Sans White Control

Commander / EDH UBRG

TheMaelstrom

Land (30)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Removal (9)

• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Treachery

Recursion (1)

• 1x Noxious Revival

Nope (16)

• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Delay
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Force of Will

Ramp (14)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Seedborn Muse

Tutor (6)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Tainted Pact

Cantrip (4)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern

Commanders (2)

Draw (10)

• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter

Wipe (5)

• 1x Flame Sweep
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Plague Engineer
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Massacre

Win (3)

• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Thassa's Oracle

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Sideboard

Other (4)

• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Compost
• 1x Reap
• 1x Oakhame Adversary

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Maybeboard

Other (2)

• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Shadow of Doubt

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While without budget concerns, this deck could become slightly more powerful, this competitive deck would likely be around a 9 power level with avenues to win when everyone else is burned out of removal and enough disruption to last until then. Actually seems a bit weaker against lower power decks where large creatures threaten to swing regularly, but in those cases be more proactive for your win or as I prefer it, try to use their win conditions against them without comboing them. Teach them how it feels to be beat in the face! It feels very good to out Goblin Krenko or take sen triplets for myself. The idea is to put many decisions within the seat of the player not to pubstomp weaker decks, but to be capable of playing against a variety of decks by shifting from combo kills to value with Vial Smasher or another weaker strategy. A certain weakness comes from being versitile disruption because in a blind pod, you may not know what is the best time or target for removal, but when in doubt, just wait as long as you can to remove wins as they come. Always be aware of who may be playing blood moon / back to basics because this deck is inherently greedy with its mana base as you need to be capable of casting many different color pips by different points in the game so just going for a island wouldn't help when you need the turn after you needed .

This deck is not a storm list with effects like yagmoth's will or Underworld Breach so the focus is less on curiosity effects for Vial Smasher the Fierce or the possible Firebrand Archer. This is also not medium green because that strategy is best done by sans red control with the use of tymna as a draw engine, but this deck has a few ways to keep decks like that in check both by blockers and board wipes that do not negatively affect our board state.

Comments and advice are appreciated and this is an evolving list. Example being, I love Shadow of Doubt but I am seeing how I like Nimble Obstructionist in its place because I see Gyruda, Doom of Depths and Golos, Tireless Pilgrim from time to time. This is moderately within a budget, but it is certainly not budget friendly. Many pricey cards are pieces that I have from control decks gone by so if you have budget changes for your deck without significant change in function, drop that in the comments, I would love to see it! Thank you and have a great day.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 21 - 4 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.09
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Elk 3/3 G, Food, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	4 color