Incredible Bird Combo Deck Spreads its Wings Early in New Modern! – MTG Rocks

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The goal with all Nadu shells is to churn through your entire library and win by resolving Thassas Oracle

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Outside of Shuko and Lands, nearly this entire Nadu deck is made up of extremely efficient Creatures and ways to find them. Arboreal Grazer enables you to play Nadu as early as turn two. Zero-mana creatures in the form of Ornithopter and Memnite help speed up your Chord of Calling process.

Rather than mess around with value-oriented options cards like Coiling Oracle , this deck is trying to get the game over with as soon as possible. With such a high density of low-cost creatures, youre unlikely to fizzle while trying to combo. To further help in this department, the deck even plays four copies of Khalni Garden and three copies of Dryad Arbor as Lands that naturally increase your creature count for Shuko.

The biggest downside in constructing your deck this way is that the backup plan of winning via combat damage is much more difficult. While Springheart Nantuko can flood the board with tokens that you can attack with, cards like Arboreal Grazer and Ornithopter do almost nothing individually. However, this decks all-in nature comes in handy when trying to get the game over with quickly.

From Golgari Yawgmoth to Amulet Titan, Modern is chock full of other combo strategies. Because Nadu decks in general lack interaction, theres pressure to end the game before the opponent can do the same. This deck is fast, reliable, and surprisingly resilient. As a four-toughness threat, Nadu isnt the easiest creature to kill. If you expect disruption like Solitude or Fatal Push from the opponent, tutoring up Sylvan Safekeeper is a safe bet.

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Theres still plenty of time for players to adapt to Nadus rise to power, but its easier said than done. The fact that Nadu triggers when your opponent targets it with removal means that you almost always get a favorable exchange when you can land the powerful Bird. Meanwhile, neither combo piece costs much mana at all, so racing the Nadu deck can be difficult. We expect Nadu to dominate the format for weeks to come.

If youre looking to beat the archetype, there are a couple considerations that can give you a solid fighting chance. Right off the bat, we can look towards the deck that ultimately won the SCG Con Las Vegas $5k: Dimir Mill. Dimir Mill attacks on a very unique axis that many decks, including Nadu combo, arent exactly prepared for.

Rather than try to remove Nadu from play once it hits the battlefield, Dimir Mill players have the luxury of potentially milling over Nadu or Shuko, and then they can use a Surgical Extraction effect to break up the combo forever. Not to mention, if the Singleton copy of Thassas Oracle gets exiled, say by Tashas Hideous Laughter , the Nadu deck may struggle mightily to close the game.

Beyond exiling combo pieces, another reasonable strategy is to try to fight over Nadu or tutors on the stack. Azorius control decks have the ability to counter Nadu, Chord, or Pact at will preventing you from generating any value.

Ultimately, Modern Horizons 3 is bringing a lot of strong options to Modern, so itll be interesting to see how the metagame unfolds. For now, though, Nadu remains the talk of the town. Make sure youre prepared, and if you cant beat them, you might want to consider joining them.

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