[DTB] UWx Miracle Control

[Poron]

why not try both, mission B y SCM are great, i wil play this list (ok, i know no have miracles):

Creatures:6
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Monastery Mentor

Spells:34
2 Engineered Explosives
4 Brainstorm
1 Path to Exile
4 Ponder
2 Preordain
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Accumulated Knowledge
2 Counterbalance
1 Counterspell
2 Mission Briefing
2 Council's Judgment
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will

Lands:20
1 Arid Mesa
4 Flooded Strand
5 Island
2 Plains
2 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island

SB:
3 REB
and another cheap instant

I am currently playing 2 MB and 2 SCM. Super happy with it, Mission Briefing is a shuffle effect even better than a fetchland after a Brainstorm.

[drude1]

Hi.
I don't play miracles but I do play a somewhat similar Esper control list and I've found that the goblins MU is just atrocious. I can wrath away their board but they are so good at rebuilding very fast. Granted, I can accept that goblins just isn't going to be a good MU given the relatively low play the deck gets, but I'm just wondering how you guys feel the MU is and how you combat the little red menace. I mean, I've even been considering bad cards like ghostly prison or sphere of law in my SB. Don't tell me that's the best I can do.
Thanks for any help.

[Hanni]

Hi.
I don't play miracles but I do play a somewhat similar Esper control list and I've found that the goblins MU is just atrocious. I can wrath away their board but they are so good at rebuilding very fast. Granted, I can accept that goblins just isn't going to be a good MU given the relatively low play the deck gets, but I'm just wondering how you guys feel the MU is and how you combat the little red menace. I mean, I've even been considering bad cards like ghostly prison or sphere of law in my SB. Don't tell me that's the best I can do.
Thanks for any help.

Depends on the Goblins list, but most are pretty soft to enchantments. Moat and Humility both seem pretty good.

Some Goblins lists have outs to Moat with Siege-Gang Commander, Kiki Jiki + Lightning Crafter, Skirk Prospector + Goblin Sharpshooter, etc, but if you're playing a control deck, there's no reason why you wouldn't have answers for those.

Humility is pretty much lights out if you're not cold to overcosted 1/1's.

Since you're playing Esper, there's also Engineered Plague. A single Plague doesn't stop them completely, but it still does a lot of damage. Two Plague's is basically gg.

To answer your question though, I'd say Mentor and Entreat would be the cards that Miracles would use to beat Goblins.

[Poron]

if you go Esper you can play easily some Arena and Academy Rector.

Arena give you Ugin for continuative sweeper, Academy give you Moat and Form of the Dragon

Esper additionally give you Bitterblossom and Lingering Soul for additional chump blockers. You should definitely point to a combo imho

[drude1]

if you go Esper you can play easily some Arena and Academy Rector.

Arena give you Ugin for continuative sweeper, Academy give you Moat and Form of the Dragon

Esper additionally give you Bitterblossom and Lingering Soul for additional chump blockers. You should definitely point to a combo imhoThis is actually an arena rector control deck, and normally I agree that Ugin is amazing, until they blow it up with cratermaker. And for some reason it seems like goblin lists these days are running 3-4 copies of that guy... Probably due to the resurgence of stoneforge. Moat is interesting. Of course the $700 price tag is less than ideal.

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[Poron]

add 1 copy of the first Nicol Bolas, pws.

[drude1]

add 1 copy of the first Nicol Bolas, pws.Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker? Yeah, he's already in there. But he's terrible against goblins.

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[Begle1]

Do you guys really want to live in a world where Miracles has a good matchup against Goblins? I swear there were a few years there where the only thing Goblins was good at was beating Miracles.

[Poron]

We already have with Izzet Staticaster or Moat

[BeTeP]

In last chalenge Anzid makes 3d place. There was new cards such as teferi and narset. I saw teferi in action and it was pretty good, but what about narset? Can you share your thouts about pilloting her?

[mistervader]

Narset does a fairly good impression of an Azcanta activation, is blue, *and* shuts down cantrips.

