Another shot at a post Innistrad deck, get there with Red/Blue control!
Basically it substitutes black cards from U/B control with red ones. The deck is inspired (though far from the same) by Patrick Chapin's Grixis Control. It made me realise how good Desperate Ravings can be, and where does it shine better than in u/r control?!?
I hear some people say that they prefer Think Twice, here's my reasoning: Desperate ravings rids you of a random card, but in the end, you get to see more cards with it. If you have the answer for a problem in your hand, just cast that, if you're looking for an answer you don't have, the ravings is better than think twice. On top of all that: cards in your graveyard aren't worthless with snapcasters in the deck.
Anyway, it's your general control setup with a boatload counterspells, Gut Shot for early troubles in Delver of Secrets
, Birds of Paradise, Tempered steel, etc. Then later on when stuff gets put of hand there's
Slagstorm
and Blasphemous Act as badass sweepers.
4x Snapcaster Mage, don't think i need to explain him anymore.
Then there's the winconditions;
Inferno Titan for BEATS!!!
Wurmcoil Engine for slightly less but harder to get rid of BEATS!!
and Consecrated Sphinx for card-advantage and unimpressive but still relevant BEATS!
Also Devil's Play as very efficient removal and BEATS.
I'm not saying this deck owns u/b, but i do think it might be slightly better against the current aggressive field (which might not be the case anymore after worlds, but whatever).
I designed it to have less of a hard time against the various aggressive strategies that control usually has such a hard time beating.
I think the slagstorms help this a lot, although it is a little awkward in combination with dissipate in the same slot.
