Meta archetypes
Sultai Control
Sultai Control: Blue · Black · Green · Control
0.5% of winning MTGO lists · 4 lists from 3 events · 0 Top 8s · 0 wins · 0 League 5-0s
Data as of 2026-10-16 · Every list MTGO published since 2026-10-02 (812 lists from 36 events)
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
| 4 | Unholy Annex |
| 3.8 | Firdoch Core |
| 3 | Requiting Hex |
| 2.8 | Deadly Cover-Up |
| 2.2 | Professor Dellian Fel |
| 1.5 | Together as One |
| 1.5 | Dispelling Exhale |
| 1.2 | Shoot the Sheriff |
| 1.2 | Maelstrom Pulse |
| 1 | Stock Up |
| 1 | Mosswood Dreadknight |
| 1 | Llanowar Elves |
| 1 | Duress |
| 1 | Deceit |
| 1 | Bitter Triumph |
| 0.8 | Inevitable Defeat |
Typical list
the list closest to this archetype's average
Main
5 Swamp
4 Blazemire Verge
4 Deadly Cover-Up
4 Deceit
4 Duress
4 Firdoch Core
4 Requiting Hex
4 Together as One
4 Unholy Annex
3 Bleachbone Verge
3 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
2 Deathcap Glade
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Professor Dellian Fel
2 Restless Cottage
2 Restless Reef
2 Shoot the Sheriff
2 Watery Grave
1 Bitter Triumph
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Super-Skrull
Sideboard2 Day of Black Sun
2 Inside Information
2 Intimidation Tactics
2 Qarsi Revenant
2 Strategic Betrayal
1 Ancient Vendetta
1 Ghost Vacuum
1 Outrageous Robbery
1 Stab
1 The End