{"ops":[{"insert":"In the Unstable set, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Modular Monstrosity"}},{"insert":" mocks the length of Magic's keywords list. So obviously "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Modular"},{"insert":", the obscure keyword from Mirrodin that this card directly references in its name, is my choice for this contest ! \n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Modular"},{"insert":" is a keyword found on just 22 artifacts creatures (and one artifact land !) in all of Magic's history, and it reads : \""},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"this creature enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature."},{"insert":"\"\nSince Mirrodin, the only Modular artifacts printed were in Modern Horizons and most of these were in Boros, so that would be the obvious choice of colors for a Modular deck. But to make Modular work, we don't only need to play our artifacts once, since most of them are just expensive French vanilla creatures. We want to sacrifice them and play them again, to stash all those +1/+1 counters on one big threat, and win ! So which better color pair than Golgari, and better commander than "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Glissa, the Traitor"}},{"insert":" to achieve this ? Indeed Glissa recurs an artifact from our graveyard to our hand every time an opponent's creature dies, making sure that we can play them over and over again. \n\nThis deck plays 12 "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Modular "},{"insert":"creatures, plus "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Iron Apprentice"}},{"insert":" who almost has the same ability but without the keyword, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Power Depot"}},{"insert":" an artifact land with Modular 1 that we can sac for value. Most of these creatures don't do much by themselves, but a few really stand out to help our game-plan. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcbound Reclaimer"}},{"insert":" is a Plan B in case our commander gets removed. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcbound Ravager"}},{"insert":" is a free sac outlet that grows itself. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcbound Condor"}},{"insert":" is repeated removal to trigger Glissa. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Scrapyard Recombiner"}},{"insert":" can tutor "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Construct "},{"insert":"creatures, and we have three important ones in our deck: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Foundry Inspector"}},{"insert":" reduces the cost of all our artifacts, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mindless Automaton"}},{"insert":" is a powerful draw engine when paired with Modular cards, while "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Walking Ballista"}},{"insert":" is our main win-con. \nBeing in Golgari means that we have two powerful tools at our disposal for our +1/+1 counters strategy. : counters doublers like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Branching Evolution"}},{"insert":", and a good set of "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Proliferate "},{"insert":" effects, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Evolution Sage"}},{"insert":". Most of our proliferate cards also act as removal, and some of our removal package uses -1-1 counters to get even more value from the proliferation. With this consistent removal, the deck makes sure to trigger our commander every turn ! It even features an infinite combo with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Glissa, the Traitor"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thornbite Staff"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Krark-Clan Ironworks"}},{"insert":" and whatever free artifact in play, to wipe our opponent's board repeatedly. \nBut how do we win the game you ask ? Well, once we have played our Modular cards over and over to make a big pile of +1/+1 counters, we put all of them on "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Walking Ballista"}},{"insert":" to shoot all our opponents, or on "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Threefold Thunderhulk"}},{"insert":" to go wide. But my favorite would be to play "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Moxite Refinery"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Darksteel Reactor"}},{"insert":", move all our counters on the Reactor and immediately win the game ! \n\nI've wanted to brew this deck for a long time so I'm happy to finally share it. :)\n"}]}