Competitive Infect Control w/ Aggro sideboard v0.9

Standard Burn Competitive Control Counters Counterspell Creatureless FNM Infect Proliferate UB (Dimir)

Metroid_Hybrid

Land (23)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 4x Contaminated Aquifer
• 4x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Demolition Field
• 3x Island
• 3x Mirrex
• 3x Swamp
• 4x Underground River

Instant (23)

• 4x Anoint with Affliction
• 3x Bring the Ending
• 4x Experimental Augury
• 4x Prologue to Phyresis
• 2x Reject Imperfection
• 2x Serum Snare
• 4x Vraska's Fall

Sorcery (12)

• 4x Distorted Curiosity
• 2x Dreams of Steel and Oil
• 3x Drown in Ichor
• 1x Duress
• 2x Infectious Inquiry

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

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Sideboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Cut Down
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Negate
• 2x Sheoldred's Edict

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Duress

Artifact (2)

• 2x The Stone Brain

Creature (3)

• 3x Phyrexian Obliterator

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Phyrexian Arena

Land (1)

• 1x Swamp

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Maybeboard

Land (3)

• 1x Geothermal Bog
• 1x Haunted Mire
• 1x Sunlit Marsh

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Drag to the Bottom

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Infect... Counter... Proliferate...

{UP}{BP} Burn-Control

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Fun Fact: This deck is almost entirely comprised of cards printed in 'Phyrexia: All is One' (ONE): 58 out of the total 75.

12 cards in the mainboard, and 5 in the sideboard, are from from (DMU) & (BRO).

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Infect

Three particular cards were printed in 'Phyrexia: All is One' (ONE) that effectively birthed a new archetype:

• Prologue to Phyresis

• Infectious Inquiry

• Vraska's Fall

A cantrip, a draw spell, and a non-targeting Edict.

Looks like something that would fit into a basic {UB}-Control shell quite nicely...

Control

All three prongs of a basic {UB}-Control shell are present:

Hand Destruction (placeholders for Thoughtseize)

• Duress

• Dreams of Steel and Oil

Counterspells

• Bring the Ending

• Reject Imperfection

Creature Destruction

• Anoint with Affliction

• Drown in Ichor

Aggro Sideboard

Due to the fact that I have no idea what kind of meta I am likely to find myself in, the thought of planning my sideboard around specific match-ups that I may, or may not, ever encounter just felt superfluous— at best..

...then I had an idea...

Due to the complete lack of non-land permanents (beyond Vraska) to use removal on (game-1), it is likely that an opponent would sideboard-out most of their relevant removal. I then use this opportunity to sideboard-in six cards to aggressively switch-up the function of the deck, game(s) 2/3..

• 2x Phyrexian Arena

• 3x Phyrexian Obliterator

• 1x Swamp

The Arena is great source of steady card draw for going the distance. But more importantly, Phyrexian Obliterator: The absolute UNIT that is as overpowered as it is underappreciated, has been my favorite card ever since I started playing mtg. So I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use my set of original foil copies from 'New Phyrexia' (NPH) in a Standard format..

The fancy basic Swamp replaces a slightly less fancy basic Island, for the sake of casting Obliterators more reliably..

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The other 9 cards in the sideboard are there to tweak the {UB}-Control shell as-needed..

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Top Ranked	Achieved #31 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Standard 11 months ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	7 months
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 3 Mythic Rares 12 - 4 Rares 14 - 4 Uncommons 22 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.46
Tokens	Phyrexian Mite 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	standard