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Tiny Tuesday- Anafenza Aristocrats

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Last time that I posted an Anafenza deck I made the egregious error of not realizing that Karakas was banned in the format. I assure you that today's deck is 100% more legal.

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The build that I present you today is a juxtaposition of a relatively recent Standard deck in Junk Arisocrats and a Modern combo that people still play consisting of a sacrifice outlet, Kitchen Finks, and Melira, Sylvok Outcast or Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit. This deck won't take as much strategic advantage of Anafenza, the Foremost as the other deck, but access to her will provide a solid beatdown plan. Here's the list:

Anafenza Aristocrats

creatures

1 Blood Artist
1 Cartel Aristocrat
1 Doomed Traveler
1 Skirsdag High Priest
1 Varolz, the Scar-Striped
1 Young Wolf
1 Strangleroot Geist
1 Safehold Elite
1 Voice of Resurgence
1 Bloodghast
1 Dark Confidant
1 Viscera Seer
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Eternal Witness
1 Carrion Feeder
1 Saffi Eriksdotter
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Birds of Paradise

spells

1 Lingering Souls
1 Blasting Station
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Chord of Calling
1 Summoner's Pact
1 Recurring Nightmare
1 Bitterblossom
1 Secure the Wastes
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Liliana of the Veil

lands

1 Command Tower
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept Heath
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Arid Mesa
1 Flooded Strand
1 Marsh Flats
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Polluted Delta
1 Bayou
1 Savannah
1 Scrubland
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Godless Shrine
1 Temple Garden
1 Forest
1 Swamp

This deck generates a lot of solid value on the back of cards like Liliana of the Veil, Dark Confidant, Eternal Witness, and Recurring Nightmare, and otherwise has access to a combo with a lot of interchangeable parts.

The tutors in the deck can find access to any missing link in the life combo chain, with Varolz serving as your green sacrifice outlet and Melira and Kitchen Finks fleshing out the combo. From here Blasting Station and Blood Artist can result in a kill, or if you have Station or Artist but not Finks you can substitute Safehold Elite.

Right now is a great window to pick up both Dark Confidant and Chord of Calling if you want to play this deck or something similar, with supply on Bobs being at an all time high and Chord of Calling being poised to steadily increase in value as we move further from the Magic 2015 printing and into a Modern format where a handful of decks play it alongside Collected Company.

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While Bitterblossom was just reprinted, it also isn't doing a lot as a card. A bunch should be entering the market soon, and you'll probably be able to pick that card up cheaper if you wait at least until people sell theirs off from the thousands of Modern Masters limited decks worldwide this weekend.

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