Esper Cycling (RIX Standard)

Standard* Control WUB (Esper)

BeaudaciousGiebs

Land (24)

• 3x Drowned Catacomb
• 3x Fetid Pools
• 4x Glacial Fortress
• 3x Irrigated Farmland
• 3x Island
• 6x Plains
• 1x Shefet Dunes
• 1x Swamp

Instant (19)

• 4x Censor
• 4x Countervailing Winds
• 3x Hieroglyphic Illumination
• 4x Renewed Faith
• 4x Settle the Wreckage

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Fumigate

Artifact (1)

• 1x Abandoned Sarcophagus

Enchantment (9)

• 4x Cast Out
• 3x Drake Haven
• 2x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Creature (3)

• 2x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Gideon of the Trials

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Sideboard

Enchantment (7)

• 3x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Drake Haven
• 2x Faith of the Devoted
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Instant (6)

• 3x Negate
• 3x Scarab Feast

Creature (1)

• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide

Artifact (1)

• 1x Abandoned Sarcophagus

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I've been playing UW Cycling for a couple weeks now, mostly following Piotr Glogowski's list that he used in World Cup 2017. So far the only adjustment I've made with the deck is replacing Glyph Keeper with Gideon of the Trials, and after my store's Mega FNM (very competitive environment) last night, I was very happy with the change. After placing 15th place out of 36 participants, I realized that the deck is massively weak to graveyard strategies, with 2/3 of my losses being to UW Eternalize and UW Gift.

Additional issues included the recurrence of dead cards in hand. With a Search for Azcanta   on the field and one flipped as a land, the 3rd just sat in hand the entirety of the game. In an attempt to remedy this, more discard outlets were included. Nezahal, Primal Tide, besides being fantastic in a control mirror, can synergize very well with his last ability. Reminder that Faith of the Devoted and Drake Haven count for any discard as well as cycling, so Nezahal and Chart a Course do work towards it.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 7 Rares 13 - 2 Uncommons 7 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.47
Tokens	Drake 2/2 U, Emblem Gideon of the Trials