Building the best URx deck Post Burning Wish Unrestriction

[vaughnbros]

I wanted to try and figure out the bare bones minimum for a traditional blue based control list after the unrestriction of Burning wish.  Basically in my opinion every single blue deck should start with this base of cards and then build out from there.

Main deck (39):
Mana sources (24):
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
15 lands

Blue staples (4):
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk

Counter spells (6):
4 Force of Will
2 Mental Misstep

Win (5):
4 Burning Wish
1 Blightsteel Colossus

SB (4):
1 Yawgmoth's Will/Past in flames
1 Tinker
2 Ingot Chewer

From here you would need to choose what extra blue staples you want, choose extra colors, choose a draw engine, and then filling out the rest of the 60 with a specific shell

This is not a comprehensive list just my attempt at coming up with the best available options.

Choosing between the other blue/red/artifact staples:

Draw:
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Preordain
Snapcaster Mage
Gitaxian Probe
Sensei's Divining Top
Ponder

Tutoring:
Mystical Tutor
Merchant Scroll

Counterspells:
Mana drain
Flusterstorm
Steel Sabotage

Removal:
Lightning bolt
Izzet charm
Engineered Explosives

Win:
Time Vault/ Voltaic Key

Choosing extra colors:

Black staples:
Auto (2):
Demonic tutor
Vampiric Tutor

Extras:
Thoughtseize
Nihil Spellbomb

Green:
Extras:
Nature's Claim
Ancient Grudge
Trygon Predator

White:
Extras:
Balance

Choosing a draw engine:

4 Accumulated Knowledge
3 Intuition

or

4 Gush
if green: 1 Fastbond

or

if black: 4 Dark Confidant

You could then choose whether you wanted an alternate win con whether it be a goblin welder package, a show and tell package, a storm package or something else.

Here are some lists I've come up with since the announcement:

Welder:
4 Burning Wish
3 Goblin Welder
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Volcanic Island
1 Mountain
2 Island
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Force of Will
2 Izzet Charm
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Mana Drain
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Underground Sea
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Mental Misstep
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Merchant Scroll
3 Intuition
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Flooded Strand

SB:
1 Tinker
1 Pyroclasm
1 Shattering Spree
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Yixlid Jailer
3 Nihil Spellbomb

This deck is focused on getting a robot out and getting it quickly.  Intuition/AK engine lets me use intuition to grab a welder or dump artifacts in my graveyard.  The two intuition packages outside of pure welder and pure AK are Time Vault/Key/Other card or Wurmcoil Engine/Myr Battlesphere/Other card.  The single underground sea allows me to play a sideboard yawg will and sideboard dredge hate.


Show and Tell:
2 Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Ponder
4 Force of Will
1 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Show and Tell
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
4 Griselbrand
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Gush
1 Fastbond
2 Volcanic Island
4 Burning Wish
1 Mountain
2 Tropical Island
1 Polluted Delta
1 Omniscience
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Misty Rainforest
3 Mental Misstep
2 Preordain
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
1 Show and Tell
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker
3 Ingot Chewer
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Through the Breach

The focus here is to drop a show and tell into a Bargain as soon as possible and then use that bargain to draw/tutor into show and tell omniscience and win from there.  It pretty consistently turn 2's a Show and Tell into bargain.  Tinker and a gush storm package allow for alternate win cons.

Snap Bob:
1 Black Lotus
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
4 Dark Confidant
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Merchant Scroll
3 Snapcaster Mage
1 Time Walk
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Flooded Strand
2 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
4 Burning Wish

SB:
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroclasm
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker
1 Shattering Spree
2 Yixlid Jailer

This is an adaptation of the deck that won worlds basically cut yawg will, tinker, and 2 other main deck cards from the main deck and 2 sideboard cards in order to play Burning wish.

I hope this can ignite a discussion on the optimal deck to capitalize on the unrestriction of burning wish.