Explosive growth

by Dragoonza on 09 November 2017

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (10 cards)

Artifacts (4)

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Deck Description

A deck built to abuse Winding Constrictor and Hardened scales.
Particularly Aquastrand Spider and Scrounging Bandar are the bread and butter, as moving counters counts as putting counters onto a card, thus triggering our backbone of Constrictor and Scales(see comprehensive rules 121.5 - 121.6)

Thus, two bandars can give each other a counter each upkeep and for each Contrictor and/or Scales their total counters go up by 1.

Aqua-strand allows for a faster distribution and means to block fliers.

How to Play

Get your Hardened Scales and Winding Constrictors out ASAP.
Proceed to see your +1/+1 counters grow explosively. Every creature in the deck besides Constrictor has a built in means of procing Winding Constrictor and Hardened Scales.

Fertilid allows you to rip your lands out at fervid pace, and Heroic Intervention + Momentous Fall being your save cards.

Durable Handicraft allows for an additional proc for Scales/Constrictor to trigger off, so for example:
2 scales are on the field and 1 Handicraft.
You play servant of the scale, he comes into play with 1+ 2 counters and you activate Handicraft, giving him another 1+ 2 counters, totaling for 6 off of 2 mana.
Each instance of counter placement will cause our backbone to trigger besides themselves, as they are a "replacement" style of effect.

Graft+graft+summon+handcraft, with 2 scales on the field would result in a total of 12 +1/+1 counters on whatever was just summoned.


While the deck is by no means a top tier threat mostly due to the slower speed it possesses with lack of counter spell response, it's fun and reasonably affordable to play.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Budget
  • Golgari
  • +1/+1 Counters

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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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