Xerox '96

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Instant (20)

• 3x Arcane Denial
• 3x Brainstorm
• 4x Counterspell
• 4x Power Sink
• 2x Spell Blast
• 4x Swords to Plowshares

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Balance
• 3x Portent
• 3x Wrath of God

Land (18)

• 4x Adarkar Wastes
• 6x Island
• 4x Mishra's Factory
• 1x Plains
• 3x Strip Mine

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Land Tax
• 2x Mystic Remora

Artifact (11)

• 1x Black Vise
• 2x Icy Manipulator
• 2x Jayemdae Tome
• 2x The Rack
• 4x Urza's Bauble

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Sideboard

Instant (9)

• 1x Blue Elemental Blast
• 4x Disenchant
• 4x Hydroblast

Land (1)

• 1x Plains

Artifact (3)

• 3x Feldon's Cane

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Hallowed Ground

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Attempt at xerox for 95-96 magic. As we know, xerox is an archetype where we "justify" low land counts by substituting lands for cantrips which you use to hit your land drops. This deck also uses land tax and remora as such "cantrips", because they are cheap spells that provide card advantage. The reason to go xerox is having higher spell density in the deck, so later in game you're more likely to draw into "gas" rather than more lands.

The deck is at it's heart a control deck. We use countermagic and removal to stall the opponent's game plan and then grind them out with card advantage, slowly ticking their life with mishra's factories, black vise, and the rack.

Most of the control decks of the era use millstone and mishra's factories as wincons. To me in hindsight this seems strange, since factories don't contribute to the mill plan and are therefore dead cards in this type of build. I weighted the options and decided to cut the millstones for something that inflicts damage, since with this much card draw we're more likely to deck than our opponent.

Our worst matchups are control mirror against millstone control and turbogeddon. See sideboard for tech against those.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Unknown legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Rares 24 - 2 Uncommons 17 - 12 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.60