Grixis Control (M13)

Standard* steelydanno

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Here Comes A New Win Condition!! —Aug. 26, 2012

So, the whole Lone Revenant thing has been floating around the Grixis scene a little while. Patrick Chapin had it in a few of his lists, and I'd heard anecdotal evidence of how good it was, but I think I was using multiple copies of Olivia Voldaren and Grave Titan and liked them too much to consider going over to a card that needs to be the only creature on my side of the board to really be effective.

Then today, I saw Austin Yost just barely not finish in the prize money at SCG Denver (incidentally, he was my round 1 opponent at my first-ever SCG event, where he stripped my Mono Red deck for parts with U/W Delver. Super nice guy though) with Grixis Control featuring Lone Revenant.

Then I realized that he works really well with Planeswalker threats.

Then I thought about how great he could be with Batterskull (even though they are both 5-drops, and Batterskull costs 5 to equip, it would not be easy to get one on him. But STILL).

Then I thought about how little fun I'd been having with Wolf Run lately. So we're going back to Grixis! I think the plan is going to be to take out the Staff of Nin, Grave Titan, and Olivia Voldaren and throw in 3 Lone Revenant. Not sure who's going in the board, or what. I'm going to leave in the Batterskull despite the obvious curve clash because combining those two is just a cream dream supreme.