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Esper Nightfall Control ft. Unseens

Throne Deck By
JasonYRaymond

Work in Progress
+5

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Type

Faction

Information

This deck was originated from "finding a good nightfall themed deck that can beat aggro", and I made this list. It looks like a bunch of irrelevant cards together but I have to say it does better in ladder than I've expected.

The main problem with this deck is the horrible mana base. This deck is super greedy in terms of influence requirement in the early game, so I added Trail Maker to help, and so far it's been pretty good. Still, I'm considering taking out all the Ayan, the Abductor and put in more fetch spells for the sake of consistency.
Darkveil Agent is not as good as he is in Unseen tribal decks, but he is still usually a 2 mana 2/2 with Aegis that continuously buff your other Unseens in the late game. He is also part of the reason why I decided not to run Lightning Storm.
Lunar Magus and Nocturnal Observer are just great. They trigger nightfall as well as keep you alive and draw you cards. Personally I think Nocturnal Observer should be a 4-off.
We usually expect Deadly Confrontation to be a 6 mana kill 2 unit. It's not that good, but I'll test it a little longer.
Rindra, the Duskblade and Zelia, the Vain are great cards against aggro and midrange. Black-Sky Harbinger is a win condition against aggro, and Lida, Most Skilled is a solid body that gives you a free removal.
Finally, Encroaching Darkness is something we want to see in the late game, Usually the continuous ping effect can win you some control matchup. If it appears in you hand in the early game, toss it with either strategize or observer.
Alu, Death-Dreamer is just a personal interest. I freaking love this card.

I do think this deck has some potential (just scored a 5-0 in master rank), but I'm sure it is far from good, and it requires a lot of tweaking. So feel free to leave a comment or advice below! Thanks!

Enjoy the game!

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
76,750

Premium Cost
277,600

Influence Requirements
2 2 3

Power Sources
9 13 14 11

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Deck Rarities
9 19 21 18

Card Types
32 5 13 0 25

Archetype
Control

Added
December 26, 2017

Views
3,472

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The Dusk Road

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Comments

Rumbiddieboo Edited Eternal Version: 1.27
Hello!

Played with your deck list, it is really amazing and I really enjoyed couple of games, but have questions...
1) Why u play Ayan, the Abductor, and may be 2 copies I can understand, but 4 really a lot. Hope u read this and give me an answer, I really interested.

2) Why u don’t use Steward of the Past, he saves from echo-makto-revenge and all white decks. A lot of those now in meta.

3) What do u think about Vara's Choice? Why u don’t use it? If it is a control deck, think this card must take her place here.

4) Also I added 1 copy of Lumen Reclaimer, may be this card doesn’t have synergy with nightfall and unseens, but it really powerful for it’s manacost, returns ur void back in library and gives u 4 copies of itself - very useful.

But thank you for ur list, I tried something like this, but didn’t find cards for synergy, u showed me them! Thumb up, added to favorite!

If u still working on this deck, try some of my advices.