First time hitting Mythic exclusively playing BO3! Mono Blue Cauldron Tempo
Every month I've cheesed my way up the ladder in BO1 with an aggro deck. After missing the top 1200 last month I decided to try to make the climb with the deck I've been having fun with in BO3 unranked.
I'm a big fan of Mono Blue tempo but filling up my graveyard with cheap spells and doing the Crab/Sunderflock thing doesn't really do it for me. I'm always finding a different way to win with this deck and there isn't four of any single card. I've been using the Soul Cauldron with Glen Elendra Guardian, Loch Mare, and Sleep-Cursed Faerie's abilities. The Cauldron also works as decent built in graveyard hate and occasionally I'm able to use my opponent's creatures' abilities as well (Formidable Speaker to untap my Cauldron and use it again and putting Iron Shield Elf's ability on a big Wah Shi Tong come to mind).
Playing BO3 has been less frustrating and it's nice to get a break from Mono White Auras, Reanimator, etc. My final boss before Mythic was actually the UW artifact deck you usually see in BO1. Maybe they entered BO3 by accident, lol.
This deck absolutely wrecks Tablet control/lessons decks as well as Dimir Excruciator. Toughest match ups are Mardu Discard, Spellementals (You'd think it'd do okay but that hasn't been the experience), and UW Flash.
Anyway, here's the decklist and I'm open to any suggestions to make it better:
Cauldron of Hate // Standard deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder
Deck
20 Island
3 Spell Snare
3 Sleep-Cursed Faerie (I've tried the Fluttering Nuisance as my one drop, but that thing just dies. People make all sorts of mistakes attacking into this thing with a smaller creature while it's tapped etc.)
3 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
3 Tishana's Tidebinder (my favorite card. I'll miss my girl when she rotates out)
3 Three Steps Ahead
2 Into the Flood Maw
3 Long River's Pull (call me crazy, but when someone casts revelation I want to be able to counter it rather than sit there with a thumb up my ass and a Get Out in my hand)
3 Enduring Curiosity
2 Floodpits Drowner
1 Bounce Off
1 Quantum Riddler (Just one. I dunno. Another card drawing source is welcome)
2 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
1 Agna Qel'a
3 Glen Elendra Guardian (When black taps out to board wipe it gets countered and now they have another 3/4 to deal with).
2 Loch Mare (Kind of too slow for Standard. Not really hoping to have in my opening hand, but mid/late game can be great. Or put it out early, have it die, and add it's ability to something else later).
3 Hydro-Man, Fluid Felon
2 Petrified Hamlet (prefer over Demolition Field)
Sideboard
2 Annul
3 Aetherize (usually a direct swap out for the Cauldrons against aggro decks)
2 Azure Beastbinder (this thing is wonderful)
1 Long River's Pull (my 15th card. Replaced a Noggle. Hoping it'll help against UW Flash and Spellementals)
2 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island (control hates this)
2 Waterbending Scroll (for grindy games)
2 Glen Elendra's Answer (against other decks with counterspells, Ugin etc.)
1 The Ooze (new addition. Trying this one out against graveyard heavy decks. Hasn't come into play much)
