Slimes against opening hands [Casual/Jank]

Modern* Budget Casual Jank RUG (Temur) Theme/Gimmick

Kazierts

Land (16)

• 3x Cinder Glade
• 3x Forest
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Pinecrest Ridge
• 1x Pit of Offerings
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 3x Sulfur Falls

Sorcery (25)

• 1x Bridgeworks Battle  ^Flip
• 4x Faithless Looting
• 1x Ill-Timed Explosion
• 19x Slime Against Humanity

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded

Battle (3)

• 3x Invasion of Ergamon  ^Flip

Creature (11)

• 3x Devourer of Destiny
• 4x Disciple of Freyalise  ^Flip
• 4x Wild Cantor

Artifact (4)

• 4x Serum Powder

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Sideboard

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Ground Seal
• 2x Leyline of Sanctity

Instant (5)

• 2x Nourishing Shoal
• 3x Research / Development

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Ill-Timed Explosion
• 4x Slime Against Humanity

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (4)

• 3x Case of the Crimson Pulse
• 1x Pyromancer Ascension

Sorcery (4)

• 3x Collected Conjuring
• 1x Draconic Intervention

Creature (1)

• 1x Ox of Agonas

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With the unbanning of Faithless Looting, I'm slowly dropping {U} in favor of a more consistent manabase

There have been many of these "you can have any/a specific number of these in your deck cards". Shadowborn Apostle, Dragon's Approach, Templar Knight and Nazgul are some of the examples. However, after watching of one SaffronOlive's recent video, card:Slime Agains Humanity peaked my interest. Most of these type of cards are meant to be on the battlefield to provide some additional benefit, with the exception of Dragon's Approach which needs to have some in the graveyard. However, card:Slime Agains Humnaity takes on a different approach. Is it good to have many in the graveyard? Yes, but it also has the unique distinction of not being worried about graveyard hate. Even effects such as Surgical Extraction aren't necessarily the end of the world because they benefit from being in exile and I want to try a card that, at least according to MTGTop8, has barely seen play in the last 10 years, Research / Development.

While I always have some janky deck ideia, this one is peaking my interest due to its uniqueness in playstyle. It's not necessarily a como deck, such as Neobrand or Storm, where you instantly win by just having the combo. Instead, you need to sculpt your opening hand to have a favorable match. Besides this, I'm also using this opportuniy to play another card I've been wanting to use for a long time, Collected Conjuring.

What's the game plan? Show

As the name of the deck suggests, the idea is to manipulate the opening hand with cards such as card:Serum Power to exile as many Slime Against Humanity as possible to make the first Ooze strong. After the mulligans, Devourer of Destiny can help a bit more by exiling more Slime Against Humanity and possibly find something worth keeping at the top. From there, the objective is to keep casting as many of the namesake card.

As a sidenote, I think it's important to mention this isn't the only way to play this deck. Seth's version was mostly focused on self-mill through cards such as Picklock Prankster and Say Its Name. Although I'm not building with Standard in mind, self-mill would be a valid strategy since, in Modern's card pool we have Tome Scour and Memory Sluice. The main reason I decided to build the way I'm building is specifically because I find it fun and unique.

Main Deck Show

Slime against Humanity {2}{G}

The namesake card of the deck.

By itself, it just creates a 2/2 Ooze for {3}, which is not impressive at all. However, by dumping a few into the graveyard (or sending some straight to exile), it's no unreasonale to be thinking about gettinga 4/4 or 5/5 trampler on turn 2 with the help of some ramp on 1.

There's not much else to talk about this card. It's funny and unique among the "any number" cards.

Serum Powder {3}

Devourer of Destiny {5}{C}{C}

Wild Cantor {RG}

I hope this deck is what brings me back to deckbuild again and hopefully I continue to update it and also some of my older decks.

Of course, this is far from a polished list and there's a lot that can be worked on, such as interaction, card draw/advantage, protection, etc.

Top Ranked	Achieved #8 position in Modern 11 months ago Achieved #3 position in Modern Casual 11 months ago Achieved #3 position in Modern Theme/Gimmick 11 months ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	9 months
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 15 - 9 Rares 10 - 2 Uncommons 27 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	Elemental 3/1 R, Ooze 0/0 G, Treasure
Folders	New Deck?