MTG - Love control? Bring yourself online in Modern, with MONO Blue Urza TRON - Magic: The Gathering
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Mono blue Tron is surprisingly cheap for such a competitive deck. While still not quite tier 1, it is still extremely powerful, and it can also serve as a great intro point into the format for those that love to play control.
In fact, for the fanatic blue player, this deck offer precise, almost clockwork control. It can also serve as way to start building towards the more powerful, but much, much more expensive Red Green Tron.
Running at about $150, many of these components can be had on the cheap, and a few of the more costlier pieces might already be in your binder.
The heart of this deck are the Urza lands, bring one of each into play and you have 7 colorless mana from three lands. With mana money like that, you can buy your way to victory.
The win conditions of this deck have a beautiful toolkit like nature.
Unlike its bigger brother, Red Green Tron, Mono blue keeps several win conditions handy for different situations. Treasure Mages select the tool you need to win the game you are playing, and Academy Ruins will bring them back as much as you need them.
This is not a deck for those who don't love playing control. Emphasis on the word love. You need to be a control fanatic to appreciate and enjoy the precise construction of this deck. As such, this deck is not for everyone. Even with its relatively low cost, I always recommend players interested in tron proxy a deck first, and practice a lot to see how they like it. Depending on your play style, you'll find it to be either a thing of clockwork beauty, or, or a rusty machine whose gears keep grinding.
I really love your deck showcases. the music always fits the mood, the card organizations are aesthetic, and I feel somewhat of a vicarious satisfaction by watching, almost as if I had the cards myself.
I'm so happy you're making videos, Prof.
TheMagicManSam was
Went 3-0 on Tuesday with Mono U Tron in NYC and not the first time I've gone undefeated since finally building the deck a year ago.
Its amazing how the core of this deck is still the same after all these years. I want to thank you because it was THIS video that got me into Modern and Mono U Tron was always a deck I had in my heart's backburner.
Thank you again Professor.
"The Sad Robot" I almost died laughing. Haha!
With that said, amazing deck tech! :)
though he admitted he should've thought of "stop hitting yourself" with the mindslaver lock
"Oblivion Stone $10.39"
Life is pain for 2016 Magic players.
Sad thing is it will just get worse.
2017...end my suffering
$21.56... /sigh
Cyclonic Rift is better IMO ;)
Hey hey 2018 is a cool year. OStone is five bucks.
Tolarian Community College Thank you so much for posting this deck tech. I have since built, modified, and played this deck at my local Magic store. I absolutely love this deck and it fits my play style to a tee. Thank you for all you do for the new MTG players like myself.
Robert Adams My absolute pleasure, and I am so glad you are enjoying the deck!
This seems like a vastly more interesting take on Tron than the other builds I've seen.
Blue tron fell out of favor for YEARS. Only recently has it gotten attention again.
@@tempestandacomputer6951 what changed? i played this deck since modern was created. Would love to grab it again if its at least tier 3.
@@funkyyy12345 I honestly don't know as im not a pilot of the deck. From what i have seen, tron pay offs have gotten better, sideboard has gotten better, and answers got better with stuff like Warping Wail
@@funkyyy12345 it's always been fringe but pretty good in the hands of a skilled pilot. I've owned the deck for about 5 years now, very skill intensive and certainly not tier 1, but definitely good enough imo for some compeditive fun.
@@edgypancreas1839 Thanks for answer. I really like tron play style. Just tutoring lands and ramping with green seems too linear.
This was my first modern deck, I was looking to get back in modern and saw this video, having the tron lands and liking controle games this was nice starting point. Still play it but the deck grew in its own shape over the years. For a blue deck it is now a argo u tron; more agressive contole if I can call it that. Thanks for the great reboost.
I DID IT, Prof, i got the 12 different Urza lands from Antiquities,then at a vegas mtg event i got them signed. Looked everywhere, learned the printing method and the cardboard texture to seek for the og cards and i finaly got'em.
This video got me into control play, i wasn't good and i was struggling with a heavy combo comunity, thank you very much for your time doc, it's been amazing.
In love with the Tolarian Community College.
You said the right word!!! Proxy!!! i do that with lots of decks and also did it with your monoblack control for modern and i loved it.Now i'm ordering the cards :)
Nick Kalfas do you print them on normal paper and then glue it onto caarton or how do you do it?
