Modern: Composition of Melira Pod

Using decks from the last two Modern GPs, this pre-Kansas PE, and a random LSV 4-0 list, here's a grid comparing recent Melira Pod maindecks:

Breakdown of a normal Melira deck:

• 23 lands (3 Gavony Township, 8 fetch, 8 dual, and 4 basic)
• 8 mana creatures (4 Birds of Paradise, 3 Deathrite Shaman, 1 Wall of Roots)
• 7 creature tutors (4 Birthing Pod, 3 Chord of Calling)
• 6 persisty creatures (2 Voice of Resurgence, 4 Kitchen Finks)
• 10 combo creatures (1 Viscera Seer, 2 Melira, 1 Cartel Aristocrat, 1 Witness, 1 Metamorph, 2 Redcap, 1 Ranger of Eos, 1 Reveillark)
• 3 disrupty creatures (1 Qasali Pridemage, 1 Spellskite, 1 Orzhov Pontiff)
• 2 disruption spells (Abrupt Decay or Thoughtseize)

This totals 59 / 60 slots that are quite consistent in all the Melira Pod decks listed.

Distinctions of certain Melira Pod lists:
- Dan Macdonald's list predates the "Pardee template," missing Voice of Resurgence among other stuff.
- The 60th card in Sam Pardee's list is the 2nd Viscera Seer. Pardee has Abrupt Decay instead of Thoughtseize main.
- Pyromaniac4290 played Pardee's 60 cards from GP Portland.
- LSV's version played the 4th Deathrite Shaman over the Wall of Roots, 3rd and 4th Voice of Resurgence over Spellskite and Qasali Pridemage. He played Thoughtseize instead of Abrupt Decay. His 60th card was a Varolz.
- VFS played 2 Abrupt Decay and 2 Thoughtseize, cutting a Deathrite Shaman. He also ran the 2nd Viscera Seer over the Cartel Aristocrat and an Entomber Exarch over the Ranger of Eos.

Distinctions of Manfield's list:

- Dual land over the 3rd Gavony Township.

- Abrupt Decay instead of Thoughtseize.

- 60th card was the 3rd Voice of Resurgence.

Melira Pod decks are all pretty similar right now.

Breakdown of Ari Lax's Kiki Pod deck:

• 23 lands (2 Township, 7 fetch, 12 duals, 2 basic)
• 9 mana creatures (4 Birds of Paradise, 4 Noble Hierarch, 1 Wall of Roots)
• 6 creature machines (4 Pod, 2 Domri Rade)
• 9 combat creatures (2 Voice of Resurgence, 1 Tarmogoyf, 3 Kitchen Finks, 3 Restoration Angel)
• 8 combo creatures (1 Phantasmal Image, 1 Fauna Shaman, 2 Deceiver Exarch, 1 Redcap, 2 Kiki-Jiki, 1 Zealous Conscripts)
• 5 disrupty creatures (1 Spellskite, 1 Qasali Pridemage, 1 Izzet Staticaster, 1 Linvala, 1 Glen Elendra Archmage)

This is the same template but basically all different spells, beyond the Bird-Finks-Pod shell. Two big differences: Noble Hierarch instead of Deathrite Shaman, Restoration Angel instead of Chord of Calling.