Modern MtG — Gift Storm vs. Simic Infect
Channel: T1GlistenerElf
Date: 27/01/2021

One quarter of the store was on Storm of one sort or another, and another was on Infect. TapStart Games is officially Combo City, and I am HERE for it! Gift Storm in particular is on the move, and I'm glad that I packed some graveyard hate for the matchup. Grafdigger's Cage and Relic of Progenitus are solid picks, and two copies of Spell Pierce in the mainboard can't hurt.

Unfortunately, my opponent missed that he could point a copy of Grapeshot at Dryad Arbor. While I did play a Noble Hierarch on the following turn, that misplay could very well have cost him the game. I let him know about it afterwards, so hopefully that will be a learning experience for him.

Here's the deck that I played. Yes, it has the weird Tarmogoyf sideboard tech, but I'm not sure if that's right. The speed can help against the Storm that shows somewhat substantially at the store. If I continue to not see many copies of Fatal Push, then I may leave them in. If I'm wrong, then Hooting Mandrills might join the fray instead.
Creatures (13)
4 Blighted Agent
4 Glistener Elf
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Spellskite
Instants (20)
1 Become Immense
4 Blossoming Defense
4 Might of Old Krosa
4 Mutagenic Growth
1 Rapid Hybridization
2 Spell Pierce
4 Vines of Vastwood
Sorcery (7)
3 Distortion Strike
4 Scale Up
Lands (20)
2 Breeding Pool
1 Botanical Sanctum
1 Dryad Arbor
2 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
2 Pendelhaven
1 Waterlogged Grove
7 green fetchlands (currently four Misty Rainforest and 3 Verdant Catacombs)
Sideboard (15)
1 Echoing Truth
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Nature's Claim
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Shapers' Sanctuary
4 Tarmogoyf

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