Dega Control

Standard Control RBW (Mardu)

Zyzak

Creature (10)

• 2x Blood Baron of Vizkopa
• 4x Desecration Demon
• 2x Obzedat, Ghost Council
• 2x Sire Of Insanity

Land (25)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 4x Godless Shrine
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 3x Sacred Foundry
• 8x Swamp
• 2x Temple of Silence
• 2x Temple of Triumph

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Assemble the Legion

Artifact (3)

• 2x Rakdos Keyrune
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (7)

• 2x Doom Blade
• 3x Lightning Strike
• 2x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (13)

• 2x Anger of the Gods
• 2x Dreadbore
• 2x Merciless Eviction
• 3x Mizzium Mortars
• 3x Read the Bones
• 1x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Blood Baron of Vizkopa
• 1x Obzedat, Ghost Council

Artifact (2)

• 2x Pithing Needle

Instant (5)

• 2x Devour Flesh
• 3x Last Breath

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Duress
• 1x Flames of the Firebrand
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 2x Slaughter Games

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This deck plays very similar to the ubiquitous Esper control deck that has been crushing.

In fact this was an Esper deck, but I'm trying to do something a little different. Losing blue mainly hurts the deck's drawing power, as well as disabling us from using counter magic.

Supreme Verdict - I play Anger of the Gods for aggro and white weenie decks, as well as it being a great answer to Voice of Resurgence. I use Merciless Eviction as an answer to midrange decks. (helps a lot against devotion decks due to it exiling any devoted gods, as well as being able to choose enchantments to exile gods while leaving our board mostly unaffected) Mizzium Mortars also has the overload capability to clear the way for your Assemble the Legion tokens, but is usually just one-for-one removal.

Jace, Architect of Thought and Sphinx's Revelation - Though there aren't clear substitutes for these, I play three Read the Bones to try to smooth out our draws a little more, and a single Whip of Erebos to try and gain back the life that we lose early and to our Read the Bones. I may make room for another, but Blood Baron of Vizkopa does a lot of the work in keeping our life out of the reach of our opponents.

AEtherling - This wonderful threat it one I am sad to not be able to play, but we make up for it with the hard to kill threats Blood Baron of Vizkopa and Obzedat, Ghost Council . Though it doesn't do the work that AEtherling does in a clogged up board state, Desecration Demon does well in putting on early pressure, especially when it's followed up with an Anger of the Gods or an overloaded Mizzium Mortars . Assemble the Legion is what I consider to be the best replacement, because it is very difficult to answer, generally even after sideboards.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 1 Mythic Rares 37 - 6 Rares 4 - 1 Uncommons 9 - 7 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.43
Tokens	Soldier 1/1 RW