Assuming Control

Standard Control UB (Dimir)

Xyryu

Creature (10)

• 2x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 2x Nightveil Predator
• 2x Nightveil Sprite
• 3x Thief of Sanity

Land (23)

• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 8x Island
• 1x Memorial to Genius
• 8x Swamp
• 2x Watery Grave

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Disinformation Campaign
• 2x The Eldest Reborn

Instant (15)

• 2x Cast Down
• 4x Opt
• 4x Sinister Sabotage
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 2x Unexplained Disappearance
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Sorcery (8)

• 3x Divest
• 1x Ritual of Soot
• 1x River's Rebuke
• 3x Thought Erasure

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This is the 'no fun for opponents' Dimir Control list I'm running in Arena currently.

I put it together with cards opened in draft and boosters, I bought the Drowned Catacombs with Rare wildcards.

Strategy: Keep a hand with cheap hand disruprion and countermagic, you play the long con, remove or counter any threat to this plan. You stabilize around turn 5 or 6 with a Nightveil Predator that the Drake Deck just can't handle or a well placed Ritual of Soot/River's Rebuke for the token decks. between countering/killing you sneak in a Thief of Sanity or The Eldest Reborn and start using the opponent's deck against itself.

You usually win either by disrupting them long enough to poke them to death with your predators or by playing their own deck better than them.

I've never had so much fun running a control deck and feeling the frustration of the opponent as their plan get's picked apart piece by piece.

I struggle v/s the mono blue tempo decks and any deck that runs Trostani Discordant and could use help with tips against those, also any revisions or tips on card's I should or shouldn't run are very welcome.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 13 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.70