WUb Mentorblade 20150316

Legacy Control Stoneblade WUB (Esper)

mgrinshpon

Creature (9)

• 3x Baleful Strix
• 3x Monastery Mentor
• 3x Stoneforge Mystic

Land (20)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 3x Island
• 2x Plains
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Swamp
• 3x Tundra
• 2x Underground Sea

Artifact (4)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Instant (17)

• 4x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 3x Dig Through Time
• 4x Force of WillGC
• 4x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Zealous Persecution

Sorcery (10)

• 3x Cabal Therapy
• 4x Ponder
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 2x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 2x Meddling Mage
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Rest in Peace

Artifact (1)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage

Instant (7)

• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 2x Flusterstorm
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 1x Surgical Extraction

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant

Land (1)

• 1x Marsh Flats

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Council's Judgment

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This is a more controlling, more grindy version of Stoneblade. Unlike the more traditional True-Name Nemesis lists, this deck is able to respond to disruption with more resilience and generally great at using Cabal Therapy. It's not clear if this is actually a better deck, however.

Interesting interactions:

• Baleful Strix+Cabal Therapy+Academy Ruins

• Monastery Mentor+Zealous Persection

• Dig Through Time+a zillion cantrips

• Postboard, Enlightened Tutor+the many, many one-ofs

Possible changes:

• Add a land to the maindeck (probably one Marsh Flats)

• Add a Jace to the maindeck

• Cut the maindeck Zealous Persecution for something else that can be pitched to Force of Will- likely a Spell Pierce or Baleful Strix

• Go 3/3 on Stoneforge Mystic/Monastery Mentor rather than the 2/4 split currently shown

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 3 Mythic Rares 27 - 9 Rares 9 - 2 Uncommons 8 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.45
Tokens	Monk 1/1 W, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B