U/B Control (help or Idea's )

by harrisa on 04 September 2011

Main Deck (61 cards)

Sideboard (5 cards)

Sorceries (1)

Instants (4)

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Deck Description

After much success with Caw-Blade and set rotation coming up, I'm try my hand at a different kinda of control. This may not be the best yet but it will be a work in progress. So I would like comments and help before this Friday, I'd like to get it together and test on workstation and run it in this weeks FnM. So below you will see the deck list i have as of right now. Oh and I'm mostly trying to Limit the amount of rotation cards that's used. I still haven't completed a side board yet either.

Deck Tags

  • Tournament

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Not Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for U/B Control (help or Idea's )

well, a few things.
First; no less than 25 lands. Some even consider that too low. but you do not want to miss land drops, trust me. also speaking of lands, ghost quarter is coming back.. so yeah.

a few cards I don't understand;
mimic vat
phyrexian revoker (main deck)
vault skirge
sangromancer
massacre wurm.

all these cards are good, they're just not u/b control. Some cards you may want to look at are;
snapcaster mage (I can't stress how good this card is)
consecrated sphinx
POSSIBLY bloodgift demon.
and solem simulacrum (so good)

if I were running u/b, chances are my creature bass would be;
4 snapcaster
4 phantasmal image
3 solem simulacrum
2 grave titan
1 consecrated sphinx
1 wurmcoil engine.

snapcaster + removal is insanely good. and on that note, let's look at some removal;
what decks do you anticipate on being top decks? because I anticipate tempered steel to be huge. and on THAT note, i'd definitely find some place from doom blades main.
also, with snapcaster mage, you could run 1-of utilities that you only need to draw ones. maybe a 1 of surgical extraction, or a 1-of memoricide. anything that could be useful, but not useful enough to include several copies (main, that is)

I think life's finale is weak, honestly. usually black sun does the job.

new lilianna could do some good, especially with snap caster. she could maybe fill the jace slot?

there's a lot of angles to go about u/b at the moment... as you can see. so the best way to go about it, really, is to just mess around. See what works best for you, (:

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Posted 04 September 2011 at 20:02

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Oh i know i saw the post rotation cards, and I have the Snapercasters and the Lilianna's per-orderd,. And these were the cards i had on had, I like the Idea of the Simulacrum i forgot got about him. I will add in the Sphinx also. I was tossing around an idea for FNM this week. See i was running the Vat to copy creatures (which come in handy like copying the massacre wurm or a sun titan or simulacrum to i guess manna ramp lol) and Revokers cuz two of my friends run Pod and Plainswalkers and it really slowed them down. Just trying to figure out a good Base for this deck. Thanks for the help.

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Posted 04 September 2011 at 20:15

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