Awesome video, I love this deck and I wouldn't have know it existed if you didn't make this video!! It is my second favorite deck now JUST below my Amulet deck.
Thanks again
Prof, thank you so much for this deck tech. This deck called to me from this video on. I have been playing Utron for a year now with no slowing down. Thanks again. UTRON FOR LIFE
I have been playing this deck for some month and i add 2 dismember it help a lot for example if your opponent win the roll and on turn 2 play a confidant you can kill easily, and i replaced talisman of progress whit talisman of dominance.
I found more solid playing 1 batterskull and 1 wurmcoil.
By the way i like so much playing this deck, and you made a great review of this deck thanks a lot!
"You need to be a control fanatic to..." Control FREAK? C'mon surely you thought of that in the script
Joshimuz The script originally said control freak. I decided to be...diplomatic about it.
japaneli I like aficionado. Very classy.
Tolarian Community College Its funny how people that speak spanish suddenly started to use english words. And then, the same happened with english.
I just picked up the deck (with new cards of course) for the 3rd time in my magic career. I’ve played it off and on since I seen this video years ago.
Love this deck! I had never heard it and was really tired of my own modern deck.So the last few weeks I have made my own variations and am happy to say that I will be testing it out tonight at my local magic stores modern tournament. So I just wanted to say thank you for uploading this video and I can't wait to try it.
I LOVE THIS DECK!!! It is now one of my go-tos after a few modifications from this list.
You mention you must have a way to win the game when you have Mindslaver Lock active. However, you don't need a win-condition, that is the win in itself.
Every turn you are drawing the same exact card and your opponent draws a new card. This means that they will deck themselves and you will not. And as you are controlling their turn their is no way they can kill you.
This is considered an infinite combo and a Judge will give you a win if called and you can show how you will repeat each time without your opponent being able to respond.
Matt Burica You are 100% right and I messed up my explanation of that. I meant that you needed to understand that a lock IS the ability to win. I've seen newer players (or folks borrowing a friend's deck) get called on it and not be able to explain it. Basically, I meant what you said. Everyone look over here! Here! (points at Matt). That. ;)
I am so happy you posted this. I was going to do a video request from you for this deck and you beat me to it! I am new to Modern and I have been testing this deck out on Cockatrice with decent success against T1 decks. The pilot of a deck has a lot to do with it of course but I am still happy to see this have some steam against them unlike some T2 decks which sit comfortably there. I also tested 8rack (which I later saw your video on and enjoyed btw) and I had a lot of fun testing online with that but I became somewhat bored of it. Aside from learning the best things to Thoughtseize or IoK the deck sort of plays the same against most other decks and is rather linear in that sense. Mono U Tron feels like it has many intricacies that can give you an advantage once you learn them and make you a much stronger force with the deck. Game to game it is a completely different experience. That is just my opinion though, thanks for the great videos!
This is gonna be the deck that gets me into modern. I love control and tempo decks and I love nutty combos and this deck has it all and is cheap. Thanks tolarian
Christian Byrd not so cheap anymore his video is 5 years old. Still cheaper than the other Tron variants though
Professor I've been playing this deck on Untap.in for the past week and I am loving it. I'm sad it isn't as budget as it was when this video was made, but it's certainly still budget. I just feel like I gain complete control over my opponent (sometimes, I do!) and when I come online, they go offline for good. 10/10 amazing feel to it.
Seems like an awesome control deck! I have played against R/G Tron and was blown away by how everything was slowed down. My Burn deck got neutralized in the end. I might built it in time when I get more experienced with Mono-Black control. I really enjoy these deck tech: looking forward for more!
You have made me spent more in a period of just half a year than all my life since i started magic... i love this decks, this ideas and this format; and tought i love your videos i was wondering if you can recommend us a site where we can learn or discuss about this awesome pro decks (theres a lot of sites that shares decks, but how to know which are the ones played and tested by professionals?)
Thank a lot for your efforts for the magic community!
I built blue tron when this video came out. Still playing the archetype to this day
Me too! Love it.
hey professor i put this deck together because the deck looked very interesting and im really happy i did i enjoy playing this deck im very appy i saw this video keep up the good work 😊
Warm coil is getting a reprint in commander 2014! I've wanted one for my commander decks for a while, and this gives me a good opportunity to get one!
