When you boil this deck down, it's just illness in the ranks + forbidden orchard abuse. Basically constant token death. Thanks very much to @blackserbian for being the first one to show me the wonder of forbidden orchard and suture priest. When trying to improve his decklist, I thought of illness in the ranks, and then blood artist, and that was the origin of this beauty.
It was given an honorable mention in Gavin Verhey's Modern on a Budget article on dailymtg.com
There are three things this deck needs to succeed:
-A way to give your opponent tokens
-A way to kill said tokens
-A way to profit of that death
Quite a few of these cards fill more than one of these roles. But this is fundamentally a token abuse deck. It can be very powerful. I'll give you an example:
Best hand: 3x forbidden orchard (or whatever land really, as long as it can cast the things here), illness in the ranks, blood artist, twilight drover, hunted troll
first turn illness in the ranks with forbidden orchard
second turn blood artist
third turn twilight drover, the opponent loses 0-3 life you gain 0-3 life because of the orchards
fourth turn hunted troll the opponent loses 4-8 life and you gain that much, depending on how many orchards you tapped, your drover gets 4-8 +1/+1 counters.
Best hand and no blocks, you dealt 3, then 8, then attacked for 9, for exactly lethal on the 4th turn. Even if you didn't quite get there, after that just keep spamming out 0/0 tokens, and attack with your stupidly large twilight drover and troll.
This is obviously a kind of looney scenario, but the reason why this deck is good is because it runs on synergy, meaning it's powerful even when it doesn't hit the perfect hand.
-forbidden orchard, hunted troll and mercy killing give your opponent tokens
-Illness in the ranks, ratchet bomb, and massacre wurm let you kill tokens
-Blood artist, suture priest, twilight drovers, reaper of the wilds, and massacre wurm let you profit from the death of these tokens
-Twilight drovers, hunted trolls, reaper of the wilds, and massacre wurm let you beat down