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Blue-White Control meets Blue-Black Hate, with dragons as finishers. The smaller creatures provide disruption and a board presence until Silumgar and Ojutai can get out and start doing damage in so many ways! There are also a ton of non-creature spells to protect the creatures I get out, pave the way for creatures to attack, and most importantly, build up Myth Realized to just destroy house.

Win Conditions:

-Flying Dragons

-Myth Realized as a big creature (in the midgame!)

-Tons of 3/2 creatures with upsides (flying, lifelink, unblockable)

I'll be honest with you all, I don't play control, so any help you can provide would be much appreciated!!!

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FNM Runout: 2W 1L 1D, Top 4 — April 12, 2015

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Another FNM, and another 2-1-1 finish, but this time in the top 4! Before the tournament started I switched out the three Monastery Mentor and Necromaster Dragon for another Dragonlord Ojutai, another Myth Realized, and 2 Hidden Dragonslayer. These seemed to work so well that I'm making this a permanent change for the deck.

Lessons learned:

-I need to mulligan more agressively. The games I mulled to 6 or even 5 I was still able to win, but the games where I kept a marginal 7 I lost hard, because I didn't draw into what I needed.

-Dragonlord Ojutai is an absolute monster. Once he got on the field it was essentially game over, as he gave me both flying beatdown and card advantage.

-The megamorphs are fantastic value. Tap 3, mana to flip for a 3/2 with an ability (Flying, Lifelink, etc.) that also does something I would normally need another card to do (counter or destroy). My opponents put ungodly resources into stopping me from flipping these, which took pressure off my wincons.

-This deck has ANSWERS. I felt like I could handle almost everything that came my way, except in the top 4 round I lost in which I just didn't draw well (4 lands in a row is not helpful midgame), and my round loss was only because of an epic misplay on my part.

-Myth Realized is not helpful against Gruul or Temur decks. 'Nough said.

FNM Runout: 2W 1L 1D — April 4, 2015

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Revision 8 See all

(9 years ago)

+2	Anticipate	maybe
-3	Caves of Koilos	main
-1	Dig Through Time	maybe
+3	Ojutai Exemplars	maybe
+1	Plains	main
+2	Swamp	main
-1	Treasure Cruise	maybe

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 2 Mythic Rares 24 - 8 Rares 11 - 3 Uncommons 5 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	Emblem Narset Transcendent, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Good Casual, Inspiration, ideas, Decks to Build
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