This deck is filled with counterspells, damage-based removal, and card draw.

Strategies incorporating these elements are doubtless one of the most popular styles of play in Magic history.

Furthermore, no deck has a better chance against a variety of deck builds than Murktide Regent.

Murktide Regent Modern

While this Dragon is your best card, it’s alsothe deck’s most obvious weak point.

Opponents who can manage to remove your Murktide Regents have a far greater chance of winning the game.

you could grow two Murktide Regents at the same time by casting them back to back.

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Dragon’s Rage Channeler by Martina Fackova

This combination of cards can result in enabling delirium as early as turn two.

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The final important threat in your main deck.

However, refusing to cast it and allowing the opponent time to stabilize can also lead to your demise.

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Dragon’s Rage Channeler by Martina Fackova

Knowledge of how to properly leverage this card separates the best Murktide players from the rest of the field.

A depth of current metagame knowledge is required to pilot this deck at the highest level.

Mishra’s Bauble

As mentioned earlier,your best opening hands will include a Bauble.

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Counterspell by Jason Chan

This is a key card for fueling delirium, but it does much more than that.

you could use bauble alongside a fetchland to better fix your draws.

Play the bauble and look at the top card of your library.

Murktide Regent

This makes it so that you have a great chance of drawing a better card for the situation.

Counterspell

The be-all and end-allanswer to any cardyour opponent might play.

you gotta deploy your Counterspells on the right cards if you want to see success with Murktide Regent.

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For instance, you should probably hold your Counterspells against many combo decks.

All of that being said, you’llmost often use your Counterspells to insure your Murktide Regents.

In other words, these cards usually serve as protection for your biggest threat.

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In the modern day, you might say that this deck is all about finding the perfect vibe.

Murktide Regent excels during the first four turns of the game.

After that, you start to lose ground against the greater value that opposing decks often contain.

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In certain matchups though, you do want to take the position of the control player.

Once again, piloting Murktide Regent to its utmost capacity requires extensive knowledge of the Modern metagame.

This is not a deck where you might afford to sit back and hold up your counterspells.

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Lightning Bolt and Unholy Heatshould be used to answer any creature threats your opponent fields.

Thankfully, they can also serve as further protection for your Murktide Regents in a pinch.

Here’s how to effectively build your own deck in Magic: The Gathering’s Modern Format.

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As is the case with most Modern decks,your sideboard is mostly filled with hate cardsfor certain matchups.

Newer players to Modern may find this deck frustrating and difficult to understand.

So get learning and good luck!

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These removal spells are solid choices for MTG’s Modern format.

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Force of Negation by Paul Scott Canavan

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