Very good video professor. I always loved to play control and this one seens like my entry deck in modern. Very good music btw.
i built this deck and have so much fun playing it thanks proffesor
“You can buy your way to victory.” Well put, Professor.
Thanks for another Modern primer. :)
Kelley Willingham My pleasure.
Tolarian Community College I love all of your modern primers, i find no other channel on youtue to have anything of the like, both in looks and your, somehow easy explaning compared to most "straight foreward" deck techs and tutorials!
That was brilliant (the deck and the way you presented it) nice job :D
@Prof I've been looking for this deck for a very long time without knowing it. Nailed it perfectly O
I just realized that I've got pretty much all the cards needed for this deck in my binders. Now I have a BW-Tokens deck AND a mono U Tron deck. Yay :D
I got this deck, tinkered a lot and it balls like hell. It's always a bit of adapting to newer cards and your local meta but for the 150 bucks it's sooo good
Hey thinking of building what changes have you done. Thanks
Tolarian I've been playing this deck on Untap.in for the past week and I am loving it. I'm sad it isn't as budget as it was when this video was made, but it's certainly still budget. I just feel like I gain complete control over my opponent (sometimes, I do!) and when I come online, they go offline for good. 10/10 amazing feel to it.
Could you perchance tell me the new cost for the deck instead of 150$?
+Freddy Krueger something more like $350
+BWO Josh Welp, There goes my dream of building a mono blue tron deck online
+Freddy Krueger oh on magic online it's only about 150 tickets still.
+BWO Josh Yay, thank you
I recommend talisman of dominance of talisman of progress. it makes it easier to run dismember sideboard.
Professor,this is a very analytical and well presented template! Congratulations on your truly wonderful creation with the really funny introduction! However, watching this video did made me feel compelled to humbly ask you if you could please in the near on more distant future present a blue-white control modern deck. I know that in general control decks are not as successful and widely appearing in modern, but in my humble opinion I believe that magic players should not abandon or dismiss control that easily. Aggro and generally fast or combo decks have made a very strong impact on the format, such as mono red aggro or affinity and splinter twin respectively and now the modern version of abzan has made its appearance, but in the recent years there are few to no true control decks in the first positions of grand prix tournaments.
A suggestion I have to new tron players are to keep in mind the meta that is within your area. For example I face a heavier aggro format in my locals, so I run thought-knot seers to ensure I keep them from swarming with things like pack rat. I also recommend dropping a talisman to 2 (either progress or dominance works in this regard) and instead go with another academy ruins if you run into a lot of landhate. And as the good professor stated this is only a template so experiment with friends or on forums and keep on testing, the beauty of this deck is its versatility. (Or just throw in an ulamog or 2 for funsies)
So glad that I opened this video. I didn't realize that Sad Robot was so much. Turns out I have a foil version! Thanks Professor.
While I'm not very familiar with control I build this deck as a way of getting into it and I do not regret it at all :)
Can we go back in time to this modern please?
I love the art on the urzas lands
Hello to any people watching from 2017 and on! Well, first off, this deck got expensive. But still affordable and can be put together with a decent build at around $200-300 and for a "perfect" build (varying by meta) around $400-500. So here I will list a deck tech for the version which I have which is the more expensive one.
1 solemn simulacrum/ Thought-knot seer
1 wurmcoil engine
1 batterskull
2 mindslaver
1 platinum angel
1 sundering titan
1 ugin, the spirit dragon
2 treasure mage
1 snapcaster mage
2 chalice of the void
1 oblivion stone
4 expedition map
4 thirst for knowledge
1 epiphany at the drownyard
4 remand
4 condescend
3 repeal
1 spell burst
1 cyclonic rift
1 academy ruins
1 oboro, palace in the clouds
1 ghost quarter
1 tectonic edge
8 island
4 Urza's mine
4 Urza's tower
4 Urza's power plant
And for the sideboard
2 hurkyl's recall
1 wurmcoil engine
1 negate
2 chalice of the void
1 filigree familiar
2 spreading seas
2 relic of progenitus
2 spatial contortion
2 dismember
That's about it. Please comment suggestions or comments if you want. Always open to them. Thanks, and have a great day
The hardest part about running Tron, is deciding which Urza Lands to run...The newer ones have nice borders [that match your other Cards], but Chronicles has awesome flavor and Art.. I love Shore and Mountain version... :S
I love those sleeves.
