If you are new to Modern, choosing an established strategy is the safest way to safeguard the value of your purchases. Take Dredge or Tron; these strategies remain evergreen in the format due to their versatility, power and card quality. Luckily, there is something for everyone in that regard, even if you fancy playing something slower and more reactive.

Azorius Control is a timeless archetype that remains a strong contender in Modern. In a similar realm to Jund or Tron, it's an archetype that will always see play and generate plenty of success due to its continued support. However, Azorius Control leans on format knowledge and experience to warrant any success. These take a modest amount of time to develop, but doing so presents a high reward. It's common to see players such as Gabriel Nassif achieve fantastic success with Azorius Control in a metagame favored against it. It's a resilient strategy that rewards patience and astute deck building.

Another benefit of playing Azorius Control is that the archetype receives plenty of new options in every set, expanding on that already impressive arsenal. You can build Azorius Control in whichever way you see fit—which can be overwhelming if you are looking to create the strategy from scratch.

Budget Azorius Control

Fortunately, the core of Azorius Control is relatively affordable thanks to recent sets such as Double Masters. Not to mention, the heart of Azorius Control is made from commons and uncommons.

Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Azorius Control (Budget) by Emmmzyne

'Azorius Control (Budget)' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!

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Event:

Rank:

Modern

Market Price: $160.77

Cards

Plains

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $0.99

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({T}: Add {W}.)

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Disdainful Stroke

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.25

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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.

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Celestial Purge

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $0.23

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Exile target black or red permanent.

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Jace, Architect of Thought

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.51

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+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
−2: Reveal the top three cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library in any order.
−8: For each player, search that player's library for a nonland card and exile it, then that player shuffles their library. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.

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Stony Silence

Color Identity:W

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Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

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Wall of Omens

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $2.22

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Defender
When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.

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Path to Exile

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $2.73

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

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Torrential Gearhulk

Color Identity:U

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Flash
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Wrath of God

Color Identity:W

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Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

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Detention Sphere

Color Identity:U,W

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When Detention Sphere enters the battlefield, 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.

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Restoration Angel

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $2.22

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Flash
Flying
When Restoration Angel enters the battlefield, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

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Island

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.66

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({T}: Add {U}.)

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Mystic Gate

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $6.44

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{T}: Add {C}.
{W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

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Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $5.69

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+1: Until end of turn, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token.
−4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."

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Rest in Peace

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $3.22

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

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Logic Knot

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.37

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Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

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Winds of Abandon

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $3.22

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Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their libraries.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

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Glacial Fortress

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $4.46

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

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Mana Leak

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.26

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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

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Settle the Wreckage

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $3.01

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Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.

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Timely Reinforcements

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $0.78

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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.

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Fact or Fiction

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.19

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Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

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Cataclysmic Gearhulk

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $0.47

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Vigilance
When Cataclysmic Gearhulk enters the battlefield, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.

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Dovin's Veto

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $1.45

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This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

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Disenchant

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $0.10

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Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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Geist of Saint Traft

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $2.13

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Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.

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Opt

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.09

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Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
Draw a card.

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Archmage's Charm

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $3.46

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Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 1 or less.

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Hallowed Fountain

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $6.39

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

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Lyra Dawnbringer

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $9.67

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Flying, first strike, lifelink
Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

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Celestial Colonnade

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $2.90

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Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield 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.

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Mystic Sanctuary

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $1.02

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({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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Narset Transcendent

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $9.88

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+1: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a noncreature, nonland card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
−2: When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell from your hand this turn, it gains rebound. (Exile the spell as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
−9: You get an emblem with "Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells."

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Prairie Stream

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $0.73

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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

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Narset, Parter of Veils

Color Identity:U

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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.

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Castle Vantress

Color Identity:U

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

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Spell Snare

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.65

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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.

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Damping Sphere

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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

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Field of Ruin

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{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 their library.

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The build above will serve well in an FNM environment, allowing you to build an understanding of the strategy. Compared to optimized Azorius Control builds, I have added a few more haymakers to ensure you can close out the game.

