Esper Dragons in Innistrad

Standard Control Dragons WUB (Esper)

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Creature (6)

• 4x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 2x Dragonlord Silumgar

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Narset Transcendent
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Land (27)

• 4x Choked Estuary
• 2x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 4x Island
• 1x Plains
• 3x Prairie Stream
• 4x Shambling Vent
• 4x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp

Instant (17)

• 2x Anguished Unmaking
• 2x Clash of Wills
• 1x Dragonlord's Prerogative
• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
• 3x Foul-Tongue Invocation
• 4x Grasp of Darkness
• 4x Silumgar's Scorn

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Declaration in Stone
• 3x Languish
• 3x Painful Truths

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Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Virulent Plague

Instant (8)

• 1x Dispel
• 2x Negate
• 2x Ojutai's Command
• 2x Secure the Wastes
• 1x Silumgar's Command

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Duress
• 2x Ruinous Path
• 2x Transgress the Mind

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Esper Dragons!

Card Choices:

Dragonlord Ojutai is the main win condition. He creates huge amounts of card advantage and the conditional hexproof means I have a good chance of untapping with it still alive. Dragonlord Silumgar can blow out some decks but is mostly to up the dragon count.

Narset Transcendent, Ob Nixilis Reignited, Painful Truths, and Dragonlord's Prerogative offer card selection and advantage. I'm still not convinced that Epiphany at the Drownyard is worth playing but it has some uses.

Grasp of Darkness and Foul-Tongue Invocation are the main removal spells. Declaration in Stone and Anguished Unmaking are for tougher targets. Foul-Tongue Invocation can gain life which is important in a deck with Anguished Unmaking and Painful Truths.

Silumgar's Command and Clash of Wills keep the opponent from gaining a tempo advantage in the early game, and can stop removal spells from hitting Dragonlord Ojutai.

The Sideboard

Dispel and Negate are mostly to protect Dragonlord Ojutai against decks packing lots of removal.

Ojutai's Command offers utility and some much needed life gain against aggressive decks.

Ruinous Path is mostly for superfriends or Planeswalker-heavy decks. I don't have much else to deal with Planeswalkers.

Secure the Wastes is an alternate win condition and can blow out aggressive decks at instant speed.

Silumgar's Command offers utility and more planeswalker removal. It's just a solid (albeit expensive) card!

Transgress the Mind and Duress are great against most non-agressive decks... They're just not great enough to mainboard.

Virulent Plague is an almost auto-win against token decks. It shuts down Secure the Wastes and Westvale Abbey  .

Comments and suggestions welcome!

Top Ranked	Achieved #71 position overall 10 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 7 Rares 6 - 4 Uncommons 9 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Clue, Emblem Narset Transcendent, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Warrior 1/1 W
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