Modern MtG — Simic Infect vs. 12-Hawk
Channel: T1GlistenerElf
Date: 25/10/2020

My opponent, the guy borrowing my 12-Hawk deck from the previous event at TapStart Games, is Brad Grant. In case you don't remember, he's the guy for whom Tapstart and I had the 4.5-hour game of Shahrazad's Dungeon, aka subgame central. One day, I'll complete an actual game of that, albeit that might take approximately forever. (I estimate that I would need about twelve hours to do so, assuming that both players always play the subgame effects when possible.)

Here's the decklist for the Simic / UG Infect deck that I ran at this tournament:
Creatures (13)
4 Blighted Agent
4 Glistener Elf
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Spellskite
Enchantment (1)
1 Rancor
Instants (19)
1 Become Immense
4 Blossoming Defense
4 Might of Old Krosa
4 Mutagenic Growth
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
3 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Nature's Claim
3 Pulse of Murasa
1 Seal of Primordium
2 Shaper's Sanctuary
2 Viridian Corrupter

Here's the decklist for 12-Hawk. Please note that Scout's Warning should instead be Aether Vial, but I did not have them at the time (and still only have one right now.)
Artifacts (2)
2 Oketra's Monument
Creatures (24)
4 Battalion Foot Soldier
1 God-Eternal Oketra
4 Legion Conquistador
4 Mirror Entity
1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Whitemane Lion
Enchantments (4)
4 Force of Virtue
Instants (8)
4 Path to Exile
4 Scout's Warning
Lands (22)
4 Cavern of Souls
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
16 Plains
Sideboard (15)
4 Deafening Silence
4 Fragmentize
1 Ghostly Prison (should be Settle the Wreckage, but Elves are in this meta)
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Rest in Peace
1 Spirit of the Labyrinth (should be Stony Silence or Thorn of Amethyst)
1 Worship

To see this Infect deck in action beforehand, please check out this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5gicvmXFo&list=PLL5e2uQsROzk82kOMSeUmJUld3NPvj2yF&index=733
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Special thanks to TapStart Games for allowing me to film at their store.