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A friend of mine started playing MTG and when I asked him what type of deck he wanted, he said something along the lines of Control. This is what I came up with using some of my unused cards
Counter and delay until you can drop either a buffed Jace's Phantasm or Latch Seeker
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Admire your friend for trying/picking Blue right out of the gate.Definitely one of the hardest colors to learn Magic with.Will say this, if he can Blue, then it will help him learn every color/mana. I see where you said it is some unused cards of yours. I would recommend...if he learns and likes the deck, and goes with Jace's Phantasm being is favorite card, that he considers running 2 more Mind Sculpt and 3 or 4 Tome Scour. Take out the Numbing Dose (5 mana is a huge amount of mana, and you have several cards in your deck that do close to the same thing but for cheaper mana) and the Jace's Erasure for them. Idea, as you know friend, is to play 1) Jace's Phantasm 2) Mind Sculpt 3) Tome Scour as fast as you can. It is much faster than Numbing Dose and Jace's Erasure.If he likes the Latch Seeker, i would recommend him running more pump up or copies of Last Thoughts and Hands of Binding. Of course, using Cipher on him. Oh yeah, you have 9 cards that are creature hate (tapping them) but you have no cards for any other type of hate. Nothing to combat Artifacts/Enchantments/Equipment. I might consider something more global in removal/bounce. Just for protection. Or at least teach your friend that if he sees a creature being cast...to not use his Counterspells on it. Teach him to use his counterspells only on Artifacts/Enchantments/Etc since he has no other way to remove them. Or consider a card like Cyclonic Rift for threat removal. Or Disperse. Tell him, Good luck!
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I haven't given him the deck yet, but I have been doing some play testing and it works pretty well. I still need to get a Lost in a Labyrinth and 2 Latch Seeker before I'll give it to himYou do have a point with the creature hate though. It is rare that I have to truely deal with something other than pesky creatures. And when I do, I just instinctively use counterspells for them.This deck probably use a bit more mill though. Some games it is hard to get Jace's Phantasm buffedAs for the Cipher, it was in there for the rare instance of a creature hitting them as an added bonus, in a way a taste of some of MTG's various abilities. Since they were the only spares and there are really only 6 creatures that hit my opponent, I didn't think that I needed many
It has my luck. Teach him well!
*like*Not "luck"
I know what you meant. Both also work
cryptic command and vendilion clique
If I had a spare $400. Both seem to fit well in here, but I just don't have them or the money to get them.
You can always use proxies! ^^
If he decides to go down the Modern tourney road with this eventually, I will tell him to try them Until then, this is for a simple casual play until he builds up his skills