Swords & Rhinoes

by Deemed on 23 March 2015

Main Deck (54 cards)

Sideboard (71 cards)

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Deck Description

Midrange aggro deck packign heavy accel and big beaters. Built around KotR and the 15 green super mana engine pack (tm) (4 arbor, 4 birds, 4 utopia, 3 garruk).
It mirrors old pod on it's playstyle, increasing numbers for the consistency we lost with the banning and being build of very proactive cards.

How to Play

Get ahead with early mana accel and keep yourself ahead laying big threat after big threat. Prioritize your removal to the main opposing creatures (deceiver on twin, prime time on amulet).

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Competitive
  • Inactive

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

400034

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Swords & Rhinoes

[150324] Arena keeps overperforming. It's great everytime and pretty much a soft lock.
Played yesterday against a "UB black devotion sorta" packing the Geralfs Messenger, Tasigur, Tombstalker and Phyrexian Obliterator (noted as the best 4 drop over Rhino), maybe that approach do have some potential worth investigating.
Inquisition underperformed and it's now being moved to the sideboard. not sure if playstyle or not. But targeted discard seemed pretty underwhelming on what the deck is trying to do. rather finish the game quick so traqded them for a mix of additional smiters and lingering souls for added consistence.

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Posted 24 March 2015 at 13:33

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Thought about adding 3 Primal Commands. Still unsure on what to cut in order to do that. Accelerated Primal Commands are a very strong opening in modern. Have to decide whether this is meant for this deck of for another one built around Primals, Plow Under and the "green pack".

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Posted 24 March 2015 at 13:44

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Urborg seemed missplaced, fixing black is never an issue, the synergy with arena alone isnt alone a reason to keep it on the sixty.

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Posted 24 March 2015 at 13:46

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Previous Versions LOG...

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Posted 26 March 2015 at 15:56

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//Artifact (2)
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sword of Light and Shadow

//Creature (19)
4 Arbor Elf
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
1 Eternal Witness
4 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Loxodon Smiter
3 Siege Rhino

//Enchantment (4)
4 Utopia Sprawl

//Instant (5)
1 Dismember
4 Path to Exile

//Planeswalker (3)
3 Garruk Wildspeaker

//Sorcery (3)
3 Lingering Souls

//Land (24)
1 Arena
5 Forest
2 Gavony Township
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Marsh Flats
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
1 Vault of the Archangel
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath

SB: 1 Abrupt Decay
SB: 1 Avatar of the Resolute
SB: 2 Choke
SB: 2 Creeping Corrosion
SB: 1 Dromoka's Command
SB: 1 Golgari Charm
SB: 3 Inquisition of Kozilek
SB: 1 Siege Rhino
SB: 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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Posted 26 March 2015 at 17:08

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Accel
4 Utopia Sprawl
4 Arbor Elf
4 Birds of Paradise

Gas
3 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Kodama of the North Tree
3 Loxodon Smiter
4 Siege Rhino
2 Yosei, the Morning Star

Util & Disrupt
2 Glare of Subdual
1 Eternal Witness
2 Congregation at Dawn
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
2 Primal Command

23 lands
4 Forest
3 Gavony Township
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Godless Shrine
2 Marsh Flats
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Temple Garden
1 Vault of the Archangel
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath

Dropped pseudo control cards for sets of heavier beefs and other stuff. Kinda reminiscent from Ghazi-Glare of the old (less Ghazi).

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Posted 27 March 2015 at 19:10

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//Artifact (3)
3 Sword of Fire and Ice

//Creature (21)
4 Arbor Elf
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Eternal Witness
3 Kodama of the North Tree
3 Loxodon Smiter
4 Siege Rhino
2 Yosei, the Morning Star

//Enchantment (6)
2 Glare of Subdual
4 Utopia Sprawl

//Instant (2)
2 Congregation at Dawn

//Planeswalker (3)
3 Garruk Wildspeaker

//Sorcery (2)
2 Primal Command

//Land (23)
4 Forest
3 Gavony Township
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Godless Shrine
2 Marsh Flats
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Temple Garden
1 Vault of the Archangel
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath

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Posted 28 March 2015 at 00:37

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//Artifact (5)
4 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sword of Light and Shadow

//Creature (22)
4 Arbor Elf
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
1 Eternal Witness
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Loxodon Smiter
4 Siege Rhino

//Enchantment (6)
2 Glare of Subdual
4 Utopia Sprawl

//Planeswalker (3)
3 Garruk Wildspeaker

//Land (24)
1 Arena
4 Forest
3 Gavony Township
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Godless Shrine
2 Marsh Flats
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Temple Garden
1 Vault of the Archangel
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath

SB: 1 Abrupt Decay
SB: 1 Avatar of the Resolute
SB: 2 Choke
SB: 2 Congregation at Dawn
SB: 2 Creeping Corrosion
SB: 1 Dismember
SB: 1 Dromoka's Command
SB: 4 Eternal Witness
SB: 2 Golgari Charm
SB: 4 Grave Titan
SB: 3 Inquisition of Kozilek
SB: 3 Kodama of the North Tree
SB: 3 Lingering Souls
SB: 4 Lotus Cobra
SB: 4 Loxodon Hierarch
SB: 4 Loxodon Smiter
SB: 4 Path to Exile
SB: 5 Primal Command
SB: 1 Siege Rhino
SB: 4 Sun Titan
SB: 1 Swamp
SB: 4 Thragtusk
SB: 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
SB: 2 Yosei, the Morning Star

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Posted 30 March 2015 at 19:56

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