ubg Control.

[johanessen]

Hello i want to play an old control deck cos i decided to play some old cards i have in the album. I'd like to use , or at least that could be the base of the deck, the following cards.

Intuitions
Life from the Loam
The Abyss
Tabernacle
Maze of Ith
Pernicious
Masticore (kill cond.1)
Morphling (kill cond.2)
Academy Ruins

And then EE's, maybe Maelstrom Pulse, etc.
I'd thank your help

[ScatmanX]

This on is great, thogh extremely hard to pilot:

http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9724

[johanessen]

I played it's the fear in a couple of tournaments, and i didn't like it (I mean, I know it's good, but i'm tired of tarmogoyf and counterbalance). I prefer to play old style control, even more controlish creature-less. I'd like to abuse of Pernicious power. Maybe Mishra's factory could fit into this kind of deck?

[ScatmanX]

You could also try any Gifts Rock, or Intuition Rock. They're BGu The rock list's. Don't know how they play though.

[johanessen]

I'm testing that list atm:

// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)

// Lands
1 [SH] Volrath's Stronghold
1 [TSP] Academy Ruins
1 [DK] Maze of Ith
4 [ON] Polluted Delta
4 [U] Underground Sea
1 [U] Bayou
3 [U] Tropical Island
1 [IN] Swamp (4)
4 [ON] Flooded Strand
3 [IA] Island (2)
1 [ON] Lonely Sandbar

// Creatures
1 [FD] Eternal Witness
1 [UD] Masticore
1 [US] Morphling

// Spells
4 [MM] Brainstorm
2 [IA] Counterspell
2 [JU] Cunning Wish
3 [DIS] Spell Snare
3 [ARB] Maelstrom Pulse
4 [AP] Pernicious Deed
4 [AL] Force of Will
2 [FD] Engineered Explosives
1 [RAV] Life from the Loam
3 [TE] Intuition
4 [OD] Innocent Blood
1 [LG] The Abyss

// Sideboard
SB: 4 [PLC] Extirpate
SB: 2 [TSP] Krosan Grip
SB: 4 [IA] Hydroblast
SB: 1 [TE] Diabolic Edict
SB: 4 [MR] Chalice of the Void

Maybe Should i replace cotv for some wish targets? i mean most against combo

[Goaswerfraiejen]

This deck, UGB Intuition-Thresh (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11638), uses many of the cards that you mentioned in the opening post. If you check the first page, you'll see a detailed primer on how to play it, as well as some slightly older lists that made use of Maze of Ith and other cards. I'll post my most recent decklist below, but there's no reason why you can't tweak it and change some of the cards around to suit your liking. It's very similar to ITF, but it plays more aggressively and lacks the Counterbalance element, eschewing it in favour of more pro-active control elements (like Deed and Pulse).

Lands (18)
3 Tropical Island
3 Polluted Delta
2 Windswept Heath
2 Underground Sea
2 Bayou
2 Forest
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Wasteland
1 Volrath’s Stronghold

Creatures (16)
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Lorescale Coatl
1 Gigapede
1 Shriekmaw
1 Genesis
1 Eternal Witness
1 Wonder

Spells (27)
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
3 Daze
3 Intuition
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
3 Snuff Out
3 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Pernicious Deed
1 Raven’s Crime
1 Life from the Loam

Sideboard (15)
3 Thoughtseize
3 Engineered Plague
2 Hydroblast
1 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Relic of Progenitus
3x open slot (Mana Leak? Duress? K-Grip?)

[johanessen]

Wish opens the game 1 to every deck in the escene, having acces to Krosan Grip, Extirpate and Diabolic Edict, all recurreable by Witness (and recurreable every turn if you have The Abyss on board). I love Cunning Wish here.

I might add a single copy of Intuition and another of Dominate to Sb, that's worth it? Maybe a single copy of Misdirection and Foil/Daze/Thwart (against combo) would be ok? What about Desertion? (Replacing Chalices)

[Blitzbold]

Another possibility would be a deck like Gifts-Still.

Example (http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=20285)

It uses quite at lot of classic control elements and pairs them with removal and winconditions of late.