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Instant Deck Tech: UW Control (Throwback)

by SaffronOlive // Mar 9, 2017

Instant Deck Tech time! Today we are hopping into the time machine and heading all the way back to 1996 to look at the deck that won the very first every Magic Pro Tour, a UW Control build that looks a bit strange because of some unique rules from Magic's earliest days!

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Instant Deck Tech: UW Control (Throwback)