Daily Digest: A Shadow Looms

I’ve had a long-standing love affair with Death’s Shadow, and it’s only a matter of time before the card gets busted. This is the latest attempt featuring technology like Orzhov Charm.

Previous iterations have played things like Avatar of Hope or Angel’s Grace and a full playset of Spoils of the Vault. This one has things like Bitterblossom and Lingering Souls to buy time and provide sacrificial fodder for Plunge into Darkness. It eventually finishes with a large Fling.

This deck could easily incorporate various side strategies, such as Blood Moon or the aforementioned Avatar of Hope (with Cavern of Souls naturally). There’s a lot of room to innovate this archetype. What’s the best version you’ve seen?

Mardu Death's Shadow

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2nd Place at Magic Online Daily Event on 09-04-2014

Modern

Creatures (5)

• 4 Death's Shadow
• 1 Spellskite

Lands (17)

• 2 Swamp
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Watery Grave
• 2 Godless Shrine
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 4 Arid Mesa
• 4 Marsh Flats

Spells (38)

• 2 Plains
• 1 Mountain
• 4 Plunge into Darkness
• 2 Spoils of the Vault
• 1 Fling
• 1 Darkblast
• 4 Thoughtseize
• 3 Bitterblossom
• 2 Path to Exile
• 4 Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4 Phyrexian Unlife
• 2 Lingering Souls
• 4 Faith's Shield
• 4 Orzhov Charm

Sideboard

• 1 Darkblast
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Path to Exile
• 3 Tectonic Edge
• 4 Leyline of Sanctity
• 2 Torpor Orb
• 3 Stony Silence