Potion of Dragon Control (Standard MTG Deck)

Been wanting to play something a little outside of the norm, I play an unhealthy amount of turn sideways decks. It's good to branch out from time to time.

As for why Grixis? While there is quite the argument to basically any control deck being better with Sphinx's Revelation, there's some advantage to playing a deck your opponent doesn't often see. Also, this will be a nice home should Ral Zarek prove to be any good come Dragon's Maze.

Deck Tech - TBD

Mainboard

LANDS - Playing 26 since the deck potentially wants to get up to cards like Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker. And full colors since a lot of our spells have unfriendly casting costs.

1 CMC - Thought Scour trying this in place of Think Twice for the time being. It potentially get Snapcaster Mage online without having to use a resource from hand.

1X CMC - I originally had Dissipate, but I'm going to try out Syncopate , which is a little less great late game, but it get online sooner, like say countering a 2 drop.

2 CMC - Dreadbore kills whatever you need killed, no conditions other than it isn't an instant. Izzet Charm counter, removal and looting in one. Mizzium Mortars is more for the overloaded sweeper side. Rakdos's Return nukes out people's hands. Snapcaster Mage gives access to spells a second time. Ultimate Price still kills most of the relevant creatures.

3 CMC - Liliana of the Veil comes down early to start causing trouble. Tribute to Hunger is pretty more stabilization, but sometimes you need it.

5 CMC - Jace, Memory Adept shreds libraries.

6 CMC - Staff of Nin card advantage galore, and sometimes the pinging is relevant.

8 CMC - Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker takes over games.

Sideboard

Bonfire of the Damned comes in against creature heavy match-ups. Counterflux makes control mirrors very awkward for them. Gloom Surgeon blocks for days as long as they don't have trample. Jace, Architect of Thought, Liliana of the Dark Realms and Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker are the transformative elements of the sideboard. They don't address specific threats so much as allow the deck to tailor its planeswalkers against another deck. Slaughter Games for any important cards. Tormod's Crypt because the deck is slow and thus weaker to reanimator.

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#4 in tournament @ Atomic Empire — March 22, 2013

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Explosive Humans has been running really well, meaning I have a decent pool of store credit built up. So I decided to change it up and run Grixis Control tonight.

Match 1 - RUG Ramp 2-1

He got game one on me because I completely missplayed. Like, "derrr what are counter spells?!?" I'm too used to playing turn guys sideways decks. Luckily, all his ramp was creature based, Arbor Elf, Avacyn's Pilgrim and Somberwald Sage are pretty akward when I start landing Staff of Nin.

Match 2 - Jund Aggro 1-2

There's a lot of haste in that deck, which makes my Dreadbore less effective. A good portion of the deck also isn't mono-colored for Ultimate Price. I was able to get out of head of it in Game 1, but both Game 2-3 saw Burning-Tree Emissary hands.

Match 3 - Dimir Mill 2-0

His deck couldn't aggresively mill fast enough, and I had a way better late game. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker resolving pretty much ended it, despite us playing it out. Game 2 he kept something sketchy and conceded after a few turns on 1 land.

Match 4 - 4 Color Wizards

The deck was interesting, though a little odd. It was white, black, blue and green. Playing Delver of Secrets ^Flip, Snapcaster Mage, Duskmantle Seer and Deathrite Shaman. Along side linger souls, Thought Scour, orzhoz charm and Abrupt Decay. I got bashed down one game by linger souls, but after boarding into Slaughter Games and some key Jace, Architect of Thought to shut down his whole offense I took 2 games.

Final results 4th with 3-1. Though the best part of the night was deciding to open to packs of Innistrad since I was still good on store credit and opening a Liliana of the Veil.

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Revision 8 See all

(11 years ago)

-2	Devour Flesh	main
+2	Dispel	side
+2	Dissipate	main
+1	Mizzium Mortars	main
-2	Syncopate	main
+4	Think Twice	main
-4	Thought Scour	main
-2	Tribute to Hunger	main
+1	Underworld Connections	side

Date added	11 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 5 Mythic Rares 38 - 6 Rares 7 - 2 Uncommons 5 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.71
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms
Folders	B, Control/Dimir, Grixis Nicol Bolas, Grixis, Things to try
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