Icy Tides ($40)

Standard Budget Competitive Control Counters Mono-Blue Zombie

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Creature (4)

• 4x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip

Land (25)

• 3x Blighted Cataract
• 20x Island
• 2x Mage-Ring Network

Instant (24)

• 4x Anticipate
• 2x Calculated Dismissal
• 4x Clash of Wills
• 2x Engulf the Shore
• 4x Hydrolash
• 4x Scatter to the Winds
• 2x Send to Sleep
• 2x Void Shatter

Sorcery (7)

• 4x Nagging Thoughts
• 3x Rise from the Tides

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Sphinx of Magosi
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word

Instant (13)

• 2x Adverse Conditions
• 2x Engulf the Shore
• 3x Grip of the Roil
• 2x Invasive Surgery
• 2x Negate
• 2x Send to Sleep

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Disciple of the Ring
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Jace's Sanctum

Artifact (2)

• 2x Prism Ring

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Read the Description!

Control semi-budget deck, great for surprising your local FNM!

This is a different take on Brain in a Jar decks, but without the said card. Why? We didnt want to be casting sorceries, and Brain in a Jar deck is even slower than this deck. Here we try to play at instant speed, drawing on the opponent's turn and leaving mana open for your many counters. Therefore we don't benefit from Part the Waterveil. But we are a bit faster against aggro than they are.

How does this deck works? Very simple, it has 4 main points to the strategy:

1- We have 12 instant-cantrips for card advantage, searching for lands and our win-cons, with Anticipate, Hydrolash and Nagging Thoughts .

2- 12 Counters of all kinds and sizes, with varied effects. We have Scatter to the Winds , Calculated Dismissal and Clash of Wills.

3- 11 Board delayers, with Send to Sleep, Hydrolash and Thing in the Ice   if it lives to block.

4- And finally, your 6 win-con cards -> Rise from the Tides for a massive zombie army and Thing in the Ice   for a massive 7/8 that also acts as an additional Engulf the Shore.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 1 Mythic Rares 10 - 3 Rares 18 - 7 Uncommons 12 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.69
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	decks i want, Channel, Budget Standard, Budget, Favoritos, Standard, budget, Cool decks, Standard, Mono blue