4/5C Control manabase for Standard

The best lands for Standard 4/5C Control (7% of the metagame), tested over thousands of games: 73 → 74 out of 100. +1 Steam Vents, +3 Mystic Monastery, −1 Godless Shrine. Each candidate manabase played 1,000 simulated games with this exact list.

Recommended lands

4 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
4 Steam Vents (+1 from the tournament list)
3 Mystic Monastery (+3 from the tournament list)
2 Gloomlake Verge
2 Hallowed Fountain
2 Sacred Foundry
1 Godless Shrine (−1 from the tournament list)
1 Blazemire Verge
1 Blood Crypt
1 Cori Mountain Monastery
1 Mistrise Village
1 Petrified Hamlet
1 Stormcarved Coast
1 Sunbillow Verge
1 Sundown Pass
0 Island (−1 from the tournament list)
0 Plains (−1 from the tournament list)
0 Shattered Sanctum (−1 from the tournament list)

The tournament list

1 Together as One
4 Tablet of Discovery
1 Sundown Pass
1 Sunbillow Verge
1 Blood Crypt
1 Blazemire Verge
1 Stormcarved Coast
2 Stock Up
3 Steam Vents
1 Shattered Sanctum
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 Sear
2 Sacred Foundry
2 Plunder the Trollshaws
1 Plains
1 Petrified Hamlet
1 North Wind Avatar
3 No More Lies
1 Mistrise Village
1 Lightning Helix
4 Jeskai Revelation
1 Island
4 Inevitable Defeat
2 Hallowed Fountain
4 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
2 Godless Shrine
2 Gloomlake Verge
1 Get Lost
2 Flashback
2 Firebending Lesson
1 Fire Magic
1 Day of Judgment
1 Cori Mountain Monastery
3 Consult the Star Charts
1 Thor, God of Thunder
2 Strategic Betrayal
2 Return the Favor
2 Pinnacle Starcage
1 Outrageous Robbery
2 Flashfreeze
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Abrade
1 Get Lost
1 Fire Magic
1 Day of Judgment

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