Jeskai Control Help?
Standard Deck Help forum
Posted on July 11, 2017, 9:04 p.m. by RedMulligan
Before you start complaining, yes, I play control.
And it is the worst and most beautiful thing I've ever played.
I've been dabbling with control a little bit in Standard, and decided to brew my own Jeskai control deck with Hour of Devastation. U/R control has worked really well for me in the past (I've usually gone 2-2 or 3-1 at FNM's), but with cards like Solemnity and Blessed Alliance, I want to branch out into white as well. Lots of control players are gonna go Grixis because of Bolas, and I feel like White is gonna help take care of the sub-meta.
This is the first control deck that I've played/brewed with white in it, so, naturally, I'm having a few problems:
I'm having some issues balancing my colors out. There's a lot of good cards that are playable in Standard control in all 3 colors. I included most of them in here, but the each-of's is throwing me off. I need to find the right balance of White vs. Blue vs. Red, and the best number of each card in the list.
Like I said before, there's plenty of control-viable cards in Standard for Jeskai. My problem is figuring out which are the best of the best and why, and also how many of them I should run in the list.
Sideboarding has never been my strong suit. This is a sideboard that I hope will Negate the new HOU meta, beit Zombies, mono-white Monument, or Grixis Control or Aggro.
If you have any advice on what I should do to make this deck better before I even begin to build it, or just any advice to a new brewer, it would be very much appreciated! You can submit your advice either here on the forum, or on the page for the deck itself.
Here's the list for you to review. I know it's a link, but I can't get the internal deck link to work. Sorry, n00b in the house...
Thanks again, RedMulligan