Long was the time that running four Celestial Colonnade seemed optimal in Azorius Control, but thanks to Mystic Sanctuary, these numbers are beginning to dwindle. For budgeting purposes, I have added two copies of Celestial Colonnade to guarantee a threat. Also, I have included one copy of Torrential Gearhulk, which offers extra value alongside Restoration Angel.

One of the biggest draws to playing Azorius Control is the superfriends subtheme, and some of the most effective planeswalkers fall into the Azorius color pairing. Even on a budget, you can run decent imitations of the more expensive planeswalkers. Narset, Parter of Veils denies resources, Jace, Architect of Thought generates card draw, and Narset Transcendent can give your instants and sorceries rebound. Going back to the point made earlier, I have included one copy of Gideon, Ally of Zendikar as an additional win condition. Sometimes with Azorius Control, you may struggle to close out the game due to the nature of the strategy. As insurance, I have included threats that can attack all angles so you don't fall to a draw or a close loss.

Semi-Optimal Azorius Control

Once you have your bearings with budget Azorius Control, you can begin to expand into more reliable win conditions and options.

Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Azorius Control (Semi-Optimal) by Emmmzyne

'Azorius Control (Semi-Optimal)' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!

Created By: Emmmzyne

Event:

Rank:

Modern

Market Price: $334.65

Cards

Disenchant

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $0.10

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Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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Path to Exile

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $2.73

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

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Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $23.33

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+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.
−3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library third from the top.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls."

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Narset, Parter of Veils

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.95

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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.

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Restoration Angel

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $2.22

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Flash
Flying
When Restoration Angel enters the battlefield, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

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Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $9.91

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Dovin's Veto
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $1.45
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This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
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Spell Snare
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.65
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
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Damping Sphere
Market Price: $1.23
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Mana Leak
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.26
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
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Field of Ruin
Market Price: $0.41
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{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 their library.
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Wall of Omens
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.22
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Defender
When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $5.69
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+1: Until end of turn, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token.
−4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."
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Rest in Peace
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.22
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When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
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Celestial Purge
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.23
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Exile target black or red permanent.
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Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.64
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Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.
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Cataclysmic Gearhulk
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.47
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Vigilance
When Cataclysmic Gearhulk enters the battlefield, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.
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Stony Silence
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.70
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Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
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Teferi, Time Raveler
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $9.80
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Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
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Winds of Abandon
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.22
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Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their libraries.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
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Hallowed Fountain
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $6.39
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Lyra Dawnbringer
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $9.67
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Flying, first strike, lifelink
Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
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Flooded Strand
Market Price: $20.18
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Logic Knot
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.37
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Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.
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Cryptic Command
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $18.09
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Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
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Geist of Saint Traft
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $2.13
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Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
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Mystic Sanctuary
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $1.02
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/199417_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
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Timely Reinforcements
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.78
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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.
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Disdainful Stroke
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.25
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
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Mystic Gate
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $6.44
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{T}: Add {C}.
{W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.
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Supreme Verdict
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $5.46
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This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.
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Celestial Colonnade
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $2.90
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Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield 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.
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Opt
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.09
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Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
Draw a card.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.99
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.66
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/230465_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {U}.)
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Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $11.46
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.
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Prairie Stream
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $0.73
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
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Settle the Wreckage
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.01
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Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Detention Sphere
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $0.84
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When Detention Sphere enters the battlefield, 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.
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In regards to upgrades, I would begin by picking up Flooded Strand and both Teferi, Time Raveler and Teferi, Hero of Dominaria first.



Maindeck





Admittedly, there is plenty to acquire here, but it's all strict upgrades on budget alternatives. As mentioned above, I strongly recommend picking up Flooded Strand and both Teferi's first, as these will make the most significant impact. Otherwise, Cryptic Command and Supreme Verdict are hallmark cards within the archetype that you'll always be happy to see.