Nice reveal! I'm playing this deck but with only 2 Treasure Mages , a Fabricate (another one in the side) and a Snapcaster Mage. You should really take a look at the Fabricate, tutoring a Oblivion Stone is awesome!
Enrique Wicks Yeah, I have not had a lot of chance to play around with fabricate, but plenty of people use it as you have described.
i suggest adding perilous vault into the deck as it exiles all nonland permanents, make sure to use as last resort or to stop graveyard incursion or dredge.
never really been a island type a guy... but this deck looks fun as hell. great vid as always
Yo! PauseDa90s Cheers.
I'm looking to get into modern and I love control so this should be good for time to get this made
kingeckincow Cheers!
This is my favorite video from the channel.
xD
Seems like the perfect deck for master transmuter as well. 3U 1/2 creature with ability "U tap: Return an artifact you control to its owners hand. You may put an artifact from your hand into play"
Gives you instant ability for 1 blue to save an artifact from artifact destruction spells, allows you to put high priced artifacts like master slave and sundering titan onto the board for free, and lets you trigger sundering titan multiple times.
thank you so much for making such great videos. especially for magic beginners its SUPER useful...!
*Watches in 2016*
So the difference between Legacy and Modern isn't really the price tag anymore...
The same can be said about almost all constructed formats
ViolentSh4de Pauper will always be there for you, but those Delver of Secrets and Lightning Bolts are gonna run out of supply eventually.
Yeah, I really think wizards should look into reprinting these commonly used cards.
Luca Nocca Modern Masters
ViolentSh4de it's not even close to enough
Using this video to try to get one of my edh buddies into modern
This video made me go from merfolk to tron.
"Sad Robot" I like this.
Nice build up mate. Keep going on
Great vid, as always! Will we see any standard/legacy deck techs?
John Smith Yes to both. For standard, I am waiting until the next set hits, for Legacy...I'm planning something a bit different that I can hopefully get together. Fingers crossed.
Tolarian Community College Good luck! Somehow finding a real budget competitive Legacy deck must be a crazy task, because so far I think the lowest price point of a deck can only be in the $500 - $1000 at least that's what I think. I have seen videos of recent tournaments of Legacy and their decks are quite a lot running around $3k - $5k+.
lovely deck, right now running thought knot seer instead of sad bot. hope its pretty good, also spatial contortion very good removal
The fact that I have most of these cards makes me curious to play this.
I highly recomend playing a 1 of urza's factory. It's just a great mana sink and it also won me a lot of games against control (blue white based ones in particular)
I've been thinking about doing this and you gave me a reason to
this seemed like a cool deck especially when you begin to brew and throw some things like chalice of the void in there xD) but for my modern deck I have decided to go with mono u trons twin or the "middle" brother of gr and u tron: Gifts tron!
Once the infinite Mindslaver is going, just tap down all their lands, end turn and repeat and they will mill out (Every turn you'll draw the same Mindslaver so you won't.).
Love the video man, a small note, try not to use that fade effect with the noise. Its a bit overused and distracting, other than that cool video. Keep up the good work.
Your fan:
Rashid
Rashid Al-Khayal Yep, and thanks for the feedback! I will not use it quite so much in future videos. I was THIS close to taking it out for this one, so I was already beginning to realize it was a bit overdone. Cheers!
Thanks for understanding!
This is perfect for my friend, as for me I prefer Storm.
Pact of Negation as an option? I really like that Counter, and the Mana Cost on the Upkeep is really easy to handle with Tron. Yeah, I know it's risky, but that's half the fun. :P
And if you could afford to squeeze a Snapcaster in, you would right?
Making double blue is harder than you would think.
I play this deck myself and I love control and this deck is so strong for such a cheep deck it dose good agents ter 1 deck but like he sead you need to love control to make it work good or it just will be hard and not affective
Any chance you could do some videos on a couple of the different combo decks out there? Perhaps Breakfast at Urza's/Urza-tron eggs?* The main deck is not any more pricey than any of the other decks you've done.
*In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not *entirely* unbiased in the suggestion of that particular deck as its my current go-to modern deck. :P
perfect for a control freak like me!
Professor, this deck is no longer 150 dollars anymore. it is now 300 dollars.
