[WAR] No Dead Cards

Standard* UBR (Grixis)

eragon795

Land (25)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Island
• 4x Steam Vents
• 4x Sulfur Falls
• 4x Watery Grave

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Instant (17)

• 1x Bedevil
• 3x Chandra's Triumph
• 3x Chemister's Insight
• 3x Expansion / Explosion
• 4x Ionize
• 3x Ral's Outburst

Planeswalker (8)

• 2x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 4x Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• 2x Ral, Storm Conduit

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Angrath's Rampage
• 4x Thought Erasure

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Bedevil
• 3x Moment of Craving
• 3x Negate

Sorcery (8)

• 3x Cry of the Carnarium
• 3x Duress
• 2x Enter the God-Eternals

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I built this control deck in a way designed to deal with the problem that most control decks have currently: Running cards that do nothing in certain matchups. There should not be a single card in this deck which is useless against any deck, unless it is playing no creatures, no planeswalkers AND no artifacts.

This in itself presents some other problems though - to create a deck with no dead cards power must be sacrificed to achieve flexibility instead. This means that this deck has some difficulty in dealing with aggressive decks, particularly game one. It also puts pressure on the sideboard to be able to attack anything.

On another note, there are some things which I am considering removing from the deck: Ral combo has seemed a little cute and unnecessary, for example.

Other notes - Many people are low in Liliana, but she has been a powerhouse for me and I expect to continue running 2 of her. A lack of Exile removal and removal which deals with 4+ toughness is a significant weakness. The manabase is almost certainly incorrect, because although the deck is colour-intensive it should most likely play at least one, maybe two copies of Blast Zone because of how powerful that card is. Essence Scatter somewhere in the 75 is probably quite necessary.

In all honesty, this may not be the correct way to go about building this deck, expecially with the new gods running around which are a nightmare to deal with, but it is an interesting thought experiment and it's actually been playing surprisingly well. My testing thus far has been extremely limited, but I have yet to lose a match.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 3 Rares 17 - 3 Uncommons 0 - 9 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.51
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B