Black/White Control

by AoRK on 21 October 2010

Main Deck (61 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Artifacts (2)


Enchantments (4)

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Deck Description

A Black/White control deck that uses Skithiryx as it's win condition. Hopin' to make this competitive at a Tournament level, so help me improve it if you wish. :D

Deck Tags

  • Control

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Black/White Control

Skithiryx is a great card, but i dont know how well it would work in a control deck. If you want to use him to his full potential, throw him in a green/black infect deck.

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Posted 25 October 2010 at 20:46

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See, I actually hafta disagree with you there. Sure he's a great addition to any infect deck, but I think that this guy opens up new possibilities than just a straight-forward, completely obvious infect deck.

For one thing, he only needs to hit 3 times to win and they can't get any of that "life" back once it's lost. That right there already gets me excited. He's very hard to remove from the field because of his regeneration. As a matter of fact, the only cards I can think of that remove him are Consuming Vapors, Celestial Purge, and just outright countering the guy.

And lastly, haste in a non-red deck is never expected in standard. Knowing you have 2 turns to get rid of the guy, and destroying him won't work, isn't exactly fun or easy to do. Plus, the idea is super fun to me. :)

Anywho, that's my input at least. Any comments on the deck itself though? I'd love to hear how it can be improved in any way. :D

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Posted 25 October 2010 at 21:14

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the regeneration ability does nothing when it comes into contact with; journey to nowhere, unsummon, mystifying maze, condemn, and -1/-1 counters from any source. i love Skithiryx, but you might want a back up plan... cause they will find a way to get rid of him. also, him being the only creature in the deck that can attack will be problematic when they journey him. if he or your tutors winds up getting mana leaked you'll wind up with no win condition. you can stall as long as you want with the removal and such but eventually you won't have anything playable.
i'd say put in some wurmcoil engines, and probably a baneslayer or 2. both are very solid win conditions.
even a sun titan would help because you could get land out of your deck faster or use it for card draw.
the mimic vats can be fun but they're better in decks with more creatures. (funny idea, drop a sun titan in a mimic vat. then he will enter the battlefield and attack on the same turn. you'd get 2 things back. haha.)
i'd think about grave titan too. he's a beast.
you'll probably want to think about putting some revoke existence in your sideboard.
anyway, i like that you're being original. it looks like it would definitely be fun to play but i'd just warn you to think about the many terrible things that could happen to completely shut down the deck.
blue white would kill it in its current state. i've been looking for anything to kill that stupid deck.
anyway, thats just my input for now.
some of this might have sounded rude. i didn't intend it that way. haha. let me know how it works for you in the tournament and who knows maybe i'll eat my words. haha.

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Posted 29 October 2010 at 01:54

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First and foremost, thanks for providing constructive critisism. Very rare find here. :)

Anywho, I like your advice alot. Added Malakir Bloodwitch to the mix as an alternate win conditon/help against B/W control, added 2 Revoke Existence in the board replacing a luminarch and a journey to nowhere (dunno why I didn't do that before actually...) and removed all the mimic vats but one. I couldnt take 'em all out. I like the card too much plus the idea of beating my opponent with their own creatures is just too funny. Plus, it has a bit of synergy with the Bloodwitch. :)

And, I don't know how we both missed this, but I added a ratchet bomb also. Seems like a good catch all to stuff I can't kill or discard.

Anywho, I'd like your info on my board. Are the mind rots and luminarchs good enough for the B/W match up, or is there another possibly better route I can take there?

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Posted 29 October 2010 at 17:49

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honestly i think you should go a little crazy and run like 4x memoricide and/or 4x sadistic sacrament, remove any major threats out of the opponets deck so you can control the board easier, and since you won't really be concerned about their life total maybe condemn would be some better/cheaper removal
and i'm not so sure about the vat with so few creatures but the wall of omes + vat is pretty cool

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Posted 26 October 2010 at 06:13

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a single card win condition is a deadly idea, if you get it early you win, if for some reason it takes a wile to get it out your in trouble.

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Posted 20 November 2010 at 14:59

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