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magicthegathering:oldschool:control

Control decks in old school Magic

Control decks try to get neutralize opponent's threat early on, gain control on the midgame thanks to card advantage, then squeeze you like a lemon.

The Deck

The infamous deck made notorious by Brian Weissman on usenet in 1995. It is a U/W “permission” deck splashing other colours

  • Jayemdae Tome (“book”) for card advantage
  • blue for counterspells and power cards
  • white for removal
  • a splash of black for Demonic Tutor and Mind Twist, green for Regrowth, and red for Fireball

Still the bogeyman of the format…

May 2018 version by Svante Landgraf:

Fluffy's version won n00bcon 11:

Here is what he played on 2 April 2021 at N00bcom2.

Joel Larsson won n00bcon 13 in April 2022 with this version:

4 Disenchant
2 Serra Angel
4 Swords to Plowshares

1 Regrowth

1 Fireball
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Stone Rain

1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mind Twist

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Braingeyser
4 Counterspell
1 Mana Drain
1 Recall
1 Timetwister
1 Time Walk

1 Black Lotus
1 Chaos Orb
3 Fellwar Stone
3 Jayemdae Tome
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

3 City of Brass
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Plains
1 Strip Mine
4 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island

Sideboard:
3 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Divine Offering
2 Dust to Dust
1 Ivory Tower
1 Jayemdae Tome
1 Moat
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Serra Angel
1 The Abyss

Prison

Disco Troll

magicthegathering/oldschool/control.txt · Last modified: 2022/05/13 17:34 by carl