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just built a list from the GP and i'm very impressed with UB control.  i think it has the tools to beat a lot of stuff.  it actually feels much better than UW... something i realized just before i started playing states yesterday (ended up 5-2-1).

despise is a card i think has a lot of strength to it, which it was long overdue for.  we all know how lame it was last standard.

play a more instant based list than tap out feels far better too.

tribute to hunger > geth's verdict

Tribute is much better than verdict. Also, it's so easy to play red, which gives you stensia bloodhall as a draw go win conditions, and Gesitflame. If you're playing wring flesh, think about how much better gesitflame is? A lot better. The manabase easily takes another colour on board, over here in the UK it's what we have the best testing results with, since the draw-go shell takes on the midrange decks like flare and WRR, whilst the things like gesitflame make the RDW match up a lot better. We haven't settled on the perfect build yet, but it's getting there and I genuinely suggets trying out the Grixis build.

In terms of the drownyward for the control mirror, you also need the Extractions if you plan on using that method, since you disable key spells and remove lots of dead MD cards anyway. The Bloodhall plan works in a similar way, but is faster since it lets your snapcaster clock become relevant, and you randomly don't mill them into useful spells.

The loss of Quarter in the grixis build is not much of an issue since you have the gesitflames to kill nexi, which is fine. The only land you want to kill is an opposing bloodhall or a township.The tokens match up is hard because every card they draw becomes a serious threat, and they produce multiple creatures at a time. Slagstorm and BSZ are trying to work around the problems, but running Gravy Train as a proactive win con oncethe board is somewhat stabilized seems to be helping a bit.