Death by Mind Control

Standard* Control Enchantment

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Creature (10)

• 4x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1x Mercurial Pretender
• 2x Omenspeaker
• 2x Perplexing Chimera

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1x Jace, the Living Guildpact

Land (24)

• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 10x Island
• 9x Swamp
• 4x Temple of Deceit

Instant (14)

• 3x Dissipate
• 2x Dissolve
• 2x Fated Infatuation
• 2x Griptide
• 2x Hero's Downfall
• 3x Polymorphist's Jest

Sorcery (9)

• 2x Drown in Sorrow
• 2x Read the Bones
• 2x Thoughtseize
• 2x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Worst Fears

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Sideboard

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Perilous Vault

Instant (11)

• 4x Dig Through Time
• 3x Jace's Ingenuity
• 4x Negate

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Drown in Sorrow

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea

Instant (1)

• 1x Aetherspouts

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The whole point of this deck is to use your opponent's deck against them, by taking control of their creatures.

CORE

Dragonlord Silumgar: This card is a great fit for this deck, as it steals opponent's creatures,can deal damage, and has deathtouch.

Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver: This card is great for its +1 and -X ability in this deck. I can use Griptide to take whatever creature I like.

Clever Impersonator: A new card that is quite powerful. Being able to copy any non-land card is useful, especially against artifact decks and stuff.

Fated Infatuation: Nothing like making copies of already stolen creatures.

Mercurial Pretender : A solid copy spell for Standard. If I see a bigger creature, I can always pull him back. Also dodges removal/boardwipes.

Worst Fears : Pulling this off is awesome, but again, too slow to run multiple copies.

Utility

Omenspeaker : A good defensive card. It can survive Drown in Sorrow, and can kill creatures when I use Polymorphist's Jest

Dissipate and Dissolve: Counterspells are what's expected of blue mages.

Divination and Read the Bones: Card draw to power the control engine.

Thoughtseize: Unbeliavably useful.

Jace, the Living Guildpact: A cool planeswalker with good abilities. Only a one-of though.

Please leave suggestions, this is a rough draft!!! +1 if you like it. It's not intended to be super competitive, just fun to use and amazing vs creature-heavy decks.

Top Ranked	Achieved #98 position overall 10 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 2 Mythic Rares 12 - 4 Rares 5 - 3 Uncommons 12 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.69
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	Cool Decks, control, control blue black, Standard, dimir, standard, B/B, Standard decks, Josh's Favorite decks, wanted deck