Current Recommended 75

Current Recommended 75

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Last updated: June 23, 2026 Recommended shell: Classic Golgari Cauldron / Green Sun’s Zenith Yawgmoth Status: The list I would run at an event this week.

This is the current baseline I would register: a classic Golgari Cauldron/GSZ Yawgmoth shell with a light Chord of Calling package. The goal is to stay centered on real Yawgmoth gameplay while preserving post-board access to high-impact bullets.

Visual Decklist

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Copyable Decklist

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Creatures — 24
4 Badgermole Cub
4 Delighted Halfling
4 Young Wolf
3 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
3 Walking Ballista
1 Endurance
1 Formidable Speaker
1 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Ouroboroid
1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
1 Strangleroot Geist

Artifacts — 4
4 Agatha's Soul Cauldron

Instants — 2
2 Chord of Calling

Sorceries — 6
3 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Malevolent Rumble

Enchantments — 1
1 Dredger's Insight

Planeswalkers — 1
1 Grist, the Hunger Tide

Lands — 22
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Forest
3 Overgrown Tomb
3 Spymaster's Vault
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Windswept Heath
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Swamp
1 Underground Mortuary
1 Wooded Foothills

3 Fatal Push
2 Force of Vigor
2 Fulminator Mage
2 Thoughtseize
2 Vexing Bauble
1 Culling Ritual
1 Endurance
1 Outland Liberator
1 Soulless Jailer

Why this build

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The list keeps the best-performing recent core: 4 Badgermole Cub, 4 Delighted Halfling, 4 Agatha’s Soul Cauldron, 3 Green Sun’s Zenith, and the compact Yawgmoth / Ballista / Cauldron kill structure.

Recent successful lists have been split between more classic Cauldron/GSZ builds and adjacent Samwise/Birthing Ritual/Chord shells. I prefer staying closer to classic Yawgmoth. The deck is still at its best when Yawgmoth is a real engine, not merely a backup plan inside a broader creature-combo shell.

The 2 Chord of Calling package is the compromise. Chord improves post-board access to Endurance, Outland Liberator, Soulless Jailer, Sephiroth, Yawgmoth, and other corner-case bullets without fully turning the deck into a Ritual/Chord toolbox deck.

The sideboard is aimed at the actual pressure points of the current Modern field: Fatal Push for Energy, Prowess, and creature-combo decks; Force of Vigor and Outland Liberator for artifact engines and hate pieces; Fulminator Mage for Eldrazi, Tron, and Titan-style mana; and Thoughtseize, Vexing Bauble, Endurance, and Soulless Jailer for combo, stack, and graveyard decks.

Main flex slots

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• Third Forest. The extra basic is a hedge against recent land-destruction pressure and helps keep the mana functional through longer games.
• Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER. The deck has survived without Blood Artist-style effects for a while, but Sephiroth is appearing in recent Yawgmoth lists and is worth testing as a compact finisher/bullet.
• Third Yawgmoth versus fourth Yawgmoth. I am currently on 3, but this is one of the first numbers to revisit if the deck needs to be more direct.
• Second Endurance main or side. The current split gives access without overloading on reactive cards.
• Chord of Calling count. Two copies give access to bullets without forcing the whole deck to become a Chord deck.

Cards under consideration

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• Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
• Essence Warden
• Fourth Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• Fourth Walking Ballista
• Additional Dredger’s Insight
• Third Chord of Calling
• Additional Endurance
• Damping Sphere
• Additional Fulminator Mage
• Second Soulless Jailer

Change Log

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June 23, 2026: Initial recommended 75.