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'Murican Control (1ST PLACE AT FNM!)

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For those of you who haven't played UWR Control, its really fun. The way it works is you start playing and kinda hold on for dear life and hope that you can make it to like turn 7 with a decent amount of life. If you do and have maintained decent control, the win is yours.

This deck is constantly evolving, but I will list the big players here.

CREATURES

Snapcaster Mage: Broken AF. Flashback graveyard all day. The real strat is to play a Cryptic Command, using the bounce ability to put him back in your hand. Then you can play him again and flashback the cryptic, using it again to bounce and starting a cryptic chain

Restoration Angel: Flash is surprising, and, mana permitting, he can help us get more procs from Snapcaster Mage. It also helps with Geist of Saint Traft, as you can freely swing with geist and remove combat damage from him with the angel.

Geist of Saint Traft: win con. Hexproof is great against everything, and if I deploy him early then its a huge hindrance to the opponent, and he is still very useful in the late game. And no one can deal with it. (except for Lilliana of the Veil

SPELLS

Lightning Bolt: One of the best removal spells in modern. It can also be thrown to the face when the game gets close

Lightning Helix: 3 damage and 3 life. Not bad.

Path to Exile: One of the best removal spells in modern.

Electrolyze : great against little things, and provides card advantage.

Mana Leak: one of the best counters in modern.

Spell Snare: same as above

Cryptic Command: Just read it this card's broken

Sphinx's Revelation:wins games. Casting this for 4 is pretty good, but it can be an insane topdeck in a really long game. Drawing lotsa cards for lotsa life is great. This is one of the reasons why the deck runs 26 lands.

SIDEBOARD

Wear / Tear: great for dealing with a lot of things that run artifacts or enchantments.

Anger of the Gods: Exile is nice. I would rather run Pyroclasm, but things like Kitchen Finks and Voice of Resurgence are problem cards that are bothering me

Counterflux : ends stack battles, and is great against mirror matchups and matchups where counterspells are heavily played.

Spellskite: good against almost everything

Negate: great against many things

Timely Reinforcements : best card against burn

Celestial Purge: My only answer to LotV

Engineered Explosives: aggro is a thing

Keranos, God of Storms: my meta is heavy in control and this can help fight the long game. I'm not too impressed with him right now, as I like it in control/mirror games but then its just a pain to resolve and not have mana up.

Supreme Verdict: board wipe, which can be extremely helpful

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So every Sunday The Whiz has a modern tournament, and last night I won (more or less)!

First round: 2-0 vs Splinter Twin: Didn't have too much trouble, at one point there was a Splinter Twin on Deceiver Exarch, but fortunately I had a Path to Exile in my hand. Besides that the match was a breeze.

Second Round: 0-1 vs American Control: I'm pissed off at this match. Mirror matchup, and I lost game one from a few too many bolts. Ran out of time during the second game, did the 5 turn thing, and he ended up at three life while I was at 10 with a Keranos, God of Storms and a Geist of Saint Traft. However, it was the 5th turn, and the game was "drawn", so I ended up losing the round. Oh well.

Third Round: 2-1 vs American Twin: I played this guy before at somepoint. Game one he played Restoration Angel into Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker. Game 2 I ALMOST died to a bolt-snap bolt. I countered the first bolt, then he played another, then played a snapcaster mage, which I promptly spell snared, leaving me at 1 life. Drew Sphinx's Revelation, played that for 5, and beat him to death with a Restoration Angel

Fourth Round: 2-1 vs. Loam stuff: His deck ran Life from the Loam. That was basically it. Game one he cast a total of I think 10 lingering souls tokens while I was stuck on only blue and white mana. Fortunately, I resolved a Geist of Saint Traft early on and managed to Cryptic Command to tap down his creatures. Game 2 I lost to Smallpox and Raven's Crime getting out of hand. Game 3 I managed to cast a Shadow of Doubt and then just countered everything, putting him way too far behind.

I only kinda won because there was one more match scheduled, but it was late and there was snow on the road, so we decided to call it a draw and go home. We will settle it later.

Overall the night was great and this deck performed fantastically.

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Revision 38 See all

(8 years ago)

-1 Mana Leak main
+1 Path to Exile main
Date added 9 years
Last updated 8 years
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

8 - 1 Mythic Rares

27 - 5 Rares

16 - 7 Uncommons

3 - 2 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.26
Tokens Angel 4/4 W
Folders dex, Powerful , Modern Gauntlet
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