Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Meticulous Archive enters tapped.
When Meticulous Archive enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Hydroblast

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's red.
• Destroy target permanent if it's red.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When Mulldrifter enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Castle Vantress

Castle Vantress enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Celestial Colonnade

Celestial Colonnade enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.
{3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, Celestial Colonnade becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.

Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Detention Sphere

When Detention Sphere enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.
When Detention Sphere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Sphinx's Revelation

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Counterspell

Negate

Disenchant

Rest in Peace

When Rest in Peace enters, exile all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Island

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

Torrential Gearhulk

Flash
When Torrential Gearhulk enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Reveillark

Flying
When Reveillark leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Evoke {5}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Ephemerate

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Baneslayer Angel

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Plains

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Timely Reinforcements

If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.
Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Archaeomancer

When Archaeomancer enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Hall of Storm Giants

If you control two or more other lands, Hall of Storm Giants enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{5}{U}: Until end of turn, Hall of Storm Giants becomes a 7/7 blue Giant creature with ward {3}. It's still a land. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.)

Draw

Control

Counterspells

Boardwipes

Exile

Casual

UW Ephemerate

They were so cheap... $14.00 per flooded strand, I couldn't resist. Also picked up a Meticulous Archive cuz I love survey lands.

UW Fetches!

Taking out Castle Vantress, even though it can be a good card I like having untapped lands. Sink into Stupor from MH3 coming in soon. Thinking about cutting the Paths for it and 1 Detention Sphere. My reasoning is that I have Archaeomancer to recur Swords already so maybe more 1 mana removal isn't necessary. This would also bring me up to 25 lands (counting Sink into Stupor) which seems good for a control deck.

Hall of Storm Giants in

Cutting Gearhulk for Timely Reinforcements. Just trying it out. I will likely add Hall of Storm Giants soonish. Strongly considering adding a fourth Wall of Omens and taking reinforcements back out but we'll see.

Timely Reinforcements back in

Recent Changes: Added 4x Preordain, cut 2x Serum Visions, 1x Ponder, 1x Timely Reinforcements. Basically, I had some extra Preordains floating around since I took apart my Izzet Ascension deck for Izzet Delver (which plays Ponder from what used to be Mono U Delver). I tried sticking them in Faeries but then decided that Faeries can run Inquisitions and UW Control can run Preordains. Took out Reinforcments because the card is so dead in so many matchups. Might add it back in if I started getting rolled by aggro.
Cut 1x Celestial Colonnade, replaced with 1x Island. I decided that I don't like tap lands, so now I'm just running 1 colonnade. I still have a lot of finishers so I'm not too worried about it.
I think if StP ever gets banned in our playgroup, I think will switch to 4x PtE and 2x PEnding.
It would be nice to go up to 3x Verdict someday for consistency (and because it's a cool Azorius card) but I can't justify spending $ on it when Wrath does the same thing in soooo many matchups.
I am slightly considering taking out Torrential Gearhulk since it can't target Sorceries and it is clunky and I already have Archaeomancers for recurring spells. That being said, Gearhulk targeting a Cryptic Command is pretty amazing so I guess I'll keep it in for now.

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