Control the hostage !

Standard*

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Land (24)

• 2x Canyon Slough
• 3x Dragonskull Summit
• 2x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 4x Spire of Industry
• 4x Spirebluff Canal
• 4x Swamp

Instant (17)

• 1x Disallow
• 4x Fatal Push
• 4x Glimmer of Genius
• 2x Negate
• 4x Opt
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Sorcery (8)

• 3x Duress
• 2x Hour of Devastation
• 3x Walk the Plank

Creature (8)

• 4x Hostage Taker
• 4x Siren Stormtamer

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 3x Abrade
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Doomfall
• 2x Hour of Devastation

Creature (2)

• 2x Glorybringer

Artifact (3)

• 3x Sentinel Totem

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Maybeboard

Creature (13)

• 1x Dire Fleet Hoarder
• 2x Dire Fleet Ravager
• 4x Kitesail Freebooter
• 4x Prosperous Pirates
• 1x Ruin Raider
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk

Instant (8)

• 1x Lightning Strike
• 4x Opt
• 3x Spell Pierce

Artifact (4)

• 2x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 2x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip

Enchantment (5)

• 2x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Trove of Temptation
• 2x Vance's Blasting Cannons  ^Flip

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Here what i need for help : I don't know how to make my mana base, what are the best land cards ? + do you think hostage taker and nick bolas are enough to take the win or do i need more way to win ?Do you know any good card a control deck should use to get some treasure, they seems pretty op.+ im not pro at control, so do i have what am i missing for a total board control in?

So this is a brew for a control deck in standard with the new set of ixalan, ill keep it update.Hope you try it out if you can or if you have a similar brew, share !

When i look at my curve, i know something wrong, i think i got too many 1 mana card and i got 0 3mana. Any idea what could fit in ?

So the main idea is to keep your opponent from playing with Fatal Push and Walk the Plank, got Hour of Devastation for bigger threat and some counter spell like Negate and Siren Stormtamer

Glimmer of Genius for the draw card and Opt

Then when they put on the board a bigger creature, you Hostage Taker them.

Finish them with Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 6 Rares 16 - 6 Uncommons 9 - 3 Commons
Cards	59
Avg. CMC	2.60
Folders	Standard