A standard changing UWR

Morpheus2222 · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 23

I hate jund i hate vamps i believe this deck will change the current format tell me what u think. It has been very consistent and needs more testing let me know your ideas and thoughts. thanks in advance

//NAME: UWR control
3 Plains
4 Rupture Spire
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Arid Mesa
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Island
2 Mountain
4 Deft Duelist
4 Baneslayer Angel
2 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
4 Ajani Vengeant
4 Jace Beleren
4 Day of Judgment
3 Negate
3 Path to Exile
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Mind Spring
2 Oblivion Ring
// Sideboard:
SB: 1 Path to Exile
SB: 1 Lightning Bolt
SB: 1 Negate
SB: 4 Celestial Purge
SB: 3 Swerve
SB: 2 Oblivion Ring
SB: 3 Banefire

Matchups are my best guess and not a result of actual testing Smile

65/35 jund
70/30 boros
60/40 vamps
50/50 control

Update: deck does very good vs mono red also

clayparson · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 54

Morpheus2222 · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 23

They are just an educated guess as a result of little testing i will post more numbers as i test more

kaamos · Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 145

Looks like just a bunch of powercards and deft duelist.
Well then again she IS good, i dunno looks good to me but i feel ive seen this before.

You said combos were a problem- what about Medling Mage in the sb?

kaamos · Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 145

Looks like just a bunch of powercards and deft duelist.
Well then again she IS good, i dunno looks good to me but i feel ive seen this before.

You said combos were a problem- what about Medling Mage in the sb?

SJM · Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 144

Sphinx of Jwar Isle is better than Baneslayer almost 100% of the time.

Cut 2 baneslayers main, move to the side. Add 1 sphinx and a path to exile.

ncgeniusbrad · Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 39

DoJ is not good against any decks but vampires and random teir 2 creature decks. if your playing def duelist/ wall of shroud day of judgment isnt good at all. oblivion ring is meh. richard feldmans deck is probably the best urw deck but i have found a deck that is better than both, its esper control. think about y your playing red then think about identity crisis and esper charm and choose which one is better.

muskogee · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 16

// Lands
6 [ZEN] Island (5)
3 [ZEN] Mountain ( Cool

5 [ZEN] Plains (5)
4 [M10] Glacial Fortress
4 [CFX] Rupture Spire

// Creatures
4 [M10] Baneslayer Angel
2 [ZEN] Sphinx of Jwar Isle
2 [ZEN] Sphinx of Lost Truths
2 [ARB] Wall of Denial (obvious reasons)

// Spells
1 [CFX] Obelisk of Alara ( you play against it and complain y it's in their great with the rupture spire)
3 [ALA] Oblivion Ring
4 [M10] Negate
4 [CFX] Path to Exile
4 [M10] Lightning Bolt
3 [ALA] Ajani Vengeant (usually wins against you control matchup)
3 [M10] Jace Beleren
2 [ZEN] Rite of Replication (do i have to name creatures this is good for?)
4 [ZEN] Day of Judgment

// Sideboard
SB: 3 [ZEN] Luminarch Ascension (control)
SB: 3 [ALA] Swerve (seriously most decks it could almost be main except against vamps 90% of jund targets
SB: 3 [M10] Harm's Way (slow down mono white enough for the win)
SB: 3 [ARB] Double Negative (it was either this or cannonist)
SB: 3 [M10] Earthquake(bushwackers, vamps, and mono white)

i actually like the UWR control decks and yes it has been seen before at pt austin someone was playing it he went 5-2 losing to vamps each time b/c bloodghasts recursion

actual results
W/L
vamps 7-3

jund 6-4

control 8-2 u/r chandra control 7/3 mirror 8/2 U/W

bant aggro 6-4

mono white 5-5

u/g mana ramp 6-4 depens on how fast they drop sphinx or lorthos

have not played against that new UBW cascade deck that plays the land aura's that make your land island or what ever they want it to be

thornling wins 6-4

so far this deck seems to be really good i have been playing it for about 2 weeks and it has earned me about 40pts so far in the ratings

Vedrfolner · Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 1951

jonproject · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 250

I've been testing the shit out of this deck, it's really good. Definitely one of the best decks out there right now, and hands down best control deck.

3 Baneslayer Angel
2 Sphinx of Jwar Isle

4 Path to Exile
4 Day of Judgment
3 Jace Beleren
4 Ajani Vengeant
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Courier's Capsule
3 Negate
2 Chandra Nalaar
1 Obelisk of Alara
2 Celestial Purge

4 Sejiri Refuge
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Arid Mesa
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Plains
3 Island
2 Mountain

SB
3 Earthquake
3 Pithing Needle
1 Negate
2 Celestial Purge
3 Luminarch Ascension
3 Swerve

Zach77 · Joined: 11 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

I had taken UWR control to the nashville starcity games 5k
and my record ended up being 5-3, I lost to U/B Hedron crab because I didn't know what the hell was going on and I was laughing too hard, I lost to Rock because of a silly play mistake and then I went 1-2 against the mirror match because a turn 5 baneslayer angel can be countered by a Double negative paid for by RRU, not UUR. Dude cheated me and I didn't catch it, anyways this was my list

5 island
3 plains
3 mountain
4 glacial fortress
4 rupture spire
2 arid mesa
2 scalding tarn
2 terramorphic expanse

3 baneslayer angel
2 sphinx of the jwar isle
3 wall of reverence

2 mindspring
3 earthquake
2 day of judgement
1 martial coup

3 negate
4 lightning bolt
3 celestial purge

4 ajani vengeant
3 jace beleren
2 chandra naalaar

SB

4 oblivion ring
4 path to exile
3 goblin ruin blaster
3 essence scatter
1 celestial purge

Celestial purge main deck HOSES the jund match up like really really, the only thing i found the card dead was against the bant match up but the celestial purge just hits everything right now. Now that mono green will get big I'm testing with path to exile again but I found that path really ended up fixing jund's mana more than anything. Earthquake was amazing because it slipped under swerve and hindering light all day long and I got to kill a few planeswalkers along the way. I have a really bad run in with Luminarch ascension at the FNM before hand but hey that's what O-rings for, and essence scatter is still just good against anything especially against the control mirror oddly enough, countering sphinx of jwar isle was kinda nice. This will mostly be a FNM deck now so any ideas and helpful hints would be nice

xSNACKSx · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 54

Lot of people have been playing shroud dudes lately, I like deft duelist and jwar isle, I think both are decent right now. I think most control players are starting to shift to american colors since you get so many great options. Probably needs more testing but list looks pretty good.