I like the idea of this deck, I was running a similar list that revolved more around metallurgic summonings as a win condition. It turned all of my spells into mulldrifters and shriekmaws with flash which was pretty cool. I see the big upside of playing void shatter, but in this draw go style of deck with limited win conditions, I like the versatility that scatter to the winds gives you with awaken. An extra creature on what should be an open board gives you a reasonable clock. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I feel like Liliana doesn't really fit with this deck, You will almost never use her minus ability, so the game will be about protecting her until she ults, which due to lack of good board sweepers, will be incredibly difficult in the early turns. I think thing in the ice walls aggro just as effectively, while also providing a quasi board sweep and a fast clock. Also, murder is imo just better than essence extractions. You get so many more hits, grasp is so good because 4 seems to be a magic number and extraction just doesn't quite reach. I also personally like ob nixilis over Jace but that might just be my bias. Can't wait to see how this deck looks once aether revolt and that board sweep come out.
There is a ton of potential for combo type decks in Aether Revolt, and where there are combo decks there is an opportunity for dedicated control decks to throw wrenches into their plans. Both B and U have the tools required to pull combo pieces out of the hand and interrupt them with counterspells.
Dedicated control decks should be able to find a home in this next Standard.
Please, please, please will people stop necro'ing this thread? There is a thread for UB(x) Control in the Established Decks section of this forum. It makes more sense to have the discussion in one thread rather than in two different places.
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Dedicated control decks should be able to find a home in this next Standard.
2 Blighted Fen
4 Choked Estuary
9 Island
4 Sunken Hollow
7 Swamp
Creatures (6)
4 Baral, Chief of Compliance
2 Torrential Gearhulk
Planeswalkers (4)
4 Tezzeret the Schemer
3 Grasp of Darkness
2 Negate
2 Spell Shrivel
3 Metallic Rebuke
2 Void Shatter
4 Glimmer of Genius
Sorecries (4)
2 Ruinous Path
2 Baral's Expertise
2 Metallurgic Summonings
1 Void Shatter
1 Grasp of Darkness
1 Negate
3 Transgress the Mind
2 Flaying Tendrils
2 Murder
2 Confiscation Coup
2 Summary Dismissal
1 Sphinx of the Final Word
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