Control-Slaver is a great deck in a specific metagame.

It's designed to win against the Big deck ( Tog, Landstill, RectorTrix, Draw7, etc. )

It's not verry efficient against aggro ( even With FtK and Fire/Ice ).

Like Atog Lord said you Should splash Black.

Blood Moon will oftenly save you, use it in SB.

Serrum Powder could help you to get the combo on your first turn.

Hi,

A lot of people are talking about affinity in vintage this days. I made a mono U build with a stronger counterbase than the U/R one. I would like to know your comment about its viability in  hard t1 metagame. Any advise to improve its will be greatly appreciate too.

Blue Star type 1 Aggro-Control

Kill 7

3 Broodstar
4 Myr Enforcer

Draw 12

4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Thoughcast
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Memory Jar
1 Tinker

Protection 14

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Powder Keg
2 Lighning Greave

Mana Source 27

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Saphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Grim Monolith
1 Mana Vault
1 Lotus Petal
1 Chrome Mox
1 Mox Diamond
4 Sea of Synod
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Waste Land

I obviously made the sideboard against my metagame  and it may be subject to a lot of modification.

Sideboard 15

3 Stiffle
3 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Powder Keg
3 Tormod's crypt
1 Chalice of the Void

I don't think consistency is a problem for this deck.
Deep Analysis and Squee like to be throw in the graveyard and Welders are here to return my fatties to play. I have a hight percentage of chance to draw a Welder in the early game mostly if i have a Bazaar  in play. So, in my oppinion Bazaar give consistency to this deck.

After a little bit more testing I find some weaknesses.

1 ) The mana base is too easily disturb by non-basic hate.

2 ) Like most Workshop base deck this one has problem to handle combo. Storm deck aren't a problem at all ( thank to Sphere and Chalice ), but Dragon and Trix are harder to stop. Against Dragon i have stiffle, Tormod's crypt and sometime an early Chalice set at 2, but oftenly it has too much distruption.
Trix is my worst matchup ( fortunatly it isn't  play enough, in my metagame to be a real threath ), my only weapon against it is a chalice for 3 ( a lot of mana ) or to go faster than its...

3 ) Bloody Suicide and PtFunk  are hard to beat. It's not a problem as big as combo is, but they both have artifac hate ( Pernicious Deed, naturalize, Rack and Ruin... ) and graveyard removal. that make those deck strong against me.

4 ) Moat/Humility screw me. I can't  deal with those cards. I should win before my opponent drop one of those, but if  he is able to play it quickly enough I'm in trouble.  Against Moat I can use a recuring Triskelion and against humility I can beat him down with my 1/1... Or may I just concede ?

Questions :

Should I use a Fourth Squee ?

Are Thirst for knowledge better than Deep Analysis ( I use thirst in my first build, but maybe I didn't give its enough of playtesting time ) ?

Do I need more mana source ?

Should I use higher cc beatstick ( Bosh, Platinium, Cloackwork Dragon... Hmm, that look like the Mirodin Spoiler ) ?

Hi,

I'm going to a tournament next week and I don't want to play MUD ( or Stax ), so I made this deck. I only have access to 2 Bazaar but I will try to get two other before the next week ( that could be hard ).

I make a R/u aggro workshop deck ( using a Stacker 3 base ) with Bazaar/Squee to draw and feed the Welder.

I only goldfish with it but it seem to have a lot of potential.

Advises and comments will be appreciated.


Bazaar Stacker Type 1 aggro

Beatdown 10

2 Lodestone Myr
4 Juggernault
2 Masticore
1 Triskelion
1 Karn, Silver golem

Red 8

4 Goblin Welder
3 Squee Goblin Nabob
1 Wheel of Fortune

Blue 5

2 Deep Analysis
1 Ancestral recall
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker

other artifacts 11

4 Sphere of Resistance
2 Lighning greave
2 Powder keg
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Memory Jar

Mana acceleration 9

1 Mox pearl
1 Mox jet
1 Mox Saphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol ring
1 Mana crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Grim Monolith
1 Lotus Petal

Land 18

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Mishra Workshop
4 Volcanic Island
2 Wooded Foothill
1 Mountain
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Waste Land

61 Cards

Sideboard 15

1 Chalice of the Void
1 Powder Keg
2 tormod's Crypt
3 Stiffle
3 Rack and Ruin
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Lighning Greave

Hi everyone,

I tweak  Bloody Suicide and  Spoil Mask deck to make my Bloody mask deck. Advise and comment  will be appreciated.

Bloody Mask

Mana source 25

7 Swamp
4 Baddland
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Dark Ritual
1 Mountain
1 Strip Mine
1 Sol ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby

The Combo 10

4 Illusionary Mask
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
2 Phyrexian Negator

Disruption 16

4 Duress
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sphere of Resistance
2 cabal therapy
2 Blood Moon

Utility 9

4 Spoil of the vault
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Necropotence

Sideboard 15

3 REB
3 Planar Void
3 Rack and Ruin
2 Blood Moon
2 Chain of Mephisto
2 Phyrexian Negator

The red splash is very usefull against control ( Blood Moon, REB ) and Workshop base deck ( Rack and Ruin ).

Sphere of Resistance is a powerhouse cause it give me protection against TPS and slow down most of the aggro and control deck.

I'm afraid of Fast or/and artifact killer aggro deck ( Oshawa stompy, Slight and Ptfunk ). My only weapon against those deck is speed... Blood Moon doesn't affected it Negator and Spoilare very weak against it and the mask/Dreadnought combo is easily stop by artifact hate. So Should I use creature removal ( and loose precious slot ) or should I only release on speed ?