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U/B Control on a budget
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Decent deck. My only critisms are that the upper end of your mana curve looks a bit shakey and that you have waaaaay to many swamps in here! Since you use 5.5x as much blue mana as black mana, you should produce approximately 5.5x as much blue mana as black mana as well.
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Actually, one other thing, although I understand why you threw 4x Kraken Hatchling in the deck, I think you would be better off with 4x Disfigure or 4x Vendetta instead. The reason U/B works so well is that Blue can counter things as they are played easily and Black is awesome at removing things from the board. I would love to see a few more Black spells incase some creatures get by the removal.
I thought that at first as well until I actually got around with some of my mates and we played some games, dropping the stormtide is lethal to most every deck that involves any form of attacking especially with a wrexial in which I got to use my friends burn against him, and in another situation take an extra turn. I was thinking that the deck did need some more black removal myself but I wasnt sure exactly to get out of the way but I shall try removing the hatchlings but I love them as a first turn block, seems to really stop an early rush.
Well I just did some editing and found just through about 20 or so goldfish rounds that I can keep the kraken hatching and still run efficiently. If you check my sideboard now as well you'll notice I swapped out smother for disfigure which I believe will work a lot better for low cost removal anyways because I got doom blade for the bigger things. Your suggestion really ran through and I believe now this deck though still really low budget can work pretty damn well.
Glad you enjoyed my comments. This deck is sweet now.
i like the deck and its budget friendly attitude. howabout adding conundrum sphinx along with your sphinx of jwar isle, thats a brutal lil combo, maybe swap out the stormtide's for them, they are exactly the same $ cost and would give ya an edge
That is a really nice combo but with this deck I would rather drop out wrexials for conundrum sphinx's but they haven't played as nice as they should yet in my deck but if it changes for me I will make a modification on here.
first of all i really like the deck. second, ive always really liked control but ive never had a large budget and was just wondering if it is worth buying this/does it win games? is you want to look at my B/U Budget control the deck link is http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=148747