Crazy spellcasting, featuring flying creatures

Standard Budget Casual Control UR (Izzet)

Frytrix99

Instant (18)

• 2x Essence Scatter
• 4x Lightning Strike
• 4x Opt
• 2x Pull from Tomorrow
• 2x Shock
• 2x Supreme Will
• 2x Unsummon

Land (22)

• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 2x Highland Lake
• 10x Island
• 9x Mountain

Enchantment (7)

• 3x Favorable Winds
• 4x Riddleform

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Chart a Course
• 2x Insult / Injury
• 1x River's Rebuke

Creature (7)

• 4x Enigma Drake
• 3x Siren Stormtamer

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 3x Chandra's Defeat
• 2x Essence Scatter
• 3x Negate

Creature (7)

• 4x Cryptic Serpent
• 1x Glyph Keeper
• 2x Vizier of Many Faces

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Soul-Scar Mage
• 1x Warkite Marauder

Instant (2)

• 1x Admiral's Order
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

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Budget

Just some interesting synergy with flying creatures. Enigma Drake is so good in a control deck, so does Riddleform. Combine with Favorable Winds, it's very effective. As you play control, Siren Stormtamer is great to protect the few creatures you have AND is also flying.

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• Riddleform : Difficult to remove cause not a creature during the opponent turn. Can't use any sorcery removal spell. It can almost attack everyturn, since we have a lot of non-creature spells. It's flying, so get +1/+1 with the Favorable Winds. Synergise well with Enigma Drake.

• Favorable Winds : Creatures in the deck are flying (Enigma Drake, Siren Stormtamer, Riddleform). When Sideboarding, you can take some off, especially if you add Cryptic Serpent and Vizier of Many Faces.

• Draw cards : Opt, Pull from Tomorrow and Chart a Course. Using to transform the Riddleform and fill the graveyard for Enigma Drake. Find the good answers to what's on the board.

• Lightning Strike + Shock : is an easy 2 or 3 damages to remove a creature OR to the face for the win. Trigger Riddleform and fill the graveyard. Usefull in early turns to removes small creatures like Drover of the Mighty, Otepec Huntmaster, Channeler Initiate, Frenzied Raptor, or basicaly anything with 2-3 defense. No Abrade, cause I'm on a budget and can't go face with it. Also, Artifacts are not very present in my meta..

• Essence Scatter, Supreme Will, Siren Stormtamer: Counter spells, to disrupt your opponent and protect your stuff. Essence Scatter can be very usefull in early and late game. If you have Supreme Will early, it will be used as counter spell, but in late game, you mostly play it to get the right card in your hand at the end of your opponent turn. Siren Stormtamer is great early, can protect your stuff and deals damage.

• River's Rebuke : can win you a game on the spot.

• Insult // Injury : If you attack with a big Enigma Drake, or just a couple smaller flyers (Riddleform, Siren Stormtamer), you can get close the game quickly. Also, it triggers your Riddleform before you declare attackers AND can trigger it from the graves.

Sideboard

Cryptic Serpent. THIS is the answer to Carnage Tyrant, a problem a faced a couple time at my LGS. Has enough Attack to block and kill it. I usually take Favorable Winds to include it, cause you need instant/sorcery, not enchantment, plus both doesn't synergize well together. Also, Vizier of Many Faces can copy him.. always a surprise for them.

Chandra's Defeat against red. If they play Glorybringer, Vizier of Many Faces can also be very good.

Glyph Keeper and Negate are good against control decks, as well as Vizier of Many Faces.

I need to test it more after the couple changes I made. Maybe I would play Vizier of Many Faces in main board. Seems like a great card!

Admiral's Order can also be good, but I'm not sure if it will cost often enough in that deck.

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Feel free to make suggestion, feedback and/or (+1). Thx

Top Ranked	Achieved #44 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 3 Rares 18 - 3 Uncommons 18 - 9 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.18
Tokens	Glyph Keeper 5/3 W, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W
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