I personally thought control looked like the leader right now to be the best deck after rotation. It keeps the best pieces and has replacements for those it loses. But is the mana base going to hold it back?
Control's mana base looks like it is going to be awful. It will have
Glacial Fortress,
Field of Ruin, and a whole lot of basics available to it (in Azorius). So it would be running somewhere in the range of 20 basic lands, not going to happen.
So my next thought was "well, it will just be a three color control deck". Problem there is the only three color combination with both white and blue would be Jeskai and the common color to each
shock land available is red. As of today, you would not want red as your dominant color in control. White needs to be dominant, you want to play some combination of
Settle the Wreckage and
Cleansing Nova. If you don't play blue as a dominant color you lose
Sinister Sabotage (a lose, but manageable).
I have seen it suggested on the
web that maybe control will not have white and blue, that you go a different direction. In my opinion, and it seems like many others as well, the whole point of playing control is to play Teferi. It is the most powerful card control has to offer by a large margain.
I am just wondering if control gets put on the shelf as a top tier deck until Ravnica Allegiance fixes the mana base? Or am I being crazy and it will be a Jeskai build that goes a little lighter on the blue?
Thoughts?