Shit. On my first playtest, I had a great hand, so I kept, but ended up drawing "Big Daddy Elderazi" and Progenitus on turn 2 and 3...

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scorpix's scenario is common and annoying as heck, which is why maybe if you don't want to add 2x Silence you pt in 1 more if each fatty... Or just make them all 4x Emrakul.

Putting in 4x Emrakul is just stupid. Drawing a dead card just needs to be thoughtseized back out is all. Then he shuffles back in. Running 4 is asking to have them all Extirpated

Very few people actually run Extirprate anymore. Less than half of 8rack, and that's not even tier 1.

I am disturbed by the lack of See Beyond

Personally I would take out the 2 silence or the 2 spell pierce

See Beyond

Here is a basic list of what I suggest you doing. I put it first thanks to the suggestion mechanic having been changed.

Mainboard:

Add:

Remove:

Sideboard:

Add:

Remove:

You probably just noticed my Okay Kids, It's Show and Tell Time! because I had just recently updated it to esper from american colours, for the obvious Bitterblossom reasons.

Your build is interesting, but a lot slower than mine. Why? You don't have the mana base for a properly paced control deck. For a control deck, I run anywhere from 23-26 land. The more you rely on aggro, tempo, midrange or combo, the less lands you need. Since this is a two piece combo, 23-25 lands are enough. Since your cmc 3 is practically non-existant, 23 should do. What should you put in? Basic lands. It helps against Path to Exile , and will make your checklands work more often. Normally I say fetch, but you obviously are trying to stick close to a budget by not adding $300 to the deck.

Now let's talk about what you should take out, and what you are weak against.

For being a control archetype, you have far too much anti-control spells. At most I would stick with 4x Silence , and leave the Boseiju, Who Shelters All for more basic lands. My reasoning is this, having 6 lands that don't produce coloured mana really slows you down. The 4x Mutavault s should be all that you are using in non-colour producing mana. That, and Silence can be used against any deck, but Boseiju, Who Shelters All only against control decks.

Using Leyline of Sanctity in mainboard tells me you really fear RDW and discard heavy decks. I personally would rather be running more removal and/or more discard in my mainboard than be using Leyline of Sanctity in my mainboard. Leyline of Sanctity is one of those cards that you WANT to have at the start of the game, but is only used against the severe cases. So mulliganing down to it is generally what happens. I would stick it back into the sideboard for the moment.

One of the main reasons I've been adding black to all my decks is because of the greater resilience I have against a much larger deck range. (Stolen Grimoires has a black make-over already done. I just have to write that LENGTHY discription for it.) The removal and discard really helps in every single game I see. At the moment, you are lacking lots of removal, but I like the Silence . I wouldn't miss one of Remand , Mana Leak and Spell Pierce go for something like Dismember or Victim of Night or Go for the Throat , because at the moment, you are weak to creature heavy builds and combo builds with creatures. AEther Vial , Birthing Pod , Splinter Twin , Zoo, affinity, and pump infect all come to mind as archetypes you would be weak against without the removal to deflect them.

Now for the sideboard.

I LOVE Scion of Oona ! It does the same thing both the Lingering Souls and Intangible Virtue does to my deck, for less sideboard space. It really helps the flavour of the deck and strengthens the use of 4x Bitterblossom

Stony Silence , Pithing Needle and Leyline of Sanctity are all good choices. I personally would put Leyline of Sanctity as a 3 of (after you take it out of your mainboard of course) so that you have a better chance of finding it on your first hand, or any of your mulligans.

I personally say add another Polymorph target in your sideboard. Because if this deck becomes popular in tournaments, or more well known at your local FNM, they are going to be running things like Sadistic Sacrament against you. However, as I write out the sideboard changes, I realize that you don't have room at the moment. A change may be in order if you do see Sadistic Sacrament being run.

Now lets see the cards you don't want.

Cavern of Souls . NO CLUE why this is in here, it's not like you are going to hardcast a beasty before you can Polymorph it.

Extirpate , as a slower combo build like this one, a faster combo build will kill you first. I prefer Sadistic Sacrament because it also works against the win cons buried in a control deck. While it isn't a big priority as you have more discard and counterspells than me, you also can't hit Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker , Birthing Pod , Zealous Conscripts , Splinter Twin or any tron target with your discard.

Leyline of the Void , the second worst in my opinion. What if something happens to both of your Polymorph targets? I understand you also have Progenitus , but I believe that cards like Grafdigger's Cage and Tormod's Crypt are a lot better since they come out faster and work easier against multiple other decks without hindering yours.

I see a few explanations are in order for my sideboard :D

I had the Cavern of Souls listed in the case that I have to change gears game two and start hard casting my Scion of Oona , and assuming that they can't be countered, saves mana for other things. Like my own counters. But I've been having issues with the sideboard since day one. I only knew of a few cards I wanted for sure (see Leyline of Sanctity )

Speaking of Leyline of Sanctity , Jund and its variants are a rather large portion of my meta here. The three largest portions are Jund good stuff, Twin which has been running a lot of Vendilion Clique recently, and of course the ever present Pod. So I thought it would be decent to run 2 of main board. That being said, it could easily be put as a 3 of in SB once I get the whole thing wired out then do the Muligan down even though I hate that idea.

Sadistic Sacrament seems like a REALLY good idea even though it will never be kicked. If it resolves Twin, Scapeshift, and Pod are going to have a bad time. End of story. I do happen to have two Vendilion Clique set aside I was pondering trying to make room for in the SB in case I do have to change gears and move into Faerie mode.

As far as targeted removal, I do have 4 Dismember ready to be used in a deck, so that is a viable option to throw a few in. Probably wouldn't be a bad idea since the more you mention it, dudes are a thing I can't stop mid game. And I can't possibly hope to counter them all now can I.

I'll definitely take your idea's under consideration immediately and work around them. Thanks for taking the time to look it over!

The more I think about it, an Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth just makes SO much sense as well.

Yes, especially without any fetches in your deck. It will also help you evade the damage from Dismember . I also like Mana Confluence because it combos really nicely with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth in evading the life loss. That, and I'd say it is better than any check-land or filter-land in a 3 colour deck.

fetch lands are still super-nice as long as you can afford them, it's not just helpful with the mana-base but it also thins out the deck to make it less likely you flood out on lands.

Sure, fetch lands are amazing. But lets face it, this deck is not tier 1, will never be tier 1, and I'm not trying to spend tier 1 money on the deck.