u/b/w control for aggro meta

[Master Grinder]

I'm currently working on a deck I began to develop last year,  I play in a semi powered metagame where you must expect to face a lot of aggro deck (all kind of sligh, mono-red, r-g beatz, elfball)....I usually don't fear to much fully powered decks (curiously, I'm always more successfull against them than against budget aggro)....

The stronger decks I have to face are Landstill, dragon, all kinds of survival-engine aggro et some prison.  Very few keeper of even hulk.

Here's my decklist,  any suggestion would be appreciated. (by the way, I'm also a budget player...but I'm sick of playing ankh sligh....not good anymore)

''kind of EBA''

1 Morphling
2 Masticore
4 Meddling mage
4 shadowmage infiltrator

4 force of will
4 counterspell
2 duress
2 misdirection

4 brainstorm
2 cunning wish
1 demonic tutor
1 mystical tutor
1 yawgmoth's will

3 swords to plowshare
1 balance

1 sol ring
1 lotus petal

4 mishra's factory
3 flooded strand
3 polluted delta
2 underground sea
1 tundra
1 adarkar waste
1 underground river
5 island
1 plain
1 swamp

sideboard

2 duress
4 phyrexian negator (against control or combo)
4 hydroblast
1 diabolic edict
1 coffin purge
1 disenchant
1 stifle
1 fact or fiction


odd card choice explanation

masticore: few people still play this in control...but in a metagame where sligh is rampant, those two just shine

shadowmage infiltrator:  since I don't own any mana drains, these are juste as easy to play as the old phids.......and are not stop by little dorks.

counterspell: I'm still not sure about those...maybe I should use mana leak instead....but I run a lot of blue sources and I'm rarely missing UU....

misdirection:  there is still some good misdirectable spells in my meta....but they could be replace by 2 more duresses

cunning wish:  without power, they are often slow...but shine in the late game...

mishra's factory: those use to be 1 strip and 3 wasteland....but they don't do much against sligh or suicide.


Of course my mana base needs to be improved...I'm trying to get at least another tundra....until then that's the more stable mana base I can use....

One of the many options I'm considering right now is to cut the shadowmage to use more real draw spells (ak+intuition)....the cunning wish are also on the watch list (I could cut the shadowmage and the wish to use 2 intuition+4 ak and 1 decree of justice)....I've also tried to replace the shadowmage with 4 isochron scepter........but the deck was slowed down .....

[Skeeter974]

looks like a pretty solid start but i got a few questions

whats your meta like? do you just play with friends or do you hit up some local tourniess every once and a while? if you play tournies at all you will almost definatly want the wastelands and strip back in, you have enough creatures w/o the factories.

im assuming you dont have the rest of the duals, which you REALLY need to play this kind of 3 color control, try to scrounge up a few bucks and pick them up as you see them.

things i would do:

maindeck:
-2 Mis D
-1 mystical tutor
-4 mishra's factory
(- some lands for duals but im assuming you dont have them)

+2 duress
+1 vindicate
+3 wasteland
+1 strip

Sideboard:
-2 duress
+2 misD
-1 Fact or Fiction
+1 StP or Psionic Blast


other than a few changes here and there, it looks like a solid start to EBA

[Master Grinder]

I usually play in local tournaments of about 50-70 players.....The top decks are landstill (both budget and powered), slaver, Hulk, bazarless dragon, rector tendrils, tps.  but almost half of the matchup are against mono colored aggro or r-g beatz.

I agree that I should try to get more duals...they are just tough to find at a good price these days...

Like I said, I'm trying factories over strip/waste to help me against some of the most common matchup : mono colored aggro (sui, sligh, elf)....those are my worst enemy....Of course strip effects are excellent against stronger decks.....for the time being, it is just a metagame choice

thanks for your comments

[Squee]

Adding another Misdirection would help against the random aggro like sligh and r/g.  You also said there wasn't a lot of Hulk and control.  Duress could probably be cut for more aggro hating cards like an additional Swords.