Spiraling Out of Control: High Tide

Legacy* Combo Control Creatureless Mono-Blue

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Instant (26)

• 4x Brainstorm
• 3x Cunning Wish
• 3x Flusterstorm
• 4x Force of Will
• 4x High Tide
• 1x Intuition
• 4x Predict
• 3x Turnabout

Sorcery (16)

• 4x Merchant Scroll
• 4x Ponder
• 4x Preordain
• 4x Time Spiral

Land (18)

• 4x Flooded Strand
• 12x Island
• 2x Polluted Delta

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Sideboard

Instant (13)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brain Freeze
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 2x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Snap
• 1x Surgical Extraction
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Wipe Away

Artifact (2)

• 2x Grafdigger's Cage

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Grixis Control:

Reduces vulnerability to expected copies of Surgical Extraction
-1 Intuition
Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide

Provides extra counters for counterspell wars and to protect against discard
+1 Swan Song
+1 Flusterstorm

Miracles:

Reduces vulnerability to expected copies of Surgical Extraction
-1 Intuition
Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide

The matchup often comes down to a counterwar
+1 Swan Song
Provides an answer to a resolved Counterbalance
+1 Wipe Away

Lands:

Card Advantage is not a concern in this matchup
-2 Predict

Provides outs to Choke
+1 Echoing Truth
+1 Wipe Away

Death's Shadow:

Reduces vulnerability to expected copies of Surgical Extraction
-1 Intuition
Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide

Provides more counterspells to protect against discard
+1 Flusterstorm
+1 Swan Song

Death and Taxes:

Reduces vulnerability to expected copies of Surgical Extraction
-1 Intuition
Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide
Card advantage is not a focus of the matchup
-1 Predict

Adds answers to Sanctum Prelate , Thalia, Guardian of Thraben , and Ethersworn Canonist
+1 Snap
+1 Echoing Truth
+1 Wipe Away

Grixis Delver:

Reduces vulnerability to expected copies of Surgical Extraction
-1 Intuition
Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide

Provides ways to win counterwars and protect versus discard
+1 Flusterstorm
+1 Swan Song

Sneak and Show:

Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide
This matchup focuses on stopping Sneak Attack , rather than card advantage
-1 Predict

Provides ways to stop Sneak Attack
+1 Swan Song
+1 Pact of Negation

UW Stoneblade:

Reduces vulnerability to expected copies of Surgical Extraction
-1 Intuition
Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide

Provides ways to win counterwars
+1 Flusterstorm
+1 Swan Song

4c Loam:

Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide
This matchup is not about card advantage as much as it is about tempo and stopping hate
-2 Predict

Provides an answer to any hate card you might encounter
+1 Echoing Truth
+1 Wipe Away
Provides an answer to any creature card hate
+1 Snap

Elves:

Reduces vulnerability to expected copies of Surgical Extraction
-1 Intuition
Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide

Stops Green Sun's Zenith and Natural Order
+2 Grafdigger's Cage

Eldrazi Stompy:

Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide

This matchup is about beating prison pieces not card advantage
-2 Predict
Removes Chalice of the Void and Thorn of Amethyst
+1 Hurkyl's Recall
+1 Echoing Truth
+1 Wipe Away

ANT:

Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide

Stops Discard Spells
+1 Flusterstorm

BR Reanimator:

Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide
This matchup is not about card advantage, it is about stopping the initial burst
-3 Predict

Stops discard and reanimation pieces
+1 Swan Song
+1 Flusterstorm
Stops reanimation spells
+2 Grafdigger's Cage

RUG Delver:

Reduces vulnerability to expected copies of Surgical Extraction
-1 Intuition
Hedges against Surgical Extraction by keeping one copy to Cunning Wish for
-1 High Tide

This matchup revolves around counter wars not card advantage
-1 Predict

Provides ways to win counterwars
+1 Pact of Negation
+1 Flusterstorm
+1 Swan Song

Date added	9 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 10 Rares 11 - 3 Uncommons 16 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.45
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U