**The New Cruelty is Skin Deep - UNRetired**

Modern* Control Cruel Control UBR (Grixis)

BrandonJamesCAC

Land (25)

• 2x Blood Crypt
• 2x Bloodstained Mire
• 2x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 4x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Mystic Sanctuary
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 2x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (21)

• 4x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Electrolyze
• 3x Fatal Push
• 2x Force of Negation
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Remand
• 2x Terminate

Creature (4)

• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 2x Snapcaster Mage

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Cruel Ultimatum
• 2x Damnation
• 2x Serum Visions

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Narset, Parter of Veils

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Ceremonious Rejection
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 2x Rakdos Charm

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Cruel Edict
• 1x Dreadbore
• 2x Pyroclasm

Artifact (3)

• 3x Damping Sphere

Creature (1)

• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Land (1)

• 1x Field of Ruin

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Maybeboard

Artifact (1)

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb

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This has become my main deck and is finally starting to earn some wins.

It's a Grixis control deck using disruption, counter spells and board sweeps like

Damnation

The deck uses

Keranos, God of Storms

And obviously

Cruel Ultimatum as finishers.

There isn't too much in here that requires a ton of explaining.

My intent is to grind out wins by taking out any early game plays and combo pieces with counter and kill spells.

I have elected to leave hand disruption in the side board.

1x Spell Snare

4x Remand too.

Lightning Bolt to the dome against other control decks. And 6-7 life matters a lot. That's enough to Cruel Ultimatum.

Snapcaster Mage comes back and brings anything back.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 1 Mythic Rares 29 - 1 Rares 14 - 11 Uncommons 4 - 2 Commons
Cards	58
Avg. CMC	2.73
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Budget Buttkicking