Mardu Control

Modern Competitive Control RBW (Mardu)

murphyalvis

Land (24)

• 2x Blood Crypt
• 4x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 2x Godless Shrine
• 3x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 4x Shambling Vent
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Windswept Heath

Instant (13)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 2x Blessed Alliance
• 1x Fatal Push
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 3x Path to Exile
• 1x Wear / Tear

Planeswalker (8)

• 1x Ajani Vengeant
• 3x Liliana of the Veil
• 4x Nahiri, the Harbinger

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Collective Brutality
• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Lingering Souls
• 1x Painful Truths
• 2x Thoughtseize

Creature (2)

• 1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 3x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Artifact (2)

• 2x Pithing Needle

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Anger of the Gods

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Leyline of the Void
• 2x Stony Silence

Instant (3)

• 1x Blessed Alliance
• 2x Surgical Extraction

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Maybeboard

Instant (8)

• 2x Dawn Charm
• 1x Gut Shot
• 1x Guttural Response
• 2x Kolaghan's Command
• 2x Wear / Tear

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Leyline of the Void

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Painful Truths
• 3x Thoughtseize
• 1x Wrath of God

Artifact (1)

• 1x Ratchet Bomb

Creature (5)

• 2x Bedlam Reveler
• 3x Monastery Mentor

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

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Having a fair amount of success locally, going 2-1 most of the time. Just changed up the sideboard to account the the weakest matchups (Tron, Scapeshift).

Monastery Mentor has been incredible as a threat since it seems manageable up until you cast 2-3 spells, and by then it is a little late for the opponent to do much of anything to stop the momentum.

Ajani on the top end has proved invaluable in a bunch of matchups, especially in greedy decks like Jund and Abzan. Ultimately, though, Ajani will phase into the maybe board once I have a more impactful replacement.

The Infect matchup is insane, and the Dredge matchup is not as bad as it seems with main-decked Anger of the Gods and Kalitas along with hate out of the board. Burn is 50/50 with Collective Brutality, Kalitas, Blessed Alliance and Shambling Vents in the main and a third Blessed Alliance, Second Kalitas, and second Collective Brutality coming out of the side.

This deck does struggle from running low in the late game, thus the concession to Painful Truths (potentially needs 1 more).

UPDATE (1/30/17):

Added 3 Liliana of the Veil and took out the Mentors. They are just so squishy, and ultimately Liliana is a much better top-deck in most matchups. Added Pithing Needles to the rotation since this deck is so, SO bad against Tron/Scapeshift, and it can turn off troublesome permanents like Creeping Tar Pit. I want to experiment with Guttural Response (seems really spicy against Grixis Control and Jeskai Flash, both of which are prevalent locally).

I haven't played with this configuration yet, but I am very excited. Seems a lot more powerful.

Also, tested with Chandra, Torch of Defiance this past weekend. It felt powerful, and being able to exile a discard spell off the top with her +1 seems relevant a certain percentage of the time in combo matchups, but ultimately she is expensive and clunky at RRXX, where I am already trying to get BBX by T3. Might end up with 1-2 Graven Cairns in the main over 1 Godless Shrine and 1 Dragonskull Summit to make that more doable.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 28 - 13 Rares 17 - 1 Uncommons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.61
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B