Esper Hard Control

Standard*

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Land (25)

• 1x Aether Hub
• 3x Choked Estuary
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 2x Evolving Wilds
• 2x Fetid Pools
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 5x Island
• 2x Plains
• 3x Prairie Stream
• 2x Shambling Vent
• 3x Swamp

Instant (21)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 2x Anticipate
• 3x Disallow
• 1x Essence Extraction
• 2x Fatal Push
• 3x Glimmer of Genius
• 4x Grasp of Darkness
• 2x Immolating Glare
• 2x Negate
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Fumigate
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Painful Truths

Creature (8)

• 4x Spell Queller
• 4x Torrential Gearhulk

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 2x Fathom Feeder
• 2x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Niblis of Frost
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word

Instant (4)

• 1x Commit / Memory
• 2x Negate
• 1x To the Slaughter

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Flaying Tendrils

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

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With Felidar Guardian facing the ban hammer, a huge range of new strategies have become available. I have a particular taste for a really good control deck and I feel this particular build is incredibly consistent and powerful to take down a very broad spread of popular decks in this new standard environment.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	RG
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 7 Mythic Rares 25 - 5 Rares 13 - 1 Uncommons 6 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.37
Tokens	Emblem Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, Emblem Jace, Unraveler of Secrets, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Energy Reserve, Knight Ally 2/2 W, Vampire Knight 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B