Tap Dancers

by QolorfulMTG on 24 August 2016

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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Deck Description

Budget prowess control for $20 with counterspells, removal, and freezes played cheap using Curious Homunculus, and Niblis of frost increasing the lockdown potential of every spell you play while you swing for decent sized chunks of hp.

Deck wasn't actually made to be Budget, I just wanted to beat my friends who were playing Bant company and Emerge so I made this hard lockdown deck that just happened to be budget.

Sideboard is all counterspells to switch for the lockdown against burn and other countrol if you need to keep your prowess creatures alive.

If you are wondering about confirm suspicions in the sideboard, I know it looks funky, but you can usually end up paying 3 for it, and it gives you 3 clues, which is important, because this deck plays a lot of spells, and you can end up with an empty hand if you aren't playing your cards that replace themselves, like Grip of the roil and slip through space. Same reason I have Press for answers in the mainboard, in play testing having clues on the field got me out of some awkward spots.

Nephalia Academy is in here because in the original deck I tried Mirrorpool to see what it would be like, but the only thing worth copying was Sphinx, and getting both on the field to use it was to much of a hassle to be worth having Mirrorpool. Because Academy allowed safety from things like duress, transgress the mind, and Distended mind bender, i kept it.

If you have suggestions, let me know, I love hearing other people's ideas!

Enjoy!

How to Play

You want Homunculus in your opening hand if you can manage it.

Try to play spells until you have 3 in your graveyard, then play Homunculus, because having the 1/1 on the field for 2 or 3 turns while you try to get it transformed is asking for it to get wiped out. Once you have it set up to transform it, then you want play it. If you know the opponent cant do anything to it without you using it to block, then play it right away so it can be used as a mana rock.

Niblis of frost is in a similar situation to Homunculus, in the sense that you don't want to play it as soon as you have the mana. Being tapped out on the opponent's turn is a Control player's worst nightmare, so wait until you have at least 5 mana to play it so you can play a negate or something along those lines to keep it safe until it can attack.

With sphinx of the Final Word, you don't have a care in the world. Once it is down, there is nothing to remove it but full board wipes, and even languish can't kill it, so it is an extremely low risk card to play. If they do have a board wipe, then throw in invasive surgery from your sideboard, as every single board wipe in standard is sorcery speed.

Overall, here is the basic idea if you haven't caught on by now. Freeze everything they play, then swing uncontested over and over. Thus the name. Stay Frosty. :3

Deck Tags

  • Mono Blue
  • Budget
  • Control
  • Standard

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Card Legality

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

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