Esper Shutdown

Standard Control Cruel Control WUB (Esper)

lucience

Creature (2)

• 2x AEtherling

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Jace, Memory Adept

Land (26)

• 3x Azorius Guildgate
• 3x Godless Shrine
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 9x Island
• 1x Plains
• 4x Temple of Deceit
• 2x Temple of Silence

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Detention Sphere

Instant (19)

• 4x Dissolve
• 3x Doom Blade
• 4x Essence Scatter
• 1x Quicken
• 3x Sphinx's Revelation
• 4x Syncopate

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Divination
• 4x Supreme Verdict

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 4x Council of the Absolute

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Blind Obedience
• 2x Sphere of Safety

Artifact (4)

• 2x Pithing Needle
• 2x Ratchet Bomb

Instant (3)

• 3x Dark Betrayal

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So this deck should be fairly straight forward. It's an incredibly "no" heavy deck whose sole purpose is to keep your field clear and me alive while I dig for an AEtherling and you beat you to death. Jace is obviously there for card advantage, or to mill you to death in a pinch/if I'm ahead and have more than enough counters in hand and don't need more draw. Even if not as a win con, his mill is just fantastic all around, since out of 10 cards I'm almost always getting rid of at least 5 things that could've been threats that needed answers, but now don't. In my mind that's what makes him better than Architect of Thought, since this is such a counter and removal heavy deck, and getting threats out of your library helps make sure I don't run out of steam. Now, there's been a lot of controversy over the singleton quicken, and I've gone back and forth over it a lot myself. I think having just one main is fine, and here's why. It is NEVER a dead or bad card. I'm never sad to see it, since worst case scenario I just pay one to cycle it. That's some decent cheap cantrip. But if you have one in hand with a Verdict or Divination, it's fantastic. So at worst it's ok, but at best it's amazing. Not much else to it to be honest. Looking for any criticism, advice, so forth.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 4 Mythic Rares 23 - 6 Rares 4 - 5 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.91