You Shall Not Cast!

Modern Control WU (Azorius)

Viperous

Creature (15)

• 3x Angel of Jubilation
• 3x Latch Seeker
• 4x Lyev Skyknight
• 2x Mirran Crusader
• 3x Silverblade Paladin

Land (22)

• 4x Glacial Fortress
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 7x Island
• 7x Plains

Enchantment (7)

• 2x Detention Sphere
• 2x Oblivion Ring
• 3x Ordeal of Heliod

Instant (16)

• 3x Azorius Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 2x Divine Deflection
• 3x Mana Leak
• 3x Render Silent
• 4x Silence

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 2x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Lavinia of the Tenth
• 2x Medomai the Ageless

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Curse of Exhaustion

Instant (4)

• 2x Dissolve
• 2x Vapor Snag

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Divination
• 2x Temporal Mastery

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 2x Mirran Crusader
• 1x Silverblade Paladin
• 2x Tidebinder Mage

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The idea here is fairly straight forward and simple. I plan on using Silence and Mana Leak early on to stop my opponents from casting anything so I can build up my mana. Turn 3 gives me the option for creatures or rendering my opponents silent once again.

All this countering and stalling is so that I can get either my unblockable Latch Seeker out or my flyers or the double strikers. They're low cost guys with other useful abilities so that I can keep stalling and have mana enough to summon more attackers if need be or hold onto my mana for countering.

I have utility cards like Oblivion Ring and Detention Sphere in case I need something gone. Azorius Charm is particularly helpful in many different ways.

My attackers get buffed by Ordeal of Heliod and Angel of Jubilation I like the enchantment for the potential life gain. I only have the one Cyclonic Rift in case I get it, it'd be a nice field wipe later on if im out of counters and silences.

I put Divine Deflection in to pretty much bait my opponents into attacking me. If I dont have a counter, I'll leave my mana open and push the damage back to them for as much as I can. Its pretty surprising and works both defensively and offensively, I think it goes perfect in here.

That pretty much sums it up, let me know what you think or if you can suggest any improvements :)

I had made this for Extended play but suggestions of Modern cards are fine too

Date added	11 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 6 Mythic Rares 28 - 1 Rares 15 - 2 Uncommons 3 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.50