Hard to go wrong with something that all-encompassing.

Remember when we hated having to deal with Leovold? Well, they just handed us our Leovold.

[Poron]

Overall creates a fantastic asymmetry with symmetric cards such as Day’s Undoing

[morgan_coke]

So how about newly spoiled Field of the Dead?

Land
ETB Tapped.
T: Add colorless
When this or any other land ETB, if you have 7 different land names in play, make a 2/2 black zombie token.

With Snow-Covered lands, you can hit 7 land names with ease.

Snow-Covered Island, Island, Snow-Covered Plains, Plains, Tundra, Field of the Dead, Mountain/Hallowed Fountain/any utility land/any Fetchland

That's basically Miracles' already existing manabase except you change a couple basics for snow covered and maybe a Tundra for a Fountain or run the mountain maindeck or something. In return every lategame fetchland you play makes 2 uncounterable 2/2's.

That seems good, right?

[Poron]

So how about newly spoiled Field of the Dead?

Land
ETB Tapped.
T: Add colorless
When this or any other land ETB, if you have 7 different land names in play, make a 2/2 black zombie token.

With Snow-Covered lands, you can hit 7 land names with ease.

Snow-Covered Island, Island, Snow-Covered Plains, Plains, Tundra, Field of the Dead, Mountain/Hallowed Fountain/any utility land/any Fetchland

That's basically Miracles' already existing manabase except you change a couple basics for snow covered and maybe a Tundra for a Fountain or run the mountain maindeck or something. In return every lategame fetchland you play makes 2 uncounterable 2/2's.

That seems good, right?

Not better than a Gideon, AoZ anyway. Right?

[morgan_coke]

Not better than a Gideon, AoZ anyway. Right?

I'm not sure about that honestly. Gideon takes up a spell slot, requires you to tap 4 mana on your turn and is vulnerable to countermagic.

Field of the Dead requires you to use a land slot, change some regular basics to snow basics, and either turn the second Tundra into a Hallowed Fountain or maindeck the Mountain, which isn't as big a deal now that Prismatic Vista is around.

It's worth noting that Field of the Dead does work under Back to Basics, and can generate a token(s) during your opponents endstep if you wait to crack a fetch. That's pretty relevant for dealing with stuff like lategame 'walkers.

[Poron]

without land ramper you can’t use this before turn 7.
if this uses a land slot and you’re playing Mountain as well good luck with WW and UU spells.

at the 7turn if we get there the real edge is given by card advantage. Jace and Mentor are our goals

[mulder]

Is this deck still playable with the abundance of Wrenn and Six? I feel this card is busted beyond repair and almost an autowin against Miracles... .

[Poron]

agreed. That little shit kills Snapcaster Vendilion Narset and recovers indefinitely Dark Deths.

[Echinoderm]

Is this deck still playable with the abundance of Wrenn and Six? I feel this card is busted beyond repair and almost an autowin against Miracles... .

Not sure that Wrenn is super busted against Miracles in particular, at least, but it is a card that has to be dealt with before it ults off against us. A lot of people are playing 1-2 Hydroblast etc. in the board, but I'm not convinced yet that blast is the way to go. Right now I am testing playing 2 Celestial Purge in the side, as it not only hits important red cards like arcanist and W6, but a horde of other black cards such as Marit Lage, either of the lilianas, leovold, gurmag angler, hogaak, ichorid, prized amalgam, chains of mephistopholes, griselbrand and sire of insanity, nether spirit, plague engineer, dread of night, baleful strix, waste not, ashiok, dark confidant, and so on. Also don't feel Clique is in the best place atm, so trying out other cards/options in its place till W6 settles down a bit (3feri, third b2b, 2nd verdict, dovin's veto, etc.).

[mulder]

It's pretty busted imo. It comes down on turn 1 or 2, is very hard to kill, kills Snapcasters and Cliques, generates card advantage by turning Brainstorm into Ancestral Recalls, largely nullifies B2B and has an ultimate that control can't beat. I've been trying Spell Snare in my main to combat it.