Brazen Borrower is a newer addition to Azorius Control that is beginning to see play over Vendilion Clique. Brazen Borrower is better in the current Modern environment as the format is very permanent-based, which means Brazen Borrower creates excellent tempo. Not to mention, a 3/1 body is enough to close out games. Vendilion Clique is ideal within the right metagame, especially if you are beginning to see more combo strategies such as Ad Nauseam or Storm. Ultimately, it is up to you on which you prefer, but I have included Brazen Borrower given how good it is in Modern at present.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Azorius Control  (Semi-Optimal - Part 2) by Emmmzyne
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Path to Exile
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.73
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Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
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Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.99
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Winds of Abandon
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.22
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Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their libraries.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
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Rest in Peace
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.22
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When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
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Field of Ruin
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{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 their library.
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Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
Color Identity:U
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Force of Negation
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $49.37
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If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
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Geist of Saint Traft
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $2.13
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Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
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Stony Silence
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.70
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Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
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Disdainful Stroke
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.25
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
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Restoration Angel
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.22
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Flash
Flying
When Restoration Angel enters the battlefield, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
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Cataclysmic Gearhulk
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.47
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Vigilance
When Cataclysmic Gearhulk enters the battlefield, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.
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Dovin's Veto
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $1.45
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This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
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Polluted Delta
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Supreme Verdict
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $5.46
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This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.
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Opt
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.09
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Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
Draw a card.
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Wall of Omens
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.22
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Defender
When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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Teferi, Time Raveler
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $9.80
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Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
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Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $5.69
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+1: Until end of turn, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token.
−4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."
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Mystic Sanctuary
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $1.02
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({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
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Timely Reinforcements
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.78
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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.
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Logic Knot
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.37
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Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.
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Hallowed Fountain
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $6.39
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $11.46
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.
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Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
Color Identity:U,W
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+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.
−3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library third from the top.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls."
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Lyra Dawnbringer
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $9.67
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Flying, first strike, lifelink
Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
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Narset, Parter of Veils
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.95
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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.
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Celestial Colonnade
Color Identity:U,W
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Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield 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.
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Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.66
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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Celestial Purge
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.23
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Exile target black or red permanent.
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Detention Sphere
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $0.84
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When Detention Sphere enters the battlefield, 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.
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Mystic Gate
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $6.44
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{T}: Add {C}.
{W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.
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Cryptic Command
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $18.09
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Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
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Mana Leak
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.26
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
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Settle the Wreckage
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.01
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Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Flooded Strand
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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After that, the upgrades are marginal but effective.



Maindeck





* 1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar moved to the sideboard replacing 1 Disenchant



Similar to the previous list, I'm adding Polluted Delta to encourage deck filtering so you can mitigate flood and draw into more threats. As blue is the primary color, it's important to have access to blue in all of your fetches. If you have them already, Scalding Tarn and Misty Rainforest are suitable options instead of Polluted Delta.






Force of Negation is the big purchase in terms of upgrades, as it plays a critical role in Azorius Control.



Before, you would have to keep mana open to interact with your opponent. Now with Force of Negation, you can tap out and cast a threat without pulling the shields down for a turn. It's an incredible card that comes at a demanding price tag. Unfortunately, it does not look like a reprint is not on the horizon, so you may have to pick these up slowly. However, using Archmage's Charm as a placeholder is a decent option, as it gives you a flexible answer to various threats. It's not uncommon to see lists run 2 Force of Negation and 1 Archmage's Charm for versatility—that could be a comfortable option for you.



Optimal Azorius Control



To optimize the strategy, incorporate Snapcaster Mage and Jace, the Mind Sculptor, which go a long way to encourage wins.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Azorius Control (Optimal) by Emmmzyne
'Azorius Control (Optimal)' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
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Force of Negation
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $49.37
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If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
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Hallowed Fountain
Color Identity:U,W
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Settle the Wreckage
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.01
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Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Teferi, Time Raveler
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $9.80
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Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
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Rest in Peace
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.22
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When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
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Supreme Verdict
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $5.46
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This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.
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Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.64
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Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.
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Flooded Strand
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.66
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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Mystic Gate
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $6.44
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{T}: Add {C}.
{W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.
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Detention Sphere
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $0.84
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When Detention Sphere enters the battlefield, 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.
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Logic Knot
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.37
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Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.
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Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $11.46
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.
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Opt
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.09
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Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
Draw a card.
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Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Cryptic Command
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $18.09
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Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
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Mystic Sanctuary
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $1.02
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({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
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Snapcaster Mage
Color Identity:U
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Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
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Winds of Abandon
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.22
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Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their libraries.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
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Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $44.81
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+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.
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Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $23.33
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+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.
−3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library third from the top.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls."
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Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $5.69
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+1: Until end of turn, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token.
−4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."
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Disdainful Stroke
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.25
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
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Timely Reinforcements
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.78
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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.
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Geist of Saint Traft
Color Identity:U,W
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Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
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Mana Leak
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.26
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
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Field of Ruin
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{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 their library.
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Celestial Purge
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.23
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Exile target black or red permanent.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.99
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Cataclysmic Gearhulk
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.47
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Vigilance
When Cataclysmic Gearhulk enters the battlefield, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.
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Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $9.91
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Lyra Dawnbringer
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $9.67
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Flying, first strike, lifelink
Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
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Path to Exile
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.73
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Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Celestial Colonnade
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $2.90
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Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield 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.
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Stony Silence
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.70
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Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
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Dovin's Veto
Color Identity:U,W
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This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
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Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $5.79
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At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta.
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Polluted Delta
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Maindeck








