Scarab Fest

Modern* BG (Golgari) Casual Combo Counters Infinite Combo

Desgarl

Land (24)

• 4x Forbidden Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 3x Grasping Dunes
• 4x Llanowar Wastes
• 4x Swamp
• 3x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 4x Woodland Cemetery

Creature (24)

• 4x Blood Artist
• 4x Festering Mummy
• 4x Fume Spitter
• 4x Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
• 4x Necroskitter
• 4x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Blowfly Infestation
• 4x Nest of Scarabs

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Black Sun's Zenith

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 4x Abrupt Decay
• 4x Fatal Push

Sorcery (7)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 3x Thoughtseize

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Maybeboard

Land (8)

• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Howltooth Hollow
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Tendo Ice Bridge
• 1x Twilight Mire

Creature (2)

• 1x Obelisk Spider
• 1x Sickle Ripper

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Very straightforward deck based on countless hapatra builds floating around.

Main goal here of course is to combo off Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons + Blowfly Infestation infinite death triggers and snakes.

There are several ways to play out, I guess one of the ideal scenarios would be:

• T1: Swamp, Fume Spitter
• T2: Forest, Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
• T3: Forbidden Orchard, Blowfly Infestation
• T4: Blood Artist OR Zulaport Cutthroat > Sac Fume Spitter targeting spirit created by Forbidden Orchard What will happen:
• a) Fume Spitter dies, opponent gets drained for 1
• b) Spirit dies due to -1/-1 counter, opponents gets drained for 1, Blowfly Infestation and wants to put a counter on someone, Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons triggers and wants to create a 1/1 snake.
• c) Stack triggers so that Hapatra resolves first, target newly created snake by Blowfly Infestation.Repeat "b" and "c" until opponent is dead.

Other cards in deck are duplicating effects (Nest of Scarabs) or cute interactions (Black Sun's Zenith works well with Hapatra and Nest, Necroskitter works well with anything getting killed by -1/-1 counters).

Deck is build as a brick with bascically everything as a 4-of, because I can't figure out yet, what should a proper balance of cards be. I presume something needs to be made as 1-3 of to squeeze in removal/discard that is chilling in sideboard currently. And maybe some cards are simply too cute, unnecessary to be in the deck at all.Any help here is very much appreciated.

P.S.Cards that are good in this deck but didn't fit in:

• Virulent Wound - Very convenient to trigger combo, but additional 1/1 body from Festering Mummy might be better. These two are interchangeable I think.
• Dusk Urchins - Very good and synergistic card advantage, but a bit slow.
• Ammit Eternal - Very synergistic dude, but also might be too slow. I like that it triggers in responce to removal though, can serve as a combo protection.
• Obelisk Spider - this is essentially a better blood artist for the deck strategy, but also costs more, not sure it is worth it.
• Carnifex Demon - cute, but that's a huge manacost.
• Contagion Clasp - Nice, if we need proliferate, but I doubt we do.
• Channeler Initiate - ramp and -1/-1 counters, but our mana curve is quite low as it is, not sure we need it.
• Devoted Druid - even better than initiate, but again I am not sure we need ramp at all.
• Quillspike - this is a combo with devoted druid, but I believe killing with a ton of scarabs or infinite lifedrain is easier to be honest.
• Exemplar of Strength - beater and -1/-1 trigger. Not sure we need a beater though.
• Soul Snuffers - nice guy, but manacost a bit too high.
• Skinrender - same as above.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 7 Rares 19 - 8 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.11
Tokens	Insect 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G w/ Deathtouch, Spirit 1/1 C