Modern Bant Blade

by Coeurly on 21 July 2016

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (17 cards)

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Deck Description

This is a variaton of a bant snake blade deck. It is a tempo/aggro deck. I am not very good at building decks and this is a work in progress still. Which deck isn't ;)

Edit:25.7.2016 (-loam,-command...+2voices)
Edit:1.8.2016 (-1×sigardas aid,-2xmirran crusader,-1×knight of the reliquary,-eiganjo.+3 courser,+1flooded strand,+2 kitchen finks

After careful consideration i took out the lotus cobra as it only fills the board and really isn't essential for the game plan of this bant midrange deck. I have now completely reworked the deck and made some changes, hopefully, for the better.

Edit: 28.1.2017
Conpletely changed the deck around to fit in the new additions of the new swords tutor and rallyer. The deck has a soft combos now like ghostquarter+crucible+kinight but apart from that it remains a beatdown "midrange" deck with swords and good stuff

How to Play

So ideally you have a dork-snake-2-land hand that can pump out a geist/knight, sword turn 2. Or a batterskull t3. Or a sword t3+equip. Which makes the snake itself a viable 5/4 beater with abilities. Really it is just a good beatdown deck with tutor shenanigans and card draw.
The deck itself revolves around the 3cmc creatures and sword. So far I have not tested this version but I will add a sb plan and tournament results.

Deck Tags

  • Bant
  • Modern
  • Modern
  • Bant
  • Equipment

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Modern Bant Blade

The deck's idea looks good but the consistency doesn't. how likely is it for you to draw 4/60 chance to get a sword/ batterskull? not likely. and if you wanted to be on the sigarda's aid plan, you'll need more. Plus why do you have a random loam?! sure you can return some fetches but that's not worth it. more birds would be better over cobra, and knight of the reliquary doesn't exactly fit here. Voice of resurgence would be amazing in this style of tempo aggro deck.

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Posted 24 July 2016 at 18:29

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i have created the deck on paper only. i have tested two games today against mill and jund. In both matches cobra was pretty damn good, having the ability to ramp for 3 wit only 1 fetch is quite nice. The loam will go out of the deck. The knights i like because they can find ghostquarter or inkmoth for various matchups as well as with all th efetches it is just a natural tarmo enemy. I also like having the option to sb into retreat knight combo. As for the sword combo start, in 5 games i had it once, which was nice. i also like going hierarch into cobra+drop fetch and play a 3 cmc creature. Also dromoka's command was rather unproductive so far, the one time i drew it it did nothing special(sat in my hand for naught). The sigarda's aid however was a lot of fun, double sworded snake is quite hard to beat on t3 ;)

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Posted 25 July 2016 at 19:25

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That is really nice! At first I thought the swords were supposed to be the main deal, but now I see that you like it as a small package in your deck. Also I was not thinking of cobra plus fetches XD that must've been amazing! But yeah if the deck works for you just fine, no reason to change it. Idk how your matches are against aggressive decks are, but they should be decent. Maybe the exception is like Merfolk and Bogles but idk.

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Posted 25 July 2016 at 22:15

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I hvert to test it more thoroughly. But I will keep you posted. There is a modern weekend next week. I will participate and write down my findings.
I doubt that aggressive decks should offer a lot of trouble as there is lifesaving in two of the swords and the batterskull. I was thinking about adding 2 rhox war monk as answers to burn and zoo. We'Lloyd see ;)

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Posted 26 July 2016 at 12:47

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