Stone-Cold Control

Commander / EDH* Casual Competitive Control Multiplayer UB (Dimir)

Hickorysbane

Filter/Draw (13)

• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Fortune's Favor
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Opt
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Thought Scour

Bounce (7)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Clutch of the Undercity
• 1x Compelling Deterrence
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Recoil

Stax (7)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Night of Souls' Betrayal
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip

Ramp (5)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Tezzeret the Schemer

Tutor (3)

• 1x Clutch of the Undercity
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Teachings

Removal (12)

• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Murder
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Silence the Believers
• 1x Silumgar's Command
• 1x Spinal Embrace
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Lands (38)

• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 18x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Watery Grave

Misc (5)

• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

WinCon (5)

• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Sphinx-Bone Wand
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Commander (1)

Counter (11)

• 1x Annul
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Silumgar's Command
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Swan Song

HardStop (6)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain

Recursion (3)

• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Soul Manipulation

Other (1)

• 1x Far / Away

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Sideboard

Other (1)

• 1x Gifts Ungiven

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Maybeboard

Other (32)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Dreadship Reef
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wipe Away

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Just something thrown together for local tournaments with a vague but enforced no degeneracy rule. Thus the lack of storm wins.

Basic premise is answer everything that threatens you. Lotta one for ones that Dralnu lets us double up on, and classic control card advantage. Once you've ground the opposition into dust (or there's a good opening) drop a resilient and/or protected threat and go to town on them. Torment of Hailfire is perhaps my favorite finisher. Once it hits double digits it outta cripple the table (combined with the general grinding that's been going on to reach that point), and then flashback the next turn should win the game.

Gifts Ungiven is in the sb cause I'm sad I can't play it

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 1 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Emblem Tezzeret the Schemer, Etherium Cell, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	Tengo IRL