Teachings Control

Modern* Control UBR (Grixis)

steelydanno

Creature (7)

• 1x Grave Titan
• 4x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk

Land (25)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 3x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 4x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Steam Vents
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 2x Watery Grave

Instant (28)

• 1x Consume the Meek
• 4x Cryptic Command *list*
• 2x Fatal Push
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 2x Kolaghan's Command
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Mana Leak
• 2x Mystical Teachings
• 3x Spell Snare
• 4x Think Twice

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Izzet Staticaster
• 2x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Instant (11)

• 2x Blessed Alliance
• 1x Consume the Meek
• 2x Countersquall
• 2x Crackling Doom
• 2x Dispel
• 2x Wear / Tear

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This deck is meant to take full advantage of your opponent's turn in this new, slower format. Your finisher is Teferi into Grave Titan, aided by Mystical Teachings as needed. Snapcaster Mage into Lightning Bolt is the standard plan B for these types of decks, and the singleton Torrential Gearhulk has been great so far in testing. The interactive spells should be self-explanatory. I'm on Think Twice over Serum Visions because I think card advantage is more important than card selection at that slot (that's what Teachings is for).

I see you side-eyeing the manabase, and you're not wrong. This deck was straight Grixis at one point, but I just needed white to plug some holes in the strategy out of the board. There's a lot of basic land here to shore things up against a very problematic Blood Moon, should you be unable to counter it. Crackling Doom has been exceptional against the Fatal Push-dodging creatures in the format like Tasigur, Gurmag, Stormbreath et al and does a good job against decks like Jund of fighting a creature and a planeswalker simultaneously. Blessed Alliance fills in nicely against anything very aggressive. Grixis didn't have a good way to deal with enchantments outside of Engineered Explosives, and I wanted something tutorable with Teachings, hence Wear.

Anyway, if you're a fan of the draw-go style, give this a shot. It doesn't get much draw-goier than this!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Exclude colors	G
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 3 Mythic Rares 31 - 3 Rares 14 - 7 Uncommons 8 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.60
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B