5 Castles is a good number, you really need to draw one of each in every game. I currently prefer Time Wipe to Realm-Cloaked Giant because people play a lot of Bonecrusher Giants.

The 1 Finale of Revelation guarantees that you won’t run out of threats. Planar Cleansing is really good right now, but it also means you can’t play Prison Realm, which is otherwise a great and cheap answer to all kinds of problems. I’m not normally a fan of Opts in these kinds of control decks, because it’s basically just “air,” and a lot of the time it’s better to just play more lands, but it does allow you to keep more hands and most importantly it taps something when you have Gadwick out. If anything, you could add another land, but I was happy with 27. Card choicesĤ Gadwick and 27 lands are key parts of this deck, don’t go any lower. Basically, your plan is to not die in the early game, because if the game goes long, you become a heavy favorite to win. This deck wants to play a long game, make a land drop every turn, and answer all of your opponent’s threats until you run them out cards, refill your own hand with Gadwick, and win with the Castles or in the air with Brazen Borrowers.

This is a classic U/W Control deck-a good amount of countermagic, board sweepers, card draw, and very few win conditions.

Mtg goldfish standard decks