Friday, September 23, 2022

Grixis Control in Historic Brawl.

I play Nicol Bolas, The Ravager as my commander in historic brawl, here's my deck list:

Consider Swan Song Baral, cheif of Compliance Counterspell Lazotep Plating Ledger Shredder Memory Lapse Tale's End See the Truth Waste Not Discovery // Dispersal Thought Erasure Arcane Signet Asorb Energy Didn't Say Please Disallow Dissapate Sinister Sabotage Thought Collapse You Find the Villians' Lair Black Market Connection Liliana of the Veil Rotting Regisaur Anger of the Gods Kiato Shizuki Ionize Prismari Command Bedevil Kolighan's Command Ob Nixilis, the Adversary Chromatic Lantern Heraldic Banner Replicating Ring The Celestus Commit // Memory God-Eternal Kefnet Phyrexian Metamorph Spark Double Eat to Extinction Languish Price of Fame Chandra, Torch of Defiance Tasha, Unholy Archmage Cavalier of Gales Mulldrift Spell Swindle Time Warp Junji the Midnight Sky Lolth, Spider Queen Ashiok, Nightmare Muse Dark Intimations Nicol Bolas, Dargon-God Kairi, the Swirling Sky River's Rebuke Sublime Epiphany Torrential Gearhulk Liliana, Dreadhorde General Chandra, Awakened Inferno Alrund's Epiphany Hullbreaker Horror Nicol Bolas, God-Pharoah The Meathook Massacre Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt Otawara, Soaring City Snow-Covered Island Phyrexian Tower Snow-covered Swamp Takenuma, Abandoned Mire Snow-Covered Mountain Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance Clearwater // Murkwater Pathway Drowned Catacomb Shipwreck Marsh Watery Grave Riverguide // Lavaguide Pathway Spirebluff Canal Steam Vents Stormcarved Coast Sulfur Falls Blood Crypt Dragonskull Summit Haunted Ridge Xander's Lounge Command Tower Fabled Passage Maestros Theater I could spend a couple of wild cards and get the R/U Zendikar lands, but what I've got right now kind of works just fine. The way this deck wins is mostly through an overwhelming board presence where I stop any and all attempts from my opponent to regain control. 

Secret Tech: I love throwing Spark Double in the Graveyard as a little bonus for when I manage to flip Bolas, because the only thing better than having one Nicol Bolas, is having two. The thing about Bolas too is, even if you cast it and it's countered, you're still getting value in the form of removing interaction your opponent could have used for something more impactful, bonus points if they let Bolas resolve and they burn a kill spell on him and still have to discard. The other thing I love doing is casting Sublime Epiphany, countering my opponents spells, bouncing a permanent, and drawing a card, only to flash in a gearhulk and do it twice. That's the peak of shenanigans.