I picked Idyllic Tutor as the enchantment tutor (instead of Drift of Phantasms) because Snapcaster Mage can flash it back. It's also useful for grabbing Cast Out as removal and Metallurgic Summonings as a win con, and it should be helpful post-board.
Speaking of Metallurgic Summonings, it's done pretty well for me so far as a win con. Unlike Rise of the Hobgoblins, it doesn't make me tap out, and unlike Keranos, God of Storms, it can start working immediately. I tried Keranos and didn't like him--he tended to be to slow and do too little.
I'm using 3 Solemnity instead of 4 because, unless you're playing against Infect or no-"Melira Combo" Devoted Vizier Combo decks, it's pretty useless. At least Phyrexian Unlife is a great buffer against aggro.
I like Supreme Will's ability to dig deep for the combo and counter stuff. Sometimes, I wonder whether I counter stuff with it too often, though.
The maindeck Supreme Verdict is because this deck somehow still dies to aggro's fast starts somewhat often.
I tried a pure UW Combo-Control version at first, but then I found that the win cons weren't good enough. I got locked out by nonsense such as infinite life, and getting the combo blown up because I couldn't win fast enough didn't help. I reluctantly splashed red for Nahiri, and she's been her usual great self. She sometimes wins all on her own (without the combo), and cheating in Emrakul bulldozes those dang infinite life guys and all those folks who are also trying the combo. Discarding Emrakul also prevents me from decking myself while the combo is still up.
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Surely UW and UWr aren't the only ways to build Solemn Unlife Combo-Control, though. Any other ways and/or builds you'd like to bring up? Maybe RW is better? Discuss away!
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I've been tweaking this UWr Combo-Control deck on Cockatrice, for example:
3 Seachrome Coast
1 Mystic Gate
1 Sulfur Falls
2 Celestial Colonnade
1 Desolate Lighthouse
4 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Steam Vents
2 Island
1 Plains
1 Mountain
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Spells:
3 Solemnity
4 Phyrexian Unlife
2 Cast Out
1 Metallurgic Summonings
2 Idyllic Tutor
4 Serum Visions
4 Remand
3 Supreme Will
2 Cryptic Command
4 Path to Exile
1 Supreme Verdict
2 Nahiri, the Harbinger
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Spellskite
1 Spell Queller
1 Detention Sphere
1 Runed Halo
1 Rest in Peace
2 Stony Silence
1 Dispel
1 Negate
1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Wrath of God
1 Timely Reinforcements
I picked Idyllic Tutor as the enchantment tutor (instead of Drift of Phantasms) because Snapcaster Mage can flash it back. It's also useful for grabbing Cast Out as removal and Metallurgic Summonings as a win con, and it should be helpful post-board.
Speaking of Metallurgic Summonings, it's done pretty well for me so far as a win con. Unlike Rise of the Hobgoblins, it doesn't make me tap out, and unlike Keranos, God of Storms, it can start working immediately. I tried Keranos and didn't like him--he tended to be to slow and do too little.
I'm using 3 Solemnity instead of 4 because, unless you're playing against Infect or no-"Melira Combo" Devoted Vizier Combo decks, it's pretty useless. At least Phyrexian Unlife is a great buffer against aggro.
I like Supreme Will's ability to dig deep for the combo and counter stuff. Sometimes, I wonder whether I counter stuff with it too often, though.
The maindeck Supreme Verdict is because this deck somehow still dies to aggro's fast starts somewhat often.
I tried a pure UW Combo-Control version at first, but then I found that the win cons weren't good enough. I got locked out by nonsense such as infinite life, and getting the combo blown up because I couldn't win fast enough didn't help. I reluctantly splashed red for Nahiri, and she's been her usual great self. She sometimes wins all on her own (without the combo), and cheating in Emrakul bulldozes those dang infinite life guys and all those folks who are also trying the combo. Discarding Emrakul also prevents me from decking myself while the combo is still up.
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Surely UW and UWr aren't the only ways to build Solemn Unlife Combo-Control, though. Any other ways and/or builds you'd like to bring up? Maybe RW is better? Discuss away!