Saturday, October 22, 2011

U/W Control

After playing RDW for the last 8 months I decided I needed a change of pace. I've slowly been putting together cards for a U/W Control build. Here is the list I decided on for last night's double FNM:

Creature
2x Phantasmal Image
1x Wurmcoil Engine
1x Sun Titan
1x Consecrated Sphinx

Artifact
3x Druidic Satchel

Planeswalker
3x Gideon Jura
1x Jace, Memory Adept
1x Karn Liberated

Instant
1x Dismember
3x Mana Leak
2x Dissipate

Sorcery
4x Ponder
2x Timely Reinforcements
4x Day of Judgement

Enchantment
4x Oblivion Ring

Basic Land
8x Island
8x Plains

Land
4x Glacial Fortress
4x Seachrome Coast
3x Ghost Quarter

Sideboard
2x Frost Titan
2x Wurmcoil Engine
2x Phantasmal Image
2x Ratchet Bomb
2x Dissipate
4x Flashfreeze
1x Dismember

My final results in the first FNM were 1-1-1 drawing with Mono B Infect, beating BUG Ooze Combo, and losing the mirror. In the 2nd FNM I finished 2-1 which was good enough for 3rd place. I beat the mirror by milling him 2 games in a row with Jace (same guy who beat me in the first FNM), lost to U/W Tokens due to multiple savage misplays on my part, and finished with a sweep of U/B Tezzerett piloted by my best friend.

This was my first time playing control in over a decade and it showed in my play. I lost a couple of winnable game by punting several times. I learned a lot however, and am looking forward to making a few tweaks before sleeving it up again next friday!

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