UW Control

by RainbowPlatypus on 15 July 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (4)


Instants (3)


Enchantments (2)

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Deck Description

This deck is pure unabashed douchebaggery. You take advantage of stack manipulation to permanently exile your opponent's permanents. Your primary win con will be Sudden Disappearance + Sundial which gives you an empty board to attack. Azor's is there in case direct damage isn't working (also because I find Azor's victories to be hilarious).

How to Play

The main thing you need to understand to play this deck, is EXACTLY how the stack works. I will explain a few combos and hope you get the gist of it.

Fiend Hunter + Saving Grasp: Cast Fiend Hunter. Fiend Hunter resolves. Fiend Hunter's first ability triggers. You choose a target. Before the trigger resolves, cast Saving Grasp on the stack, returning Fiend Hunter to your hand. Fiend Hunter's second ability triggers. Fiend Hunter's second ability resolves, returning nothing. Fiend Hunter's first ability resolves, permanently exiling the permanent.

Glimmerpoint Stag + Sundial: Cast GS. GS resolves. GS's ability triggers. Select a target. GS's first ability resolves, exiling the target. Begin your end step. GS's second ability triggers. Activate Sundial. GS's second ability is exiled, leaving the permanent in exile.

All the combos work basically the same way as the two previous examples: Cast and return; or exile the stack on your end step. Rapid Hybridization serves the dual purpose of controlling anything that is too fast to get an exile combo off on and triggering Mimic Vat by killing your own creatures.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • sundial
  • Exile
  • Control

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

2725000

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for UW Control

I love it.

I personally loathe very aggressive decks and generally dislike simple decks that focus on one thing. I have a special place reserved in my personal hell for Sliver decks. In EDH I prefer to play decks that prolong the game for oh-so-long until I manage to get my victory condition -combos on the board, wiping out the board constantly, Flickering etc.

No wonder this deck impressed me - pretty much has everything I love and I've wanted to try out the Sundial in some sort of deck. I assume there'll be a bunch of frustrated opponents checking Gatherer for the rules of this card and how ability trigger stacks work.

Very fine work here. Just love it.

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Posted 21 July 2013 at 09:46

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Now, maybe a bit hastily made but inspired by this deck I tried to convert it into an EDH deck with an unique twist of artificing.

http://www.mtgvault.com/jilraz/decks/sundial-control-edh/

Props to you!

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Posted 31 July 2013 at 15:26

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