Azorius Elixir Control

Modern Competitive Control WU (Azorius)

T12H

Land (25)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 3x Celestial Colonnade
• 3x Flooded Strand
• 3x Ghost Quarter
• 2x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 6x Island
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 3x Temple of Enlightenment

Instant (25)

• 3x Anticipate
• 2x Blessed Alliance
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 3x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Disallow
• 2x Negate
• 4x Path to Exile
• 3x Remand
• 2x Sphinx's Revelation
• 2x Supreme Will
• 2x Thirst for Knowledge

Artifact (3)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 1x Oblivion Stone

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Jace, Architect of Thought

Sorcery (3)

• 2x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Wrath of God

Creature (1)

• 1x Snapcaster Mage

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 1x Blessed Alliance
• 2x Celestial Purge
• 2x Dispel
• 2x Surgical Extraction
• 1x Whir of Invention

Artifact (4)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Pithing Needle

Creature (1)

• 1x Torrential Gearhulk

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Gideon of the Trials

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I have read many articles saying control is dead in modern. I say "challenge accepted" to that. I have been playing this draw go UW control deck for the past two years and I have slowly tweaked my list to this one I have now. This is the original list that I played back at states in 2015 and I got a top 8 result.

The reason I chose UW and no third color is because the mana allows me access to more basics to fight blood moon decks and also lets me have more colorless lands like Ghost Quarter and Academy Ruins which help out in a lot of matchups.

Win - Cons

The wincons of the deck are the solo Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Elixir of Immortality + Sphinx's Revelation, or Academy Ruins + Oblivion Stone or Engineered Explosives.

Unique Card Choices

Academy Ruins Engineered Explosives Oblivion Stone -

Academy Ruins I feel is very much underplayed in modern. I originally put this is my deck to protect my Elixir of Immortality from discard. After a few years of playing control I have found that being able to recur a Engineered Explosives is lights out verse many decks. After doing that combination, I decided to test out Oblivion Stone and found that it was better than I thought. It is not that great verse hyper aggressive strategies, but decks like lantern and eldrazi it really shines.

Disallow

This one is to have a main deck way to stop storm. Stifle the storm trigger is great, also it could stop a ultimate of a planeswalker.

Commit/Memory

I am testing out this one because I took out the Detention Spheres because of Oblivion Stone. It is a very versatile counter/removal. Also the memory portion is great verse lantern decks so you can hopefully draw your EE or O-stone off the 7 new cards.

Supreme Will

I cut Mana Leak because it was horrible late game and horrible with Elixir of Immortality. This has great late game value and really great to have on the early turns for a counter.

Thirst for Knowledge

This is really great for a turn 3 dig to find your Supreme Verdicts. It also is great to clean up your hand for the variety of match ups modern has, you get to discard all your dead cards and hopefully draw the correct answers.

Please +1 if you like it. Let me know what you think about the state of control in modern or if there is any questions about the deck about match ups or how it plays or card choices. Or let me know what you would do differently. Thanks!

Top Ranked	Achieved #38 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 3 Mythic Rares 27 - 7 Rares 17 - 3 Uncommons 5 - 2 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	2.75
Tokens	Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Gideon of the Trials, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	Modern Cool Stuff, Expensive Modern Decks