A Serious BUG

Standard BUG (Sultai) Competitive Control

Wodar

Creature (12)

• 3x AEtherling
• 2x Deathrite Shaman
• 3x Reaper of the Wilds
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 2x Vraska the Unseen

Land (25)

• 4x Breeding Pool
• 3x Forest
• 2x Island
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 4x Temple of Deceit
• 4x Temple of Mystery
• 4x Watery Grave

Instant (16)

• 4x Dissolve
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 4x Hero's Downfall
• 3x Negate
• 4x Putrefy

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Thoughtseize

Unknown (2)

• 2x underworld connection

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Lifebane Zombie

Artifact (6)

• 3x Pithing Needle
• 3x Ratchet Bomb

Instant (6)

• 3x Essence Scatter
• 1x Negate
• 2x Unravel the Aether

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Drown in Sorrow

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test

My first serious attempt at making a Standard deck.

As can be seen, this is BUG control with Reaper of the Wilds, AEtherling, Vraska the Unseen,Kiora, the Crashing Wave and as the win conditions.

Control Tools:

Dissolve - Counterspell and card quality, bread and butter of a control deck.

Essence Scatter and Negate - Cheap counter spells that combine to cover all spells that can be countered.

Hero's Downfall - A must have in any deck in black. ANY

Putrefy - More kill for only 3!

Underworld Connections - Constant card advantage with the cost that can be mitigated by Deathrite Shaman. (among one of his many useful abilities).

Creatures:

Deathrite Shaman - Talking about this man, amazing 1 drop. Mostly used in this deck as a blocker for 1/1s, life gain to equalize Underworld Connectios, and dead creature removal to disrupt Reanimator decks.

Sylvan Caryatid - Just some casual ramp, fixing, and a good way to slow done aggro. It is also really hard to kill.

Lifebane Zombie - Situational, will want to replace this with another Thoughtseize.

Reaper of the Wilds - Great Utility card. Gives all my kill spells Scry 1, stops attacks and attacks through with deathtouch, and is very hard to touch with hexproof for the turn. Defiantly a great way of getting to one of my bombs and can in some cases end games.

AEtherling - You cannot stop the AEtherling, you can just pay that I never draw AEtherling and I have 7 or more mana.

Planeswalker:

Now for some alternate win conditions,

Vraska the Unseen - Again protects herself and kills when needed. Assassin Tokens are also always fun.

Kiora, the Crashing Wave - Protects herself and explores to accelerate if I want it. Also has one of the funnest ultimate.... RELEASE THE KRAKENS

Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver - Ashiok has actually done wonders for me on MtGO because of all the decks that are running Courser of the Kruphix.

(Question: If Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver uses her -X on Nightmare, Do we then get a Nightmare Nightmare Horse, a Nightmare Horse Nightmare, or a Horse Nightmare Nightmare?)

The situational cards:

Ratchet Bomb - Anti-aggro all the way.

Pithing Needle - Stops annoying Planeswalkers and other activated abilities

Unravel the Aether - I great way to deal with Gods AND the ever annoying Assemble the Legion.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 7 Rares 9 - 5 Uncommons 7 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Kraken 9/9 U