The Optimal U/W Fish list and sideboard.

Recently, Bird $hit has been getting all of the attention while Fish seems largely ignored. Why, Fish is far better? BS gives up an incredible draw engine (Standstill and Curiosity) as well as the highly disruptive Spiketail Hatchling (acts like a one sided Sphere of Resistence) for a faster clock and a far more vulnerable mana base. Is a faster clock really that important in a control deck. Below is my attempt at speeding up Fish's clock and adding resiliency against more decks while maintaining all it's strength.

My List - Feel free to post your variations

Standard U/W Fish List (51)

4 Flooded Strand
4 Tundra
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Stripmine
1 Island
1 LoA
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Curiosity
4 Standstill

1 Misdirection
3 Daze
4 FoW

4 Meddling Mage
4 Cloud of Fairies
4 Spiketail Hatchling

My additions (9)

4 Urijatwe's Jitte - An absolute bomb. Slaughters aggro decks, Welders, Fish mirrors and even Oathed up Akormas and Spirit of the Nights! Makes your deck resilient to annoying Lava Darts Also significantly speeds up your clock to that of Bird [Censored] level (BS has to wait to reach threshold afterall). Found them to be far more useful against far more decks than Swords to Plowshore and Grim Lavamancer combined. If you fear CotV or Engineered Explosives for 2, Sword of Fire and Ice is a possible replacement.

3 Engineered Explosives - Null Rod stand in (so you can abuse Jitte) to take out Moxen and also great against Welders, Pups, Lackeys and other annoying one drops. Usually useful in 85% of the situations where you want Null Rod, but also useful against certain situtations where you want to take out one drops.

2 Metagame slots: Samaurai of Pale Curtain - What card draw engine doesn't this hurt? A bomb against Welder, Threshold, Lavamancer, Tog, Various Combos (Dragon DD etc), Deep Anaylisis, Goblin Nabob/Bazzar, Will, Skeletal Scyring, Accumilated Knowledge. Can be replaced by additional MisD, True Believer if you fear combo decks, Swords to Plowshore though Jitte exceeds this card in usefulness, or the more common Flying Men if you want more Jitte and Curiosity targets.

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Sideboard - The sideboard choices can make or break the deck. Considering the large number of great white and blue sideboard cards, this area warrants much discussion. Please bring up any sideboard options I left off.

The sideboard is the area where I'm having the most difficultiy deciding on an optimal list.

True Believer - Is there any combo deck (other than oath which is more control than combo) that this card doesn't shut down?

Seal of Cleansing - Dragon, Oath and general hate.

Dust to Dust - White's Rack and Ruin.

Stifle - Need I say more.

Additional Samauri of Pale Curtain - See above.

Swords to Plowshore - When you need even more aggro hate than the the Jitte provides. Usually not needed.

Seasinger - Great at stealing Oathed creatures, Togs, Welders, Exalted Angels, Morphlings etc. etc.

Disrupting Shoal - Main purpose is to serve as additional ways to counter Oath of Druids (you play a lot of two casting cost blue cards). Versatile enough to be useful in many situations though.

Kami of Ancient Law - More Oath hate, usually not needed. Man I wish the DCI made a similar white creature that kills artifacts.

Energy Flux - Anti-Workshop. Hurts you too much to warrant use.

Serenity - Anti-Workshop. Hurts you too much to warrant use.

Sacred Ground - Too narrow to warrant use.

Devout Witness - Endless disenchants, usually not needed.

Mother of Runes - If you have a hard time keeping your creatures in play in your meta. Rarely worth sideboarding.

Tormod's Crypt - More graveyard hate.

Blue Elemental Blast - Good for taking out Lackeys, Welders and Dragons, but you have enough ways to deal with those already.

Disenchant - Inferior to Seal of Cleansing in most situations.

Others I may have forgotten that you'll hopefully bring up.