Strange Women Lying in Ponds

Modern UB (Dimir)

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Land (20)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 2x Darkslick Shores
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 2x Island
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 3x Watery Grave

Artifact (13)

• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 4x Mishra's Bauble
• 4x Mox Amber
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Sword of the Meek
• 1x Thopter Foundry

Instant (8)

• 2x Fatal Push
• 2x Gifts Ungiven
• 2x Repeal
• 2x Thought Scour

Creature (11)

• 3x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 2x Erayo, Soratami Ascendant  ^Flip
• 3x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1x Mirran Spy
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Bloodchief's Thirst
• 2x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 2x Thoughtseize
• 3x Unearth

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Dismember
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 2x Veil of Summer
• 1x Weather the Storm

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Collective Brutality
• 2x Inquisition of Kozilek

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ashiok, Dream Render

Artifact (2)

• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

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Strange Women Lying in Ponds

The deck's main win condition (if Snapcaster beatdowns don't do it for you) is the Emry, Lurker of the Loch + Mirran Spy combo along with cheap artifacts (especially 2x Mox Amber to loop for infinite mana). Looping Bauble draws your deck on the next upkeep, or infinite mana with Chromatic Star does it right away.

I also recently added the Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry combo, since it doesn't take up much room in the deck, works well with Emry, and the lifegain is great against new 8-shadow decks popping up. Amber, Foundry, Spy, and Emry also goes infinite.

The Erayo, Soratami Ascendant   package gives an interesting dimension to the deck. I was already running most of the package, so I jus tweaked some numbers and squeezed in Erayos and Lurrus. Great way to disrupt your opponent and give your own combo some protection.

So, the deck gains card advantage through Bauble loops and Erayo locks and mana advantage through Mox amber, grinding out opponents until you assemble one of your combos.

Distributing Swords

Where the deck gets VERY fun to play is how we assemble our combo pieces: Gifts Ungiven . Thanks to other graveyard abusers like Jace, Vryn's Prodigy   and $napcaster , a good Gifts package is essentially a tutor four at instant speed. Constructing good packages is important, however. A few examples:

Snapcaster Mage + Unearth + Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  +TARGET CREATURE OR INSTANT/SORCERY=Guarantees you get access to the target (barring graveyard hate, obviously).

Snapcaster Mage + Unearth +CREATURE+CREATURE=Guarantees access to both of those creatures

Gifts is also a Double Entomb for thopter sword if you have an Emry (or you can grab unearth, emry, thopter foundry, sword of the meek, but that’s kinda slow).

Sometimes it's just nice to Gifts for value:

Snapcaster Mage + Fatal Push + Abrupt Decay + Unearth =guarantees you two removal spells, and occasionally a body.

The best feeling is having an Emry out and Gifts-ing for an artifact, or Jace flipped and Gifts-ing for a instant/sorcery. They have no good options at that point, because you will have access to the cards no matter where they get put.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	W
Key combos	Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry Emry, Lurker of the Loch + Mirran Spy
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 6 Rares 10 - 8 Uncommons 10 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.38
Tokens	Companion Zone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Thopter 1/1 U
Folders	My Decks
Based on	Trinket, Merfolk, Altar, Spy NobleRooster MDN