[Darklingske]

Last night was my first tango with Jeskai Miracles. Nothing big, just some games against my friend with 4C ctrl. I'm trying the list with Arcanist and mentor. Is this still a good plan or am I better of just going straight UW with B2B main and leaning more on Mentor?

[lavafrogg]

Last night was my first tango with Jeskai Miracles. Nothing big, just some games against my friend with 4C ctrl. I'm trying the list with Arcanist and mentor. Is this still a good plan or am I better of just going straight UW with B2B main and leaning more on Mentor?

Miracle is just having a hard time adjusting to Wren and Everywhere decks. the best planeswalker removal available if Judgement, and that card is slow and wont recoup any card advantage that has already been gained by Wren.

Anthony

[LOLWut]

Lots of tricks to do with this as a fetchable one-of

https://mythicspoiler.com/ted/cards/mysticsanctuary.jpg

[Poron]

https://img.scryfall.com/cards/large/front/2/e/2efecdd9-bd3a-4b79-92da-6485589d5bde.jpg?1562702470

we are already having fun with that and this on MTGO. I foresee 40 Pyroblast decks soon

Let alone 4colors deck with W6 and that

[Scott]

I'm not sure if it belongs in a Miracles thread, but if it does, this deck (https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=23454&f=LE) that Diego Nunes won a 46 player tournament with in Brazil over the weekend is one wacky Miracles deck:

// Sorcery (9)
4 Ponder
3 Terminus
1 Council's Judgment
1 Supreme Verdict

// Instant (16)
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Dovin's Veto
2 Force of Negation

// Artifact (6)
3 Retrofitter Foundry
3 Arcum's Astrolabe

// Planeswalker (5)
2 Oko, Thief of Crowns
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Teferi, Time Raveler

// Creature (4)
2 Monastery Mentor
2 Snapcaster Mage

// Land (20)
5 Snow-Covered Island
2 Snow-Covered Plains
4 Flooded Strand
4 Prismatic Vista
1 Karakas
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Snow-Covered Forest
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra

// Sideboard
SB: 3 Veil of Summer
SB: 1 Back to Basics
SB: 1 Blessed Alliance
SB: 1 Bojuka Bog
SB: 1 Containment Priest
SB: 1 Crop Rotation
SB: 1 Flusterstorm
SB: 1 Humility
SB: 1 Hydroblast
SB: 1 Nature's Chant
SB: 1 Rest in Peace
SB: 1 Return to Nature
SB: 1 Wasteland

[H]

Honestly not sure why this thread was locked.

In any case, here is a "current" list as to where Miracles has seemed to have moved:

7-1 List from BalenciagaNBoba (https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2894400#online):

3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
2 Teferi, Time Raveler

3 Snapcaster Mage

2 Council's Judgment
1 Entreat the Angels
4 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Supreme Verdict
2 Terminus

4 Brainstorm
1 Counterspell
4 Force of Will
1 Predict
4 Swords to Plowshares

2 Arcum's Astrolabe
2 Back to Basics
2 Counterbalance

4 Flooded Strand
4 Prismatic Vista
1 Scalding Tarn
6 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
2 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island

Sideboard
1 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Disenchant
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
2 Monastery Mentor
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Rest in Peace
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Vendilion Clique

Feel free to discuss. Also, if anyone wants to update or write a new primer, just let me know.

[Secretly.A.Bee]

How does this deck sideboard versus Sneak n Show?I am trying to update my version, but idk what to board in because I don't know what this will board in.

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[alphastryk]

How does this deck sideboard versus Sneak n Show?I am trying to update my version, but idk what to board in because I don't know what this will board in.

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While the exact boarding against Sneak and Show will depend on your list and whats available to swap in and out, here's a very rough list of cards I'd want to bring in if I had access to them (some of these are obvious, but better to list it all out I think):

Any counterspells (including all blasts red and blue)
Containment Priest
Grafdigger's Cage
Vendilion Clique
Meddling Mage
Pithing Needle / Sorcerous Spyglass / Phyrexian Revoker (for Sneak Attack)
Lavinia
Karakas
Disenchant effects (if you expect Defense Grid)
Bringing in Mentor to win faster is pretty reasonable too.
Humility is good if you've got it, but its not a common choice
Surgical Extraction often comes in because there are so many bad cards to take out.

Cards I'd typically take out:
Terminus
Swords to Plowshares
Entreat the Angels
2nd basic plains
Back to Basics

[twndomn]

Our lord and savior STEFANOGS has spoken:
STEFANOGS (1ST PLACE) LEGACY CHALLENGE #12192348 ON 08/09/2020

1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
3 Oko, Thief of Crowns
1 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Ice-Fang Coatl
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
1 Entreat the Angels
4 Ponder
3 Terminus
4 Brainstorm
2 Dovin's Veto
2 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
3 Swords to Plowshares
4 Arcum's Astrolabe
4 Flooded Strand
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Mystic Sanctuary
1 Polluted Delta
1 Snow-Covered Forest
4 Snow-Covered Island
2 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra

1 Back to Basics
2 Carpet of Flowers
2 Containment Priest
1 Council's Judgment
2 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Peacekeeper
1 Pithing Needle
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Veil of Summer

[JackaBo]

Stefano is truely lord and saviour; i can’t remember when miracle was relevant before this. Also some card choices and numbers are odd and unintuitive, a real sign of a master’s brew. Can’t want to test this out.

[Grizzlenasty]

I'm like... WOW!
Truely a unique and individual masterpiece this is. The way he interweaved the labes, coatls, okos and veils is simply mindblowing. And he even ran snow-covered lands to complement these cards further. Back then me and my boyz were joking about everything snow-covered, but this man single handedly prove us all wrong.
It's true, at first glance these cards look like total underdogs, but if you look closely, you can see the magic this man made happen.
I'm actually convinced, that we might see this well thought out combination of cards pop up in a lot of lists in the future. Hell, I can even imagine people giving them a shot in lists other than miracles.

[kombatkiwi]

- Choosing to even play terminus in your UGX deck (and succeeding with it) is already somewhat notable in itself in the current environment
- Pure Bant instead of red splash for blasts (slightly better mana and space for 2nd mystic sanctuary), no veils main
- 2 Veto maindeck and only 3 Plow showing respect for noncreatures, 4 Coatl / 3 Plow and 2 Veto / 0 CS splits are instructive
- 3 Oko is stock at this point but choice of 1-1-1-1 Uro/Narset/JTMS/Teferi is somewhat preferential
- SB Relic, 0 RIP/Surgical
- Peacekeeper SB
- 1 CJ SB instead of Return to Natures or Disenchant etc
- 0 Mentor
- Canonist SB seems to be a revival of some maybe slightly-forgotten technology

The negativity is so fucking stupid
- If there was some totally new deck winning then you would complain about the format changing too fast, and maybe that's what you are complaining about now? (hurr durr 2019 magic am i right guys?!?!?!?! no counterbalance??? no predict???? babyrage) But somehow you are also complaining that the 2019 deck is already stock/boring?
- If the same RUG delver from 6+ years ago was still winning (4x Mongoose etc) then you would still be complaining about the format being stagnant/old/boring

[Grizzlenasty]

The negativity is so fucking stupid
- If there was some totally new deck winning then you would complain about the format changing too fast, and maybe that's what you are complaining about now? (hurr durr 2019 magic am i right guys?!?!?!?! no counterbalance??? no predict???? babyrage) But somehow you are also complaining that the 2019 deck is already stock/boring?
- If the same RUG delver from 6+ years ago was still winning (4x Mongoose etc) then you would still be complaining about the format being stagnant/old/boring

I wasn't negative or complaining by any means. I just made a little fun of acting like someone cracked the secret code, when he actually used, what you called yourself the stock list +- a few meta choices.
But you decided to somehow feel offended and that's ok.
Where I play I could not withstand with only 3 STP and 2 Vetos. I was even forced to buff my Terminus count up to 4 and Vetos are not a consideration worth at all.

Twndomn could've just written something along the lines of:"Hey, this is what miracles seems to be headed right now. This one guy did really well at a legacy challenge and the deck seems to be rock solid." Noone had batted an eye. But he decided to call him our Lord and Saviour for using the exact same cards basically everyone uses in every ever so slightly viable deck for the past year and that is what I made fun of.

[FTW]

Anyone here looking at RipHelm?

I think it looks promising in this meta for a number of reasons:
-Maindeck RiP is good vs metagame of many graveyard decks (Hogaak, Oops, Reanimator, Lands) and GY value engines (Uro, Arcanist)

-Enchantments can't be Elked. Snoko is much better at fighting creatures, artifacts and planeswalkers and weaker to Enchantments.

-Combo is immune to red blasts

-Faster games than Sharknado

-Blank their creature removal in game 1

-ETutor package lets you run some singleton "I win" cards like Blood Moon, Suppression Field and Porphyry Nodes without having to run multiple copies of the highly conditional card

-Energy Field+RiP lock means opponent can create infinite Rogue Elephants with a 20-loyalty planeswalker and you don't really care

-Energy Field is a low cmc solution to fast aggro, an alternative to Terminus (more awkward since Top's banning, needs Portent) and Verdict (high CMC is bad vs mana denial aggro). Even on its own it can buy tempo against fast aggro starts and 20/20s.

-Fast combo finish means it's less imperative to be able to support Counterbalance lock long-term (which has been harder without Top). Any cards it blocks is value, and it draws out the same removal that would stop the RiP combo.


Current List


//Spells: 25
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Enlightened Tutor
2 Predict
1 Unexpectedly Absent
2 Force of Negation
1 Terminus

//Enchantments: 12
1 Porphyry Nodes
4 Rest in Peace
3 Counterbalance
2 Energy Field
1 Detention Sphere
1 Shark Typhoon

//Planeswalkers: 1
1 Teferi, Time Raveler

//Artifacts: 2
1 Arcum's Astrolabe
1 Helm of Obedience

//Lands: 20
4 Flooded Strand
4 Prismatic Vista
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
4 Snow-Covered Island
2 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
1 Karakas

//Sideboard: 15
1 Helm of Obedience
1 Web of Inertia
1 Blood Moon
1 Suppression Field
1 Deafening Silence
1 Pithing Needle
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Pyroclasm
1 Flusterstorm
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
2 Wear // Tear


Curve:
1 - 17
2 - 12
3 - 4
4 - 1
5 - 4
6 - 2


Web of Inertia also forms an anti-creature lock with RiP. It prevents attacks, which also stops triggers from creatures like Uro and Emrakul.

OTP T1 EOT ETutor into T2 Suppression Field is a free win against many decks, and at least buys a lot of tempo against many others. Otherwise the card is too symmetrical and too weak lategame, so that's why there's only the 1-of and in the SB. It only comes in OTP and for certain matchups.

[PirateKing]

Anyone here looking at RipHelm?

I've been toying with RipHelm with the current meta in mind as well, more in a Land Tax deck that runs City of Traitors and Mox Diamonds to support Karn strategies as well.
Abrupt Decay continues to be a problem, to the point of valuing Misdirection over Force of Negation.
Have yet to see real tests against decks bring in Force of Vigor against us, could be a really problem to see our lock disassembled so simply.
Your card quantities seem odd but I'd be interested in hearing feedback after testing.

[FTW]

I've been toying with RipHelm with the current meta in mind as well, more in a Land Tax deck that runs City of Traitors and Mox Diamonds to support Karn strategies as well.
Abrupt Decay continues to be a problem, to the point of valuing Misdirection over Force of Negation.
Have yet to see real tests against decks bring in Force of Vigor against us, could be a really problem to see our lock disassembled so simply.
Your card quantities seem odd but I'd be interested in hearing feedback after testing.

