{"id":5441,"date":"2015-12-14T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theendgamesblog.com\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2015-12-14T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T21:35:10","slug":"modern-misers-mono-green-infect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theendgamesblog.com\/?p=5441","title":{"rendered":"Modern Misers – Mono Green Infect"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hey fellow Cardboard Magicians. What I’ve got for you today is the first article in a series designed to help folks break into the Modern format. \u00a0We’re going to be looking at decks that can be built on a pretty tight budget, focusing on fringe decks that can take down an FNM for a player that wants to try something different, or slightly budgetized Tier 1-2 decks to help a newer player build up to a top tier Modern deck.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our focus today is on one of the scariest decks in any format in which it’s legal, Infect. \u00a0Infect has been around in Modern for a while and it had a breakout performance at Pro Tour: Fate Reforged. \u00a0The U\/G list utilized then has changed very little since the pro tour and can be found pretty easily. \u00a0We’re going to start with a Mono-Green version, that can be built over time into the more resilient U\/G version that’s been consistently finishing Top 8 at Grand Prixs and SCG Opens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Creatures:\"Glistener<\/b><\/p>\n

4 Glistener Elf<\/a>
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4 Blight Mamba<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

4 Ichorclaw Myr<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

3 Llanowar Augur<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

2 Llanowar Elves<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Spells:<\/b><\/p>\n

4 Groundswell<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

4 Mutagenic Growth<\/a>\"Might
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4 Might of Old Krosa<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

4 Vines of Vastwood<\/a>
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4 Apostle’s Blessing<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

2 Wild Defiance<\/a>
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2 Revenge of the Hunted<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Lands:<\/b><\/p>\n

17 Forest<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

2 Cathedral of War<\/a>\"Ichorclaw
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Sideboard:<\/b><\/p>\n

4 Autumn’s Veil<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

2 Dismember<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

3 Viridian Corrupter<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

2 Naturalize<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

2 Tormod’s Crypt<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

2 Relic of Progenitus<\/a>
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The Mono-Green Infect deck is a lot less\u00a0vulnerable to burn decks than it’s two color counterpart because of the lack of a fetch\/shock manabase. \u00a0There are a lot of ways to quickly upgrade this deck, and we’ll touch on some of those at the end of the article. \u00a0For now lets take a quick look at some of the different things we’ve got happening.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Creatures \u2013 <\/b>We’ve chosen the 12 most efficient infect creatures available to us in a mono green deck. \u00a0<\/span>Glistener Elf<\/b> comes down turn 1 and allows for sur
\nprise turn 2 kills, \u00a0<\/span>Ichorclaw Myr<\/b> is incredibly\u00a0difficult to chump block, and <\/span>Blight Mamba<\/b> really doesn’t want to die.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Mutagenic<\/p>\n

The Instants \u2013 <\/b>Infect is\u00a0all about getting into the red zone and trying to g
\net a quick kill via pump spells. \u00a0Turn 2 and 3 kills are not particularly rare if your opponent has no interaction. If you’ve got some combination of 2 <\/span>Might of Old Krosa<\/b>\/<\/span>Groundswell<\/b> plus a <\/span>Mutagenic Growth<\/b> you’re sitting on 10 poison waiting to happen. These all do basically the same thing: give you +2\/+2 unless you m
\neet a specific criteria, in\u00a0which case you get +4\/+4 and\/or some form of protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Non-Instants \u2013 <\/b>The rest of our pump spells function differently, but they all serve to make our other pumps even better. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n