Modern Missile Man-Competitive

by dknight27 on 17 October 2022

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Deck Description

Missile Man: minimizing win conditions, maximizing control, piggybacking the two together into a material win.

Here's the theory: all three creatures in the build hit like missiles, but are either one off's or take multiple castings to stick. This build seeks to deal damage in large chunks, then get a piggyback advantage by sacking the critter for either a material advantage or double damage (6 in each case off of Fling).

The ideal interaction in this build is to open with a discard, buy yourself time to hit 5 lands, then field Skelemental, swing for 6, opponent discards 2, you cast Fling and sneak in another 6. This situation nets you a +0 in material for 12 damage, which is positively devastating.

The rest of the deck just says 'no' long enough to get you your damage fellas.

Kroxa is particularly interesting here, as you can play it, get the discard, sac it to a sac instant, and retain either material (+1 card) or damage advantage (-1 card, +6 damage), then pull it back for 4 next turn and get to work.

High land count is two fold. Firstly, this deck wants to get to 4 mana quickly so you can cast a 6/1 beast then sack it off to Village Rites. Secondly, there are slight color problems with the 6/1 beasts being all specific colors, so higher lands helps fix that. Thirdly, the relatively neutered turn 2 this deck will have is PERFECT for dropping a tapped land, as you've got a great chance of a turn 1 discard to buy you time, so the tapped lands don't hurt you and are great topdecks.

Fling is particularly interesting in the build, as you'd essentially be paying 2 for 6 damage at tempo on top of a hopeful 6 agro damage for a 12 point turn. Only downside is it doesn't retain material like Village Rites and costs an extra 1. If I could run more Rites, I would.

Everything else is straightforward rakdos.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Competitive
  • Rakdos
  • Sacrifice
  • Damage

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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 Missile Man-Competitive

Posted 18 October 2022 at 22:00

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Look at that, you ruined the troll's flood.

I haven't adjusted to the whole Evoke phase that's going around. Might be time to look into it.

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Posted 18 October 2022 at 22:04

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Posted 19 October 2022 at 00:28

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