The Lockout

Commander / EDH Control Counterspell WUB (Esper)

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Land (35)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 5x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vivid Creek

Planeswalker (9)

• 1x Dovin Baan
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Narset Transcendent
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Instant (15)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End

Creature (10)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Silent Arbiter

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Nevermore
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The One Ring
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Wrath of God

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Complete Esper Control here. Oloro gains us an automatic two life every turn, no matter what. This let's us take some beats early on and still be alright or the added bonus of damage lands not effecting us. It’s a little slow but that’s ok as we are in this for the long game. Being able to lock things down through Counterspells, Board Wipes, Spot Removal spells, Emblems, life gain and lots of draw, making it easier to get to the cards you need faster.

Our main wincon is our Commander and Psychosis Crawler. Oloro gains us 2 life, we pay to draw a card and they lose a life. Then because we drew a card, the Crawler makes them lose another life. Then we draw for the turn, so the Crawler deals a third damage and that's before we have even went to Main Phase. Our deck is stacked with enough life gain and card draw to just siphon your opponents life away and it even works in multiplayer games.

Another easy wincon is Aetherflux Reservoir. With Oloro, it only takes us five turns to get to fifty life. Turn 5, cast the Reservoir and then a one drop spell that gets us to fifty two life and we can go for the kill. It's even easier when we get our tap lands in to gain a life or even manage to play Kambal turn three and get some extra life that way.

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Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.86
Tokens	Emblem Dovin Baan, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Jace, Unraveler of Secrets, Emblem Narset Transcendent, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	EDH, Deck Ideas