+victoryiamjay this was also a year ago. prices change over time.
Yea Victoryiamjay is rit but now it's more like 500
yeah thats magic for you. i can't find any good cheap builds anymore, even mono red is 300 bucks or something, if you want a efficient one.
+victoryiamjay I have one that I am slowly switching to naya burn. the mono red was pretty cheap with the bolts and such being the most expensive. then to red/white where paths (sideboard) are the most expensive. Mono red you don't have to worry about shocklands or fetches which are the reason for decks getting stupid expensive. That is what is taking so long for me to reach naya burn. It goes from like 100$ for my deck to like 500-600$
It is till sad that something as simple as mono red burn is almost 600 dollars...
mindslaver lock = win XD i giggled at that annotation
I have the exact same list card for card on my channel from a year ago. Just the blue black talismen instead and tolaria west instead of oloro
Hi Professor, maybe you can make a video about splashing white in Tron? Would be great :-)
Exactly 2,000 likes! Congrats!
Quick question, would this deck be considered a ramp/ control deck? Or just ramp or just control
Watches in 2019: costs $260 ):
Also can this deck do well at my LGS? My LGS is mainly made up of phoenix decks and control decks
Sorry for so many questions but can you by any chance post a guide to this deck/ Tron decks in general (:
www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/established-modern/control/220176-monou-tron-the-well-oiled-machine?page=624 Here you find a lot of Players who play´s the deck a lot.
Tron is generally considered control
I love control, thank you!
I have 22 Black boardered Urzatron lands and every other urzatron version ever printed excluding 9th edition andthe foils from 8th and 9th. and I NEED MORE!!
And yet I only run them in my casual Myr deck.. (Casual only because it also likes to run Cloud and Glimmerpost.
Well i love control, and i love money, soooo YAY! thank you TCC! ^-^
You don't need to have a win con on the field when you get the mind slaver lock going- you just wind up not doing anything on their turn, and not doing anything on yours except for recurring mindslaver, and you mill them to death. Mind laver goes to the top of your library each turn, so you don't actually draw, in the sense that your library size isn't changing.
Thx Prof! Great channel!
I love this deck! Blue is the best color by far!
Just wondering, what would you suggest for the sideboard? Just in general, not against a specific meta.
Not much of a huge fan of this deck (not my kind of blue i guess) but i really do like the sleeves and deck box you have in it and now i ordered the box with 100 sleeves.
Living End? It's decent-good at FNM, but cheaper then most modern decks, save some variants of burn and infect. The budget version of it is roughly $80 or so. Compared to Eggs, the "combo" is easier to understand.
Vuldread Also, unlike Eggs, it is not pure evil. There. I said it. I'll say it again if I have to. Now I am going to flee before an Eggs player started pelting me with...something....
Tolarian Community College No need, they will just try to.... "egg" you on.
thanks for another Modern deck=)
xRAIZOx My absolute pleasure.
As a question, would it be an idea to splash a bit of white into your landbase, and then use Mana Tithe in some numbers to add a tiny bit more super early counterspell? I know it's only one to a counter unless they pay one, but on turn one or two, that can be a big issue given the situation, and from my understanding of modern from those around me who play it, turn one and two are usually important for a lot of decks. Just curious on your thoughts on it prof.
You can still win if you don't have a win condition and you've locked your opponent. Simply make him draw his entire library and tap all of his lands before passing to your turn, so you make sure he isn't going to respond. Since mindslaver will always be on the top of your deck, there's no risk of drawing the entire library before he does. Also, don't forget to see his sideboard while controling his turn.
i love control, this looks like a very fun deck to play... i have only one question though... why is oboro in this decklist?
This is by far the best tron, with UW gifts in second place, and solitaire.. Err I mean RG tron... in last. in my opinion of course.
Great vid as always !
What's your thoughts on the current Khans spoilers, especially the Fetch Land reprints ? And what's your clan ?
I'm definitely going for Temur.
Thaddius DJ Blitz Ho Very, very, VERY excited about the fetchlands reprints. They were previously NOT in Modern, but now that they've been reprinted, they will be. That's what gets me going. Hmmm...wonder what non-mono decks are now much more affordable because of this...
