esper superfriends

Standard Control Creatureless Superfriends WUB (Esper)

nolooloo

Planeswalker (8)

• 2x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 2x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 3x Narset Transcendent
• 1x Sorin, Solemn Visitor

Land (25)

• 3x Caves of Koilos
• 3x Flooded Strand
• 4x Island
• 2x Plains
• 3x Polluted Delta
• 2x Swamp
• 4x Temple of Deceit
• 3x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Instant (24)

• 3x Anticipate
• 3x Bile Blight
• 3x Dig Through Time
• 4x Dissolve
• 3x Foul-Tongue Invocation
• 4x Hero's Downfall
• 2x Negate
• 2x Utter End

Sorcery (3)

• 3x End Hostilities

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 1x Silumgar, the Drifting Death

Instant (7)

• 2x Disdainful Stroke
• 2x Erase
• 1x Negate
• 2x Radiant Purge

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Drown in Sorrow
• 3x Duress

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I keep hearing that esper's mana is too bad right now. Between fetches and caves, I find myself with a T1 scry, into untapped t2 and t3 hitting both dissolve and downfall on curve very constantly. Yes there are those games where that doesn't happen but anticipate/dig plus the sheer power of the removal and walkers often catches me up if I miss curve by a turn or two. I chose negate as my secondary counter over stroke due to all the rounchy removal I have. Bile blight over ult price as my 2 cmc removal due to its potential to two for one and foul tongue/downfall are right around the corner. It plays like an aggressive control Deck, dig plus anticipate make it to where I'm comfortable not running 27 mana and still able to hit 6 mana asap and letting elspeth do what she has been doing since theros came into our lives. I like my win cons being immune to my sweepers, so end over vault and crux is just slightly weaker. The random 2 creatures in my sideboard are just to mix it up if I feel like my friends can't get there. Drown in sorrow for aggro, duress for control and it actually works good against uw heros. Erase and purge becouse screw whip and screw deathdealer. Extra counters because blue magic... Always up for thoughts and suggestions.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 1 Mythic Rares 25 - 3 Rares 7 - 2 Uncommons 12 - 9 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.71
Tokens	Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Narset Transcendent, Emblem Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Soldier 1/1 W, Vampire 2/2 B