Deck guide
Premodern Mono-Blue Control Deck Guide
Also known as: MUC · Mono-U Control · Forbidian
Mono-Blue Control is a Tier 2 control deck in Premodern, with a 56.1% win rate in the Duress Crew MTGO dataset.
At a glance
Event decklists
Event decklists
No event decklists on file yet — lists are pulled from mtgtop8 PREM and the MTGO Premodern Challenge feed.
Game plan
What Mono-Blue Control is trying to do
A mono-blue permission deck that counters every threat with Counterspell, Force Spike, and Force of Will, then closes with Morphling under Forbid lock. It plays as a control deck in Tier 2 of the current Premodern metagame.
Core cards
What defines Mono-Blue Control
Sideboarding & matchups
How Mono-Blue Control fares
MTGO match data via the Duress Crew Premodern Data Analysis Project.
- Deadguy Ale 100% n=6
- Contamination 85.7% n=7
- The Rock 82.1% n=28
- Blue/White Dreadnought 78.6% n=14
- Devourer Combo 75% n=8
- Elves 28.1% n=57
- Terrageddon 31.3% n=48
- Survival Madness 33.3% n=36
See the full matchup matrix for head-to-head pairings across the format.
Strategy
How to play Mono-Blue Control
A full written primer for Mono-Blue Control — mulligan decisions, sequencing, and the sideboard plan — is in progress. The decklists, key cards, and matchup data above are kept current in the meantime.
FAQ
Common questions
- Is Mono-Blue Control a good deck in Premodern?
- Mono-Blue Control is a Tier 2 deck with a 56.1% win rate across 1,168 tracked MTGO matches (Duress Crew Premodern Data Analysis Project).
- What colors is Mono-Blue Control?
- Mono-Blue Control is a Blue deck.
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