“As Pitiless As The Sun” [Arena Azorius Control]

Historic Arena Competitive Control Counterspell Exile WU (Azorius)

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Land (26)

• 1x Deserted Beach
• 3x Fabled Passage
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 6x Island
• 8x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 3x Temple of Enlightenment

Creature (2)

• 2x Augur of Bolas

Instant (19)

• 3x Absorb
• 2x Argivian Welcome
• 2x Impulse
• 4x Path to Exile
• 3x Reprieve
• 2x Saw it Coming
• 3x Sphinx's Revelation

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 2x Doomskar
• 2x Farewell
• 3x Supreme Verdict

Planeswalker (5)

• 3x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 2x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

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Sideboard

Instant (9)

• 3x Disenchant
• 3x Dovin's Veto
• 3x Stifle

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Ashiok's Erasure

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Planar Cleansing

Artifact (2)

• 2x Pithing Needle

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And a quickly written updated description has been made below! I'll try to add more when I have time.

An updated version of my older W/U Control deck I made for Arena's Historic format, based around Approach of the Second Sun.

As with almost all control decks, the board is expected to be wiped multiple times per game. Farewell and Supreme Verdict do a fantastic job, but sometimes you really just need that 3 mana board wipe, Doomskar can be foretold turn 2 and ready to go turn 3 if needed. Wrath of God was considered since it's less mana intensive than Verdict, but with Regenerate not being in Historic with a few exceptions, what I have works just fine in every game I've had. Planar Cleansing in the side for the games where artifacts/enchantments/planeswalkers start to turn things against the player. I'll probably end up taking it out at some point, but I haven't had any issues with it killing my last Teferi, yet. Oh, and I can't forget to mention how nice it is to have an instant speed board wipe by using Argivian Welcome + Supreme Verdict .

Since Elixir of Immortality is not in the format, I was looking for a way to keep from decking myself. My friend pointed out that if it really comes down to it, you can just keep tucking Teferi, Hero of Dominaria back into your library with his -3, until your opponent decks themselves. Not an ideal wincon, but if Approach gets taken out, it's the only way other than using Augur to slowly kill them.

As for the sideboard, I have Planar Cleansing as mentioned above. Pithing Needle and Stifle can be a nice way to shut down activated abilities if those are a big problem. Dovin's Veto doesn't have split second, but it's usually enough to stop a counterspell battle from developing. Ashiok's Erasure is what I use to deal with spells that can't be countered, I might end up bumping the amount up to 3 or 4 if I do end up cutting the Cleansings. And last but not least, Disenchant. Do I need to explain this one?

Date added	3 years
Last updated	7 months
Key combos	Argivian Welcome + Supreme Verdict
Legality	This deck is Historic legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 9 Rares 13 - 3 Uncommons 2 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	Emblem Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Foretell
Folders	Arena Decks