Four-Color Control Makes a Standard Top Eight With Firdoch Core

kthanakit26’s Four-Color Control finished sixth at 5-2 in the 36-player Standard Challenge 16 on November 1, 2026, losing its quarterfinal 1-2 to Sacrifice, MTGO’s published results show.

The list runs 3 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber for three-mana repeat card draw, costing 2 life at your end step without a Demon. Its 3 Firdoch Core are three-mana fixers that become 4/4 creatures for 4 mana. The 3 Requiting Hex kill creatures with mana value 2 or less for 1 mana; 2 Nowhere to Run give instant-speed -3/-3 for 2 mana and let subsequent removal bypass hexproof and ward. None of those three-copy choices appeared in 54 other lists across the six-week comparison; Nowhere to Run appeared in 5.6%. This build also skips Consult the Star Charts, played in 88.9% of that sample.