Crackdown Control (AER - Retired)

Casual Control Infinite Combo UR (Izzet)

clayperce

Instant (26)

• 4x Anticipate
• 4x Disallow
• 4x Glimmer of Genius
• 4x Harnessed Lightning
• 3x Negate
• 3x Revolutionary Rebuff
• 4x Shock

Land (26)

• 4x Aether Hub
• 10x Island
• 4x Mountain
• 4x Spirebluff Canal
• 4x Wandering Fumarole

Creature (4)

• 4x Crackdown Construct

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Unraveler of Secrets

Artifact (3)

• 3x Key to the City

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Sideboard

Instant (11)

• 2x Ceremonious Rejection
• 3x Dispel
• 3x Kozilek's Return
• 1x Negate
• 2x Summary Dismissal

Creature (3)

• 3x Dragonmaster Outcast

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Unraveler of Secrets

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk

Artifact (1)

• 1x Dynavolt Tower

Instant (2)

• 1x Brutal Expulsion
• 1x Horribly Awry

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Release the Gremlins

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

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Go infinite with Crackdown Construct and Wandering Fumarole? Sure, that'll do nicely!

The core idea is to make Crackdown Construct HUGE by activating Wandering Fumarole and swapping its Power and Toughness an arbitrarily large number of times, then attacking with an Unblockable effect. Here's the Gatherer text for Crackdown Construct, in case you're wondering if this actually works. Spoiler alert: It does! :-)

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and suggestions!

This is an Izzet Control deck, but there are other approaches to the combo

JESKAI EQUIPMENT

• Crackdown Construct+ Kazuul's Toll Collector , with Crackdown Construct+ Wandering Fumarole as an alternate wincon.
• For ideas, check out my other deck: infinite-construct-equipped-aer

JESKAI CONTROL

• Saheeli Rai+Felidar Guardian combo, with Crackdown Construct+ Wandering Fumarole as an alternate wincon.
• I figure half the Internet is already trying to break Saheeli and Guardian, so I'm focused on Crackdown Construct for now.
• For ideas on what other people are doing, check out the Recent Decks section of the Crackdown Construct page.

TEMUR MIDRANGE

• Crackdown Construct+ Wandering Fumarole in a Delirium or Aetherworks Marvel shell.
• Adding Green gives access to additional tools to help find combo pieces, protect the combo, and disrupt opponent plans.
• For ideas, please check out my other deck: Infinite (Delirious) Construct (AER).

IZZET ELDRAZI

• Crackdown Construct+ Wandering Fumarole in a U/R Eldrazi shell
• Adding Colorless/Devoid gives access to additional tools to help Ramp (e.g., Herald of Kozilek, Hedron Crawler, Hedron Archive). It also gives access to some goodstuff (e.g., Eldrazi Skyspawner , Barrage Tyrant ).
• The earliest versions of this deck used this approach, but I found the Control build to be much stronger. For ideas though, check out Revision 2.

GRIXIS CONTROL

• Crackdown Construct+ Wandering Fumarole
• Adding Black gives additional tools to disrupt opponent plans (e.g., Fatal Push, Transgress the Mind, Pick the Brain )
• I haven't seen anyone working on this approach yet.
  

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Big shout-outs to ...

• ArmyJM07, who was the first person I know to mention the Crackdown Construct+ Wandering Fumarole infinite combo. You can check out his or her take on the combo at Temur Crackdown.
• Argeaux, who was instrumental in helping me realize the benefits of moving the combo into a Control shell.
• Raymond Perez, whose Izzet Control deck made Top 16 at SCG Columbus.
• Brian DeMars, for his thoughts on Izzet Control, over at ChannelFireball.
• michael921, for his always-awesome suggestions and advice. Please check out his latest brew at Counting The Ways To Win (AER Standard).

And please don't hesitate to +1 Upvote this deck if you like it ... especially if you like it enough to put it in a folder :-)

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 7 Mythic Rares 15 - 2 Rares 16 - 2 Uncommons 14 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Dragon 5/5 R, Emblem Jace, Unraveler of Secrets, Energy Reserve
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