Modern MtG — Selesnya Bogles vs. Simic Infect
Channel: T1GlistenerElf
Date: 2021-01-30

As TJ Poole, Bogles aficionado and connoisseur for TapStart Games, can attest, Infect is favored over Bogles. Aside from preventing Vines of Vastwood from countering/halting auras for a turn and "blanking" the occasional removal spell like Dismember or Pongify/Rapid Hybridization, hexproof doesn't help in the matchup. Infect's being much faster gives it anywhere from one to two more turns, and even the size of a fully loaded Slippery Bogle, Gladecover Scout, or Kor Spiritdancer isn't able to contend with Blighted Agent. Indeed, even Inkmoth Nexus is better now that sources of reach like Spider Umbra continue to fall out of favor. Lastly, mainboard Leyline of Sanctity might as well be a Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon card for all of the good that it does against us.

To be fair, mainboard Path to Exile does work against us. While the card does slow down the deck, it also slows the opponent too, giving Bogles enough time to setup a huge creature with a laundry list of keywords. They also have access to several sources of first strike, which can be a problem for Glistener Elf in particular. Furthermore, both decks have Spellskite, which can really make it hard on the other, though each has spells can only be put on their own creatures. Lastly, because of how ubiquitous Infect is at TapStart Games, my friend has both Melira, Sylvok Outcast AND Solemnity in his sideboard.

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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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