Grixis Expansion

Jake_MTG April 23, 2019 2 min

Hey what's up guys Jake here bringing you our first article on Aetherhub! We have a spicy brew here that we are going to be playing tomorrow at the Early Access Streamer event that Wizards has invited me to! We get to play on an account that has all the brand new cards on it, so I came up with Grixis Control list! So here is what we are working with.

Deck List:

2 Angrath's Rampageimage
4 Augur of Bolasimage
3 Blood Cryptimage
1 Discovery // Dispersalimage
1 Doublecastimage
2 Dragonskull Summitimage
2 Drowned Catacombimage
2 Enter the God-Eternalsimage
4 Expansion // Explosionimage
3 Islandimage
2 Mountainimage
2 Niv-Mizzet, Parunimage
3 Optimage
2 Ral's Outburstimage
4 Ral, Storm Conduitimage
4 Shivan Fireimage
3 Sinister Sabotageimage
4 Steam Ventsimage
4 Sulfur Fallsimage
2 Syncopateimage
2 Tyrant's Scornimage
4 Watery Graveimage

Sideboard:

3 Fiery Cannonadeimage
1 God-Eternal Kefnetimage
3 Negateimage
3 Thief of Sanityimage
4 Thought Erasureimage
1 Unmoored Egoimage

So lets get into the deck! The combo for this deck is we are going to be casting copies of image with image

 

With Ral in play our next step is to cast a cheap spell like Optimage or Shivan Fireimage holding priority. The third step is to cast Expansion targeting our cheap spell and we are still keeping priority on that. Then the final step is to cast our copy of Expansion onto our own Expansion to copy the loop while Ral is pinging out opponent each time we cast our Expansion. Simple as that! But thats not the only thing that we can copy in the deck if we cant find our expansions. We can also copy our Enter the God-Eternalsimage. Doing that we would be draining our Opponent for 8 life while we are gaining 8, as well we are having them put 8 cards from thier libary into their graveyard and lastly we would be making an 8/8 Zombie Army creature which would be our finisher, so there are many ways for this deck to win!

Here is a very loose sideboard guide.

Aggro: + 3 Fiery Cannonadeimage, + 3 Thief of Sanityimage. - 3 Sinister Sabotageimage, - 1 Doublecastimage,

- 1 [Discovery], -1 Syncopateimage.

Against the Aggro matchup we would want to stay a live as long as possible by having cheap board wipes like Fiery Cannonadeimage. We are also throwing in Thief of Sanityimage to have as an additional blocker if we need one as well as attacking in and grabbing cards that could be useful to us against them like another creature or a kill spell for one.

Midrange: + 4 Thought Erasureimage, + 3 Thief of Sanityimage. - 3 Sinister Sabotageimage, - 1 Doublecastimage, - 1 Discover, -2 Syncopateimage.

For the Midrange match up we are going to be boarding in Thought Erasureimage to get rid of Carnage Tyrantimage or any other big creature that would cause us some problems. Also Thief of Sanityimage would help us a lot by grabbing creatures to attack our opponent with as well. We are cutting down on the counter spells, so we can have hand disruption instead.

Control: + 4 Thought Erasureimage, + 3 Thief of Sanityimage, + 3 Negateimage, +1 God-Eternal Kefnetimage. - 1 Doublecastimage,

- 4 Shivan Fireimage - 2 Ral's Outburstimage, - 2 Tyrant's Scornimage, - 2 Augur of Bolasimage

Against the Control matchup we are turning into more of a control deck than a Combo deck. We are putting in all of our hand disruption in as well as all of our counters. For what we are going to take out we are going to be cutting some of the kill spells we have in the list like Tyrant's Scornimage which isnt really needed for this match up at all. We are going to try and win with our Niv-Mizzet, Parunimage and go from there!



We will be playing this deck tomorrow for the Early Access Streamer event! We also have a couple more decks lined up as well like a super spicy elf deck! I hope you guys would join me while we play this deck! I'll be on from 7:00pm PST to 12:00am PST.

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DJkidinfinite13
plz break ral in rotation...
Jake_MTG
@Falklar That's true! I'm actually really liking the idea of the Thought Erasures! Thanks for the input! Once you try it out let me know how you like it!
Falklar
Fair point, however for consistency's sake I think I would drop it from the main deck. While the cards has high ceiling I am afraid that it is a bad topdeck and a dead card in hand most of the time. Feels like a win more card, if you can win by playing that card you can probably win by comboing off with the 3 peace combo. At first glance I would either swap it with The Mirari Conjecture, or drop 2 syncopate, doublecast, and a shivan fire to add all tought erasures. Stoked to play this deck!
Jake_MTG
@Falklar We have that in the main because our main focus for the first game is to go with the combo. Once we start breaking down the deck in the sideboard games we cut the weakest link and for me I think that's one of the weaker cards in the deck.
Falklar
Why do you maindeck [[Doublecast]] if you swap it out in every matchup?
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