Although expensive, Jace, the Mind Sculptor is a fantastic way to leverage the game in your favor. Fortunately, you only need to pick up two as that's the standard in these builds, but it can be an expensive acquisition. Once again, Jace is beginning to decrease in price thanks to a reprint in Double Masters.



I expect this to be a temporary trend, so I suggest picking these up as soon as you can as it won't be this low forever.



Rounding out the upgrades are Snapcaster Mage and Search for Azcanta. As mentioned in my recent Grixis Death's Shadow article, Snapcaster Mage is a Modern staple that provides plenty of value in your favor. Due to this, it keeps a high price tag. However, most Azorius Control lists have two to three copies included, which makes this a little easier to achieve.



Search for Azcanta may seem a late inclusion given how cheap it is, but as I am removing the Restoration Angel package, there is room to add a little deck filtering. Not to mention, Search for Azcanta is fantastic in the late game, allowing you to Impulse thanks to Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin.



Optimal Azorius Control ft. Stoneforge Mystic










One of the benefits of playing Azorius Control is that it is highly customizable. If you aren't feeling the traditional variant, you can opt for the Stoneforge Mystic package that is seeing regular success due to its aggression.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Azorius Control (Optimal - Stoneforge Mystic) by Emmmzyne
'Azorius Control (Optimal - Stoneforge Mystic)' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
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Modern
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Cards
Lyra Dawnbringer
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $9.67
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Flying, first strike, lifelink
Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
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Celestial Colonnade
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $2.90
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Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield 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.
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Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.66
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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Mystic Sanctuary
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $1.02
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({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
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Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $9.91
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Dovin's Veto
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $1.45
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This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
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Rest in Peace
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.22
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When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
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Cryptic Command
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $18.09
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Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
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Sword of Feast and Famine
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Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}
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Opt
Color Identity:U
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Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
Draw a card.
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Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $44.81
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+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.
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Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $11.46
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.
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Timely Reinforcements
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.78
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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.
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Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
Color Identity:U,W
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+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.
−3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library third from the top.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls."
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Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.64
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Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.
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Flooded Strand
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.99
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Teferi, Time Raveler
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $9.80
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Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
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Sword of Fire and Ice
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Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to any target and you draw a card.
Equip {2}
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Mystic Gate
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $6.44
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{T}: Add {C}.
{W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.
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Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
Color Identity:W
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+1: Until end of turn, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token.
−4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."
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Settle the Wreckage
Color Identity:W
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Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Snapcaster Mage
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $37.95
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Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
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Batterskull
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Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.
{3}: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand.
Equip {5}
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Path to Exile
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.73
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Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Supreme Verdict
Color Identity:U,W
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This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.
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Disdainful Stroke
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.25
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
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Field of Ruin
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{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 their library.
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Cataclysmic Gearhulk
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.47
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Vigilance
When Cataclysmic Gearhulk enters the battlefield, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.
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Mana Leak
Color Identity:U
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
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Stoneforge Mystic
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $20.19
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When Stoneforge Mystic enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
{1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Logic Knot
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.37
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Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.
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Stony Silence
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.70
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Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
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Force of Negation
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $49.37
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If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
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Polluted Delta
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Hallowed Fountain
Color Identity:U,W
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Geist of Saint Traft
Color Identity:U,W
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Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
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Celestial Purge
Color Identity:W
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Exile target black or red permanent.
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To include the Stoneforge Mystic package, you have to trade some interaction for raw power.



