American Control

by rafael.angelo on 13 February 2014

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Deck Description

This deck is a clone of Izzet Burn Control by rafael.angelo.

http://www.mtgvault.com/rafaelangelo/decks/izzet-burn-control/

Deck Tags

  • Standard
  • Control

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for American Control

Please, suggestions are welcome!

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Posted 14 February 2014 at 19:07

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You're running at least 1 too many 3-mana hard counters.
Boros Charm doesn't fit as much as you might want it to.
Aetherling needs a friend?
Ral Zarek is an burn-style izzet planeswalker, and this is supposed to be a control deck?
Gothy pointed out that Jace, Architect of Thought is a control-oriented planeswalker.
Mizzium Mortars makes me confused alongside a stack of Supreme Verdicts. What's your reasoning?

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Posted 15 February 2014 at 03:38

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The idea is clean up / counter everthing until to enter Aetherling or Espelth. Who would be a good friend for Aetherling? About Boros Charm, there are some options that could work: indestructible for my tokens for the Supreme, Double Strike for Aetherling to finish the game or copy in the ultimate of Chandra. About Jace, I agree, but the only problem is that I don't have it... (here in Brazil Mtgis not so ship). Thanks for the comments!

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Posted 15 February 2014 at 17:12

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Running 1 of win conditions is asking for your combos to be shut down.
Acquiring a Boros Charm in conjuction with Aetherling and tokens is very unlikely when you only run a total of 3 of them.
Expecting Chandra to get there on her own without some defense is quite unlikely without some tougher instant speed removal.

I don't see any real answers to green and red aggro decks in your choices apart from Verdicts after taking significant damage.

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Posted 15 February 2014 at 19:39

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Jace Architect of thought is amazing

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Posted 14 February 2014 at 22:29

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yep. That's Ral Zarek's biggest problem. He's in a block with one of the best planeswalkers ever to haunt a format. And they occupy the same slot.

hey rafael.angelo what are the Boros Charms for specifically? the indestructible? cause keeping them around just to give Aetherling double strike is iffy. If you're using them for the indestructibility you're protecting your permanents from targeted spells usually... Wouldn't you be better off with another counterspell?

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Posted 14 February 2014 at 23:24

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Hey kmk888, that are my ideas for Boros Charm: indestructible for my tokens for the Supreme, Double Strike for Aetherling to finish the game or copy in the ultimate of Chandra. What do you think? What would you use in the plane of that? Thanks!

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Posted 15 February 2014 at 17:18

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Okay I see the Chandra, and that whole thing is kinda cool. But 3 is too many. You know what I would do? -1 Boros Charm +1 Assemble the Legion. Then put 2 Assemble the Legion in the sideboard and you can really punish certain decks. Nice brew though.

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Posted 16 February 2014 at 22:19

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How is this American?

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Posted 15 February 2014 at 07:34

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American is what most people who don't know about the -volver's call the RedWhiteBlue decks. There's a lot of different ways to interpret it all.
Each pair(2) of colors has a guild.
5 of the 10 trinity(3) are Jund, Grixis, Naya, Esper, Bant. The other 5 of the trinity's are called by many many names. The apocolypse set had 5 volver cards; Ana(green blue black), Ceta(red green blue), Dega(red white black), Necra(green white black), and Raka(red white blue). These 5 are also called by the name of their respective dragons by some and ugly names like Junk, American, RUG, BUG, etc.
The 5 4-colors are usually distinguished by the Nephilim names.
5-color tends to be called 'five color' or things like Maelstrom or Conflux.

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Posted 15 February 2014 at 07:47

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I know about colour-combination names, but why would this one in particular be called american?

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Posted 15 February 2014 at 07:56

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Sorry man, I didn't undestand your question. As chaoslord00 answerd, it is because RedWhiteBlue Deck.

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Posted 15 February 2014 at 17:31

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assemble the legion could be another win condition?

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Posted 16 February 2014 at 07:25

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