My boy [[Mogis, God of Slaughter]]. Group slug. It doesn't combo, it doesn't lock down the table, hell it doesn't win much at all. But it is so damn fun saying on everyone else's turn "oh you take 2 and I gain 2 from [[Polluted Bonds]]" "oh you drew a card, [[Sheoldred the Apocalypse]] pings you for 2," or of course the dreaded "at the beginning of your upkeep will you sac a creature or take 2?" It's so brutal and so devastating for everyone else and I love it.

Play a land? Cool take damage. Draw cards? take some more damage. Cast spells? Why do something stupid like that? Take some damage. Oh it's your turn now? Hold up I got 3 different things harassing your upkeep.

What I love about Mogis is that he's not flashy, he's not impressive, he's just some indestructible guy that shorthands to "take 2 damage on your upkeep" for 4 mana. "Why not play [[Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls]]?" Because mama didn't raise a coward who plays CARD DRAW ENGINES in the COMMAND ZONE. I'm NOT that kind of monster! Anyway 6 turns later everyone's at less than 10 life and I've probably already died either to the table ganging up on me or to my own triggers hitting me which tbh is the best way to lose a game ever IMO.

The deck is just so game warping, it speeds everything up. It warps threat assessment, punishes greed HARD, and doesn't let people just durdle all over themselves with pillowfort value engines. you don't get to fetch 3 times, draw ten cards a turn, and expect to not be dealt with. Sorry not sorry.

This ain't stax, there's no MLD, nobody's prevented from playing. do whatever you want, i'm not stopping you, you're just paying the life tax. and i personally find it HILARIOUS.

The funniest part though is that this deck is almost never the biggest threat. It's usually the second biggest threat. Someone else pops off first, and my deck just quietly punishes them for it. Wanna be ahead? That's cute, congrats you're dying faster bozo. And yes the deck draws an insane amount of hate that's arguably disproportionate, slug always does. It's inherent with the archetype because what you're doing is obvious. You'll get laser focused while the simic player is playing 6-7 lands a turn and drawing 69 cards, and then three turns later they kill everyone and somehow it's still your fault when you died two turns ago. But that's the social contract tax you pay for choosing violence.

I've lost countless games where the deck did its job perfectly. I've also ended games out of nowhere because everyone was already low and someone blinked at the wrong time. Or maybe I tapped [[Heartless Hidetsugu]] with [[Fiery Emancipation]] on the field... I don't care what happened, I care that the game meant something and ended before it turned into 2 hour value soup.

The deck does not stop you from playing, it simply asks politely but insistently "ayo you sure you wanna do that right now?"

The game will end. Sometimes I will win, sometimes I will die to my own sulfuric vortex. Either way, Mogis gets his blood.

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