Selective Control [Modern]

No sideboard found.

The owner of this deck hasn't added a sideboard, they probably should...

Basically the goal is to start pruning your hand and getting the board to a point where you feel off of the backswing. You'll need your Elixir of Immortality at some point, too.

Keep your Stream of Consciousness as emergency backup against instant speed grave hate, too. Feel free to Ripple whenever—it won't matter much once you go off as to what is in your grave.

Delve away anything that isn't creatures, Ripples, Elixir, Stream, a Knot, and the cards you feel matter in your match. No more than about 6 more spells. Once you have a decent hand—Selective memory away everything except your Ripples and the cards you haven't Delved can be further pruned down.

The idea is that Surging Æther and Surging Dementia should only have a very small library to Ripple through after you Selective Memory.

If you've managed to Delve away enough cards—you should be able to have about 10 lands left at the most. With 8 Ripples and only about 6 other spells—odds are you'll Ripple 2+ times every cast. Keep using Knot to get rid of what's left in terms of lands, and ripping their lands/hand up with your Ripples. Then... win unopposed.

If your Selective setup fails or doesn't work—switch the deck with your sideboard to be an aggressive Delve deck.