Breaking Melira, Sylvok Outcast

So.

For a bear, she has two pretty good abilities and one amazing, stupid, broken ability. Can you find which one it is? 


If you said you can't get poison counters you are wron-....what? Phyrexian Unlife?  Yeah. I guess that is pretty good.


Ok. So two pretty great abilities. But the one amazing one is the one that says "Creatures you control can't have -1/-1 counters placed on them". This is one of those abilities that start getting the juices flowing. The first thought you might have is breaking something like this:

Holy board wipe Batman! So when this bad boy starts to Persist, it won't get those -1/-1 counters. So you can just keep blowing up everything. Oh yeah, you will also have infinite mana. That's pretty darn good.


Yeah, but you are above that kiddie stuff and you want some down and dirty standard brokeness. Well, have you thought about Black Suns Zenith for a one sided board wipe? How about this gentleman:

Want some rules to back this one up?


121.5. If a spell or ability refers to a counter being “placed” on a permanent, it means putting a counter on that permanent while it’s on the battlefield, or that permanent entering the battlefield with a counter on it.


Lawyered.


The list for Melira just goes on and on and on and on.  So here is a pretty good standard deck that revolves around Melira that I've been cooking up:

6x Swamp

5x Forests

4x Verdant Catacombs

2x Marsh Flats

2x Misty Rainforest

4x Inkmoth Nexus

3x Birds of Paradise

4x Lotus Corba

4x Melira, Sylovk Outcast (brroooooken)

4x Phyrexian Crusader

1x Phyrexian Vatmother

1x Skithiryx, The Blight Dragon

2x Etched Monstrosity 

4x Inquisition of Kozilek 

2x Despise

4x Go for the Throat

1x Doom Blade

4x Green Sun's Zenith

3x Black Sun's Zenith

SIDEBOARD

4x Nature's Claim

4x Torpor Orb

2x Doom Blade

1x Black Suns Zenith

2x Duress

2x Hex Parasite

So, the big "combo" of the deck is Melira + Etched Monstrosity. 10/10 for 5. Also, you can use Black Suns Zenith with Melira in play to Plague Wind at a super discounted rate. You can go with the Infect rout or the damage rout. The sideboard is as follows: Nature's Claim and Tropor Orb for Caw-Blade/anything with Splinter Twin. Extra Duress' for Spinter Twin. More Black Suns Zenith and Doom Blades for dumb decks that think that they can beat me with creatures. 

Most importantly, this is NOT Caw-Go, Caw-Blade, Hawkward, anything with Squadron Hawk and Jace....cause those are dumb.