Dralnu Budget Control

Commander / EDH Budget Casual Control Multiplayer UB (Dimir)

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Instant (25)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Careful Consideration
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cremate
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dimir Charm
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Far / Away
• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Fortune's Favor
• 1x Learn from the Past
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Negate
• 1x Quicken
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rite of Undoing
• 1x Scour the Laboratory
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Silence the Believers
• 1x Undermine

Artifact (9)

• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mistvein Borderpost
• 1x Seer's Lantern
• 1x Silumgar Monument
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Land (41)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Dread Statuary
• 1x Dreadship Reef
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x High Market
• 11x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Salt Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God

Creature (10)

• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Duskmantle Seer
• 1x Echo Mage
• 1x Mindleech Mass
• 1x Niblis of Frost
• 1x Nightveil Specter
• 1x Reaper from the Abyss
• 1x Reiver Demon
• 1x Soratami Seer
• 1x Twisted Abomination

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Grim Discovery
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Recover
• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Windfall

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Blue-black control deck on a budget, with each card being 3$ or less on Cardkingdom.

The basic idea, like most EDH control decks, is to stop opponents from killing you or doing something very powerful wile gathering resources(mana and cards). This deck wants to play a land every turn, keep interaction and/or card draw every turn, and use Dralnu as a card advantage engine.

Because of the multiplayer facet of commander this deck doesn't play a lot of counterspells; they are of limited usefulness because you usually just want to sit back and let people kill each other and only counter spells if you can't answer them any other way, and they get hated on a lot anyway. Graveyard hate is a must in my meta, although all the graveyard hate also does something else in this deck if not needed. Cremate draws a card, Shred Memory transmutes for something, Learn from the Past both draws a card and protects your own graveyard in an emergency. Because of power-level considerations, most of my decks only play one tutor. Diabolic Tutor is for sure not the best choice, but slots in here because it can find both finishers and answers without revealing them.

This deck is built to be very interactive, and is probably not the easiest control deck to pick up and play for less experienced players, even though it is built on a budget and intended for low to middle power level groups. If you enjoy lots of little decisions however, this might be deck for you.

(Please note that this deck is built for a meta where black and green are the dominant colours. Red isn't widely played, most decks interact with their graveyard, and while combos are present there are rarely combo decks. Few planeswalkers.)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.61
Tokens	Manifest 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
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