Modern MtG — Simic Infect vs. Grixis Pyromancer
Channel: T1GlistenerElf
Date: 23/06/2021

Grixis Pyromancer is usually one of my worse matchups, but 

This is a slightly modified version of my previous Simic Infect decklist, which means that I still run mostly the same spells but use Peek instead of Spell Pierce and finally cut the second Pendelhaven. Because of the addition of Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth, another legendary land that only makes green and that allows Inkmoth Nexus to make more than just colorless mana, I expect that the second Pendelhaven or the second Forest will need to bite the dust. Since Path to Exile may still be ubiquitous as an out to so many creature-oriented gameplans, I'm more reluctant to make that change. While premature here, I expect this evolution to utlimately be inevitable.

Here's the decklist for Simic Infect for you all:
Creatures (13)
4 Blighted Agent
4 Glistener Elf
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Spellskite
Instants (19)
1 Become Immense
4 Blossoming Defense
4 Groundswell
4 Might of Old Krosa
2 Peek
4 Vines of Vastwood
Sorcery (7)
3 Distortion Strike
4 Scale Up
Lands (21)
3 Breeding Pool
1 Botanical Sanctum (which should be another Waterlogged Grove)
1 Dryad Arbor
2 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Pendelhaven
1 Waterlogged Grove
8 green fetchlands (currently 4 Misty Rainforests, 3 Verdant Catacombs, and 1Windswept Heaths)
Sideboard (15)
1 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Druid's Deliverance
1 Echoing Truth
1 Flusterstorm
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Nature's Claim
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Shapers' Sanctuary
1 Veil of Summer

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