Nutshot to Control (Standard MTG Deck)

Nutshot to Control

Standard* Aggro BG (Golgari) Control GU (Simic) Landstill

Gigglestomp

Creature (25)

Planeswalker (2)

Land (25)

Enchantment (4)

4x Rancor

Instant (4)

2x Negate
2x Simic Charm

Sideboard

Creature (2)

2x Wolfir Silverheart

Instant (13)

The main board is a general purpose golgari aggro deck slimmed down from Unending Assault. I've replaced some cards with blue mana and counterspells.

It would be easy to sideboard out the trackers against control (no fighting). You could also pull out the nighthawks because they are slower, and lifelink is less important. Additionally, the Loltrolls could probably go since trample isn't needed vs control, and you will not be discarding any cards in that matchup.

For those 8 id consider the sideboard. I have 8 counterspells there. You could do all 8 of those.

Strategy:

Thrown down Geist or Mangler. Save 2 mana. Attack with haste.

They Supreme Verdict or Terminus on their turn. Pay 2 mana and save the creature with any of those spells.

Next tur rancor, then attack again.

The goal is to have a counter to every answer they have for you.

Usually they dont start taking over till around turn 5 or 6. By then, you will have them low. (Always). They then plan to board wipe and recover. Don't let them.

Against non-control matchups:

It's still a midrange aggroish deck. Not much has changed. If you don't want to keep the control cards, you can side out the 2 Simic Charms, the 2 negates, and 3-4 Simic lands (~7-8 cards) for some of these goodies:

Naturalize, Wolfir Silverheart, Tragic Slip.

Heres deck after sideboard for game 2

Nutshot v Control Full Sideboard Vs Control

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Friday Night Magic 2/15/13 Tied 3rd Place 3-1-0 — Feb. 15, 2013

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Second time getting to play this deck at a magic event.

1st Round, Mill Combo Deck with Heavy Removal
2-0-0
-He was stuck on 3 mana both games. Crushed him before he could pull off any combos.

2nd Round, Naya Aggro.
1-2-0
- He got me first game by playing a hellkite turn 4 (Farseek), then playing a thragtusk the next turn, then a thragtusk the next turn, then another hellkite. I was able to race him and beat him on dmg/lifegain till he got the second tusk. Then he played a second hellkite and won.
-I won the second game after sideboarding in simic charms and overpowering him.
-We nearly tied the third game due to time constraints but he beat me by taking control of my rancor'd ooze and swinging with that.

3rd Round, Gruul
2-1-0
-He got me game 1 by using loads of bloodrush on small guys every time my ooze attacked
-Game 2 I won. I sideboarded in lot's of removal and negates. I did NOT know negates would not work on bloodrush. This nearly cost me the game. He had a 1/1 unblockable by all but flyers/reachers. He bloodrushed it every turn for 4 turns. I got down to 1 life. I thragtusked. I tragic slipped his 1/1. Then I played a nighthawk, and some haste stuff and recovered to win.
-Game 3 I won. He pulled more bloodrush that got me as low as 5, but I had ditched the negates for simic charms and tricked him into underestimating my stuff, or else bouncing his bloodrushed creatures back with simic charm. We had got to turns on this one because of our long second game, and I won on my very last turn (4th on the die).

4th Round, Some Boros
2-0-0
I beat him up hard with haste creatures. I subbed in some pinpoint removal game 2 for his batallion toughies. He had one that gave everyone like first strike trample. He made one vital play error that cost him game 1. We removed all of each others creatures, but I had garruk relentless on the field. He tried to kill him with dreadbore, but I used Simic Charm to give all my permanents hexproof. His play mistake was he forgot simic charm lasted the whole turn, and after a minute of thinking, did a huge rakdos return at GARRUK not me. Garruk lived of course, and i got 2 more wolves and a mangler. Game won.

I got 1 pack for tieing third, but nothing great in it this week! High Priest of Penance
I made some good trades and picked up a playset of Hellrider. All in all a very successful FNM.

Tuesday Night Magic 2/5/13 3rd Place 3-1-0 — Feb. 5, 2013

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Revision 10 See all

(11 years ago)

-2	Increasing Savagery	main
+2	Wolfir Silverheart	side

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 2 Rares 16 - 6 Uncommons 6 - 7 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.31
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Human 2/2 G, Wolf 1/1 B, Wolf 2/2 G, Wurm 6/6 G
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Based on	Unending Assault Gigglestomp STD
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