Modern UB Control JTMS

Modern Competitive Control UB (Dimir)

ArcanisDimir

Land (24)

• 3x Creeping Tar Pit
• 4x Darkslick Shores
• 3x Field of Ruin
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Swamp
• 2x Watery Grave

Instant (8)

• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 4x Fatal Push
• 2x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall

Sorcery (11)

• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Serum Visions
• 4x Thoughtseize

Planeswalker (5)

• 2x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 2x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Creature (6)

• 2x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 4x Snapcaster Mage

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Bitterblossom
• 4x Spreading Seas

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Sideboard

Instant (9)

• 4x Ceremonious Rejection
• 1x Countersquall
• 2x Hurkyl's Recall
• 2x Surgical Extraction

Sorcery (5)

• 3x Collective Brutality
• 2x Damnation

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

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This is a UB Control with Jace, the Mind Sculptor based on this deck.

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Changes I made (but haven't tested yet):

1. Removed 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor and 1x Damnation from the main deck.

2. Included 2x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet in the main deck.

3. Removed all Leyline of the Void, 1x Liliana's Defeat and 1x Jace's Defeat from sideboard.

4. Added 1x Damnation, 1x Ceremonious Rejection, 2x Hurkyl's Recall and 2x Surgical Extraction to sideboard.

Reasoning: The deck has bad matches against Burn, Dredge, Bogles and aggro decks in general. The idea is to control the early game with hand disruption and creature removal. Then Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet should be able to help us against those decks. I'm not an experienced Modern player so I'm not sure this plan is going to work but I think it's worth trying. I also had to cut a Damnation from the main deck because I think it would be a little counter-intuitive with this new plan.

About the sideboard, in my opinion, Leyline of the Void is too narrow. It was there mainly for the Dredge matchup and maybe Storm. Since Kalitas should help against Dredge, I hope we have enough disruption and removal to deal with Storm. Surgical Extraction was added to help with these matchups too.

Damnation is there to help against aggro creature decks. Ceremonious Rejection is there because of Tron and Affinity. And Hurkyl's Recall is also there to help against Affinity.

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Those changes are not tested yet, as I mentioned previously. As soon as I have some results with the deck, I'm going to post it here. It's worth watching the deck on CFB website though. The only match where Pascal made many mistakes was against Bogles.

Things I'm already thinking about:

1. Adding back the third Jace, the Mind Sculptor and removing 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.

2. Not adding a third Jace, but removing 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet and adding a third Liliana of the Veil.

3. Adjusting the mana base a little bit since the deck doesn't have Cryptic Command anymore and has so many Kalitas.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 1 Mythic Rares 17 - 9 Rares 17 - 5 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.97
Tokens	Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B