Standard Anti-Control Picks

Standard*

Maugena

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What we're combating.

Counters

1. (1) Drops - Spell Pierce, Syncopate
2. (2) Drops - Negate, Essence Scatter
3. (3) Drops - Disallow, Supreme Will, Cancel, Unwind, Metallic Rebuke
4. (4) Drops - Commit / Memory
5. (5) Drops - Spell Swindle

Removal

1. (1) Drops - Fatal Push, Shock, Wizard's Lightning, Magma Spray, Chandra's Defeat,
2. (2) Drops - Cast Down, Seal Away, Blink of an Eye, Gideon's Reproach, Lightning Strike, Abrade, Cut / Ribbons, Consign // Oblivion, Baffling End
3. (3) Drops - Wizard's Lightning, Essence Extraction, Doomfall, Unlicensed Disintegration, Never // Return, Bontu's Last Reckoning
4. (4) Drops - Cast Out, Settle the Wreckage, Vraska's Contempt, Hostage Taker, Commit / Memory
5. (5) Drops - Fumigate, Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Hour of Devastation

Answers to the problems.

1 Drops

• Blossoming Defense - 1 for 1 targeted removal.
• Bomat Courier - Refreshing your hand, attempting to gain card advantage.
• Failure // Comply (Comply)- Preventative for at turn.
• Deadeye Tracker - Growing threat/card advantage and graveyard hate.
• Dive Down - 1 for 1 targeted removal.
• Duress - Pick apart some potential threats.
• Greenbelt Rampager - Fast clock.
• Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter - Growing threat.
• Shaper's Sanctuary - Targeted removal compensation.
• Siren Stormtamer - 1 for 1 targeted removal.
• Spell Pierce - Potentially counter a counter.
• Syncopate - Potentially counter a counter.

2 Drops

• Aethergeode Miner - Evasive threat.
• Glint-Sleeve Siphoner - Card advantage engine.
• Kitesail Freebooter - Creature & hand dissection.
• Knight of Malice - Hexproof from white removal.
• Longtusk Cub - Growing threat.
• Llanowar Scout - Land advantage.
• Nissa, Steward of Elements - Card advantage engine.
• Path of Mettle   - Mana sink. (Possibly)
• The Flame of Keld - Some card draw & hit harder.
• Tilonalli's Summoner - Mana dump.

3 Drops

• WIP

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
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