Queen Marchesa rules the battlefied with her Monarch ability, and this deck is designed to make the most of it with its generous mix of creatures, removal spells, and lots of value
Best Crab Payoffs Modern Mill Vexing Scuttler | Illustration by James Paick Creatures (14) Arboreal Grazer x2 Hedron Crab x4 Phantasmal Image x4 Ruin Crab x4 Instants (10) Archive Trap x4 Growth Spiral x2 Visions of Beyond x4 Sorceries (8) Explore x4 Maddening Cacophony x4 Enchantments (4) Lands (24) Snow-Covered Forest Snow-Covered Island x3 Botanical Sanctum x2 Polluted Delta x2 Simic Growth Chamber x2 Breeding Pool x3 Field of Ruin x3 Flooded Strand x4 Misty Rainforest x4 Sideboard (15) Weather the Storm x3 Veil of Summer x3 Ensnaring Bridge x3 Surgical Extraction x4 Cyclonic Rift x2 A 12 crab mill deck isnt the worst way to get into Modern if thats something youre after
Abrupt Decay There is a ton of value in destroying stuff that is messing with your plans, which is where these removal variants come in
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You naturally make this one-sided if you only have six lands and creatures with 7 or more toughness
Alesha's Vanguard Ambuscade Shaman Angrath's Ambusher Battle Brawler Bellowing Saddlebrute Blood-Chin Fanatic Brutal Hordechief Burakos, Party Leader Cheerful Osteomancer Cirith Ungol Patrol Dire Fleet Captain Dire Fleet Neckbreaker Dire Fleet Ravager Dire Fleet Warmonger Fathom Fleet Boarder Gorbag of Minas Morgul Gruesome Scourger Imperious Inkmage Krumar Bond-Kin Mardu Outrider Mardu Roughrider Marshal of the Lost Mauhr, Uruk-hai Captain Mer-Ek Nightblade Merciless Executioner Moria Scavenger Orc Sureshot Orcish Bowmasters Pitiless Horde Poisoner's Apprentice Reigning Victor Ruin Raider Ruthless Knave Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper Shagrat, Loot Bearer Thrasher Brute Uglk of the White Hand Unyielding Krumar Uruk-hai Berserker Venerated Stormsinger Vengeful Warchief Warg Rider Zurgo Helmsmasher Zurgo Stormrender Zurgo, Thunder's Decree
