Illness Orchard

by kmk888 on 26 February 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (2)


Sorceries (8)

Instants (3)


Artifacts (2)

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Deck Description

This is possibly my favorite deck i've ever made and/or played. It's very fun and somewhat competitive

When you boil this deck down, it's just illness in the ranks + forbidden orchard abuse. Basically constant token death. thanks very much to @blackserbian for being the first one to show me the wonder of forbidden orchard and suture priest. when trying to improve his combo, i thought of illness in the ranks, and then blood artist, and that was the origin of this deck.

future incarnations of this deck may include but are not limited to: electrickery, deathbringer thoctar, batwing brume, promise of bunrei, ghave guru of spores, more saproling abuse, curse of death's hold, a version of elspeth, awakening zone, orzhov pontiff, echoing decay, maelstrom pulse, golgari charm, and more!

i sent this deck to gavin verhey for "modern on a budget" and it was one of the honorable mentions.

How to Play

give them weenie tokens, profit from them with suture priest and blood artist, and eliminate them with things like illness in the ranks, orzhov pontiff, or zealous persecution. This pumps any twilight drovers you have to monstrous sizes and lets you get hunted trolls basically for free.

Best hand: 3x forbidden orchard (or whatever land really, as long as it can cast the things here), illness in the ranks, blood artist, twilight drover, hunted troll

first turn illness in the ranks with forbidden orchard

second turn blood artist

third turn twilight drover, the opponent loses 3 life you gain 3 life because of the orchards

fourth turn hunted troll the opponent loses 4-8 life and you gain that much, depending on how many orchards you tapped, your drover gets 4-8 +1/+1 counters.
after that just keep spamming out 0/0 tokens, and attack


if you don't get illness in the ranks you rely on orzhov pontiff and zealous persecution to kill those counters you're giving them. twilight drover is the most valuable thing you have, you can remove threats with zealous persecution, tragic slip, and mercy killing.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • forbidden orchard
  • illness in the ranks

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

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