Flash of the Blade

Modern* Casual Control Theme/Gimmick

He_Who_Hungers

Creature (21)

• 3x Dark Impostor
• 4x Garza's Assassin
• 4x Ruthless Ripper
• 4x Scarblade Elite
• 4x Silumgar Assassin
• 2x Xathrid Slyblade

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Vraska the Unseen

Land (24)

• 5x Forest
• 13x Swamp
• 2x Tainted Wood
• 4x Zoetic Cavern

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Sign in Blood

Instant (8)

• 2x Darkness
• 3x Slice in Twain
• 3x Undying Evil

Artifact (3)

• 3x Silver-Inlaid Dagger

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Sideboard

Land (2)

• 2x Rogue's Passage

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My attempt at an assassin-focused deck, mostly because it sounds really cool to say you have an assassin deck.

There seem to be a number of ways one can go with a deck like this, and I elected to go for the morph idea, mixing Silumgar Assassins with Ruthless Rippers, as well as Zoetic Caverns in order to maintain a level of unpredictability for the opponent, which I feel is thematic for the assassin deck. Other assassins like Garza's Assassin, Scarblade Elite and Dark Impostor help keeping the board as clear as possible. The splash for green is mostly to be able to include Vraska the Unseen for the assassin flavor, but she also doubles as noncreature removal, as does Slice in Twain, which may help against decks that are less creature-focused.

Might have a bit too much land in there at the moment, but I'm hesitant to be thrifty on land with the Dark Impostor in there. Then again, Zoetic Cavern may double as a creature for as long as needed, so it just might be fine.

Any suggestions will be appreciated. Haven't thought about sideboard or nonbasic lands yet outside of Zoetic Cavern, so suggestions for those are especially welcome. Also thinking about adding Salt Road Ambushers to capitalise more on the morph, but not sure, as it does take away from the assassin theme.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Splash colors	G
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 0 Rares 18 - 2 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.25
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Morph 2/2 C