Tolarian Community College Bogles players must be super happy.. :P
Tolarian Community College There is a possibility modern might drive up the prices of the new ally color fetches. It wouldn't be completely from left field, but I'm almost certain that the price won't drop so much, as the demand is going to be extremely high for the reprints.
Chase Unfried I'm hoping this somewhat stabilizes the prices between the Zen and Khan Fetches.. Most Decks in Modern would probably want to run 1 from each, Ally and Enemy Fetchlands. (Cuz currently some Decks run sub-optimal Fetches just for 1 Colour) So I can't wait to see how these will shake things up.
Chase Unfried Don't forget that this is going to be an unlimited print run. That will stabilize the price dramatically.
I'm usually a standard player, but I'm thinking about widening my horizons to other formats as well. The price is kinda high for me cause I have very tight budget
All these budget decks are awesome! ;) I recently pulled an EXPEDITION scalding tarn and sold it for 350$CDN which of these 5 decks do you recommend that i build? Mono green infect, Mono blue merfolk, mono blue urza tron, Mono white soul sisters or mono red wins? I am trying to make an original deck that none of my 12 year old friends #grade7nerds have. I am a competitive and casual modern/standard player who currently runs red green dragon and blue black control. I would love your opinion professor! THANKS!
perilous vault is quite strong as a budget replacement for oblivion stone. Perilous Vault gives you exile over destroy but could cause you to lose the mind slaver lock. Tell me your opinion prof!
if you can complete the lock you win. Each turn you put Mindslaver on the top of your library while slowly milling your opponent and tapping their lands.
Im going to casual this out with sol ring, tinker, strip mine ect...
Calling gr tron the big nrother of the blue version is legit, but calling it stricly superior would be a big mistake ! At the moment, the monoblue version would be my version of choice for any big tournament, because of it's way better matchup against fast combodeck like twin and storm.
Dear Tolarian Community College,
I understand that this comment may not be read, and I completely understand. Do you know of any way to make this deck more affordable? (Yes, I understand that modern is expensive, and that this is relatively cheap, but I am a college student, and I can't afford to spend so much on MTG. Thanks! Love the vids!
Do you plan on doing any Standard deck tech after rotation and Khans is in?
cfusionpm Yep! I have been holding off on Standard talk because everything is about to change with the new set. Once it does, expect me to talk about Standard decks.
Another Great Video!!!
As someone who's played the deck for some time, I'm very curious about the decision to include Talisman of Progress over Talisman of Dominance. A key sideboard card for this deck is Dismember. While not vital enough to warrant main-deck space, the cheap spot removal is very desirable in certain matchups. Being able to pay 1 less life point to pay for the Phyrexian mana in Dismember's cost by tapping Talisman of Dominance for B is enough to warrant playing it.
I'm also curious about the decision to include a full 4 copies of Treasure Mage. From what I've seen, the majority of players only play 1 copy, with some choosing to include a 2nd. However, I've never seen more than 2.
Jon Mathison I think those are some really good tips. When I present these builds, I mean them as a general template. I do a lot of research and try to create a general version of the deck for people to start with. This list has not been fine tuned, in other words. It's meant for someone who does not play Modern at all, but wants to, to use as a great starting point for building their first deck, or perhaps their first more competitive deck within the format.
For people who are interested in the deck these days the lists have shifted a little with the meta and the printings of new cards. Unfortunately the deck is no longer that budget costing closer to $300-400 for a good version.
Spatial Contortion is extremely good in this deck against the decks worst match ups (small creature match ups) like elves, goblins, affinity and merfolk. The merfolk match up is still awful though. Chalice of the Void is also extremely effective against many of the decks in the format and should be run instead of the ramp, this will require you to go up on lands to 24-25 though. Thought Knot Seer is better than Solemn Simulacrum in almost all situations and you can run a package Eye of Ugin to tutor your fatties along with the new Kozilek and/or Ulamog. Ugin is an absolute house in the deck and should be included for his ability to reset the board, although he can't be tutored. Other cards worthy of consideration for the deck are Fabricate, Silent Arbiter and Batterskull.
Sideboard cards will depend on the meta but I suggest people look at Hurkyl's Recall, Negate, Pithing Needle, Aetherize, Relic of Progenitus, Torpor Orb, Dismember, Jesters Cap, Spellskite and Ratchet Bomb to name a few candidates.
I would love to see the professor build a spawner deck