uB Phyrexian Control (v1.1)

Modern Burn Competitive Control Counterspell FNM Infect Proliferate Tempo UB (Dimir)

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Black Control (11)

• 2x Fatal Push
• 3x Drown in Ichor
• 2x Sheoldred's Edict
• 2x Toxic Deluge
• 2x Damnation

Blue Control (5)

• 1x Spell Snare
• 2x Corrupted Resolve
• 1x Serum Snare
• 1x Fuel for the Cause

Dimir Control (3)

• 3x Drown in the Loch

Give-the-HIV! (17)

• 3x Virulent Wound
• 4x Prologue to Phyresis
• 4x Ichor Rats
• 2x Infectious Inquiry
• 4x Vraska's Fall

Inevitablity Engine (1)

• 1x Inexorable Tide

Land (23)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 3x Inkmoth Nexus
• 2x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion *f-pre*
• 1x Mirrex
• 3x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sunken Hollow *f-pre*
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 2x Watery Grave

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Sideboard

Graveyard hate (4)

• 4x Faerie Macabre

Obliterator package (4)

• 1x Swamp
• 3x Phyrexian Obliterator

Vs. Combo or Control (3)

• 2x Duress
• 1x Negate

Vs. anything Colorless (2)

• 2x Ceremonious Rejection

Vs. anything Red and/or White (2)

• 2x Phyrexian Crusader

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Maybeboard

Black Infect (3)

• 1x Phyrexian Vatmother
• 1x Caress of Phyrexia
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Blue Infect (4)

• 1x Blighted Agent
• 1x Viral Drake
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Chained Throatseeker

Draw (1)

• 1x Preordain

Legacy tech (2)

• 1x Glistening Sphere
• 1x Phyresis Outbreak

More Control? (2)

• 1x Break the Ice
• 1x Psychic Surgery

Proliferate (5)

• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Contentious Plan
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Steady Progress
• 1x Contagion Engine

Toxic (2)

• 1x Bilious Skulldweller
• 1x Voidwing Hybrid

To-get list (1)

• 1x Marsh Flats

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{UB}{B} Infect Control..

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Intro..

When I first started playing MtG, none of my other friends wanted to brew with Infect; so I decided to be the one to represent!

This is a major overhaul of an Infect deck that I have been playing around with off & on ever since I started playing mtg.. However, the type of deck which I had envisioned was simply not possible... at least, not yet...

It was only after Phyrexia: All is One(ONE) was finally released a dozen years later, and with it, my goal of creating a competitive Infect Control deck may finally be achieved!!! This is due to the printing of three otherwise basic spells at common that tack on a "Each opponent gets a poison counter."-clause for an extra {1}

• Prologue to Phyresis - A (non-Arcane) Reach Through Mists..

• Infectious Inquiry - Yet another upcosted variant of Night's Whisper..

• Vraska's Fall - Is basically a Sheoldred's Edict..

With these three cards a (near-)creatureless Infect Control deck is now possible!

Win Condition..

As a Control deck, the goal isn't trying to "win" through any specific card or combo, but rather, to cause the opponent(s) to lose while slowly drowning in deep waters..

How you ask?

1. The deck runs over a dozen cards that outright, unconditionally, gives the opponent(s) a poison counter; plus there is the potential combat damage coming from Ichor Rats, animated Inkmoth Nexus', and/or even Mites via Mirrex..

2. Another handful of cards Proliferates as well, including the repeatable Karn's Bastion and the inevitablity engine that is Inexorable Tide..

All of the above is couched within a dedicated {UB} Control shell— which, by design, actually gets around the primary weakness of most classical Control decks. That is, the inefficient nature of reactively going "1-for-1" with an opponent, while actively digging for your own WinCon..

Instead, nearly every other card upticks the poison counters. Therefore, the deck aims to slowly and consistently "2-for-1" the opponent(s) to compleation, effectively reducing the game to a quasi- Ten spell countdown..

Slowly and Painfully...

Just as the Founding Phyrexians intended...

Obliterator Package Explained..

Phyrexian Obliterator NEEDS NO EXPLANATION!!!

Actually, because I have {0} idea of what kind of meta I may be stepping into, the Obliterators are a Gambit that I run instead of a normal sideboard strategy.

• Game 1, an opponent will likely observe that this is a (near-)creatureless Control deck, and board-out their removal spells in favor of other sideboard tech.

• Obliterators are also great for stonewalling (non-Flying) Aggro decks, both tall and wide alike!

(The fancy Swamp replaces a slightly less-fancy Island)

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Graveyard-hate

I also prefer to run a playset of Faerie Macabre over Leyline of the Void as my Graveyard-hate of choice...

Why, you ask?

Because Faerie Macabre is the ¡Spanish Inquisition! of Graveyard-hate of course!!!

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Vs...

The other half of the sideboard, I would assume, should be relatively self-explanatory...

...suggestions for upgrades are always appreciated..

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Top Ranked	Achieved #6 position overall 4 weeks ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Burn 4 weeks ago
Date added	12 years
Last updated	9 hours
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 3 Mythic Rares 22 - 2 Rares 18 - 2 Uncommons 14 - 7 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.41
Tokens	Phyrexian Mite 1/1 C
Folders	Modern, Simili al blu-nero, Curiousity, Infect Decks?, Noteworthy Decks of Others, Infect, Modern Decks I Did Not Make
Based on	Infect.. Counter.. & Proliferate.. Metroid_Hybrid MDN