 Aether Vial because Aether Vial is a staple for most any tribal deck but im experimenting with Icon of Ancestry and it seems fine so far.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 6 Rares 7 - 7 Uncommons 9 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.75
Tokens	Clue, Day, Goblin 1/1 R, Night, Skeleton 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 WB, The Atropal, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	Creative AND Good
Based on	Soldiers and Taxes ThisIsMyAccount MDN