The point about control is that there is really nothing closely resembling the UW Second Sun or UB control decks we are seeing now in standard. Or the Miracles deck in legacy before the ban.
There is UW control but it never puts up impressive results.
The Jeskai "control" decks often have a faster clock due to Geist and Snap+burn plan
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Oh really? Can't say i'm surprised haha, but having looked at his profile page I can't see any indication of this. How does one tell if another user is banned without resorting to rumour?
Merfolk; is it me or is merfolk the most reliant deck in terms of being on the play? I can't think of another deck that relies so heavily on such a tiny margin of time in order to win. Games are often won just a sliver ahead of an opponent being able to win. Tricky! It'd be interesting to draw up some kind of analysis of the decks most affected by play advantage, with the biggest win/loss swing when forced to draw.
Decks that benefit most from taking the play:
Gx Tron (needs to assemble tron pieces, can only do so one turn at a time)
Merfolk (needs to assemble a team of fish)
Valakut (pure race)
Decks that don't care as much:
Grixis Shadow (you are disrupting them more than you are racing the opponent)
UWx control
8-Rack (wants to have more card advantage than the opponent. taking the draw facilitates this)
That's just a preliminary guess on my part. What is comes down to is - if you are just looking you race you want to play first. If you are looking to grind out and constantly trade resources, it's not as necessary to play first and sometimes you want to draw first. Most modern decks fall under the first category and hence want to play first. Recently there have been decks appearing that operate on the second axis (8 rack most notably)
There is UW control but it never puts up impressive results.
The Jeskai "control" decks often have a faster clock due to Geist and Snap+burn plan
Decks that benefit most from taking the play:
Gx Tron (needs to assemble tron pieces, can only do so one turn at a time)
Merfolk (needs to assemble a team of fish)
Valakut (pure race)
Decks that don't care as much:
Grixis Shadow (you are disrupting them more than you are racing the opponent)
UWx control
8-Rack (wants to have more card advantage than the opponent. taking the draw facilitates this)
That's just a preliminary guess on my part. What is comes down to is - if you are just looking you race you want to play first. If you are looking to grind out and constantly trade resources, it's not as necessary to play first and sometimes you want to draw first. Most modern decks fall under the first category and hence want to play first. Recently there have been decks appearing that operate on the second axis (8 rack most notably)