U/W meta control

[Madmankevinx]

So Treasure Cruise huh? Dredge is back? Really? 9 Delver decks make top 8? How is that even mathematically possible? Ok ok, so I don't feel like joining the crowd and playing with TC myself. I like to be an outsider...also I don't want to get used to something new and shiny just to have it taken away from me in a couple months. Since everyone else seems to be trying to cast 1 drops and filling up their graveyards, I sat down and started thinking about a meta game call for right now. Not sure how exactly I'd go about this but I know two things:

1. I want to play 4 Chalice of the Void
2. I want to play/abuse Rest in Peace maindeck.

So I started writing down cards that could mix nicely with these two nifty cards and came up with these.
1. Energy Field. With RiP out we can't die to damage. Sorry red.
2. Luminarch Ascension works nice with Energy Field...and ends games quickly.
3. Helm of Obediance. Pretty good with RiP

Also maybe some mix of Stoneforge + a couple equipment and maybe a couple of Jace and TNN...?
Back to Basics could be nasty too if this is playing a sort of prison - stall type strategy?

I'm just brewing at this point but feel that something along these lines could surprise a lot of folks right now. Maybe I'm wrong? I don't know. What do you guys think??

Some possible/probable support cards cards to run would be Force of Will, Detention Sphere, Supreme Verdict, Counterspell, Misdirection, Transmute Artifact, Vendilion Clique....

[Rad_Fishy]

I've been thinking of a Resto Angel/Fact or Fiction based UW deck. Spirit of the Labyrinth stops a lot of the things people are trying to do now but doesn't affect Fact or Fiction. Casting a 3W and 3U spell would benefit from having fast mana like Chrome Mox, City of Traitors, and Ancient Tomb which would help support Chalice of the Void.

[MGB]

The threat is always better than the answer.

The problem with Chalice is that it's only 4 cards in your deck. If you don't draw it or it doesn't resolve, then your deck is simply inferior to the deck playing the best 1cc spells in the format.

Until they print another card that does functionally what Chalice does so then you can play 8 Chalice of the Void effects main... any Chalice of the Void deck will simply be too inconsistent to be really competitive in this format.

[apple713]

The threat is always better than the answer.

The problem with Chalice is that it's only 4 cards in your deck. If you don't draw it or it doesn't resolve, then your deck is simply inferior to the deck playing the best 1cc spells in the format.

Until they print another card that does functionally what Chalice does so then you can play 8 Chalice of the Void effects main... any Chalice of the Void deck will simply be too inconsistent to be really competitive in this format.

unfortunately i am afraid MGB is correct. I love chalice but it doesn't really have a 5-8 which hurts. Trinisphere is not 5-8 although sometimes viewed as such.

A possible approach would be to use cards like meddling mage nevermore and voidstone gargoyle . I have wanted to do something that would allow me to abuse those three cards. Dropping something like ensnaring bridge or peacekeeper, then naming the removal cards in their deck (abrupt decay, krosan grip, repeal, flicker wisp). Additionally those cards work significantly well against combo decks... if you know what to name.

[Jables237]

There was a miracles list playing most of the cards minus chalice at the Minneapolis open. Got second place. I really like this list a lot.

http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=75183

Planeswalkers (2)

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Lands (23)

6 Island
2 Plains
2 Arid Mesa
4 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
3 Polluted Delta
4 Tundra
1 Karakas
Spells (35)

2 Helm of Obedience
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Counterbalance
2 Energy Field
3 Rest in Peace
4 Brainstorm
1 Counterspell
4 Force of Will
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Council's Judgment
2 Entreat the Angels
4 Terminus
Sideboard

2 Meddling Mage
1 Energy Field
1 Rest in Peace
1 Counterspell
2 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection
3 Geist of Saint Traft
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Council's Judgment
1 Entreat the Angels
1 Supreme Verdict