Much Abrew: Umbral Mantle Combo (Modern)

Tweet by SaffronOlive // Oct 16, 2017

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Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Much Abrew About Nothing. Last week during our Instant Deck Techs, our Modern option—Umbra Mantle Combo—came out on top, which means we are heading to Modern this week to play one of the jankier combo decks we've played in a while. The basic idea of the deck is simple: if we can get a Training Grounds on the battlefield and then equip an Umbral Mantle to a creature land like Inkmoth Nexus or Blinkmoth Nexus, we can make the creatureland infinitely big by tapping it for one mana and then untapping it with Umbral Mantle for one mana to give it +2+/+2. Then, we simply fly over our opponent's defenses for the win. When the Umbral Mantle plan doesn't work, we can always sacrifice one of our creaturelands to Polymorph to find the only real creature in our deck: Emrakul, the Aeons Torn! Is it really possible that Umbral Mantle is Modern playable? Let's get to the videos and find out; then, we'll have some thoughts on the deck.

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Umbral Mantle Combo (Instant Deck Tech)

Umbral Mantle Combo vs. Grixis Death's Shadow (Match 1)

Umbral Mantle Combo vs. Naya Burn (Match 2)

Umbral Mantle Combo vs. Kiki Chord (Match 3)

Umbral Mantle Combo vs. Eldrazi & Taxes (Match 4)

Umbral Mantle Combo vs. GW Lifegain (Match 5)

Umbral Mantle Combo (Wrap-Up)

Discussion

Conclusion

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