Mana Maze Control

by Zaney on 30 March 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

Artifacts (4)


Enchantments (8)


Land (22)

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Deck Description

I would like to first say that I play magic casually, though I do know a lot about the Modern/Legacy decks. I like to find a card and make a deck around it, or make a deck around a common theme, usually on a decently low budget. This time I made a deck around Mana Maze! The main combo of this deck is Mana Maze + Painter's Servant. The other one being Painter's Servant + Douse. I get Painter's Servant out, choose red, then counter everything with Douse, or play Mana Maze with instant spells on their upkeep.

How to Play

Again, play Painter's Servant on Red, then use either Douse to counter everything, or Mana Maze with instants on your opponents upkeep to prevent him/her from using spells on their turn. To do the latter consistently I put in Whispers of the Muse and Capsize (which have a total buyback cost of 6 mana). Isochron Scepter with one of the instants in the list could also be used, but I like the buyback better. Mainly because its cheaper money-wise, but also because I think buyback is an interesting ability.

The win condition is Black Vise, which deals damage the more cards the opponent has. Capsize helps with this a lot.

In order to get the combo cards, Muddle the Mixture can transmute to get painter's Servant or Mana Maze and Brainstorm and Whispers of the Muse helps dig through the deck a bit.

Deck Tags

  • Control
  • Mana Maze
  • Painter's Servant
  • Casual

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

045000

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Mana Maze Control

Here is my Mana Maze deck! Any Feedback/Card suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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Posted 30 March 2015 at 06:09

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Hey man really cool deck, and cheap! this deck honestly looks too funny and i think it looks like alot of fun something you could get your friends irritated at you for ha ha something about the control aspect always builds some salt in people but i l ike what you did with the Painter's Servant + (Douse and Mana Maze) And the transmute on muddle of the mixture being able to grab the painter's servant is just so nice.Total lock down and for a reasonable price not bad stuff man lol i'll check over some of your other decks also was wondering if you could do the same look at this deck i made. http://www.mtgvault.com/ruiqi/decks/wurms-is-this-real/ Really fun polymorph style please let me know if you like it and have a good day yo. [Modern] Legal also hehe

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Posted 30 March 2015 at 06:10

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My friends like control decks a lot (I usually don't play them but I thought Mana Maze was super interesting). This way I can get some revenge!

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Posted 30 March 2015 at 07:24

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Maybe Umalog's crusher in the side? That way if you have your mana maze + servant combo up you can play the crusher with counter spell backup.

Though I do stress this is only useful advice if your playing some kind of control deck.. crusher will be a dead card if you fight a really fast deck.

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Posted 30 March 2015 at 07:17

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Yea Its pretty slow Not my cup of tea 8 is just too slow but hey i guess anything can be beast if it gets pulled and played at teh right time lol

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Posted 30 March 2015 at 07:19

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Yeah I like the idea of it for the end game finisher, but I also like keeping the theme all together. Just one of my nit-picky things I do when I make decks (it can hurt the deck itself in respect to how good it is). I am a fan of Eldrazi though and am working on making a deck with eldrazi spawn/Cryptic Gateway to cheat eldrazi into play!

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Posted 30 March 2015 at 07:26

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