While MTG Arena is now the main platform in playing Magic: the Gathering Standard in the new normal in this pandemic period, I am still hopeful of the possibility that Paper Magic will be back by the end of the year. That is at the least on the local setting which may help the local game stores to continue their operations.
Anyhow, I am still preparing some of the possible deck builds with our current card pool despite a few months of no games or playtest sessions. That said, MTG Top 8 website is again my main source and reference for updated decklists and to check the metagame with what is happenings in the recent Magic: the Gathering major tournaments.
For today’s feature, we have Sultai Control which got 1st place in the SCG Tour Online Championship Qualifiers hosted by Star City Games.
See the decklist below.
28 LANDS
4 Breeding Pool
4 Fabled Passage
3 Forest
2 Island
1 Ketria Triome
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 Swamp
4 Watery Grave
4 Zagoth Triome
8 CREATURES
4 Hydroid Krasis
4 Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
18 INSTANTS and SORC.
2 Aether Gust
2 Agonizing Remorse
2 Casualties of War
1 Cultivate
2 Eliminate
3 Extinction Event
3 Heartless Act
3 Thought Erasure
6 OTHER SPELLS
4 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
2 Teferi, Master of Time
SIDEBOARD
2 Aether Gust
1 Agonizing Remorse
1 Casualties of War
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Enter the God-Eternals
1 Heartless Act
1 Legion’s End
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
2 Negate
1 Noxious Grasp
2 Wilt
The deck is mainly consist of spot, mass removal and hand disruption while curving into Nissa, Who Shakes the World to gain board advantage. It got an upgrade with the triland Zagoth Triome from Ikora and the four-mana sweep removal in Extinction Event. While it looks subpar as compared to the likes of Shatter the Sky, it still goes with the mana curve of removals before landing Nissa on your fifth turn.
Teferi, Master of Time is the new addition from Coreset 2021 and the continuous hand filter let get the good cards to deal with opponents’ threat while getting closer to bring back your Uro to the battlefield.
It outlasted the other 110 players in the tournament along with the Winona aggro deck in the Finals match. You can find the tournament recap at the SCG website and on their Twitch account. I think they have it under the Videos tab.
That is a wrap for now, until the next blog post.