How does the Land Tax deck do?

Yeah, Force of Vigor and Decay are both big risks. My testing so far has been against RUG Delver, Snowko, UR Delver, Burn, Vial aggro (D&T and Goblins), and some combo, so I've faced a lack of Decay and FoV. I might need to tweak slots to handle that.

Seeing less BG (and therefore less Decay) in the top decks was another one of the factors that pushed me towards RipHelm and Counterbalance.

Because it's a UWr control shell, some of my strategy is just to establish a lock piece or overwhelm their disruption before even attempting to deploy Helm, then go off once the game is under control. Against aggro I usually deploy RiPField first and then sculpt my protection and combo behind a wall. Against disruptive decks I try to establish Counterbalance first and let them drain resources fighting that. Those lines tend to draw out disenchant effects first before the combo is exposed. Postboard I bring in the 2nd Helm and can also toy with their manabase via Blood Moon and Suppression Field, which will force out answers before the combo is exposed. Most decks are not equipped to play against 12+ enchantments. In testing the opponent is usually out of gas by the time I deploy Helm. I'll need to test more against Vigor and Decay decks though to see if this works.

The deck is very good at punking Oko & Uro value. Oko turns into a bad Garruk that only makes 3/3s every other turn and has no other abilities. Uro is virtually impossible to fuel even after they remove RiP and dies to Swords/Karakas anyway.

Some of the random 1-ofs are to have ETutor options all across the curve so ETutor can turn on Counterbalance with a spell on the stack. Porphyry and Astrolabe at 1 cmc, many enchantments at 2 cmc, Detention Sphere at 3 cmc, Helm at 4 cmc. SB EE for 0 cmc, along with additional 3s and 1s which help if some of the maindeck ones get boarded out. Blue count for Forces is also relevant. The card choices are influenced by curve and color as well as need for role players.

Predict is there both for its interactions with Counterbalance and as a way to actually draw cards.

Unexpectedly Absent is there over Council's Judgment/etc as a multi-modal card: it can remove a problem, it can save a combo piece form disenchants, or it can even tuck a permanent to turn on Counterbalance.

Teferi also protects me from surprise disenchants on RiP ruining your day. I originally had more copies of Teferi and a Jace but I found them awkward to protect, so I cut down to just the 1 Teferi. It can be very good sometimes at protecting combo pieces and enabling instant Ponder with CB, but otherwise planeswalkers are a liability and too easy for the opponent to kill in an Oko format. I kept wanting to cut planeswalkers for more enchantments.

I tested a 1-of Mystic Sanctuary for the counterbalance tricks, but the tapped land was just too slow vs the minor benefit it offered, and by the time I hit 3 Islands I would have usually resolved at least 1 RiP anyway.

Sharknado is there as a backup in case I think I can't win with Helm.

Any suggestions for card inclusions or cards you think shouldn't be there? What's been good for you in the Land Tax version? Do you play Defense Grid or any enchantment/artifact protection effects?

[PirateKing]

I mean, when it works, it's great. Doesn't work often enough against enough opponents to really make it past tier 2, so you gotta love the engine more than you love winning :|

I just wish Energy Field also protected your planeswalkers, since slow control would really benefit from the typical Jace and Narset inclusions.
This discussion might be the provocation to sleeve up something and try it out, I'll let you know what I find out.

[FTW]

Good point. Even if it works, other versions of UWx control are already tier 1 so it would take substantial results to justify the combo. I'll keep the discussion to the N&D section then.

[PirateKing]

Good point. Even if it works, other versions of UWx control are already tier 1 so it would take substantial results to justify the combo. I'll keep the discussion to the N&D section then.

Right I'm not trying to pivot the discussion, Miracles is probably the superior shell. My comment was more affirmation that the meta is probably ripe for maindeck graveyard hate, and if it wins you the game along the way, then it's a serious contender. I'll toy around with your list and let you know how it performs.

