Video: U/B Control In Standard!

Today I’ll be trying my take on Adrian Sullivan’s U/B Control deck. When testing U/B Control for PT, I liked Pearl Lake Ancient and I felt like the deck, which had 27 lands, really needed a 28th. Adrian’s version plays only 26 lands, but it wins with Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver, which requires far fewer lands than Pearl Lake Ancient. I’m still skeptical, but I know Adrian’s had success with this version. Playing fewer than four copies of Dig Through Time seemed crazy to me based on my previous experience, so I made room for the fourth. I’ll be playing:

U/B Control

Sam Black

Test deck on 11-21-2014

Standard

Planeswalkers (5)

• 1 Liliana Vess
• 4 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

Lands (26)

• 4 Swamp
• 4 Island
• 4 Polluted Delta
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 4 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 3 Radiant Fountain
• 4 Dismal Backwater

Spells (29)

• 1 Divination
• 1 Jace's Ingenuity
• 3 Despise
• 4 Hero's Downfall
• 4 Dissolve
• 2 Drown in Sorrow
• 4 Bile Blight
• 1 Interpret the Signs
• 1 Aetherspouts
• 4 Perilous Vault
• 4 Dig Through Time

Sideboard

• 2 Thoughtseize
• 4 Negate
• 2 Prognostic Sphinx
• 2 Pharika's Cure
• 1 Drown in Sorrow
• 1 Silence the Believers
• 1 Stain the Mind
• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 1 Cranial Archive

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

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Round 4

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Ashiok was pretty good, but I felt like I got punished almost every game for having 26 lands with three of them being colorless. I think I’d want only two Radiant Fountains and at least one more land.