Esper Control (ELD Standard)

Standard Control WUB (Esper)

nico43624

Land (25)

• 1x Castle Ardenvale
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 2x Fabled Passage
• 4x Godless Shrine
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Plains
• 2x Swamp
• 3x Temple of Silence
• 4x Watery Grave

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 3x Kaya's Wrath
• 2x Legion's End
• 4x Thought Erasure
• 2x Witch's Vengeance

Artifact (8)

• 4x Glass Casket
• 4x Witching Well

Planeswalker (9)

• 2x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 3x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 4x Teferi, Time Raveler

Creature (5)

• 2x Blacklance Paragon
• 3x Murderous Rider

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Oath of Kaya

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Sideboard

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Enter the God-Eternals
• 2x The Elderspell
• 2x Unmoored Ego

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Oath of Kaya

Instant (4)

• 2x Despark
• 2x Dovin's Veto

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sorcerous Spyglass

Planeswalker (3)

• 3x Ashiok, Dream Render

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Throne of Eldraine Esper Control build

!!! Sideboard is currently a draft as I have no idea what kind of decks will be popular !!!

--- Explanation of Questionable/New Cards ---

Blacklance Paragon : Is a 2-mana kill your attacking creature and gain 3 life. Either takes a burn spell from Mono-red aggro, gains you 3 life vs aggro, or just simply kills a big threat from all the Green decks. Also kills Questing Beast which I assume will be a popular creature in this standard meta.

Witch's Vengeance : Most of the early decks that are being created in this standard meta are Wolves based or Knights based which makes this wrath much better than Cry of the Carnarium for these decks.

Witching Well : A 1-drop that makes your draws better just seems too good not to run. Don't want to flood your deck with these though since they don't actually affect the board. Running 2 to allow for smoothing out draws in the early game and allows for draw when needed late game.

Castle Lands: I run 1 of each for each of their specific abilities. Castle Ardenvale allows you to create 1/1 that can attack/block in the mid/late game when you and your opponent are top decking. Castle Locthwain is just a great draw spell put onto a land. Castle Vantress allows you to not have too many dead draws in the mid/late game. The faster you draw Liliana, Dreadhorde General or Command the Dreadhorde the faster you win as those are your win conditions.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 8 Rares 11 - 7 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.77
Tokens	Human 1/1 W, On an Adventure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B