This lighting-fast Magic: The Gathering set has tons of great creatures to experiment with, taking old mechanics to new heights with some tricky creatures
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Assuming you do a little bit of setup (easily achieved with access to greens ramp and blacks tutors), you can have some protection spells ready with Swiftfoot Boots, some Impact Tremors-like effects, and some sacrifice synergies like Blood Artist and Mayhem Devil to maximize the damage those Kobolds deal on the way in and on the way out
And finally Outlaws is a new kind of creature batching
Creatures (6) Arboreal Grazer x4 Subtlety x2 Instants (18) Lightning Bolt x3 Counterspell x4 Planar Genesis x4 Expansion / Explosion x3 Nexus of Fate x4 Sorcery (4) Gates Ablaze x4 Enchantments (7) Guild Summit x4 Wilderness Reclamation x3 Lands (25) Azorius Guildgate Breeding Pool x2 Gruul Guildgate x4 Island Izzet Guildgate x4 Misty Rainforest x2 Scalding Tarn x2 Simic Guildgate x4 Steam Vents x2 Thran Portal x3 Sideboard (15) Consign to Memory Haywire Mite x2 Spell Pierce x2 Swan Song Damping Sphere x2 Dismember x2 Gatebreaker Ram x4 Force of Vigor I won't pretend that this is the most competitive Modern deck in the world, but it's a riff on a deck I loved playing in the Standard, and it gives you a pretty good idea of how a gates deck wants to play
In early May, this printing was selling for around $1.50, but it has since spiked to around $7.50, based on recent sales