Arena Standard - Esper Acuity Control

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34
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26
Control
TCGPlayer $187
Cardmarket €162
Cardhoarder 5 Tix
  • Deck contains 4 invalid cards for this format: Drowned Catacomb (XLN), Glacial Fortress (XLN), Vraska's Contempt (XLN), Isolated Chapel (DOM)
Main 60 cards (21 distinct)
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (34)
$0.25€0.100.03
$0.20€0.050.03
$0.18€0.210.03
$0.44€0.250.03
$0.25€0.090.03
$0.20€0.100.03
$0.30€0.190.03
$0.25€0.110.03
$0.70€0.560.02
$0.56€0.470.02
$0.41€0.190.02
$0.41€0.190.02
$0.50€0.320.06
Land (26)
$0.24€0.090.05
$1.91€1.670.02
$9.00€9.470.38
$10.91€9.590.12
$2.06€1.740.02
$0.47€0.230.03
$2.99€2.420.02
$13.00€11.640.21
Side 15 cards (7 distinct)
$0.44€0.250.03
$0.54€0.300.02
$0.50€0.320.06
$0.20€0.140.03
$2.49€1.800.22
$0.20€0.140.03
$2.64€1.200.08

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Description

A (mostly) planeswalker-free Esper control decklist. Beats almost all forms of aggro and midrange, handles various combo and opposing control decks okay, but has very weak pre-board matchup against Grixis and somewhat unfavorable matchup against Scapeshift, and straight up loses to conventional Esper control.

Main win condition is to simply mill the opponent out, but in a pinch you can also just apply beats with Zombie token generated by Enter the God-Eternalsimage. Try to save Clear the Mindimage for the point when you've exhausted at least three of four Bond of Insightimage, or if there's simply nothing left to do half-way through a deck. Dovin's Acuityimage is the workhorse that builds absolutely ridiculous amounts of card advantage for you while keeping your life total up, but it's also fine to keep hands with Optimage and early interaction like Disfigureimage and Kaya's Wrathimage. 2-land hands are fine due to having 26 lands in the deck and the immense amount of draw.

Planar Cleansingimage, Desparkimage, and singleton Vraska's Contemptimage are your only lines of defense against Planeswalkers pre-board, so Superfriends-style decks will likely overwhelm you. Aforementioned Grixis is also a pain since the only time you shouldn't have a hand to discard is when you're on the way to losing.

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Zankoku
Last Updated: 22 Aug 2019
Created: 19 Aug 2019
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