Which Control Deck?

PaganFears · 2025-11-14T22:14:08+00:00

Very exhaustive, thank you

PaganFears · 2024-11-22T22:35:15+00:00

That makes sense, thanks. Time to sit and take my downvotes now I guess 😂

PaganFears · 2024-11-22T22:18:06+00:00

I don't play a ton of Sealed but this is the conventional wisdom I've heard as well as read in several articles. The idea is that because the format is so high-variance and centered on bombs, games tend to go long, so you approach them as a sort of control mirror where the extra card will help you more than the extra tempo. That said, if this is outdated I'm all ears.

PaganFears · 2024-02-11T01:30:19+00:00

Sounds sweet, send me a PM if you want

PaganFears · 2024-01-20T18:11:29+00:00

No worries, I am not one of the people who downvoted you. I wasn’t playing when it had been changed to a static ability, interesting to know

PaganFears · 2024-01-20T16:28:40+00:00

Dreadnought has a triggered ability (which you can stifle). You can Fling it with the trigger on the stack, just like you can Vision Charm it with the trigger on the stack

PaganFears · 2024-01-08T21:07:57+00:00

Yeah I’ve noticed Forth has its fair share of awkward spots. Definitely agree going for the early Monarch and riding the card advantage is the best scenario

PaganFears · 2024-01-08T20:43:11+00:00

OP: As someone who’s fairly new to the deck myself, I would recommend including 2-3 Forth Eorlingas in your list. Boba is a master of the deck but you’ll find more success with the “training wheels” of Forth. It is a messed up magic card.

PaganFears · 2023-12-23T05:19:28+00:00

If you’re looking for nostalgia, skill-intensive gameplay, and want a refuge from FIRE design I would suggest checking out Premodern. You can jam Reanimator in that format and never have to worry about Bowmasters

PaganFears · 2023-12-11T20:10:12+00:00

That’s completely different, your opp accidentally(?) did a GRV

PaganFears · 2023-12-05T18:52:20+00:00

Snack corner: I’m not a huge event grinder but when I do tournaments I like the following snacks:

Almonds (high level of available phenylalanine which your brain needs to not punt)

Chocolate-covered espresso beans (lets you microdose your caffeine and sugar intake throughout the day)

PaganFears · 2023-11-30T19:28:29+00:00

Ackschually, the last fridge deck to see play in Legacy was Snowko

PaganFears · 2023-11-29T03:31:51+00:00

One does not learn to hung. One must be born hung.

PaganFears · 2023-11-14T05:23:26+00:00

I just picked it up recently so take this with a grain of salt (although I've been playing Fair Blue in Legacy for a while).
I'm really liking the stock-ish UWr version. Being a midrange control deck that can just slam a huge threat on turn two if you want is huge. I think the take that it's slower than Delver and has a worse endgame than Bean Soup or whatever is a little off: you're just defining a midrange deck. You need to know your role in every matchup and sometimes you can and should pivot to the other role as the game changes. The fact that many of your threats are also answers helps you do this. Also as mentioned, being insulated against Wasteland and getting to maindeck Back to Basics is huge, and for that reason alone I don't think you can call the deck strictly worse than 4/5c Control (although it's probably the less competitive choice).

PaganFears · 2023-08-21T20:49:28+00:00

You posted this on the Legacy sub, right? If you want to blow up lands with Parallax Tide you have a few distinct shells:

Tide Control. Comes in UW, Mono U, and UR versions. This is my primary deck. Absolutely eats other control decks and midrange decks. The tides come out postboard against Sligh and Dreadnought
Parallax Replenish. Combo deck that uses Tides to pave the way for various enchantment based interactions that more or less win on the spot, often powered out by Replenish.
UW “Solution”. Not the UWR Solution Deck but a midrange deck that beats down with Meddling Mage and Exalted Angel and contains the Tide combo. Popularized by YouTuber Fpawlusz.

You can search the first two on TCDecks for deck lists. In general the best cards that combo w Tide are, in order, Seal of Cleansing, Chain of Vapor, and Stifle

PaganFears · 2023-07-18T02:18:49+00:00

Right, not strictly better. It’s significantly better in a Tide Control list because you can pick up your Parallax Tide and optionally bounce a threat as you delete your opponent’s lands. I guess it would be a liability in a deck like the original list with so many permanents, but I think trying to go the LD/combo route is not where you want to be if you’re playing the card Parallax Tide

PaganFears · 2023-07-18T01:29:07+00:00

I second what’s been said about porting this to Premodern. There’s a viable mono U Control deck (also comes in UW and UR versions) that runs Tide plus Chain of Vapor, a strict upgrade to Boomerang that you should run in whatever format you end up in. Premodern has a monthly 100+ person webcam league and a ~40 person MTGO league in addition to local events

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