esper midrange

Standard*

NivMizzet_theFiremind

Creature (10)

• 4x Hero of Bladehold
• 4x Mirran Crusader
• 2x Spellskite

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Gideon Jura
• 1x Liliana Vess

Land (24)

• 2x Celestial Colonnade
• 4x Creeping Tar Pit
• 2x Darkslick Shores
• 2x Glacial Fortress
• 4x Marsh Flats
• 4x Plains
• 2x Swamp
• 4x Tectonic Edge

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Oblivion Ring

Instant (10)

• 2x Cancel
• 2x Disfigure
• 2x Doom Blade
• 4x Mana Leak

Sorcery (11)

• 2x Black Sun's Zenith
• 2x Foresee
• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Preordain

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 2x Kor Firewalker
• 2x Vampire Nighthawk

Instant (7)

• 2x Demystify
• 3x Flashfreeze
• 2x Go for the Throat

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Memoricide
• 2x Timely Reinforcements

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 3x Emeria Angel

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take the UB control deck, but replace the slow titans and sphinxes for faster threats. hero is good against decks with bolt, and mirran crusader is good against decks with dismember.

right now the deck is a little unsure of what answers it wants, so the sideboard and removal suite is a mess. but the general idea is to use inquisition against fast decks to disrupt tempo and against slow decks to protect your threats, then drop early threats to put your opponent on a clock early. inspired by faeries or caw blade, but faeries isn't legal and blade are awkward when you don't have something to attach them to, and caw are arkward when it's harder to abuse their bodies, both important factors lost with stoneforge and jace.

I've played this deck at a gpt, and the major things I felt were awkward was not having spellskite in the deck at all (which has been fixed) and losing to squadron hawks by themselves simply because you don't have good ways to answer them (kind of fixed with mainboard BSZ over wrath). I thought about doing red somehow for grim lavamancer, he does good against tempered steel and caw, both trying matches.

Date added	13 years
Last updated	13 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 2 Rares 9 - 11 Uncommons 16 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Soldier 1/1 W