[FGCmtg]

Any interest in Triumph of Saint Katherine?

Seems very strong on rate vs non stp decks, helps shut the door nicely on delver, and is a great clock vs combo as a sort of goyf with flash and lifelink.

I'll be trying four copies at my local tonight in a Mentor heavy shell.

[FTW]

I think it has potential at 2-3 copies. 4 seems like overkill, since it requires some setup and then has built-in inevitability (goes back to library if not exiled). You don't want to get stuck with too many expensive non-blue Miracle cards in hand or be too aggressive in this reactive deck. But some copies look good.

Like you said, it's a decent clock that dodges much removal (Bolt, REB, Push, Decay, Ending, Karakas, Stomp, Punishing Fire). It also gives UWr much-needed lifegain, stabilizing the late game.

I posted this in another thread.

UWr Miracles of Saint Katherine
//Spells: 26
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Portent
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Prismatic Ending
3 Predict
1 Dovin's Veto
1 Force of Negation
1 Terminus

//Creatures: 6
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Triumph of Saint Katherine

//Planeswalkers: 4
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

//Enchantments: 4
3 Counterbalance
1 Dress Down

//Lands: 20
4 Flooded Strand
4 Prismatic Vista
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
3 Island
2 Plains
1 Mountain
1 Mystic Sanctuary

//Sideboard: 15
2 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Hydroblast
1 Flusterstorm
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Ruination
1 Meltdown
1 Powder Keg
1 Relic of Progenitus
3 Surgical Extraction

Once you play all the Miracle enablers to support Saint Katherine (Brainstorm, Portent, Predict, Jace), then Counterbalance is a natural fit. I basically subbed in Triumph of Saint Katherine over 1 Entreat (miracle wincon) and 1 Terminus (you can fight small creatures with 5/5 lifelink). Predict fits here even better than EI.

CB curve
0 - 20
1 - 16
2 - 11
3 - 3
4 - 2
5 - 7
6 - 1

How did it work with both Triumph and Mentor? Did you find there were too many creatures and not enough room for control?

[Weapon X]

I’m aiming to play this list tonight:

4 ponder
4 brainstorm
4 predict
3 portent
1 thwart
3 unexpectedly absent
1 force of negation

2 jace the mindsculptor
1 entreat the angels
1 life from the loam
4 force of will
3 daze
2 terminus
3 counterbalance
4 swords to plowshares

3 mystic sanctuary
1 island
1 plains
4 flooded strand
4 misty rainforest
3 tropical island
4 tundra

Sideboard

1 tsabo’s web
2 dress down
1 carpet of flowers
1 argivian find
2 narset, parter of veils
1 porphyry nodes
1 march of otherworldly light
1 hydroblast
2 triumph of saint Katherine
1 reap
2 tormod’s crypt

[Weapon X]

Kept some bad hands, but that’s on me. I do wish I found my grafdiggers cage so I could have split the crypts. I’m not sure if narset was good enough as I didn’t see it in any games. I enjoyed the list though. It felt strong.

[PirateKing]

Did you come against any Ring/Beanstalk lists?

My recent matches have been a contest between whoever is getting massive card advantage versus the decks applying the punish in either Narset or Bowmaster

[Weapon X]

I did not. Lot of permanents and me having the wrong removal for them.

[johanvl]

Trying out this list:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OfZs8W36H0iSIW2kEbwdkA

[Weapon X]

I’d say that’s a beanstalk deck more then anything, especially with yorion.

[The Duck!!]

Hi everyone! Is there a primer on 4C yorion beanstalk decks? Appreciate the leads! Thanks!:smile:

[FTW]

Hi everyone! Is there a primer on 4C yorion beanstalk decks? Appreciate the leads! Thanks!:smile:

No primer here for 4c/5c Yorion. Feel free to make one!

It's grown distinct enough from the older UWx control that it deserves a separate thread, especially the Beanstalk builds.