As you will notice, the three-color control decks in the current Standard metagame are based on the clan/wedge colors namely: Abzan, Sultai, and Jeskai. For this blog post, the featured decklist will be of the old Shards (of Alara) colors. The deck is Grixis (Blue Black Red) Control updated with card from Dragons of Tarkir. Specific cards added are the new dragon monuments and the Elder Dragons.

Here is the decklist:

Maindeck
Lands
4 Temple of Malice
2 Mountain
4 Swamp
4 Island
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Temple of Epiphany
3 Temple of Deceit
4 Polluted Delta

Creatures
1 Dragonlord Silumgar
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Spells
2 Lightning Strike
2 Anger of the Gods
3 Crux of Fate
3 Thoughtseize
3 Disdainful Stroke
2 Hero’s Downfall
4 Dig Through Time
2 Jace’s Ingenuity
2 Bile Blight
3 Dissolve
1 Murderous Cut
1 Silumgar Monument
1 Kolaghan Monument

Planeswalkers
2 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver