Cruel Teachings

Modern Competitive Cruel Control UBR (Grixis)

Nightmare-Hitomi

Land (27)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 2x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 2x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (24)

• 1x Cinderclasm
• 1x Consume the Meek
• 2x Cryptic Command
• 3x Fatal Push
• 1x Hagra Mauling  ^Flip
• 2x Kolaghan's Command
• 2x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Mana Leak
• 3x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Negate
• 1x Shadow of Doubt
• 4x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 1x Surgical Extraction
• 1x Terminate

Creature (4)

• 1x Brazen Borrower
• 2x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Cruel Ultimatum
• 2x Thoughtseize

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Dispel
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Negate
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Shadow of Doubt
• 1x Surgical Extraction

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Damnation
• 2x Slaughter Games
• 1x Thoughtseize

Creature (1)

• 1x Vendilion Clique

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Artifact (1)

• 1x Batterskull

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The focus of the deck is to prolong the game with spells like Kolaghan's Command and Lightning Bolt until you can stabilize with Cryptic Command and Cruel Ultimatum. Fairly simple, though only in theory, but in practice it's a total grindfest. I absolutely love this deck though, and I think I've finally perfected it. Go now and teach despair...

Date added	10 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 3 Mythic Rares 35 - 9 Rares 9 - 1 Uncommons 7 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.85
Tokens	On an Adventure, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B