Maindeck





Fortunately, as you can draw so many cards, shaving Path to Exile and Teferi, Time Raveler won't be a huge loss. Adding Stoneforge Mystic grants you an additional win condition that isn't just chipping in with Snapcaster Mage or locking the opponent out with Teferi, Hero of Dominaria. Sword of Feast and Famine is in an excellent spot thanks to the resurgence of Death's Shadow and Jund, and Batterskull is backbreaking against Prowess archetypes. If you can afford it, I suggest picking up Stoneforge Mystic and the equipment as it's well positioned in Modern at present. Not to mention, it's excellent within Azorius Control that provides a quicker clock compared to traditional variants.



Optimal Azorius Control ft. Miracles








Although not as popular at present, there is an option to include a Miracle subtheme with Entreat the Angels and Terminus. Often you see Azorius Miracle Control when Modern becomes heavily aggressive or creature-focused, including strategies as Dredge or Five-color Humans.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Azorius Control (Optimal - Miracles) by Emmmzyne
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Cards
Cataclysmic Gearhulk
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.47
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Vigilance
When Cataclysmic Gearhulk enters the battlefield, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.
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Stony Silence
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.70
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Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
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Polluted Delta
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Entreat the Angels
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.16
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Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying.
Miracle {X}{W}{W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
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Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.64
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Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.
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Logic Knot
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.37
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Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.
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Winds of Abandon
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.22
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Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their libraries.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
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Hallowed Fountain
Color Identity:U,W
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
Color Identity:U,W
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+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.
−3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library third from the top.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls."
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Timely Reinforcements
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.78
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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.
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Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
Color Identity:W
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+1: Until end of turn, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token.
−4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."
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Lyra Dawnbringer
Color Identity:W
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Flying, first strike, lifelink
Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
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Geist of Saint Traft
Color Identity:U,W
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Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
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Celestial Purge
Color Identity:W
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Exile target black or red permanent.
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Opt
Color Identity:U
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Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
Draw a card.
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Mystic Sanctuary
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $1.02
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({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
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Snapcaster Mage
Color Identity:U
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Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
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Terminus
Color Identity:W
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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.)
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Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $5.79
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At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta.
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Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Color Identity:U
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+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.
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Mystic Gate
Color Identity:U,W
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{T}: Add {C}.
{W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.
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Cryptic Command
Color Identity:U
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Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
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Force of Negation
Color Identity:U
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If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
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Rest in Peace
Color Identity:W
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When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
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Settle the Wreckage
Color Identity:W
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Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Field of Ruin
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{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 their library.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.99
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Island
Color Identity:U
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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Dovin's Veto
Color Identity:U,W
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This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
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Celestial Colonnade
Color Identity:U,W
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Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield 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.
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Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Disdainful Stroke
Color Identity:U
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
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Mana Leak
Color Identity:U
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
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Flooded Strand
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
Color Identity:U
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Teferi, Time Raveler
Color Identity:U,W
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Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
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Path to Exile
Color Identity:W
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Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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If you have optimized Azorius Control and want to switch to Miracles, I recommend making these small changes.





The fourth Snapcaster Mage is not essential, but would benefit this variant greatly. You can get away with three, but there are instances where casting a Terminus for its native mana cost will come up with Snapcaster Mage's enters-the-battlefield ability. A quick note that the sideboard remains mostly unchanged throughout this piece as it is already optimized. Azorius Control sideboards include cheap countermagic and threats which are already affordable. You may want to change a few cards to reflect your metagame, but this sideboard will give you a decent bearing until then.



As mentioned before, Azorius Control relies on format knowledge and clever deckbuilding to get ahead. It's far from an easy strategy to pick up, but it will grant you skills that can transfer into other archetypes. Azorius Control can struggle when the metagame is fresh and unsolved, but over time, it remains one of the best archetypes you can play in Modern, as long as you have a little patience.