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The original was posted on /r/modernmagic by /u/WestminsterNinja on 2023-09-28 21:14:32.

I recently 5-0’d with a new Coffers brew () and wanted to share my list along with my reasoning behind it. I’ve made some marginal changes here: . I’ve been maintaining a 69% win rate over 16 leagues, and an 80% win rate over the last 6 leagues as I’ve felt more comfortable with the deck.

1. Deck Concept

The idea behind this deck is that Radiant Fountain represents card draw more than it represents lifegain for a deck that plays Ring. Being able to keep a Ring around for an extra turn instead of resetting means you’re getting a lot deeper into your deck. Additionally, you can grab Radiant Fountain with Golos which creates a stabilization analog to Sheoldred. When you’re able to sit at a more comfortable life total, the entire deck flows better. You’re not desperately trying to reset Ring or look for a Sheoldred, because your manabase is doing that for you. Because we’re using Golos instead of Sheoldred, we now have a payoff that the opponent can’t let untap if we grab Cascading Cataracts. Golos is a toolbox creature that represents either Coffers/Urborg fixing, removal (Blast Zone), lifegain (Fountain), or value (Cataracts) while putting another land into play. The great thing about activating Golos with Cataracts is that this play doesn’t get punished by Bowmaster, and the 3/5 body lines up nicely against it. These are all things a Coffers deck wants to do.

2. Deck Pros/Cons

One of the biggest pros of this build is that it is more budget friendly. It doesn’t run Sheoldred or Bowmaster. Ring is still required because it’s one of the best Modern cards at the moment. Even though it’s budget, that doesn’t make it bad. What changes with this build is the matchups you’re strong or weak against. This deck shores up a lot of matchups while adding one big weakness, which is that the Scam matchup isn’t that great because of a lack of Bowmasters, Edicts, and Sheoldred. I’m fine with this tradeoff, Scam is an evasive deck where talented pilots can play through all kinds of sideboard GY hate. I’ll take the roughly 1/3rd – 1/4th of games where Scam seems to lose to itself because of clunky hands or bad draws. The following table of matchups of my games from 16 leagues with at least 3 matches of data shows that outside of Scam, this build does really well against a wide swath of the meta:

Matchup # of Wins # of Games Win %
Murktide 10 12 83.3%
4c Omnath 8 9 88.9%
Scam 4 9 44.4%
Rhinos 4 4 100%
Yawgmoth 3 4 75%
5c BTL 2 4 50%
Amulet Titan 2 4 50%
Creativity 3 3 100%
Hammer 3 3 100%
Tron 3 3 100%
Jeskai Breach 2 3 66.7%

Obviously, there’s no such thing as a 100% matchup, but I think these numbers are roughly in line with what to expect for good and bad matchups. Scam, Titan, Scales, and 5c BTL are generally tough matchups with all other matchups being reasonably favored. You might be surprised to find Tron a favored matchup without any Field lands, but with the amount of hand disruption in this deck it’s not hard to put Tron back a turn and assemble Coffers before Tron pops off. This deck also runs Break The Ice and Dauthis SB which are extremely good against Tron. Yawg is also a decent matchup, because this deck runs Pithing Needle and also a SB Ballista to one-shot thanks to the mana sink nature of this deck. Rhinos feels like a bye, you steal their hand before they can pop off Turn 3 and then jam your own payoff. Similarly, hand disruption is good against other slower decks like 4c Omnath to slow them down until you can Sundering Titan their lands. 5C BTL is tougher because they can pop off with Valki before you can many times.

3. Card choices

Profane Tutor

Profane Tutor is a bit of a build-around, you don’t want this card while you’re holding up two mana for an edict or a bowmaster. However, if you stack the one-drops, this provides a nice curve of Turn 1 interaction, Turn 2 suspend Tutor, Turn 3 double interaction, Turn 4 cast Profane Tutor. As your only two-drop, you can run this card without an issue. The suspend is a strong play against both Bowmaster and Spell Pierce, and it’s hard to blow out this card except for Teferi. It’s also important to have redundancy for Coffers/Urborg mana because many decks are packing Boseijus main. There are effectively 11 copies of either Coffers or Urborg in this deck. It’s very common to need a second Coffers/Urborg given the land hate currently being packed.

Defile

The second big choice of this deck is running Defile over Push. I like the early and late game versatility of it and will accept some spots where it is weak in the midgame. The amount of Urborg fixing in the deck makes securing an Urborg more-or-less a sure thing. You can also fog a turn with Ring until you find what you need in the event that Defile doesn’t do the job. Being able to kill 5 mana elementals or Murktide with all of your removal is underrated, I’d rather not be sitting with dead cards for some of the most prevalent matchups.

Inquisition of Kozilek / Thoughtseize

Because we need to stack the 1-drops in a Profane Tutor build, hand disruption allows us to set up really oppressive curves that force our opponents into off-curve play into a Profane Tutor suspend. This does not work against Scam or Scales generally, but there are many other matchups where this works really well. For instance, even though Hammer is an aggro deck, it’s sort of combo-aggro where you can disrupt their game plan and then hide under a Ring or Karn until you pop off. Slowing down an opponent makes Profane tutor a lot better, because you give yourself the ability to pop off before they can.

Bloodchief’s Thirst

This is filler 1-mana removal. It’s not necessary to run this, but I like its ability to deal with both one-drops and W6 efficiently.

One Ring

This deck runs 4x Rings maindeck, it doesn’t need a wishboard Ring because the additional life in the manabase makes it very hard for us to die from our own Ring triggers in the event we get unlucky. I’ve always felt like the top-end slots in Coffers have some amount of flexibility, yet ring is the most powerful card in the deck. I’d rather make the maindeck as powerful as possible and save the SB slots which are tight. This allows us to pack additional hate for other matchups which I prioritize more.

Karn

The great thing about Profane Tutor and Karn is that it makes your wishboard much more accessible. You can more consistently go into Pithing Needle or whatever lock piece you because you have access to more copies of Karn. This allows you to lock up Game 1 before your opponent has access to SB hate. Since there is no wishboard Ring, I’m able to run extra hate like Pithing Needle and Witchbane Orb.

Cling to Dust

Cling is draw and lifegain. With a Ring in play, it’s more of a draw 3 if you target a creature. With a full GY in topdeck mode, it represents a lot more draw.

Damnation

Only running one copy thanks to Profane Tutor. It’s an irreplaceable effect.

Golos / Land Package

Golos is a great toolbox creature. Grabbing Blast Zone is really strong currently, you can wipe a board of Leyline Bindings or opposing Pithing Needles. There are matchups like Hammertime where it will win on the spot when you sac it. Grabbing Cataracts to win a topdeck battle is huge, and not triggering Bowmaster with his activated ability is a big part of its usefulness. Grabbing Radiant Fountain is useful against Burn, Aggro, or stabilizing under Ring triggers.

SB package

Break the Ice locks up the Tron matchup, and Dauthis can work to steal payoffs with Thoughtseize, or work as GY hate, or beaters against decks like 4c that won’t expect it post-SB.