BR - Control

[DarkRequiem]

Well, time to post once more.

This was supposed to be a creatureless deck, but somehow I found place for a few creatures that can be quite cruel on the table. I'm still thinking if I shouldn't play with 4 Abyssal Gatekeepers and add another 4 Plague Dogs to it. But if I do so, what shall I remove?

It is supposed to be a somewhat cheap deck (manawise) with very few cards costing above 3 cmc.
It should relly on fast card drawing so that I can bring Denizen of the Deep to play and use it to kill whatever little life my opponent has. If that doesn't work, I can Disintegrate him or Consume Spirit him.

I wish I had more Tainted Aethers with me since those are supposed to help me clean the board and the only copy I have should be on the table asap. 4 copies of this baby should be awesome.

The tutors are there to help me locate the Aether, the Denizen or some blue producing lands (possibly Tainted Isles) in a faster way then (the not so regular) drawing of cards.

Eitherway, I'd like to know what you think of such a deck, what ideas do you have to make it better and what lands would you use here.

So, the deck!!!


CREATURES (4):
3 Abyssal Gatekeeper
1 Denizen of the Deep

SPELLS (36):
4 Dash Hopes
4 Disintegrate
4 Mind Ravel
3 Consume Spirit
3 Rancid Earth
3 Stone Rain
3 Stun
2 Diabolic Tutor
2 Duress
2 Flame Wave
2 Recover
1 Blackmail
1 Cry of Contrition
1 Rhystic Tutor
1 Tainted AEther


Any kind of help is much appretiated.

[FrycHiKn]

1x card don't work.

I say lose the cry and blackmail and put duress or stupor...

Hows your mana pool if it is sort B/x you could use cofers and the consume spirit...

[DarkRequiem]

Can add 2 Duress's.

I don't have the Coffers, but Consume Spirit must be there. I forgot about it. The same way I forgot about mana accel. Crap! Dark Ritual and Seething Song must be added too. Anything else, manawise, will only be figured out after the deck's finished.

[FrycHiKn]

Ok, more comments:

tainted aether isn't a sb kinda card?
Change the stone rain to rain of tears...
Flame wave why? I'm asking that because 3 color phun stuff requires an all-star mana base...

[DarkRequiem]

Why Rain of Tears instead of Stone Rain? Stone Rain asks 3cmc from where only 1 is specific red while Rain of Tears ask 2 specific black in the same 3cmc... Isn't Stone Rain supposed to be easier to cast?

Stone Wave because I love that card, but it might be dropped since I need to open slots for mana acceleration. And you're right, it fits more a pure red deck.

Tainted Aether might be a SB kind of card, but not on this deck. I should have a few more. What I inted to do is to ceap my opponents out so that they don't play their creatures in their heavy-creature decks. And might use Halls of Mist also. LOL! Call me old school. ;)

[FrycHiKn]

Yes, stone rain is easier but a 2 color deck isn't just better instead of a 3 color deck w/no specific mana base?

The only red cards that you have is stone rain and flame wave, without the wave, just red mana for the rain? that is nuts...

[DarkRequiem]

Disintegrate, Stun are red too. :P

Mostly I want to play something that keeps my opponent's creatures at bay and that lets me just draw and draw and draw (without using blue) till I get the pieces I want.

[FrycHiKn]

I think that this deck can do something but I'm not sure about 3color phun...

Instead of those cards maybe you can try dregs of sorrow as an alternative card drawing card... :paranoid:

How's your meta?

[DarkRequiem]

Dregs ain't bad. I need to check if I got that. :)

Well, the meta... We're just a few players using several decks. Least seen colour is white but you can go against Circu decks, red LD decks, aggro green decks, blue counter decks... Very little black control decks as it is now, though.

[FrycHiKn]

Because a good transition is: Dregs>flame wave....


And update your deck list to see what choices did you made and improve your deck...

[DarkRequiem]

Dregs?
I haven't worked on it yet due to work. But will do so tomorrow. :)

[FrycHiKn]

hey, help me with my deck plzzzz

[FrycHiKn]

So how the dregs test? It went right?


And also rystic tutor isn't a late card... It is useful for an early advantage, so 1 rystic won't work, I think... :paranoid:

[DarkRequiem]

Yeah, but I don't have access to more.
As for testing, will be doing some, finally, this week. The group hasn't been playing much due to things with real life. Oh well...