slowly but surely

Standard*

Wretched

Instant (15)

• 3x Dissipate
• 4x Forbidden Alchemy
• 4x Mana Leak
• 2x Negate
• 2x Noxious Revival

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Day of Judgment
• 4x Ponder

Enchantment (6)

• 4x Curse of Exhaustion
• 2x Oblivion Ring

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Karn Liberated

Creature (11)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 2x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 4x Snapcaster Mage
• 4x Sturmgeist

Land (20)

• 2x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Glacial Fortress
• 6x Island
• 4x Plains
• 4x Seachrome Coast

---

Sideboard

Instant (9)

• 3x Gut Shot
• 3x Marrow Shards
• 3x Mental Misstep

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Timely Reinforcements

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Oblivion Ring

---

Maybeboard

Instant (3)

• 3x Turn Aside

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Day of Judgment

Artifact (2)

• 2x Ratchet Bomb

---

Well...i saw the card Curse of Exhaustion and i just knew i had to use it...so i went off of the old Arcane Laboratory deck i used to run...(it being one of my favorite cards)...and just made it standard. It's total control...it moves pretty slow...but once you have tempo control...it's hard to lose.

Sturmgeist is a killer in this deck. He helps with drawing your control spells and gets pretty big pretty quick.

Snapcaster Mage is your extra counterspells, chump blocker, and an early attempt to go aggro.

Forbidden Alchemy helps you find the right cards, and dumping the rest isn't so bad with snapcasters around.

Noxious Revival has awesome synergy with a snapcaster...it basically gives permanents flashback.

Karn Liberated is the alternate win condition...as once you have control...you just restart the game with your opponents weapons. not to mention he's a reusable o-ring.

The sideboard is for the RDW and aggro match-ups. Those pesky turn 1's are kind of hard for me to deal with.

I don't normally like control decks, but Curse of Exhaustion was just to good to pass up. Comments and suggestions are welcome. The deck is currently undefeated in casual. Haven't taken it to any tournaments yet.

Date added	12 years
Last updated	12 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 0 Rares 15 - 15 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	Soldier 1/1 W