W/R Flicker

by gremere102 on 21 March 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (4)


Instants (2)

Planeswalkers (1)


Enchantments (8)

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Deck Description

Basically this deck revolves around interesting flicker interactions and value creatures. This deck is very good against jund and control as well. Basically anything that plays a game of attrition and value cards, this deck is very good at (it's also good against Red deck wins, due to the baneslayers and the kitchen finks). G/W hexproof and affinity are very good against this

How to Play

For anyone who is wondering 'why the hell is akroma in there? She costs 8 mana that's so stupid'

however there is an interesting interection with akroma where if you play her for here morph cost then flicker her with either restoration angel or flickerwisp, then akroma comes back onto the battle field unmorphed without having to pay the 6 mana for her unmorph. So they can often be staring down a turn 4/turn 5 akroma. Which is pretty beasty. Also, against control i've sometimes just top decked her and then just hard cast it later in the game and if they can only kill it by double bolting it. So i'm currently loving the akroma interaction.

one thing i'm unsure on about this deck is the fact that figure of destiny, although awesome has a counter synergy with flickering because he always comes back as a 1/1 even if you bumped him all the way up to 8/8. So if anyone has any suggestions for a better one drop, that'd be awesome. Other than that i'm happy with the deck and it can take on the top archetypes in modern very efficiently.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Combo
  • Boros

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for W/R Flicker

I threw together a list of 1 drop creatures that could work with Flicker. Hope I helped:
Akroan Crusader, Cathedral Sanctifier, Gideon's Lawkeeper (bounce it, then activate its ability next turn, or use it for a block), Goblin Fireslinger, Icatian Javelineers (bounce it for another javelin), Infantry Veteran, Orcish Spy, Order of the Stars (change his protected color at will), Soulmender, Spark Elemental, Weathered Wayfarer.
Also: Have you looked into using Cloudshift?
Lastly: What's the point of Aven Mindcensor?

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Posted 21 March 2014 at 20:29

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Aven mindcensor is for sniping their fetch lands, their bad in multiples due to the fact it's not an effect that can stack so i only have one. Also, they wreck tron because they have so much library search, as well as pod which i have a tough time with, it also is good against the gifts ungiven deck/UWR control that run gifts in the sideboard. You can't really flicker them except to save them from removal so i didn't want to too many, but i have them sideboard as well so i can bring them in against decks that they are super good against to improve the likely hood of drawing them because they can be super crucial in some match ups.

Akroan crusader doesn't do what you think it does. Flickerwisp and restoration angel don't target until they become creatures, which therefore means they are not spells that target, they are creatures that target, there fore not activating it's ability.

I thought about cloudshift and even gave it a go, but it was sometimes just a dead draw.

Icatian javelineers though look super interesting, it adds a lot more removal options if you ping restoration angel, flicker and then ping again you take down two toughness creatures, or even two for nothing. VALUE! Awesome idea :D thanks! I'll give it some testing.

edit: I actually just realised that by flickering Icatian Javelineers, he would come back into play with summoning sickness so you couldn't kill 2 toughness creatures. It could still be worth it to run them though. It kills confidants and cliques among probably other things.

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Posted 22 March 2014 at 00:19

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The Avens make sense now, thanks.

I hadn't realized that they weren't spells, so I've learned two things today!

And no problem, I'm glad I could help.

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Posted 22 March 2014 at 14:26

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