We have also included a handful of honorable mentions that fell just outside the top ten but remain significant and noteworthy pieces of Mewtwo collecting history that are well worth understanding and potentially adding to your collection
Negate is OK but I would greatly prefer Spell Peirce and both is a little limiting in this archetype
Decklist: Dimir Control in Standard Dread Fugue | Illustration by Rovina Cai Battle (1) Planeswalkers (3) Sorin the Mirthless x2 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim Creatures (2) Instants (20) Wash Away x2 March of Wretched Sorrow x2 Make Disappear x4 Infernal Grasp x2 Parasitic Grasp Siphon Insight x4 Hero's Downfall x2 Memory Deluge x3 Sorceries (4) Dread Fugue x2 Path of Peril x2 Artifacts (4) Reckoner Bankbuster x2 The Celestus x2 Lands (26) Island x6 Otawara, Soaring City Takenuma, Abandoned Mire Swamp x7 Darkslick Shores x2 Shipwreck Marsh x3 Underground River x2 Raffine's Tower x4 This decklist has some planeswalkers to get card advantage and stabilize the board, lots of card draw and removal spells that control decks are known for, and a pair of Hullbreaker Horrors as win conditions
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To get a feeling for this, lets compare the actual number of times cards from Base Set (only unlimited print run), Jungle and Fossil appear on the sheets with estimates calculated from samples observed from Youtube videos
For example, if your opponent only has one attacker set up that is easy for you to Knock Out, or is unlikely to hit a specific card they need to confirm their next KO such as Professor Kukui or Counter Energy, going into a Prize trade may be a good idea