Mystical space typhoon series#

The majority of cards in the deck are meant to trade one-for-one with whatever the opponent has going on. For matchups such as these, a good majority of the main deck cards are going to be rather dead in the following sideboard games, so there are a fair amount of additional counterspells in the sideboard to swap out for those useless removal spells in cases such as a combo matchup or control mirror. Absorb is generally the best that’s available in the colors at the moment, with its additional benefit of gaining the extra life needed to pad out an extra turn against an opponent that was able to sneak some early creature threat down.

For these troublesome rapscallions, the deck is also bringing a handful of stack interaction, ie counterspells. Some opponents may choose to make things difficult though and not participate in the creature aggression plan, effectively blanking a good number of cards from the control side of things. Strange, “It’s a simple spell, yet quite unbreakable.” Answer what the opponent has going on and make it so that they can’t answer what you’ve got going on. The means and methods have shifted throughout the years, sometimes favoring large creatures, planeswalkers, even plans to mill out an opponent via their draw step, but the general message has remained basically the same.

Mystical space typhoon series#

Every deck showcased in this series has been personally tested and is being shown off for a reason, whether it’s the deck’s competitive aptitude, its ability to transition easily into a nonbudget version or its capacity to teach a newer player a vital skill required to keep up in today’s competitive metagame.Īzorius Control is a deck that aims to secure a total lockdown of the board state, regardless of an opponent’s plans, and use that lockdown to buy time in order to establish a tremendous threat that the opponent will not have enough resources to reasonably answer. This is in attempt to keep things reasonable for those who are actually looking to buy into the format on the cheap while not skimping so much that the deck is completely without the power to keep up. Note: Each Pioneer deck covered in this series is built at the time of writing to a $100 budget.