Anyone Think This UBW Control deck could work

MTGFAN911 · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 162

Creatures

2-Exalted Angel
4-Dark Confidant
4-Meddling Mage

Instants

4-Counterspell
4-Remand
2-Disrupting Shoal
3-Force Spike
3-Mortify
3-Fact or Fiction
3-Repeal

Enchantments
2-Suppression Field

Sorcery
3-Duress

Lands
4-Hallowed Fountain
4-Adarkar Wastes
4-Underground River
4-Watery Grave
3-Caves of Koilos
3-Island
1-Godless Shrine

Sideboard

1-Duress
2-Supression Field
4-Smother
3-Morning Tide
5-??????????

question:

do you think this deck can support wrath of god?

how is the mana base. tried to make deck so supression field didnt hurt.

what else can i add to sideboard to shore up matches against decks like boros deck wins , tog , life from the loam and aggro rock. not sure what to board against tron either.

kikimikejiki · Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 649

wouldnt dampening matrix be better than field its an artifact and it shuts down everything so

MTGFAN911 · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 162

it does shut down everything but im not sure if its better. it probably would be ill have to try it. it doesnt stop land abilities like fetch lands and vitu ghazi like field does.

i kind of like the idea of matrix because field doesnt stop everything just slows them down.

wrenched · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 14

the deck should be running tog and shadowmage infiltrator and fetchlands

MTGFAN911 · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 162

the reason it wasnt orginally running fetchlands cause if you read supression field it says activated abilities. fetch lands are all activates so it costs 2 and a life to activate ur fetch. im testing with damping matrix and fetch lands right now so that might make a diffrence.

shadowmage is decent but i like confidant more. it doesnt rely on the combat step and it gets the card if its still alive.

tog is good in a tog deck that doesnt run damping matrix or supression field. you realize you cant do it at all with matrix and you have to pay 2 every time you do something with tog with field. both cards are very nice verse tog. getting past there counterbase is the hard part. not to mention my deck doesnt have the cantrips or the other cards tog has. if i wanted to play tog i would play the deck tog. :/

Colossus · Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 395

you have NO way to fix your mana, fetchlands are nearly a must in this deck, three colors with no way to look for any of them. I'd flat out ditch the suppression fields, they are a good sideboard card, if that. fixing your mana so you can counter spells and destroy things is FAR more valuable then only slowing your opponet down for a turn or two. cutting the 'fields and a land, twenty three seems just to much for an aggro-ish control, and with draw, twenty two should be fine, that gives you three spaces to add the much needed fourth duress, one more mortify, and one more force spike, or, one duress and two mana leak.

for your mana, cut 4 painlands of your choice...actually, revamp your mana base to look something like this:

4 polluted delta
2 flooded strand
4 watery grave
4 hallowed fountain
2 godless shrine
3 island
2 swamp
1 plains

it's a far more stable mana base that you would probably eventually take less damage from, and helps thin the deck, so you always have the colors you need.

MTGFAN911 · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 162

ok this is the current deck im testing

Creatures
4-Meddling Mage
4-Dark Confidant
2-Exalted Angel

Instants
4-Remand
4-Counterspell
3-Force Spike
2-Disrupting Shoal
3-Mortify
3-Repeal
3-Fact or Fiction

Sorcery

3-Duress

Artifact
2-Damping Matrix(really good if you try it.)

Land
3-Polluted Delta
3-Flooded Strand
4-Watery Grave
4-Hallowed Fountain
2-Godless Shrine
4-Island
1-Swamp
1-Plains

Sideboard
4-Smother
3-Morning Tide
3-Castigate
1-Damping Matrix
1-Duress
3-??????

also should mortifies be vindicates? and then sideboard 3 mortifies.

Amoeba- · Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 69

MTGFAN911 · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 162

i wasnt talking about stopping " everything" was reffering to the fact that damping matrix says you cant use them whatsoever and supression field says you can pay 2.

yes field affects cycling , land abilites so on but matrix does completely stop scepter effects, tog effects , lavamancer , legionnare , troll ascetic , arc slogger , triskelion , oblivion stone , mindslaver , etc instead of them just paying 2 to use it.

i liked supression field but it seems better for a mono colored or 2 color aggro deck that can afford to not use fetchlands. damping matrix serves its purpose in my deck fine Smile

Spyx · Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 853

vindicate is the best removal in extended. how can you not play it?