Supreme Verdict Control

Modern Competitive Control WU (Azorius)

Hoodlem

Creature (8)

• 1x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 2x Monastery Mentor
• 3x Snapcaster Mage
• 2x Wall of Omens

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

Land (26)

• 4x Celestial Colonnade
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 4x Glacial Fortress
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 5x Island
• 5x Plains

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Banishing Light

Instant (18)

• 3x Cryptic Command
• 4x Path to Exile
• 4x Remand
• 2x Spell Snare
• 2x Sphinx's Revelation
• 3x Think Twice

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Supreme Verdict

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Nyx-Fleece Ram

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Leyline of Singularity
• 2x Nevermore

Artifact (6)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 2x Relic of Progenitus
• 2x Tormod's Crypt

Instant (5)

• 2x Flashfreeze
• 3x Negate

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Gameplay Strategy

This deck focuses a lot on keeping up with the tempo of fast aggro decks.

T1: Path to Exile/Spell Snare anything the opponent plays.

T2: Mana Leak/Azorius Charm counter/get rid of attacking creatures.

T3: Banishing Light/Dissolve delicious removal.

T4: Board wipe with Supreme Verdict.

T5: Tamiyo, the Moon Sage and start pumping up loyalty.

T6: Elspeth, Sun's Champion and get those tokens.

Overall, during playtesting the deck was able to keep up and beat aggro decks.

Mana Base

Flooded Strand: All competitive decks need fetches, here they are.

Celestial Colonnade: A great man land that gives you essentially free 4 dmg on at least turn 5/6.

Glacial Fortress : An easy to get out dual land, I'll usually have a plains/island by then so that part isn't too crucial.

Seachrome Coast: Here for the same reason as Glacial Fortress.

Temple of Enlightenment + All other scry lands: Scyring and card advantage in control is crucial, and six scry lands fulfills the need.

Plains + Island: Really an iffy decision, not sure whether to keep these. Kinda trashy cards, amirite?

Sideboard

Relic of Progenitus: For those pesky graveyard exploiters.

Nevermore: Can be used against any deck, just name one of their staple cards.

Flashfreeze : Good against any decks with red or green in them.

Nyx-Fleece Ram : Great for life gain, against burn decks.

Tormod's Crypt : Good against graveyard abusers.

Leyline of Singularity: Same reason as nevermore, good against anything.

Grafdigger's Cage: Again, for graveyard abusers/exploiters.

Negate: Good against control.

Gameplay

Against Mono Green Elves:So, I lost this match, but I saw some good things. In the first game he had maybe 4-5 elves out on turn 2 or 3, but I quickly board wiped and went on to get Elspeth and win. The next game he swarmed me with elves, and I couldn't seem to get the right draws. Finally, the last game he managed to get me down really low until I board wiped, and then played a few elves and won.

Against Mono Red Burn:I destroyed this match 2-0. I admit in game 1 I got some lucky draws, but the Nyx-Fleece Ram sideboard really helped me out game 2. I also managed to Nevermore a few burn spells that he favored.

Against Orzhov Aggro:This match was relatively close, the 2nd match I lost because I couldn't seem to draw Supreme Verdict, and I was stuck at 5 mana and running out of card advantage. However, I still won 1-2.

Overall, I went 2-1 and placed third.

Acknowledgements To....

Reddit, for some nice suggestions.

Any users who made suggestions on this deck.

My friends at my LGS who let me playtest endlessly.

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 5 Rares 14 - 7 Uncommons 3 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.76
Tokens	Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Monk 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W