UB flying into control

Standard*

timtom

Creature (23)

• 2x Blight Keeper
• 1x Bone Picker
• 2x Dreamcaller Siren
• 3x Hope of Ghirapur
• 4x Kitesail Freebooter
• 4x Nimble Obstructionist
• 4x Siren Stormtamer
• 3x Storm Fleet Aerialist

Instant (12)

• 2x Censor
• 4x Fatal Push
• 3x Opt
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 1x Supreme Will

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Favorable Winds

Land (21)

• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 2x Fetid Pools
• 10x Island
• 5x Swamp

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 1x Disallow
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 3x Glimmer of Genius
• 3x Vraska's Contempt

Creature (4)

• 2x The Scarab God
• 2x Torrential Gearhulk

Land (3)

• 2x Fetid Pools
• 1x Ifnir Deadlands

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Mostly this is just an idea for the new standard format with little to no meta gaming....

take out:

• 2 Blight Keeper
• 1 Bone Picker
• 2 Dreamcaller Siren
• 4 Favorable Winds
• 3 Hope of Ghirapur
• 3 Storm Fleet Aerialist

and add in the whole sideboard and you get a bad version of UB control from the last standard meta.

Clearly not every game calls for the full switch, just make sure if you start adding expensive cards from the board to also add lands.

The idea when building this deck there where a couple ideas i wanted:

• Maximize Favorable Winds and use instant speed spells after using the first few turns to set up a board.
• I wanted every creature to benefit from winds and be 2cc or less unless it had flash (calling Bone Picker a 1cc creature in this deck is debatable).
• I wanted a better than 70% chance of having a one drop in my hand when I started my first main step (not counting Bone Picker for this purpose). Which means I need 11 one drops.
• Once I decided to include Dreamcaller Siren, I wanted a better than 70% chance of having seen 2 pirates by turn 5. Which means I need 13 pirates. (Yes i am counting dreamcaller even though it is the point of the count... the math is just easier that way.)
• Using https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/how-many-lands-do-you-need-to-consistently-hit-your-land-drops/ I wanted 23 lands. Using the turbo xerox rule of "every four 1-2 mana cantrips, you can remove two lands" and counting censor as half a cantrip, I ended up with needing 21 real lands. (yes i know i am conflating two things that may not work together)
• The basics are heavily slanted toward islands so that the cantrips can count towards the lands. I didn't use all the Fetid Pools so that most lands would come into play untaped.
• I took the average UB control deck numbers from http://mtgtop8.com/compare?l=304072_304079_303971_303512 and tried to make a post board UB control deck that had one less of most of the cards ...

So yeah thats the idea, problems so far:

• Blight keeper is not good... with the basics so slanted toward islands for the cantrips, it isn't even a great turn one play.
• I want more Bone Picker.
• I don't have enough room in the main deck for enough flying tribal to hit 30, currently 27. https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/brewer-s-minute-building-tribal
• I don't think I have enough removal and counter spells in the main to interact profitably.
• I might just be making a worse version of two different decks UB Control and Pirates (for a better pirate list see https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/dont-look-now-but-theres-a-ub-aggro-control-deck-in-standard/)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 2 Mythic Rares 15 - 8 Rares 23 - 4 Uncommons 7 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.82
Tokens	Copy Clone