BigMana's Cruel Control - Budget
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍)
modModern
Approx. Value:
$257.85
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Avg. CMC 2.43
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Tarkir: Dragonstorm
releases on April 11, 2025!

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm
releases on April 11, 2025!

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Main Deck - 60 cards, 30 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (3)
3 Snapcaster Mage
$14.56 Creature - Human Wizard
Instant (27)
1 Burst Lightning
$0.23 Instant
2 Counterflux
$0.50 Instant
2 Cryptic Command
$7.52 Instant
1 Echoing Truth
$0.24 Instant
2 Electrolyze
$0.28 Instant
2 Forbidden Alchemy
$0.03 Instant
4 Lightning Bolt
$1.26 Instant
2 Mana Leak
$0.16 Instant
2 Mystical Teachings
$0.13 Instant
1 Slaughter Pact
$1.58 Instant
1 Spell Snare
$6.47 Instant
1 Sudden Death
$0.22 Instant
1 Suffer the Past
$0.25 Instant
2 Terminate
$0.33 Instant
1 Think Twice
$0.08 Instant
1 Tribute to Hunger
$0.12 Instant
1 Volcanic Fallout
$0.16 Instant
Sorcery (4)
1 Anger of the Gods
$0.41 Sorcery
2 Cruel Ultimatum
$0.47 Sorcery
1 Forked Bolt
$0.23 Sorcery
Land (26)
2 Blood Crypt
$16.15 Land - Swamp Mountain
4 Dragonskull Summit
$1.71 Land
4 Drowned Catacomb
$1.88 Land
3 Island
$0.14 Basic Land - Island
2 Lavaclaw Reaches
$0.52 Land
2 Mountain
$0.10 Basic Land - Mountain
4 Steam Vents
$13.42 Land - Island Mountain
1 Sulfur Falls
$0.64 Land
4 Watery Grave
$13.38 Land - Island Swamp
Sideboard - 15 cards, 12 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (3)
2 Spellskite
$5.22 Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Horror
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
$1.78 Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Instant (6)
1 Counterflux
$0.50 Instant
2 Countersquall
$1.95 Instant
1 Magma Spray
$0.04 Instant
1 Rakdos Charm
$1.70 Instant
1 Volcanic Fallout
$0.16 Instant
Sorcery (5)
1 Anger of the Gods
$0.41 Sorcery
1 Forked Bolt
$0.23 Sorcery
2 Slaughter Games
$0.17 Sorcery
1 Sowing Salt
$0.11 Sorcery
Planeswalker (1)
1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
$4.53 Legendary Planeswalker - Bolas

Notes
 
Ideas:
- Peek
- Incorporating more discard (Duress)
      - Brain Bite
      - Distress
- Sideboard (?) Notion Thief
- Wydwen, Biting Gale wincon?
- Sideboard - Nihil Spellbomb, or maybe 1x main?  Rakdos Charm a consideration.  I want another gy hate card main I think.
- Definitely want to (at minimum) sideboard 1x Slaughter Games
- Thoughtflare, Steam Augury, and Forbidden Alchemy as card advantage spells
- Staggershock for an instant speed Forked Bolt-esque effect (cast on end step)
- Sideboard Witchbane Orb ??
- Extirpate as a 1 of - main or side?
- Value of 1x Jace Beleren, 1x Chandra Nalaar


Cards I like:
- Slaughter Pact
- Forked Bolt
- Suffer the Past
- Echoing Truth
- Electrolyze
- Volcanic Fallout
- Sudden Death


Not sure about:
- Tribute to Hunger
- Counterflux (the count specifically, other options?)
- Think Twice (feels low impact, I feel like I want an instant card draw/card advantage card I can Teachings for for slower matchups)
- Terminate (but probably good enough that it doesn't make sense to take out)
- Burst Lightning (yes it's good, but would Forked Bolt be better, or even try Red Sun again)
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