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Milling;
Milling is usually done by :manau: & :manab: decks; milling is the act of making your opponent put the top cards of his/her library into their graveyard, thus nullifying ridiculously large amounts of cards. This type of deck often win because the opponent's library is reduced to zero.

Burn;
Some :manar: decks are the primary example of burn decks; the act of 'burning' through your opponents' life is quite literal, mostly using instants and sorceries (usually with little regard for your own life and creatures). Burn decks sometimes also have high power creatures with very low toughness to ram through standing bulks of defenders. This type of deck often win because it barbecues the opponent before they can get out proper defences.

Discard;
What is more satisfying than neutralising your opponent abilities and possibilities, all while they drop in life for every card they're forced to depart with? Primary :manab: decks got this deck type available to them; the act of making your opponent discard frequently and thereby lose life using enchantments, instants and sorceries as well as creatures and artifacts.

Edit; added burn and discard.

Thanks Kiwi for your answers, hope you will have the patience to keep em coming, cuz you explain those types so well. Thank you :rolleyes:

Control is a tricky deck-type to explain, mostly because it encompasses a large variety of decks, colors, and strategies... Essentially what you're trying to do is take control of the game through your opponent.

Control decks focusing on the color blue generally do so by countering their opponent's spells as they are cast, using "bounce" spells to return their permanents to their hands, and generally being a nuisance and doing random things to screw with your opponent's strategy.

Black "controllish" decks focus on basially destroying everything your opponent actually gets into play. This is done via cards that destroy their creatures or cards that force them to sacrifice their own permanents (this gets around Hexproof, Shroud, and Indestructibles). Black also uses a fair amount of discard to wipe out your opponents hand and many of their creatures have destroy-effects like Deathtouch that further their field-wiping abilities.

White is generally not considered control on its own, but it does have a fair amount of cards capable of controlling the field very well, and can also be paired with other colors and strategies well. White control generally lets the opponent get stuff onto the field, but essentially makes them useless using theings like Enchant Creatures to pacify their creatures, prevention of damage to stop their creatures doing damage, cards that remove your opponent's permanents from the game, or really cool instants that simply make attacking creatures "go away" in a variety of ways.


Now you may be wondering how these types of decks actually WIN games since they largely focus on just screwing your opponent up. Well, the answer to that question is still quite muddled and depends on the deck and the player. Some control decks focus on a small number of powerful creatures to wipe their opponent before they can respond, some use several mini-creatures to slowly pick away at their opponent without even letting them respond, some use alternate win conditions like milling or burning, and some focus on odd win conditions involving slow-working combinations to drain your opponent, or instant-win combinations to just obliterate your opponent.

Hope this helps. Good luck :)

[QUOTE=SpippyTheInsane]Control is a tricky deck-type to explain, mostly because it encompasses a large variety of decks, colors, and strategies... Essentially what you're trying to do is take control of the game through your opponent.

Control decks focusing on the color blue generally do so by countering their opponent's spells as they are cast, using "bounce" spells to return their permanents to their hands, and generally being a nuisance and doing random things to screw with your opponent's strategy.

Black "controllish" decks focus on basially destroying everything your opponent actually gets into play. This is done via cards that destroy their creatures or cards that force them to sacrifice their own permanents (this gets around Hexproof, Shroud, and Indestructibles). Black also uses a fair amount of discard to wipe out your opponents hand and many of their creatures have destroy-effects like Deathtouch that further their field-wiping abilities.

White is generally not considered control on its own, but it does have a fair amount of cards capable of controlling the field very well, and can also be paired with other colors and strategies well. White control generally lets the opponent get stuff onto the field, but essentially makes them useless using theings like Enchant Creatures to pacify their creatures, prevention of damage to stop their creatures doing damage, cards that remove your opponent's permanents from the game, or really cool instants that simply make attacking creatures "go away" in a variety of ways.


Now you may be wondering how these types of decks actually WIN games since they largely focus on just screwing your opponent up. Well, the answer to that question is still quite muddled and depends on the deck and the player. Some control decks focus on a small number of powerful creatures to wipe their opponent before they can respond, some use several mini-creatures to slowly pick away at their opponent without even letting them respond, some use alternate win conditions like milling or burning, and some focus on odd win conditions involving slow-working combinations to drain your opponent, or instant-win combinations to just obliterate your opponent.

Hope this helps. Good luck :)[/QUOTE]

Thanks, helped alot. :)