Esper Gideons

Standard Control Superfriends WUB (Esper)

Nephylos

Land (24)

• 1x Choked Estuary
• 2x Fetid Pools
• 2x Irrigated Farmland
• 2x Island
• 5x Plains
• 3x Port Town
• 2x Prairie Stream
• 2x Shambling Vent
• 2x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp

Instant (9)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 3x Censor
• 1x Disallow
• 2x Glimmer of Genius
• 2x Negate

Planeswalker (11)

• 4x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• 3x Gideon, Martial Paragon
• 4x Gideon of the Trials

Sorcery (16)

• 2x Declaration in Stone
• 3x Fumigate
• 4x Harsh Scrutiny
• 3x Slip Through Space
• 4x Transgress the Mind

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Sideboard

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Oath of Gideon
• 2x Stasis Snare

Creature (2)

• 2x Archangel Avacyn  ^Flip

Instant (4)

• 2x Anguished Unmaking
• 2x Disallow

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Declaration in Stone
• 3x Flaying Tendrils

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Authority of the Consuls

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Dispossess

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Trying to find a way to safely deal with Marvel decks while not losing handily to Zombie and other aggro decks. The strategy here is to buy time with Gideon of the Trials emblem and keep the board nice and clean via removal, counters, hand disruption, and Fumigate, then use any of the Gideons to clean up, with the help of Slip Through Space to make sure he makes a clean attack while you draw a card. A pair of Shambling Vents gives you an emergency attacker or blocker with life gain, while Declaration in Stone takes care of recurring Zombies from the graveyard or an Ulamog, if one lands. The idea, though, is to prevent that from happening by denying your opponent the Marvel in the first place. (Personally, I think that card is too powerful since it says, "...you may cast..." instead of "...put one of them onto the battlefield...". A turn 4 Ulamog that is considered "cast" is insane! I predict Aetherworks Marvel will be banned from Standard.)

Sideboard includes Flaying Tendrils for pesky weenie- type decks and Zombies, extra counterspells vs control and control- heavy Marvel decks, and Archangel Avacyn   and Oath of Gideon for extra beef vs aggro decks, although there's not much to trigger her to flip aside from Gideon's 2/2 Ally tokens. Side in Ruinous Path for decks running the Chandra, Flamecaller backup plan.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	RG
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 4 Mythic Rares 20 - 6 Rares 13 - 5 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Clue, Emblem Gideon of the Trials, Emblem Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, Energy Reserve, Knight Ally 2/2 W, Kor Ally 1/1 W