Esperate Countermeasures

Standard WUB (Esper)

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Land (24)

• 2x Dismal Backwater
• 8x Island
• 2x Plains
• 2x Rogue's Passage
• 2x Scoured Barrens
• 6x Swamp
• 2x Tranquil Cove

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Banishing Light

Instant (15)

• 4x Cancel
• 1x Mortify
• 4x Negate
• 2x Opt
• 4x Unsummon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Duress

Creature (8)

• 2x Consuming Aberration
• 2x Reassembling Skeleton
• 4x Skeleton Archer

Artifact (6)

• 3x Pirate's Cutlass
• 3x Prophetic Prism

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 4x Ajani's Pridemate

Land (1)

• 1x Plains

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Pacifism

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Greetings, Fellow Planeswalkers! My knack of hoarding cards has finally worked in my favor as Foundations reprinted a boatload of cards, allowing me to build a deck for Standard in spite of my $0 budget. My first since Kaldheim rotated out. For the foreseeable future this will serve as my Standard deck

Objective

Sling control spells at opponents in an attempt to fill the graveyard for Consuming Aberration. Then stomp my way to victory.

The More Controlling Aspects

We start off the first three turns chucking our copies of Duress, Unsummon, Negate and Cancel to slow down our opponents as we pull together our pieces. For the mid and late game we have two copies of Banishing Light and a copy of Mortify to deal with spells we can't counter or force a discard. In the late game we have a copy of Liliana, Dreadhorde General to force sacrifices.

Creatures

With Consuming Aberration we hope to fill the library enough with spell casting to make CA big enough to kill in one attack. To help that along there's also two copies of Rogue's Passage to make it unblockable. We also have two Reassembling Skeletons to act as reusable chump blockers. In the late game Liliana, Dreadhorde General creates zombie creature tokens.

Ramp & Draw

While we don't have anything in terms of ramp, Prophetic Prism at least fixes our mana enough to allow us to cast control spells. It also allows us to draw a card. Liliana, Dreadhorde General and two copies of Opt also offer card draw.

Dealing With The Weaknesses

Graveyard hate is our biggest threat, as we can't keep Consuming Aberration on the battlefield without at least one card in the graveyard. That's why there are three copies of Pirate's Cutlass to keep it alive if opponents target their own graveyards with graveyard hate. Another threat to this deck is aggro. This is balanced out with the sideboard. Pacifism will slow down attacks. If opponents have ways to hate on noncreature spells we have Ajani's Pridemate. We won't get a lot of +1/+1 counters on them with only six lands that give life, but two or three will make a lot of difference in the long game.

Well, that's it for this deck for now. I may make changes to it, or get an entirely new standard deck. In the meantime I hope this deck inspires you in some capacity. God Bless!

Date added	3 weeks
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 2 - 0 Rares 7 - 4 Uncommons 28 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.50
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Standeck