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[MtG Modern] Ascended Storm


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4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Sylvan Caryatid
1 Wind Zendikon

4 Cerulean Wisps
4 Glittering Wish
4 Gitaxian Probe
1 Grapeshot
3 Jeskai Ascendancy
3 Manamorphose
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Treasure Cruise

2 Breeding Pool
1 Forest
3 Mana Confluence
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath

Sideboard
1 Bound // Determined
1 Detention Sphere
1 Drain the Well
1 Fiery Justice
1 Flesh // Blood
1 Hydroform
1 Jeskai Ascendancy
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Scarscale Ritual
1 Slaughter Games
4 Swan Song
1 Wear // Tear

 

This is one of the most fun decks I ever played, not even close.

 

The entire idea revolves around the synergy of Jeskai Ascendancy and mana dorks. Each time you spend a mana from a dork to cast a cantrip, said cantrip will trigger Ascendancy, untapping the dork, essentially making the spell free. It also buffs the creature, so it's a win condition by itself if you manage to cast 20 spells, and provides a loot effect, so you have a even higher chance of finding more fuel for the combo.

 

Eventually, you'll start casting Gitaxian Probes and Manamorphoses, which ARE pretty much free, meaning they will generate you +1 mana from Ascendancy untapping a dork. Cerulean Wisps do the same, if you tap the dork for mana between Ascendancy trigger and Wisps. Another copy of the Ascendancy will make you generate mana too!

 

With all the cantripping and looting, you're filling your grave to cast a Ancestral Reca-ekhm, sorry, Treasure Cruise. Chaining multiples on the combo turn is not unheard of, basically making fizzling very, very difficult to happen.

 

Deck's main gimmick is Glittering Wish. By keeping a copy of Jeskai Ascendancy in the sideboard, Wishes become Ascendancies 4-7, and allowing you to keep a wishboard full of extra combo pieces and answers, making the deck very flexible.

 

It's also crazy consistent. Turn 2 kills might happen quite often, (Turn 1 mana dork, turn 2 Ascendancy and Gitaxian Probe, start chaining) turn 3 is standard and turn 4 is realistically the latest if you spend a turn Wishing up a combo piece.

 

Best deck Modern <3

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Not in this version. I saw some lists running it as a 1-of, but IMO it's pretty redunant since Treasure Cruise does such a great job are refilling, plus regular Storm decks run PiF to up the Storm count more/get more rituals. Rituals aren't needed here because mana dorks are permanents, and you need realistically half of the storm count to win, rest you will deal by attacking/Flesh//Blood.

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I'd run it as a 1 of. I'm playing the same deck in standard right now and once it gets going you can generate a lot of mana and dig through your library really quickly, It lets you get value of of all the stuff you'll be dumping into the yard with ascendancy.

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