My plan was counter the main token producers. Embalm and flashback get cut off by the exile effects. Also wrath and mass bounce in the board if they go too wide.
With the release of Amonkhet we will have the tools to create a deck with all instant speed responses. This is my first draft. I will be picking up the cards and testing the deck in the coming weeks.
I have been looking at making a flash control deck for standard. Blue white with a very light black splash seems to be the way to go. We have a lot of options like Cast OutSpell QuellerStasis Snare and Void Shatter. All of these also turn on Ulamog's Nullifier. This gives us the ability to play only on our opponents turn and still generate a board state while denying one to them.
This may be the final part of what makes tap out control blue white viable in standard. Planar Outburst and Roil Spout both give removal to the deck and late game make this a beater.
So I played a couple games last night and I think I am missing some oomph for the voltron portion of my deck. Does anyone have any suggestions on changes to make Yahenni, Undying Partisan hit a little harder?
Yahenni, Undying Partisan is my voltron general of choice. A good core set of equipment and he likes a creature heavy build so you have a solid plan B.
Commander is incredibly healthy. This is because of the RC not in spite of them. To everyone who thinks the RC does not listen or interact with the community at large it is apparent you are only going to their website for the ban list and not visiting their forums where they actively discuss the format with the players.
This card begs to be broken in Modern and any older format where you only need to get 2 creature cards to create an infinite combo. This is Kiki Jiki twin with only 1 of each creature for the combo needed in the deck. This card can be an Emrakul on turn 2 in modern.
4 Spell Queller
4 Ulamog's Nullifier
2 Torrential Gearhulk
ENCHANTMENTS 3
3 Cast Out
Instants 21
3 Unsubstantiate
2 Anguished Unmaking
3 Horribly Awry
2 Spell Shrivel
3 Void Shatter
3 Anticipate
3 Hieroglyphic Illumination
2 Glimmer of Genius
5 Island
5 Plains
2 Swamp
4 Irrigated Farmland
2 Prairie Stream
4 Port Town
4 Choked Estuary
3 Aven Mindcensor
2 Forsake the Worldly
3 Renewed Faith
3 Blessed Alliance
2 Engulf the Shore
2 Fumigate
1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
CREATURES
1 Viscera Seer
1 Reassembling Skeleton
1 Blood Artist
1 Bloodghast
1 Nether Traitor
1 Burnished Hart
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Crypt Ghast
1 Erebos, God of the Dead
1 Disciple of Bolas
1 Filth
1 Falkenrath Noble
1 Thought Gorger
1 Magus of the Coffers
1 Bloodgift Demon
1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
1 Anowon, the Ruin Sage
1 Archfiend of Depravity
1 Voldaren Pariah
0 Abolisher of Bloodlines
1 Puppeteer Clique
1 Triskelion
1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
1 Nirkana Revenant
1 Korthophed, Soul Hoarder
1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
1 Extractor Demon
1 Champion of Stray Souls
1 Noxious Gearhulk
1 Harvester of Souls
1 Necropolis Regent
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Demon of Dark Schemes
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Reaper from the Abyss
1 Butcher of Malakir
1 Sepulchral Primordial
1 Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet
1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 Deathbringer Regent
1 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Avatar of Woe
1 Baleful Force
1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
ENCHANTMENTS
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 Tombstone Stairwell
1 Grave Pact
1 Dictate of Erebos
1 Black Market
1 Infernal Genesis
SORCERIES
1 Damnation
1 Beacon of Unrest
1 Life's Finale
1 Ever After
1 Decree of Pain
1 Rise of the Dark Realms
EQUIPMENT
1 Blade of the Bloodchief
1 Sword of the Animist
1 Deathrender
1 Worldslayer
1 Batterskull
1 Argentum Armor
1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade
0 Withengar Unbound
LANDS
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Forbidden Orchard
1 High Market
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Thespian's Stage
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Vesuva
1 Crypt of Agadeem
1 Westvale Abbey
0 Ormendahl, Profane Prince
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Dark Depths
1 Rogue's Passage
23 Swamp
Out Mephidross Vampire In Liliana of the Dark Realms
Out Swamp in Rogue's Passage