Hello friends, I brought you my spicy new mono black deck,
Fain, the Broker.
https://deckstats.net/decks/150242/2245036-fain-modular-brokerThis deck looks to win with Fain on board without summoning sickness and
Thornbite Staff equipped. From there, we need to get a second sac outlet and
Lesser Masticore. Tap Fain, sacrificing
Masticore and putting two +1/+1 counters on himself and untapping with Thornbite.
Masticore comes back with a -1/-1 counter with
Persist, and we tap Fain again to remove it, creating a treasure. We sac it with our second outlet, untapping Fain with Thornbite and bringing
Masticore back with a -1/-1 from
Persist, and we're back where we started, up one treasure net.
This makes infinite treasures, which lets us activate Fain an infinite number of times. We can win here with
Blood Artist/Zulaport pings, Thornbite pings,
Masticore pings, an infinite number of infinitely big Inklings or Mega Modulars, or an X=1000
Torment of Hailfire.
We can also generate infinite mana with
Cabal Coffers,
Deserted Temple, and
Rings of Brighthearth if we can make 6 swamps (3+
Urborg is best). Pay 2, tap Cabal for 6, pay 1 and tap
Deserted Temple to untap
Cabal Coffers. Pay 2 to Brighthearth and copy the activation, totaling pay 5 for 6, netting one black mana per loop. Close out the game the same way.
What do you think? Finding a Modular sans-W commander has been a challenge, but I think Fain synergizes incredibly well with them, since all of them are usable with any of his 3 activated abilities. It's really easy to spiral with 2 Modular cards and
Persist with Fain, since SBAs happen at the same time and the Modular trigger still goes on the stack when it leaves play. Any suggestions for the brew?