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4-Color Control

4-Color Control: White · Blue · Black · Red · Control

5.2% of winning MTGO lists · 39 lists from 22 events · 10 Top 8s · 2 wins · 8 League 5-0s

Data as of 2026-10-16 · Every list MTGO published since 2026-10-02 (748 lists from 34 events)

Inevitable DefeatJeskai RevelationFlashback

How to play it

  • Answer every threat until they run out of cards, then win with a few finishers
  • Keep hands with 3–4 lands and cheap interaction
  • Do not spend removal on harmless small creatures; save it for what wins games
  • Play your finisher when they cannot answer it

Core cards

average copies per list, lands excluded
4Tablet of Discovery
4Jeskai Revelation
4Inevitable Defeat
3.4Stock Up
2.6Consult the Star Charts
2Firebending Lesson
1.9Lightning Helix
1.8No More Lies
1.8Flashback
1.3Plunder the Trollshaws
1.3Day of Judgment
0.9Together as One
0.8Sear
0.8Deadly Cover-Up
0.6Strategic Betrayal
0.6North Wind Avatar

Typical list

the list closest to this archetype's average
Main
4 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
4 Inevitable Defeat
4 Jeskai Revelation
4 Tablet of Discovery
3 Consult the Star Charts
3 Steam Vents
3 Stock Up
2 Day of Judgment
2 Firebending Lesson
2 Flashback
2 Gloomlake Verge
2 Godless Shrine
2 Hallowed Fountain
2 Lightning Helix
2 No More Lies
2 Plunder the Trollshaws
2 Sacred Foundry
1 Blazemire Verge
1 Blood Crypt
1 Cori Mountain Monastery
1 Deserted Beach
1 Island
1 Mistrise Village
1 North Wind Avatar
1 Plains
1 Sear
1 Shattered Sanctum
1 Stormcarved Coast
1 Sunbillow Verge
1 Sundown Pass
1 Swallowed by Leviathan
1 Together as One
Sideboard
3 Get Lost
2 Fire Magic
2 Flashfreeze
2 Return the Favor
2 Strategic Betrayal
1 Ancient Vendetta
1 Deadly Cover-Up
1 Outrageous Robbery
1 Thor, God of Thunder
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