[Deck] Uwb Fish

[Hanni]

UWb Fish
Brain Food

Lands (17)
4 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
4 Tundra
3 Underground Sea
1 Scrubland
1 Island
1 Plains

Creatures (16)
3 Mother of Runes
3 Jotun Grunt
2 Serra Avenger
4 Dark Confidant
4 Meddling Mage


Spells (27)
4 Brainstorm
4 Serum Visions
3 Daze
2 Counterspell
4 Force of Will
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Duress
2 Umezawa's Jitte

Sideboard (15)
2 Serenity
4 Engineered Plague
2 Perish
3 Engineered Explosives
3 Pithing Needle
1 Umezawa's Jitte

Fish is a deck that I've been working with for a long time (for the Legacy format). The deck originally started as a U/W Rebel-Go deck (because I loved how the Rebel recruiting mechanism was synergistic with Counterspell and other instants). As I tweaked it more and more, it slowly but surely became a Fish deck that was competitive for the format. This is my current list and it has been doing very well.

Basically, the blue white black color combination gives access to a large amount of control elements. It also gives the deck access to some of the best Fish creatures.

The mana base looks skeptical on paper but it actually works very well. The deck only needs 2 lands to function (1 Underground Sea and 1 Tundra). The fetchlands provide land destruction protection for matchups against decks like Homebrew. The Riptide Laboratories work very well considering that 12 of the creatures in the deck are Wizards (bounce up a Confidant when your life total is low, bounce up a Meddling Mage after casting a Duress to reset Mage, and tons of other uses). The low land count and 7 fetchlands make the deck much more effective, drawing into more creatures and spells.

I've had very good success with this deck against a large portion of the Legacy metagame. Comments/Suggestions/etc are welcome.