Altar of Hornets

by dumbrogan on 11 July 2019

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)


Sorceries (2)


Enchantments (7)

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Deck Description

Bulky Naya Midrange Combo Deck

How to Play

This combo deck is all about tooling out a wide variety of proactive threats that fit whatever situation you encounter in the metagame. Duskwatch Recruiter, Eldritch Evolution, Ancient Stirrings, and Chord are the digging elements with birds and druid for ramp. Each central piece of a combo can be utilized as support in another combo.

This deck runs three combo "routes"

Route 1: Altar
This route needs vizier or anafenza alongside finks/redcaps. Dig for altar with ancient stirrings while finks keeps you in the game.

Route 2: Devoted infinites
This route needs vizier specifically and druid. This combo unlocks your dig on chord and duskwatch, the latter digging for ballista. This combo setup is weighty but is good at diverting opponent's removal from the other two.

Route 3: Bees
This route requires hornets nest and hellion. If you had a finks combo going, you can spend as much life as you like on hellion. If anafenza is out, choose a number that's half your life total and get the 2/2 bees going. Bees unlock chord, which can grab hellraiser to give everybody haste.

Since route 3 is the only one thats immune to stuff like leyline and graveyard hate, and the board state is the hardest to target out, the sideboard plays into route 3 moreso than the other two. Leyline is in sideboard also for burn and hand disruption matchups.

Happily accepting critiques cause this deck actually passed my playtesting against Monored Phoenix, but just barely. So maybe it has potential?? Idk, but I'd like input if anybody wants!

(This deck is based off of a deck tech I saw on Saffron Olive, I am not the original creator of the concept)

EDIT: Went down 1 hornet's nest and added Shalai to mainboard as a better option to tutor up against burn and disruption, as well as an alternate wincon with a druid combo out and hellraiser goblin.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Combo
  • Midrange
  • Naya
  • Toolkit

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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

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