UB Discardless Aggro/Control Faeries (Modern)

My discardless midrange aggro/control UB faeries deck, initially inspired by one Zach Cramer at LegitMTG.com. This is basically a midrange aggro/control deck that leans heavily on tempo, which is why it tries to avoid discard in the mainboard. On the aggro side, it can go as strong as T1 Opt or Fatal Push/T2 Bitterblossom/T3 Vendilion Clique (on their draw/end step)/T4 or later Mistbind Clique or Cryptic Command. It's a turn or two slower than faster deck and relies on significant removal and permission packages to set up and/or buy time as needed. It notably doesn't use discard main board, so you have to be particularly careful on the draw against decks that are looking to lock you out of the game on turn 2.

The availability of Cast Down improves the removal package significantly, as the previous standby of Go for the Throat was weak against, importantly, Hollow One. Most of the legendary creatures in Modern are inexpensive (e.g. Thalia, Guaridan of Thraben) and hit by Fatal Push. Tasigur, the Golden Fang is the primary exception here, and he can be chumped and handled by other unconditional removal if needed.

Sideboard-wise:

• Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet and Gifted Aetherborn are very strong in creature-heavy matchups and against decks with graveyard recursion, since they eat attackers, gain life, and can generate tokens. Against Aether Vial decks, you can additionally side out counters and side in more removal, and the sweepers are also strong. At least two Bitterblossom, the two Cryptic Commands, the Jace, the Mind Sculptor, and at least one Mistbind Clique are generally sided out in these matchups. Negate comes in against red aggro decks in the sideboard to handle Blood Moon because of the double-black needed.

• Liliana, the Last Hope in the sideboard is good both against cheap creatures and against grinding decks that run tokens Lingering Souls. Her +1 kills the tokens, and her -2 rebuys powerful creatures to keep grinding. All the while, Jace can dig for answers or bounce bigger threats.

• The counter package is for unfair decks, particularly big mana and combo decks, where a lot of cheap removal is generally sided out. These are blue-heavy matchups, so the mana base leans hard towards blue basics in these matchups. Mistbind Clique is again amazing against sorcery-speed big mana decks, and the counter package tends to hit these decks hard.

• The deck is already strong and sideboards very well against control decks.

• Prison strategies (like Lantern or Taxes) can also be challenging, but the combination of discard and Engineered Explosives gives ways to fight through such matchups.

• The deck is somewhat weak to Ponza, as many of its lines are mana- and color-intensive. The mainboard is primarily single-blue, and post-board, many of the more color-intensive cards come out in favor of counters and removal that are better in this matchup, but it is still a difficult matchup.