#THOPTER SPY NETWORK CONTROL FULL#

Hangarback Walker is one of the more challenging cards in the deck to play correctly, and knowing when to use it and how much to cast it for is important. I usually build my control sideboards to be very flexible and open-ended, with a wide variety of cards that can come in for different matchups. The maindeck is pretty solid as-is, but the sideboard I played had an interesting problem: It’s not flashy, but it’s exactly the card that control decks like this needed. Anyone who has played Silumgar’s Scorn knows how often you just use it as a Force Spike in the early game, and we get to do that without twisting our deck to play Dragons and taxing our mana for UU on turn two. U/B Control decks of old had a huge hole in the two-mana slot, with only Bile Blight, Ultimate Price, or maybe Thoughtseize to play before turn three.Ĭlash of Wills gives us a reasonable counterspell early that scales up as the game progresses, and it really helps up bridge the gap to our late-game action. We also get to add Clash of Wills, which like Artificer’s Epiphany is a somewhat unexciting but very important cog in the deck.

#THOPTER SPY NETWORK CONTROL FULL#

This means we have plenty of room for powerful control staples like full playsets of Dissolve and Dig Through Time – the best counterspell and the best card draw spell in the format respectively. One of the great things about the deck is how lean the artifact package is.

Thopter spy network control