Modern Infect Combo deck

Infect is a combo deck for the Modern format.
==Description==
It uses small and cheap creatures with Infect and powers them up with <c>Blazing Shoal</c> discarding a card like <c>Reaper King</c> or <c>Progenitus</c> to give the creature 11 power and win with a single swing due to Poison. To ensure a kill, it uses tutoring cards such as <c>Plunge into Darkness</c> or <c>Spoils of the Vault</c>, or to a lesser extent <c>Summoner's Pact</c>, as well as protection cards which are 0-1 mana in cost like <c>Pact of Negation</c>, <c>Slaughter Pact</c>, <c>Gitaxian Probe</c> and <c>Inquisition of Kozilek</c>.
The deck can kill as early as the second turn but is also risky to play as <c>Spoils of the Vault</c> can randomly kill the player on its own, and failure to successfully connect with the Shoaled creature will often result in game loss from failing to pay for a Pact card at the next upkeep. Slower variants, however, also exist.
===Variations===
At Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011, Samuel Black piloted a version to a top 8 finish, that replaces the risky black tutoring with more consistent blue card-selectors as well as some cheap blue control effects, sacrificing speed for consistency.
==Reception==
Due to the lethality of this deck, <c>Blazing Shoal</c> was banned from the Modern format.
<deck title="Infect Combo by Martin Juza at Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011">
Combo
4 Glistener Elf
4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Vector Asp
4 Blazing Shoal
4 Progenitus
4 Reaper King
Tutoring
4 Plunge into Darkness
4 Spoils of the Vault
Utility
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Pact of Negation
4 Slaughter Pact
Lands
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Llanowar Wastes
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Forest
1 Swamp
</deck>
<deck title="Mono-Blue Infect by Samuel Black at Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011">
Lands
8 Island
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Tolaria West
1 Watery Grave
Card Search and Utility
4 Peer Through Depths
4 Ponder
4 Preordain
1 Summoner's Pact
2 Gitaxian Probe
3 Disrupting Shoal
4 Muddle the Mixture
1 Pact of Negation
1 Snapback
4 Spell Pierce
Combo
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Blighted Agent
1 Progenitus
4 Blazing Shoal
4 Dragonstorm
Sideboard
2 Deprive
1 Dismember
1 Echoing Truth
2 Jace Beleren
1 Slaughter Pact
4 Spellskite
1 Trickbind
3 Vendilion Clique
</deck>
==References==
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Category:Modern format
Category:Tournament decks