Traft Control Returns!

Modern Angels Combo Control WU (Azorius)

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Creature (14)

• 4x Ethersworn Canonist
• 3x Geist of Saint Traft
• 4x Ornithopter
• 3x Spellskite

Land (23)

• 2x Celestial Colonnade
• 4x Flagstones of Trokair
• 3x Ghost Quarter
• 3x Glacial Fortress
• 3x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 3x Mystic Gate
• 3x Plains

Enchantment (7)

• 4x Ghostly Prison
• 3x Invocation of Saint Traft

Artifact (6)

• 4x Isochron Scepter
• 2x Tormod's Crypt

Instant (10)

• 3x Muddle the Mixture
• 3x Path to Exile
• 4x Silence

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 3x Meddling Mage

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Leyline of Sanctity

Artifact (2)

• 2x Tormod's Crypt

Instant (6)

• 3x Dispel
• 3x Mana Leak

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Master of Etherium
• 1x Signal Pest

Land (1)

• 1x Academy Ruins

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Detention Sphere

Artifact (2)

• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Springleaf Drum

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Supreme Verdict

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This deck has been in the making for a while now. It is a prison deck, and a potentially very good one. The main combo is Isochron Scepter + Silence . The rest, essentially, is gravy.

This deck cannot afford to miss a land drop. It has twenty-three, for that very reason. On turn one, drop an Ornithopter. If you are going against burn, do not Path to Exile the Goblin Guide or Vexing Devil, especially if you have a Ghostly Prison in hand. This will usually prevent decks with fewer than twenty lands from attacking you for a while. On turn two, drop the combo. If it is not there, try for an Ethersworn Canonist. On turn three, forego Silence and simply play a Ghostly Prison. This will allow you to wait out the turns until you have four or five lands, at which point you may drop heavy-hitting things like Geist of Saint Traft. I cannot stress enough that once the combo is gone, the control can be forgotten. At this point, you should have some angel production. USE IT.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Isochron Scepter + Silence
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 7 Rares 12 - 2 Uncommons 7 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.76
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W