nice deck +1

i actually came up with something similar Mogis Cruel Control

Looks good, but maybe swap lightning strike for Magma Jet , same cost, one less damage but scry 2.

I'd considered and playtested Magma Jet AussieBloke, but found that the scry was unnecessary in most games and the less damage made it far less effective at killing creatures or helping to burn out an opponent late game.

Mizzium Mortars . At the moment the deck has no answer for a BBoV that hits the field.

@mbooma That is what Devour Flesh is for. Ignoring the cards money cost (this deck is still on a tight budget atm), the sorcery speed is not quite great for me, the overload is expensive and there are not many people who run BBoV in my local meta. But thanks for the tip anyway, I'd wanted to include it but just found I had no need.

no Sire Of Insanity ?? he pretty much ruins other control. atleast in a sideboard for mirror matches?

need a Rakdos Cackler and a Madcap Skills

Sire is potentially sideboard - good idea.

Just a thought for more insanity....

Master of Cruelties

Major friend of an overloaded Mizzium Mortars or Rogue's Passage

@Necrotech I do love the idea - my problem with him is his cost. He's going to be taking up a 5 slot, which is already filled by Stormbreath Dragon , and he's far easier to kill. He's a nice idea, I'll test him out, just uncertain of it.

I think 3 Slaughter Games is a bit much. I'd up Elspeth or something. I don't run the control side of R/B but you can take a look, The Return of the Nightmare from Hell

3 Slaughter Games is the prime number. I find it helps against many standard planeswalkers, enchantments and is a great game one against any control build. I find it pretty good.

Strange just yesterday I made a dega deck haha, you should check it out.

Much rely on turn 1 Thoughtseize

Such play Duress as well

Wow

How useful have you found your one Whip of Erebos in this deck? I am actually really interested in what kind of interactions you have had with it in this deck

Wodar I have found it surprisingly useful. I initially began with it in the deck because I did not have a fourth Underworld (which I've found I don't really need anyway). But it slowly evolved into a very solid one-of.

Most often it's very helpful in me turning Mogis on, and as a booster to my Gray Merchants, which can either stabilize me or finish off an opponent (especially if I get to Whip em back).And the pure threat of what I can do with the whip will often lead to my opponents spending cards to remove it (one less to use against a Mogis or Underworld) or they simply altered their play style in such a way to avoid it that it helped me in the long game.I would not add another for space and redundancy issues, but its great as the one-of.

Why put Slaughter Games in the MB? Banishing Light and Oppressive Rays can help lock down threats too.

If you have red and white you should have Boros Charm

Aytonday For what purpose? I have minimal creatures, 3 of which are a god, so the indestructibility is meaningless. 4 damage directly to player is not what this deck wants, and the prime targets for the double strike (Mogis or Stormbreath) are 70 percent of the time (and 100 percent for Stormbreath) non-interactive.

Boros Charm is certainly good, but it has no place in the deck.

cerealkyra This deck is mainly R/B, so Banishing Light and Oppressive Rays (which isn't even that good honestly) don't quite fit in the mainboard. Banishing Light might go SB with some testing.

But I run the MB Slaughter Games as a surprise, people rarely expect the card to be in the front of the match, and will expect it second game if I only have it in sideboard.

I have a really similar deck to this except im running Sin Collector as well, at least in the side board, idk if that would mess up the curve you want tho

Keegan8or I really really like Sin Collector .... in mono black splashing white. Here it's just a more costly and slightly less painful Duress since it can't take enchantments or planeswalkers. My playtesting with it has never shown it to be as effective as I want it to be, so I'm keeping with Duress

no worries man, I see your point. I think that I'm going to put Duress back in my deck, it came out for Sin Collector . but in most cases Duress is the better option

I love Dega. I played Dega Control until right before Journey hit. It's a hard deck to play, but very worth it IMO. Props to you for making such a strong version of the deck.

Post rotation, I feel Jund and Dega will be the great decks for control. Hope to see you there!

+1

What is Liliana doing for you? Between the elspeth, Assemble the Legion , Mogis, and Stormbreath Dragon you seem to have enough wincons that you can find them naturally. If you just have it for the discard and hoping to ultimate then...

She also tutors any removal I may need as well as my win cons. Besides, you won't always naturally draw a card you may want so she sort of counts as 2 extra copies of any card. Her discard is useful later in the game as well when my opponents are down to 2-3 cards in hand.