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Citrus Plays: UW Control Competitive League

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Editor's Note: Please give a warm welcome to gold pro Gregory Orange, fresh off of his team Grand Prix win last weekend! For a while we have been discussing the potential of him of making content for Modern Nexus. Today I'm excited to debut his first MTGO videos, where he runs UW Control through the paces of a competitive league. The videos below constituted some of his testing regimen in the lead-up to Grand Prix San Antonio, so you'll see an earlier build of the deck on display.

Let us know what you think, and I'll see if I can wrangle some more video content from him. Without further ado (and fully cognizant of the serendipitous timing of the whole affair), I'll pass the mic to Greg. Enjoy!

- Jason

Deck Tech

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSqnNT5EtoE&w=560&h=315]

Round 1 vs. Tron

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmGaEbdjVc&w=560&h=315]

Round 2 vs. Abzan

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkaxEbfecfc&w=560&h=315]

Round 3 vs. Death's Shadow Jund

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXlTTW1rI9E&w=560&h=315]

Round 4 vs. Ad Nauseam

Note: At about 4:05 in this round, Greg looks up some information on the opposing decklist online. You'll notice a brief cut in the video at this time.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzqGPGjeeg4&w=560&h=315]

Round 5 vs. Beck // Call Control

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwDS0cOQKr8&w=560&h=315]

UW Control, by Gregory Orange

Creatures

4 Snapcaster Mage

Enchantments

4 Spreading Seas

Instants

3 Condemn
4 Path to Exile
2 Spell Snare
2 Blessed Alliance
2 Remand
3 Cryptic Command

Planeswalkers

2 Jace, Architect of Thought
1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Sorceries

4 Ancestral Vision
4 Serum Visions
2 Supreme Verdict

Lands

4 Flooded Strand
3 Hallowed Fountain
4 Seachrome Coast
2 Celestial Colonnade
4 Island
2 Plains
3 Ghost Quarter
1 Urza's Factory

Sideboard

2 Porphyry Nodes
2 Celestial Purge
2 Stony Silence
4 Kor Firewalker
2 Negate
1 Dispel
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Crucible of Worlds

4 thoughts on “Citrus Plays: UW Control Competitive League

  1. Thank you so much!
    1) I didn’t know you had a YouTube channel. So now I’m subscribed.
    2) Thank you to Gregory for a great play through on how to properly navigate a sick control deck. I feel like it leveled my game. Congratulations on your win! I feel like you called the meta perfectly at San Antonio.
    3) I hope Other content makers on the site do the same! (Ahem, I own Grixis Control in paper….ahem…please?)

  2. so g1 round 1 you basically lost already but the tron player decided to go full selfdestruction mode? i have never seen such plays before and it definitley was halarious

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