Grixis Cruel Control

Commander / EDH Control Cruel Control Discard Land Destruction UBR (Grixis) Voltron

Goronagar

Land (41)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Island
• 1x Lavaclaw Reaches
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wandering Fumarole
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (25)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Force Spike
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Negate
• 1x Shadow of Doubt
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Vendetta

Planeswalker (7)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Necropotence

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Duress
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Sinkhole
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Creature (6)

• 1x Dwarven Blastminer
• 1x Dwarven Miner
• 1x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Sedraxis Specter
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

Artifact (4)

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

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"There is no greater folly than standing against me."

• Nicol Bolas

Cruel Control (Land Destruction, Discard, etc.)

Win conditions: Commander voltron dmg or superfriends.

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Land destruction

Dwarven Blastminer

Dwarven Miner

Sinkhole

Shadow of Doubt (Using against fetchlands)

Fulminator Mage

Karn Liberated

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Discard effects

Thoughtseize

Duress

Inquisition of Kozilek

Liliana of the Veil

Kolaghan's Command

Hypnotic Specter

Sedraxis Specter

Liliana Vess

Karn Liberated

Cruel Ultimatum

Synergy:Top deck Counterbalance

Counterbalance + Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, Ponder, Preordain, Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Synergy: Snapcaster Boomerang

Snapcaster Mage + Cryptic Command / Kolaghan's Command

Graveyard hate

Nihil Spellbomb

Relic of Progenitus

Bojuka Bog

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An Esper mage will leave a hole in your memory with surgical precision. A Grixis mage sees no reason to be so kind.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #58 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Dack Fayden, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Control, Control, Red/Black/Blue (Grixis)