Vintage Azorius Control
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Azorius Control has slipped from ~2.5% to 1.9% of the Vintage metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Slipped from ~2.5% to 1.9% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Typical Vintage Azorius Control maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 43 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Ancestral Recall | 1.0 | 100% |
| Black Lotus | 1.0 | 100% |
| Flooded Strand | 3.7 | 100% |
| Force of Will | 4.0 | 100% |
| Gitaxian Probe | 1.0 | 100% |
| Mental Misstep | 1.0 | 100% |
| Mox Pearl | 1.0 | 100% |
| Mox Sapphire | 1.0 | 100% |
| Time Walk | 1.0 | 100% |
| Tundra | 3.6 | 100% |
| Force of Negation | 3.0 | 95% |
| Strip Mine | 1.0 | 93% |
| Swords to Plowshares | 3.1 | 93% |
| Wasteland | 3.7 | 88% |
| Brainstorm | 1.0 | 86% |
| Island | 1.4 | 86% |
| Urza's Saga | 1.0 | 84% |
| Lavinia, Azorius Renegade | 1.9 | 77% |
| Mox Jet | 1.0 | 74% |
| Lórien Revealed | 2.4 | 72% |
| Meticulous Archive | 1.3 | 67% |
| Sol Ring | 1.0 | 56% |
| Treasure Cruise | 1.0 | 56% |
| Mana Crypt | 1.0 | 51% |
| Snapcaster Mage | 1.4 | 49% |
| Stock Up | 3.2 | 49% |
| Plains | 1.0 | 47% |
| Flow State | 3.6 | 44% |
| Spell Pierce | 1.7 | 42% |
| Vexing Bauble | 1.0 | 42% |
| Dig Through Time | 1.0 | 40% |
| Ponder | 1.9 | 40% |
| Mindbreak Trap | 1.5 | 35% |
| Flusterstorm | 1.6 | 33% |
| Polluted Delta | 1.5 | 33% |
| Wan Shi Tong, Librarian | 1.9 | 33% |
| Mox Ruby | 1.0 | 30% |
| Karakas | 1.0 | 28% |
| Archon of Emeria | 4.0 | 26% |
| Clarion Conqueror | 4.0 | 26% |
Typical Vintage Azorius Control sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 43 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 43 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Containment Priest | 2.5 | 77% |
| Swords to Plowshares | 1.3 | 67% |
| Consign to Memory | 2.2 | 65% |
| Pithing Needle | 1.0 | 65% |
| Lurrus of the Dream-Den | 1.0 | 60% |
| The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale | 1.3 | 60% |
| Stony Silence | 2.1 | 56% |
| Grafdigger's Cage | 1.4 | 47% |
| Soul-Guide Lantern | 1.4 | 47% |
| Null Rod | 1.9 | 33% |
| Flusterstorm | 1.7 | 28% |
| Overencumbered | 1.6 | 26% |
| Seal of Cleansing | 1.1 | 23% |
| Kataki, War's Wage | 1.3 | 21% |
| Mindbreak Trap | 1.2 | 21% |
| Prismatic Ending | 1.3 | 19% |
| Deafening Silence | 2.0 | 16% |
| Erode | 1.3 | 16% |
| Serenity | 2.0 | 14% |
| Annul | 2.0 | 12% |
| Commandeer | 2.0 | 12% |
| Energy Flux | 1.0 | 12% |
| Plains | 1.0 | 12% |
| Force of Negation | 1.3 | 9% |
| Hurkyl's Recall | 1.5 | 9% |
| Rest in Peace | 1.8 | 9% |
| Sevinne's Reclamation | 1.0 | 9% |
| Spell Pierce | 1.0 | 9% |
| Yixlid Jailer | 1.0 | 9% |
| Balance | 1.0 | 7% |
| Lavinia, Azorius Renegade | 1.0 | 7% |
| Leyline of the Void | 4.0 | 7% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 1.0 | 7% |
| Portable Hole | 1.0 | 7% |
| Steel Sabotage | 1.3 | 7% |
| Tormod's Crypt | 1.0 | 7% |
| Archon of Emeria | 2.5 | 5% |
| Dismember | 1.0 | 5% |
| Empty-Shrine Kannushi | 2.0 | 5% |
| Fatal Push | 2.0 | 5% |
Azorius Control Vintage FAQ
Is Azorius Control good in Vintage right now?
Azorius Control is 1.9% of Vintage decklists, though it's fallen sharply (−42%) over the last two weeks. Best recent finish: 12th (4-2) at Vintage Challenge 32 on Jul 18, 2026.
What are the key cards in Vintage Azorius Control?
Nearly every list runs Ancestral Recall, Black Lotus, Force of Will, and Gitaxian Probe (99%+ of Vintage Azorius Control decklists in the last 90 days). Builds split 27 Azorius vs 7 Esper lists.
What's a typical Vintage Azorius Control sideboard?
The most common Vintage Azorius Control sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Containment Priest (77% of lists), Swords to Plowshares (67% of lists), Consign to Memory (65% of lists), and Pithing Needle (65% of lists).
Are there different builds of Vintage Azorius Control?
What does Uniqueness mean?
Uniqueness rates each list from band 1 (Stock) through band 10 (Unique). Higher means a list is more unusual vs recent peers of this strategy.
How many Vintage Azorius Control decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 433 Vintage Azorius Control decklists all-time (5 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Azorius Control result Jul 24, 2026.