Illness in the Farm

Standard Combo Control Tokens UB (Dimir) UBR (Grixis) Weenie

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Creature (7)

• 3x Blistercoil Weird
• 4x Nivmagus Elemental

Land (22)

• 9x Island
• 3x Swamp
• 4x Temple of Deceit
• 2x Temple of Malice
• 4x Watery Grave

Enchantment (7)

• 4x Illness in the Ranks
• 3x Ordeal of Thassa

Artifact (2)

• 2x Ratchet Bomb

Instant (10)

• 4x Dissolve
• 3x Rapid Hybridization
• 3x Swan Song

Sorcery (12)

• 3x Curse of the Swine
• 2x Duress
• 3x Read the Bones
• 4x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x AEtherling

Artifact (1)

• 1x Ratchet Bomb

Instant (11)

• 3x Annul
• 2x Dark Betrayal
• 3x Essence Scatter
• 3x Negate

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Whelming Wave

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This is a control deck I started making when I decided to make a deck with more than 50% of the cards at 1 CMC, then I ended up making this combo control deck.

This deck gets it's name from a mixture of cards such as Rapid Hybridization, Swan Song and Curse of the Swine make for easy creature control, coupling these spells with four of Illness in the Ranks Mainboard. This also hits decks like mono-B which can no longer make pack rat tokens without playing several rats or animating several of their mutavaults (which can be VERY risky against this deck), Mono-U can no longer use Master of Waves, Selesnya's wurm tokens from Advent, Assemble the Legion, Azorius' Elspeth, the Young Pyromancer deck, and many more cards used in almost every standard tier 1 list.

The finisher I decided had to also be on theme with the deck, which means Nivmagus Elemental due to it's CMC of 1 yet the ability to stack those counters on means it has great synergy with Ordeal of Thassa which can help by constantly supplying more steam so you can keep using low cost spells to keep putting pressure on the opponent's board state. I decided Ordeals weren't enough draw power, hence the Read the Bones. I didn't want to have too much pressure brought with Underworld Connections due to the heavy blue content.

A lot of cheap counter magic is what I thought would be best to finish off this deck. Being able to counter their plays and cast my own spells made this deck able to be more flexible.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 4 Rares 13 - 5 Uncommons 9 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.58
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Frog Lizard 3/3 G
Folders	Future built a deck