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With Sensei's Divining Top banned, lots of players are exploring what control shells should look like in the new Legacy format. Without an easy way to lock the game up early on, some people are looking to add interesting card advantage and attrition engines or to supplement Ponder and Brainstorm with Portent. Others are leaning more heavily on Monastery Mentor to close games out quickly. This build by Adalid240477 takes a different direction:
Jeskai Control - Legacy | Adalid240477, 5-0 Legacy League
- Creatures (2)
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
- 1 Keranos, God of Storms
- Planeswalkers (2)
- 2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- Instants (17)
- 2 Counterspell
- 2 Enlightened Tutor
- 2 Spell Pierce
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
- 4 Brainstorm
- 4 Force of Will
- Sorceries (4)
- 4 Ponder
- Enchantments (11)
- 1 Blood Moon
- 1 Detention Sphere
- 1 Humility
- 4 Energy Field
- 4 Rest in Peace
- Artifacts (3)
- 1 Engineered Explosives
- 2 Helm of Obedience
- Lands (21)
- 2 Plains
- 4 Island
- 1 Karakas
- 2 Ancient Tomb
- 2 Arid Mesa
- 2 Scalding Tarn
- 2 Tundra
- 2 Volcanic Island
- 4 Flooded Strand
Rest in Peace is the lynchpin of the deck, and does a great job of shutting down many top tier strategies. Not only does it turn off everything from Snapcaster Mage to Golgari Grave-Troll, it makes your Energy Fields into perma-Fog and Helm of Obedience into an efficient win condition. On top of that, you have Blood Moon to lock out greedy Four-Color players, Enlightened Tutor to give some consistency to the whole package, and Ancient Tomb to power it all out before your opponents are prepared.
If you're looking for a more proactive way to play control in Legacy, consider giving something like this a shot. Enlightened Tutor gives you a lot of flexibility across your 75, and the proactive plan of using Rest in Peace to disrupt, lock out, and kill your opponent will catch plenty of players off guard.
