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Please help - looking to play control with this, how can I improve it?
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Hi, I love playing with my Mardu deck and I think Mardu Control will be in a fairly good spot coming in with the Origins rotation. Before I make too many suggestions, I will keep budget in mind as far as suggestions. Are you attached to any particular cards in your list?Disclaimer: I've only been playing competitively for about 3 months now, but I have won 1 FNM with my Mardu deck. It's changed quite a bit since I started, but is in a pretty good spot right now.IMO-Mardu is best built as a Control deck that lies fairly close to the Midrange end of the spectrum. Or visa-versa. You don't have the card options to deal with out-control the premium Esper/Abzan Control, but it's much easier for you than them to go full aggro after sideboard.Here are my thoughts specifically and in no particular order:1) If your looking to go more control, just by glancing at your list, the first thing that pops out is the amount of x2 and x1 cards you have. Splashing is good, but I think it's best to have as many copies of good/utility cards as you can. Too many of 1 off and 2 offs lead to inconsistency.2) Swift Warkite must whiff a lot, you only have Pitiless Horde x1 that it can bring back. I would either take this out or put in more creatures it can hit. On the same note, control usually has very few creatures (<8) whereas Midrange/Control has around the 12 you have.3) Mana...with Mardu, mana screw is real and it's very tricky to get what you want when you need it. I recommend playing with 25 lands and try to get some scry lands (Temple of Malice/Temple of Triumph). If you're going control route, it's okay to have tap lands, but don't go overboard, I'd go for a 50/50 mix of tap/normal. I'd try x4 Nomad Outpost, x4 Temple of Malice, x4 Temple of Triumph, and the rest Mountains/Swamps/Plains and work from there.4) Instead of trying to curve out all 3 colors equally, I'd pick two to focus on and have a hint of the third. IMO, build R/B and splash white for Crackling Doom (which you should have 4 of since it's a seriously amazing card). Red gives you access to efficient creatures (and some awesome Dragons) and Black will give you very nice control options.5) Similar to the Warkite, your Butcher won't be able to shine unless you have creatures to sacrifice with it. I'd definitely recommend getting some sort of token generating action going (Dragon Fodder for example) or someway to steal an opponents creature (Act of Treason in Origins for example).6) Control in Mardu colors is all about killing creatures. With Butcher, you can take over your opponents creatures to sacrifice them, and Black gives you lots of killing creatures options. The cool thing that I love most about this is THE one and only Dragonlord Kolaghan (which I highly suggest you buy at least 1 cuz he's sick). Kill a copies of your opponent's creatures, drop down Kolaghan, and bam they can't cast any other copies unless they want to take 10 to the face.Building on these points here's a list I built just for you using yours as a template :Dhttp://www.mtgvault.com/thesh0w/decks/swobbards-mardu-control/
Hey,Thank you so much for the advice and the deceits you compiled for me!As someone who has never played competitively, I am new to deck building really and all the help and advice you have given me was really great.Thank you so much
No problem, let me know how your endeavors go!