Controlling the meek

by twocoolwin on 13 February 2017

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (3)


Instants (10)

Artifacts (2)

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Deck Description

This deck was built around Beguiler of Wills.

The concept is to take control of your opponents creatures and use them to attack their owner.

Cumber Stone, Dampening pulse, and Curse of Death's Hold all weaken your opponents creatures to help protect your health and makes them more vulnerable to Beguiler's power.

Agoraphobia reduces their creatures power by a large amount and once you've
taken control of the creature you can return in to your hand to use on another creature.

Haunter of Nightveil and Guul Draz Assassin weaken your opponent's creatures while increasing Beguiler's efficiency, while giving you either offensive or defensive presence on the board.

Fog bank defends you or your planeswalker, all while increasing Beguiler's
efficiency, until you can get your oppressive cards out.

Cyclonic Rift was added, to clear the field late game or for troublesome creatures or planeswalkers.

Polymorphist's jest can be used to take control of a creature before their power
is not low enough, take control of a creature with shroud or hexproof, or as a board wipe if combined with Curse of Death's Hold.

Ashiok, and Mechanized Production provide different win conditions.

The sideboard consists mostly of counterspells to protect against burn decks.

How to Play

Play the cards as you get them, with the exception of your instant spells which will be used situationally.

Save your polymorpist's jest until you have a curse of death's hold out to clear their board, or if they are attacking and you need to prevent damage that round, or finally if they have a creature out that you can't take over yet and you really want it.

Save your Hero's downfall for any planeswalker they might have or if they just have a troublesome creature that you can't do anything about.

Save your cyclonic rift for late game to take care of any shroud/hexproof creatures or creatures with a ton of counters.

Deck Tags

  • Modern

Deck at a Glance

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Controlling the meek

I really like the concept and I want to try this myself! It seems like it will be a lot of fun once it gets going, thanks for the idea :)

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Posted 13 February 2017 at 16:53

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This is the first deck that I've made public on purpose, so it means a lot to me to get a positive comment. Thank you.

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Posted 13 February 2017 at 17:05

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So once you take control of creature it loses the debuff from Cumber Stone. Would you still retain control of the creature even if its power went above the number set by Beguiler of Wills or Vedalkan Shackles?

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Posted 13 February 2017 at 17:26

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Yes. The same as if you used polymorpist's jest to make it a 1/1 frog then take control. Once it's yours it's yours, even after the debuffs or spell effects are gone. The only difference is you need to leave Vedalkan Shackles tapped to keep control of target creature.

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Posted 13 February 2017 at 17:31

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