Standard - Rule of Law Esper (Magic 2020)

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ESPER RULE OF LAW CONTROL

With Rule of Law and Teferi, Time Raveler, we can hard-lock our opponents into playing, at most, exactly one card per turn, and only on an opponent's main phase. Since we run counterspells, we don't allow our opponent to play anything. Ever. Because our opponent's are locked down, the downsides of Scheming Symmetry are negated. We don't care what our opponents are going to pick because we'll just counterspell it.

We run Devious Cover-Up to return our Scheming Symmetry and counterspells to our deck and repeat the process until your opponent forfeits, runs out of cards, or dies from lethal creature damage.

Additionally, we play a mana base that allows for Field of the Dead activation, while at the same time hitting all of the suggested thresholds Frank Karsten provides in his article, "How Many Colored Mana Sources Do You Need to Consistently Cast Your Spells? A Guilds of Ravnica Update", channelfireball.com, Frank Karsten (10/10/18).

We run 18 blue sources of mana

We run 13 white sources of mana

We run 13 black sources of mana

(we don't want to play Scheming Symmetry on turn one unless absolutely necessary)

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Scassacasse 20 Aug 2019 18:34

Ral, my comment was for Jamoke and his useless deck. Yes Ashiok runs perfectly with Simmetry, I'm sure you can make a better functional deck. Personally i play a bant Law and prefer to play Raveler and flash spells. It runs surely better

forbesti91 16 Aug 2019 16:55

Not sure what the hate on this deck is for? Its a fun way to play Rule of Law and to try and make Scheming work in standard. It never seems like it was never meant to be a Tier 1-2 deck. I've played it in constructed events and gold and have had some success and a blast playing it. One thing I changed was I went to 2 Scheming and added a bit more counter. Also traded out a Guardmage or two for a Deputy of Detention. It seems to curve better as the Guardmage also felt a bit late.

Ral 12 Aug 2019 21:30

how am i incompetent i explained that ashiok wont effect scheming symmetry becuase you control the spell

Scassacasse 12 Aug 2019 17:30

You're an "incompetent", get out of this community please.

Ral 06 Aug 2019 22:13

Using Ashiok, Dream Render will not work her ability states "Spells and abilities your Opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library."

AlexWallace 12 Jul 2019 15:16

Another fun interaction with scheming symmetry is Ashiok. His ability negates the opponent searching their library. Probably one of my favorite interactions in the whole set.

Gunkslinger 10 Jul 2019 23:39

POS deck. Don't bother. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

paywy 10 Jul 2019 19:01

Doesn´t really work in the actual Meta imo.
Little Teferi on the field and your whole gameplan falls. Too much early aggro, same...

kenneth_lvk 09 Jul 2019 21:32

Trash deck. Played it for hours on ladder (gold 1) and found it utterly underwhelming. Very slow and struggles to answer threats. Complete waste of my time and my 4 rare wildcards (for scheming symmetry which otherwise wouldn’t see any play). Forget it and move on.

Prince_dima07 09 Jul 2019 10:50

I don't usally like esper, but i actually quite like this build

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Mainboard - 60 cards (23 distinct)

Creature (3)
3 Elite Guardmage			$0.25€0.180.03
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (25)
2 Devious Cover-Up			$0.15€0.070.03
3 Rule of Law			$0.46€0.220.03
1 Syncopate			$0.18€0.080.03
4 Absorb			$0.50€0.500.02
4 Scheming Symmetry			$6.05€4.251.09
1 Oath of Kaya			$0.42€0.340.02
1 Despark			$0.45€0.250.03
1 Mortify			$0.30€0.190.03
2 Tyrant's Scorn			$0.25€0.150.03
4 Thought Erasure			$0.25€0.130.03
2 Kaya's Wrath			$0.55€0.480.02
Land (25)
4 Hallowed Fountain			$8.97€9.480.36
4 Godless Shrine			$10.78€9.580.09
4 Glacial Fortress			$1.93€1.650.02
4 Drowned Catacomb			$3.00€2.440.02
4 Watery Grave			$12.84€11.630.22
1 Isolated Chapel			$2.10€1.740.02
1 Island			$0.15€0.070.03
2 Field of Ruin			$0.34€0.340.04
1 Plains			$0.20€0.060.03
Planeswalker (7)
4 Teferi, Time Raveler			$7.95€8.055.13
3 Narset, Parter of Veils			$1.00€0.710.06

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