Here's my powerless take on the current hulk decks, i...

[Nightfrost]

Here's my powerless take on the current hulk decks, it is quite powerful and not that expensive (drains and berserk maybe...):

Kill: 3

3x Psychatog

Controll: 12

4x Force of Will
4x Mana Drain
3x Duress
1x Pernicious Deed

Draw & Utility: 24

4x Accumulated Knowledge
4x Brainstorm
3x Cunning Wish
2x Isochron Scepter
2x Intuition
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Fastbond
1x Future Sight
1x Gush
1x Regrowth
1x Fact or Fiction

Mana: 21

3x Flooded Strand
3x Polluted Delta
4x Tropical Island
4x Volcanic Island
4x Underground Sea
1x Island
1x Strip Mine
1x Sol Ring

Sideboard: (wish- and imprintable)

1x Artifact Mutation
1x Berserk
1x Blue Elemental Blast
1x Fire/Ice
1x Naturalize
1x Teferi's Response
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Pernicious Deed
1x Diabolic Edict
1x Abeyance
1x Stifle
2x Coffin Purge
2x Red Elemental Blast

What do you think about it? Suggestions are welcome.

[skycreatoR]

How have it been doing in your own tests?

[Nightfrost]

Quite well, our local meta is not that powered and most people are playing aggro. There are also some players with fully powered Keeper, well built Suicide and other powerful decks, but most of the time i've to deal with scrubby reanimator, white weenie and slight.

I am not playing the list above, that's my "how it should be" deck. My current version runs 4 fire/ice and 3 pernicious deed, but that's ONLY for my metagame.

So the list above features all cards I want to play in a well balanced meta with a bit more controll than i have to expect and  in a random metagame with fully powered as well as scrubby decks.

[Comrade Seraph]

That's a nicely tuned list. I like the fastbond, though I'm not sure about the main deck mystical+merchant scroll - what do you usually fetch with these without ancestral?

How much testing have you gotten in vs. the other control decks in your meta? (Keeper?)

Mana count seems a little low - do you find players with wastes are color screwing you often?

Given the abundance of card advantage in your list and relative slowness of budget hulk, I'd consider Chrome Mox... have you tested it at all? What about Sylvan Library?

The Abyss is still amazing game-winner in a semi-scrubby creature-strewn meta... most especially if you have those mana drains.

[Nightfrost]

mystical+merchant scroll are in there for my tutor chain to demonic, so they can virtually fetch any card in the deck.

As said before, i lack testing against controll, but my list is what i would play in a more controllish environment and not my deck in use.

The mana count is of course lower than in standard builds, but it works fine for me and you can always fetch Teferi's Response to ancestral a LD effect.

Abyss is nice, haven't thought of it yet, so i am going to use it for testing purposes. You can also add things like Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox or Lotus Petal, but all in all i prefer my dual lands.