Modern Infect Combo deck

Infect is a combo deck for the Modern format.

Description
It uses small and cheap creatures with Infect and powers them up with Blazing Shoal discarding a card like Reaper King or Progenitus to give the creature 11 power and win with a single swing due to Poison. To ensure a kill, it uses tutoring cards such as Plunge into Darkness or Spoils of the Vault, or to a lesser extent Summoner's Pact, as well as protection cards which are 0-1 mana in cost like Pact of Negation, Slaughter Pact, Gitaxian Probe</c> and Inquisition of Kozilek</c>.

The deck can kill as early as the second turn but is also risky to play as Spoils of the Vault</c> can randomly kill the player on its own, and failure to successfully connect with the Shoaled creature will often result in game loss from failing to pay for a Pact card at the next upkeep. Slower variants, however, also exist.

Variations
At Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011, Samuel Black piloted a version to a top 8 finish, that replaces the risky black tutoring with more consistent blue card-selectors as well as some cheap blue control effects, sacrificing speed for consistency.

Reception
Due to the lethality of this deck, Blazing Shoal</c> was banned from the Modern format.

<deck title="Infect Combo by Martin Juza at Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011"> Combo 4 Glistener Elf 4 Inkmoth Nexus 1 Vector Asp 4 Blazing Shoal 4 Progenitus 4 Reaper King

Tutoring 4 Plunge into Darkness 4 Spoils of the Vault

Utility 4 Inquisition of Kozilek 4 Gitaxian Probe 4 Pact of Negation 4 Slaughter Pact

Lands 4 Verdant Catacombs 4 Gemstone Mine 4 Llanowar Wastes 1 Overgrown Tomb 1 Forest 1 Swamp

<deck title="Mono-Blue Infect by Samuel Black at Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011"> Lands 8 Island 4 Scalding Tarn 2 Tolaria West 1 Watery Grave

Card Search and Utility 4 Peer Through Depths 4 Ponder 4 Preordain 1 Summoner's Pact 2 Gitaxian Probe 3 Disrupting Shoal 4 Muddle the Mixture 1 Pact of Negation 1 Snapback 4 Spell Pierce

Combo 4 Inkmoth Nexus 4 Blighted Agent 1 Progenitus 4 Blazing Shoal 4 Dragonstorm

Sideboard 2 Deprive 1 Dismember 1 Echoing Truth 2 Jace Beleren 1 Slaughter Pact 4 Spellskite 1 Trickbind 3 Vendilion Clique