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Masters Esper Control Curses

Throne Deck By
Alexr1239

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Faction

Information

This deck is about quickly controlling the board and hand and then slowly beating your opponent down once they've run out of cards. Win cons of the deck include fliers: Black-Sky Harbinger Kodosh Sees All Regent's Tomb ( Elias, the Broken Wing ) and Archgryffyn Patriarch . Other win cons include Outcast Fortress which you can use to constantly curse other minions with -2/-1 with Zelia, the Vain, and Tome of Horrors which you can start playing your opponents deck against them.

Both sites are really good for card advantage and possibly gathering more power. Outcast Fortress can draw a card from your opponents deck which 1/3 of the time is a power card. It can pop aegis on your opponent or give aegis to make burn and control waste a card or two on your site and you. The last mode with Cruelty can be used as removal, pop aegis on a creature or synergize with Felrauk's Choice . Regent's Tomb will draw you a justice sigil which really helps with all the decks double greens. The site protects itself and you with hand disruption using Sabotage and can give any of your units revenge which is really good on when most units draw you a card, or access your market.

The rest of what holds this deck together is tutoring and... we have a ton. 4x Parul's Choice and 5 smugglers each with access to win cons and control cards. The point is to at any time have high access to any answer or win con you need. The variety of cards makes it annoying to use Rain of Frogs and Vision of Austerity type cards against us as a bonus.

Of all the cards in the deck though, Felrauk's Choice is my favorite. It's a fast spell that can redirect burn, removal and hand disruption while also being creature removal that brings back your curses. Royal Decree is really fun too. It's the cheapest universal discard in the game so sometimes you can even use it against aggro to remove a creature in their hand.

The one thing you have to pay attention to with this deck is power and influence. Basically three or four power in hand is required to get the this deck working smoothly and then aggressively scout for power and color fixing for 2P , 2J and then 3S.

Notes:

I included Black-Sky Harbinger over Vara, Vengeance-Seeker because it seemed more versatile. Vara in my experience dies way too easily and the lack of flying and stats makes her worse endgame. Also Black-Sky Harbinger pops only your opponents aegis and instantly heals.

Considering swapping Azindel's Gift for something else just not sure yet. Other cards I'm considering are Dizo's Office, Vara's Favor and Timidity

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
50,300

Premium Cost
225,600

Influence Requirements
2 2 3

Power Sources
13 15 13 15

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Deck Rarities
8 19 38 7

Card Types
10 13 26 5 26

Contains Cards From Campaigns
The Tale of Horus Traver [Set1002]
Promises by Firelight [Set1007]

Archetype
Control

Updated
April 2, 2020

Added
April 1, 2020

Views
1,831

Eternal Version
Whispers of the Throne

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Revisions (Since last major patch) April 2, 2020


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Comments

LtLeon Eternal Version: 1.51.7
Wonder what an updated version of this deck would look like.
turinturamba Eternal Version: 1.51.3
Great deck. I swapped the royal decrees for negates, since the deck handles creatures already very well.
Alexr1239 Eternal Version: 1.51.3
Thank you! I love negates too :)
astroroth Eternal Version: 1.51.2
Why is it called esper?
Alexr1239 Eternal Version: 1.51.2
I used to play magic the gathering so I wanted to make a deck that most reminded me of blue white black (called esper) control. Those decks would draw a lot of cards, disrupt your opponents hand and kill all creatures on the board. Tome of horrors specifically reminds me of my favorite planes walker ashiok, nightmare weaver. Felrauks Choice is also the closest card to blue counter imo.
astroroth Eternal Version: 1.51.2
I play Magic too, but i normally associate Esper with TPS in Eternal ;)
Alexr1239 Eternal Version: 1.51.2
lol but harsh rule XD. Without my supreme verdict equivalent idk what I'd do. And justice has more access to lockdown cards. I actually tried TPS at first but was disappointed with removal.
astroroth Eternal Version: 1.51.2
i get where you're coming from 100%. I'll give your deck a spin
Alexr1239 Eternal Version: 1.51.2
Awesome! I made some modifications recently. It's still a little weak on draw and powerfixing.