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Modern Living End Without Standard Blink Cards

2 requestsStarted 8/31/2025, 2:56:51 PM
in modern, can you find a deck that has overlord of the balemurk, but no phelia, Exuberant Shepherd, not ephemerate ? (link the one you find)

I'll help you find a Modern deck with Overlord of the Balemurk but without those other cards. Let me search for this specific combination.

Now let me search for tournament entries that have Overlord of the Balemurk but exclude the other cards you mentioned:

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Perfect! I found several decks that run Overlord of the Balemurk without Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd, or Ephemerate. Here are some recent examples:

Most Recent Example:

Best Performing Example:

Other Notable Examples:

  • Living End builds (multiple players including niuwaid001 who went 4-2 for 3rd place)
  • Esper Control variants
  • Sultai Graveyard and WUBG Scam builds

The card appears most commonly in Living End decks as a value engine, and occasionally in Esper Control and Mardu Energy builds as a grind piece.

Sources
Data from 10 recent tournament entries featuring Overlord of the Balemurk without the specified cards: 70% MTGO Challenges, 20% Melee tournaments, 10% other events.

let's zoom in to "has Overlord of the Balemurk", with no "Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd", nor Ephemerate, nor "guide of souls", nor "living end" (the card)

I'll search for decks with Overlord of the Balemurk that exclude all those specific cards. Let me query the database to find these builds.

Now let me find decks with Overlord of the Balemurk that exclude all these cards:

🛠️Query

Perfect! I found several decks that meet your criteria. Here are the most notable examples:

Best Performing Example:

Most Recent Example:

Other Notable Examples:

  • Hiro_Hsiang with Esper Control - Multiple appearances including a 4-1-1 (2nd place) finish
  • RIN with WUBG Scam - 2-3-1 performance
  • TomCairns with Reanimator - 1-0-1 performance

The most successful build was the Mardu Midrange deck that finished 2nd place, using Overlord of the Balemurk as a grind engine without any of the typical blink package cards.

Sources
Data from 8 tournament entries featuring Overlord of the Balemurk without the specified exclusions: 75% MTGO Challenges, 12.5% Melee tournaments, 12.5% other events.