I've Run Out of Names for My Control Deck

Standard* Umbreomancer

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April 20, 2016

Decided to go ahead and replace Avacyn with Dragonlord Ojutai for better survivability and card advantage.

Also put in two Overwhelming Denial for mirror-matches. Great way to keep your spells from getting countered.

I don't know how much narset is going to do for you, and if you could, you should probably chuck in Avacyn, but otherwise the deck looks good, also I agree with Countermage

April 3, 2016 7:43 p.m.

randomguyguy says... #2

To me, you lose out by trying to max the noncreature threshold for Narset Transcendent. I recommend taking out Day's Undoing for a better source of card advantage, since as a control deck you will be dumping your hand slower than almost every other deck, leaving you open to haste creatures, etc. You go heavy on the 1-for-1 removal which is best in a format where opponents are not making more than 1 card per cast, but you have little method of dealing with a 2/2 Arlinn Kord  Flip wolf (without burning a removal spell). 24 is also a low land count for control, especially one trying to cast Stasis Snare,Ruinous Path, and Void Shatter--requiring 6 unique mana symbols to be able to cast reliably on curve. As such, I recommend cutting Stasis Snare for 2 lands, to have a more reliable game against all decks and a better long game vs other control decks, especially those that have put the monetary investment into Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  Flip. Armed with more land, you could play an X-spell like Epiphany at the Drownyard in place of Day's Undoing: since you only want to use Undoing no earlier than turns 7-8 as a control deck, if you hit lands on curve you will have ~4 decent cards rather than refilling your hand and your opponent's while leaving yourself vulnerable to opponents' haste creatures from the forced turn-pass. Casting undoing can be lethal against you against enemy aggro decks. Epiphany is also an instant, allowing you to hold up mana for counterspells/removal and getting significant card advantage if enemies pass the turn without casts (i.e. especially against other control decks, or decks playing flash creatures like Archangel Avacyn  Flip).

April 3, 2016 8:01 p.m.