Let the hate flow through you: esper weird cards

Commander / EDH* Control Prison Stax WUB (Esper)

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Enchantment (35)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Breath of Dreams
• 1x Darkest Hour
• 1x Douse
• 1x Dream Tides
• 1x Drought
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Force Bubble
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Gideon's Intervention
• 1x Glaciers
• 1x Honden of Seeing Winds
• 1x Insight
• 1x Justice
• 1x Karma
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Light of Day
• 1x Mana Maze
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Moat
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Pendrell Mists
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Royal Decree
• 1x Rune of Protection: Green
• 1x Rune of Protection: Red
• 1x Shifting Sky
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Soul Snare
• 1x Starfield of Nyx
• 1x Swirl the Mists
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Land (37)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 7x Island
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 7x Plains
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Dance of the Manse
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Replenish
• 1x Wrath of God

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Venser's Journal

Instant (8)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Glamerdye
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mind Bend
• 1x Spectral Shift
• 1x Whim of Volrath

Creature (4)

• 1x Llawan, Cephalid Empress
• 1x Painter's Servant
• 1x Pentarch Paladin
• 1x Zur the Enchanter

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Artifact (2)

• 1x Ivory Tower
• 1x Venser's Journal

Land (1)

• 1x Reliquary Tower

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The most hateful of decks, punish everyone for anything and everything. The reason I built this deck is the unbanning of painters servant. I opened an invention version and was annoyed that I couldn't play it in EDH, but now I can! I'm currently looking to optimize the deck to 50-75%, not super competitive.

This deck is a prison style deck. The goal is to play enchantments that act as lock pieces to prevent opponents from playing spells, or for punishing them every time they do. The prison cards in this deck work as synergies, rarely will one of the enchantments be enough to lock down the entire table by itself.

The thematic cards in this deck fall in to three main categories: hate pieces, color/landtype wording change, color/landtype setting effects. The cards that fall outside of these three categories are there as support pieces that give the deck time to set up its strategy, or card advantage/ramp effects.

My favorite lock out condition is Painter's Servant + Mana Maze + Capsize with buyback on each player's upkeep which locks them out of playing spells for the rest of the game. That's what I call fun magic!

hate pieces

Breath of Dreams,Glaciers,Douse,Dream Tides,Drought,Glaciers,Insight,Justice,Karma,Light of Day,Royal Decree,Rune of Protection: Red,Rune of Protection: Green,Llawan, Cephalid Empress,Pentarch Paladin.

These cards are the cards that will serve to lock opponents out of the game. More often than not, the lock piece I draw will only affect one opponent or sometimes not any at all. The key is to not overextend the lock pieces on to the table so as to not get taken out early by annoyed players.

color/landtype wording change

Swirl the Mists,Glamerdye,Mind Bend,Spectral Shift,Whim of Volrath

These cards change the land types or color wordings on cards so that the lock pieces become relevant to the table. For example, if multiple opponents at the table are playing mono green ramp decks and I have Glaciers in play, I can cast Mind Bend and change the text from "Mountains" to "Forests" thereby changing all of my opponents forests into plains and likely locking them out of the game (at least for a while).

color/landtype setting effects

Darkest Hour,Shifting Sky,Painter's Servant,Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

While one way to lock the table out is to change the wording on a lock piece to become more relavant to the game, another way is to place a mass effect on the board that changes everything in play to a specific color/landtype that is already being effected by a lock piece. For example, if I have Light of Day in play but my opponents are playing aggro decks that aren't playing black creatures, I might be in trouble. If I cast Painter's Servant I can name black thereby turning all of my opponents creatures black and preventing them from attacking.

win conditions

Leyline of the Void+Helm of Obedience,Karma+Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth,Sigil of the Empty Throne,Starfield of Nyx,Dance of the Manse

Eventually you have to win the game somehow :P

Top Ranked	Achieved #30 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #21 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Stax 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH WUB (Esper) 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W
Folders	Cool decks I might build