Every workday while the set is new, Insight is taking a quick look at another deck featuring cards from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt. Historically, nonblue control decks have always had a hard time. But this one is prepared to show everybody that you don't need any counterspells or Teferis to control the game.
The fresh format allows us to explore some niche archetypes again. World Championship runner-up Grzegorz Kowalski has devised an innovative approach to attack Standard. He has combined all the best removal, planeswalkers, mass removal, and threats to create the ultimate control deck … and it's monoblack!
The deck runs four copies of instant-speed spot removal and four mass removal main, in the form of . This card obviously directly translates into the need to play snow lands—both and . Its strength comes from the fact that not only is it a board wipe but also reanimates one of your threats. What threats?
The deck contains six planeswalkers and sixteen creatures so there is plenty to be recurred. The creature base has a lot of utility. Four {c=Shambilng Ghast} provide ramp upon death. Three create additional Treasure upon entry on the battlefield and draw cards. makes a good impression by creating disposable bodies, which can be sacrificed, provide pressure, or simply chump block and allow you to stay alive. The most innocuous inclusion is {c=Eyewitch}, which provides us with a plethora of tools to choose from via the learn mechanic. The sideboard includes a total of six Lessons, each with its own function.
can offer a source of some hand disruption, but we can also cast its back half despite running zero red-producing lands. This is one of the advantages of the Treasure tokens that the creatures and create. We can even accelerate into one the planeswalkers. and form the rest of our top end, which is very difficult to grind through. Both draw cards, affect the battlefield, and have game-winning ultimates.
Our cherry on top is the new Midnight Hunt inclusion . If we put a lot of mana into it, it's our fifth and sixth main-deck mass removal. However, we can also play it with a very small X or even as a two-drop, in which case it still acts as a quasi-. With so many disposable bodies in our deck and removal for opposing creatures, it will trigger a lot and might lead to huge life total swings.
I will definitely give this control deck a go!
| Grzegorz Kowalski, #31 Mythic |
|---|
| Main Deck | Sideboard |
|---|
| | |
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not necessarily Cardmarket.
