It revolves arround three key cards and is therefore somewhat combo based, it has elements of red deck and some of it you may recognise, but the twists are entirely homebrew... And best of all, it doesn't use a single rare!
Ladies and gentleman.... We give you CONTROL THIS!!!
The principle The deck is really centred arround zetkar shrine expedition kiln find , elemental appeal and the twist is this ...
In my experience in magic the more a card can do for you and the less you have to pay for it, the more valuable it is in a deck.... So The Shrine is obviously awesome a 7/1, trample and haste creature that, after you have enough triggers, come in when you say so for 2 mana is cheap... The kiln fiend... a front pumpable 1/2 is equally playable, but the trick is Not of this world... Obvioulsy a 7 mana counter spell is too pricey for most decks and the boys in theWizards R&D dept. clearly meant it for use with the massive eldrazi. They may have been drinking when they did, though becausre they forgot the plucky 7/1 trampler you get free from siimply dropping some land... So, turn 4 kill I hear you ask? ... Oj here's the trick...
Turn one - Lay a mountain.and burn your opponent in the face with either a lightning bolt or a galvanic blast... Opponent goes to 17/18
Turn two lay mountain drop shrine - pass turn...
Turn three lay Terramorphic Expanse (put shrine to one) Your oppoenent will note that you have a potential 7/1 on your next turm and if they are smart they will keep mana open for the answer...then use two red to drop kiln fiend... pass turn ( In their turn sac Teramorphic expanse and get mountain put shrine to 2) you now have 3 red mana.
Turn four - Drop mountain put shrine to 3 counters, sac it create 7/1 elemental, depending on your opponent and their deck they might try an answer here, but more likely they'll wait until you've used your all mana... so use one red for assault strobe on shrine elemental, giving it double strike. Your opponent will probably try and kill it here,.use Not of this World on their answer, kiln fiend is now also at 7/2 you now have lots of other options for the other three red... you could lightning bolt any blockers or fling the kiln fiend if he meets a blocker or you could double bull rush the elementzal making it a brutal 11/1 trampling double strike Either way you win unless they're playing fog and no-one plays fog (or do they? Watch out for our next top budget deck featuring amongst other cards the very underrated fog)
The rest of this deck we'll leave to you... you could add ember smiths and cheap artifacts like memnites for cheap removal,chump blockers and burn and to help get the galvanic blasts up to full power... or just go for lots of burn like Staggershock, burst lightning and searing blaze...
Here's the horrible moment when your opponent discovers his £500 deck has just been eaten by some uncommons...
Like we said at the start... Control This...
Hi, I read the first article on the blog and really liked it, so I tossed the deck together on magic workstation and lo and behold first game I beat u/b £500 control. It looks like you have got it right with that.
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